[governance] Report on WCIT // Suggested Next Steps

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Thank you for putting the other factors at play in this question very clearly.

--srs (iPad)

On 02-Apr-2013, at 19:21, Baudouin SCHOMBE <b.schombe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Norbert,
> I share your point of view. Also note the disparity in the appropriation of ICT policy makers in developing countries. That both institutions and individuals. One of the biggest barriers also lies in the lack of political will to make ICT a tool for real reasons we started to clearly identify: the rejection of rationality in public administration, ease in the corruption, generation of conflict, let it go by easier and scheming of any kind .... The list is long. Based on these handicaps, there are several poles of decision making that are generally poorly coordinated and in other cases not.
> 
> Nature abhors a vacuum and if the internet is controlled by the U.S. and its allies must take into account all these factors. it is evident regardless of the presence of actors, all of which are of interest are, for some, being managed and, in others, sent directly into their pockets.
> 
> Very slowly but surely, the rising generation, which is the generation of digital technology and mastering this technology begins to weigh in the balance the use and appropriation of digital technology.
> 
> It all depends on the methodology that we will use to give them the opportunity to exhibit their talent.
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> 2013/4/2 Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
>> Baudouin SCHOMBE <b.schombe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > thank you for the reminder and I had completely escaped yet it is a
>> > very important report that I must use for exchanges at the local
>> > level. Again, thank you for this reminder. the report is downloaded
>> > and will be sharing all away.
>> > > The report can be downloaded from:
>> > > http://www.slideshare.net/ocl999/what-happened-at-wcit-in-december-2012
>> 
>> Here's one significant point that I think would be worthwhile to
>> discuss:
>> 
>> Page 24 contains this observation:
>> 
>>   It is generally believed by many countries from the “South” that the
>>   Internet is actually run and controlled by the United States and its
>>   allies – and that the network is used as a spearhead to weaken their
>>   own economies by bringing enormous social and political change at a
>>   pace that is disruptive, with no ability for those affected to
>>   control this. It is felt that the Internet is governed by the world’s
>>   strongest economies and multi-nationals for their own purposes. These
>>   are real concerns, not only by the government delegates present at
>>   WCIT, but felt by the average citizen in many of these countries.
>> 
>> Which parts of these observed fears and concerns are real unsolved
>> problems, and which parts are just fruits of rhetorical dramatizations
>> and fears that would go away if the concerned people would simply
>> inform themselves reasonably well?
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
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