[governance] APC, Internet Democracy, IFLA statement at CSTD 2015

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

Thanks, Parminder for this very useful complement to the APC-IFLA statement. 

 

Quoting your presentation :




I want to add "An as much greater attention needs to be paid on the overall costs of what has been realized e.g. in terms of ICT infrastructures and access ... and was especially celebrated by the ITU during the past WSIS Fora/shows. I mean a lot of telecom cables, routes and parts of networks have been implemented for the sake of competition instead of complementation. This happened in submarine cables as well as on terrestiel cables. Is there any need for eight submarine cables along Africa's West coast? Or for three landing stations in Cameroons ? Or for four OF backbones in Kenya ?. Just three examples taken out from a lot of scandalous duplications. What's more, all these cables ans stations are largely underused in regard of their capacity. This raises THE QUESTION : to the expense of WHICH essential sectors of peoples lives and development were spent these hundreds millions dollars ? Health, education, food, jobs, .... ?

 

Kind regards

 

Jean-Louis Fullsack

 

 

 

 

 

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>This is the statement made by IT for Change in the same meeting...
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> http://www.itforchange.net/IT_for_Change_statement_to_CSTD
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> "IT for Change was at the 18th annual session of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development . We delivered the following intervention during the plenary discussion reviewing the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). This meeting of the Commission was supposed to input into the WSIS plus 10 review to be taken up in December, 2015, by the UN General Assembly. Unfortunately, even as critical issues about  the Internet -  most with significant global political dimensions - are  increasingly gathering momentum, the Commission's proceedings saw a complete political stalemate. Anyone sitting through the five days of the annual session would have got the impression that all is truly well with the Internet and its global societal impact! Our statement speaks out against such complacency and abdication of global political responsibility by key actors."
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> parminder 
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On Tuesday 12 May 2015 01:17 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
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Dear all

Apologies for cross posting.

This is the APC, Internet Democracy and IFLA statement which was tabled
and read at the Commission for Science and Technology 18th Session in
Geneva last week.

Best

Anriette

http://www.apc.org/en/news/statement-we-remain-strongly-committed-goal-people



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