[governance] WSIS+10 Zero Draft

Sonigitu Ekpe soekpe at gmail.com
Sat Nov 23 22:10:24 EST 2013 

Thank you Suresh.

Who are the players behind  Kenya and South Africa governments after the
wrongs.............today pretending to allow the tricks from the back door?

Why not we all come through the front door without masks?

Sonigitu Ekpe Aji :-@ SEA

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On Nov 24, 2013 3:48 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:

>  As for Africa you may want to look at how many governments have forced
> monopolies of telecom and the impact that has. Compare Kenya and South
> Africa to some other countries with a less liberalized market.
>
> --srs (htc one x)
>
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> From: "Sonigitu Ekpe" <soekpe at gmail.com>
> To: "Nick Ashton-Hart" <nashton at consensus.pro>, <
> governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
> Cc: "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>, "CAFEC" <cafec3m at yahoo.fr>
> Subject: [governance] WSIS+10 Zero Draft
> Date: Sun, Nov 24, 2013 8:13 AM
>
> I strongly differ.
> 1. Do political interest allow for Standards?
> 2. The Internet has Localized the Universal. If each Country drives its
> policy then how come the interface of some other rich and powerful on
> government engaged in misuse of power?
> 3. Whose interest is it that Africa is still kept in the dark and who are
> those partitioning Africa for the gains?
> 4. How many governments had ever thought of social security for the
> underdeveloped economy?
>
> All we need is a harmonized system to avoid transboundary crime. Lets use
> the Internet to address inequality and promote Universal peace. Let the UN
> system be restructured to fit in the new concepts and innovations.
>
> We are all in, the founders and developers of the Internet know well the
> powers behind the machine; that is driving Cultural,Economical and Social
> change across board at a speed unmatched in the evolution of mankind.
>
> Sonigitu Ekpe Aji :-@ SEA
>
> "Life becomes more meaningful; when we think of others, positively."
>
> +234 8027510179
> On Nov 23, 2013 6:53 PM, "Nick Ashton-Hart" <nashton at consensus.pro> wrote:
>
> > WSIS follow-up has been a top-down exercise, driven by the ITU wanting to
> > be in charge of it. UN agencies shouldn’t be driving policy decisions -
> > what we need is a bottom-up based process, where each country’s
> > stakeholders decide how to implement WSIS in their way, and then compare
> > notes under the CSTD processes, reviewing as we go along with the UN
> > agencies just providing their input on their particular responsibilities.
> >
> > My hope is that a more bottom-up-based paradigm is what comes from the
> > review.
> >
> > All the best from Kathmandu, Nick
> >
> > On 19 Nov 2013, at 14:42, CAFEC <cafec3m at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > Thank you very much for this vital information. Besides, I'm not so
> > surprised. To me and this is only my opinion, most systems of the United
> > Nations has failed their responsibility in implementing the WSIS
> > implementation by broad national and sub regional levels. More especially
> > in most African countries, as is the case in the Democratic Republic of
> > Congo and in many countries of Central Africa.
> > It would be therefore that studies should be organized in this way to
> > understand the real causes of this failure.
> >
> >
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> >
> > Le Jeudi 14 novembre 2013 21h39, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> a
> > écrit :
> > My own particular involvement with Internet Governance issues began with
> > the intertwining of the community informatics approach and the various
> > discussions associated with the World Summit on the Information Society
> > (WSIS-Geneva and Tunis)…
> > As is its habit, the UN is now revisiting the Summit + 10 and is in the
> > process of creating various types of documentation including importantly a
> > review document on what has happened with respect to the original WSIS
> > outcomes and where, as a global Summit, agreements should be entered into
> > (at a meeting to be held in late 2014) to go on from here.
> > I’m attaching the current draft output document (apologies for the
> > highlighting…
> > One significant difference between now and the original summits is that
> > while the significance of the Internet has increased dramatically in the
> > interim in all shapes and forms, the specific interest in the creation of
> > an overall policy framework for the global deployment of the Internet has,
> >  in key areas (including most of those of interest from a community
> > informatics perspective—the digital divide, digital inclusion, community
> > empowerment through ICT use and so on) for the most part disappeared and
> > particularly virtually all financial support for independent/CSresearch
> > and representation and even programming in these areas.(for an
> > interesting blogpost looking at this in my own country Canada see
> > http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/digital-divide-canada-poor_n_4269171.html?utm_hp_ref=canada
> > What this means is that whereas the Civil Society intervention in the WSIS
> > process was active and effective (including in support of a broad
> > community informatics approach) there is virtually no counterpart
> > developments in relation to this revisiting. (You will recall a flurry of
> > notes etc. that I posted here on this subject at the beginning of this
> > year.)  I haven’t yet had a chance to go through these documents in
> > detail but a quick review suggests that, as I tried to say in my comments
> > at the WSIS +10 meeting in February, it is not enough simply to review what
> > has gone on before and to project it into the future it is also necessary
> > to recognize where there has been failure and where past successes have led
> > to new and significant issues which in turn need to be addressed.
> > http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/making-happytalk-in-paris-disneyland-and-the-wsis-10-review/
> > I’m not sure if anything much can be done on this at this stage but for
> > those with an interest it is worth taking a look at these documents and for
> > those with even more interest the overall process is described at
> > http://www.itu.int/wsis/review/mpp/
> > M
> >
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