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MISTICA: CMSI:ITU cyberspace treaty

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Mon Jan 06 2003 - 09:27:17 AST

>From: Adam Peake <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [IP] ITU cyberspace treaty
>Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 23:02:56 +0900
>
>(Yoshio Utsumi - Bucharest, European regional preparatory meeting of WSIS.)
>
>Given that the information society covers virtually every aspect of our
>lives, there will be many different views as to what should be achieved by
>the World Summit. Let me give you my own personal view of why we need a
>World Summit. I believe that there are essentially three reasons:
>
>1. To raise awareness among political leaders, at the highest level, of
>the implications of the information society and the new challenges it will
>bring.
>
>2. To tackle the injustice of the digital divide.
>
>3. To develop new legal and policy frameworks, appropriate to cyberspace.
......
Full text in : http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/bucharest/speech_utsumi.doc

>Seems the story is following up on a speech Utsumi made at a regional
>meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), November
>7-9, in Bucharest. See <http://www.itu.int/wsis/> -- WSIS will be the UN
>Summit of 2003 (and 2005.) ITU is the lead agency for the Summit within
>the UN family.
>
>And WSIS is a messy business. Launched with much promise of being a new
>type of UN Summit, with government, civil society and private sector
>working as partners, the outcome has been pretty much to marginalize civil
>society (with China and Pakistan in particular adamant that NGOs should
>not have a significant role in the Summit.) The original themes of the
>summit were well meaning an appropriate for a UN summit: to raise
>awareness of information society, and address the digital divide. Utsumi's
>speech in Bucharest introduced a new theme: "to develop new legal and
>policy frameworks, appropriate to cyberspace".
>
>Rumor is that the new theme was added to the Summit agenda at the request
>of the US and Russia. US, in "homeland security" mode, had until then been
>quite dismissive of the Summit (as might have been be expected of the Bush
>administration), and Russia just emerging from the Moscow hostage/gassing
>tragedy.
>
>I think we should be very concerned that such issues will be discussed at
>head of state level in such a fora. Not quite sure what the intention is
>-- ITU as a new policy-maker for cyberspace? Not a happy
>thought. Particularly as Civil Society has been quite significantly
>excluded from the WSIS process and has little or no interaction (unless
>you pay over $10,000 ITU membership) with the ITU. The Summit "PrepCom"
>process is well advanced, opportunities for comment and discussion are not
>great.
>
>I hope EFF, CDT, etc., will take a look at WSIS and get involved.
>
>Thanks,
>Adam Peake
>GLOCOM Tokyo

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