[governance] New report makes clear upcoming WCIT proposals could conflict with WTO Members' obligations

[William Drake]

On Nov 28, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:

> Matthias and I have found when we meet with the trade community in Geneva that there's little awareness of the trade dimension to WCIT proposals. 

And there is equally little awareness in many communication ministries and "administrations" of how the GATS works and affects their environment, which is reflected in the formulation of their WCIT proposals.  And moving beyond the member states to the organizations themselves, after the GATS was approved, it took years for the ITU and WTO to work out a cooperative agreement.  The tensions and potential synergies in this and similar cases was in mind when many of us were thinking about the mandate of a future IGF in 2004-05; the hope was a holistic mandate and dialogue would help improve the blending and also map and consider gaps in the governance architecture.  Alas, none of this really was ultimately to receive focused attention in the context of one-off annual meetings defined by generic themes and main sessions.

Bill
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