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WCIT-12 plenary 1
Despite the opening ceremony declaration of peace and harmony, the first plenary session of the World Conference on International Telecommunications gave us a hint of what is to come over the next two...
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Some WCIT-12 statistics
I’ve been working on some substantial posts about WCIT-12, but have been sidetracked by statistics. They’re shorter, display nicely in graphs, and don’t require as many words to be written about them....
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WCIT-12, ITU and multistakeholderism
Just over a thousand delegates from Member States are entering the final negotiation phase of WCIT-12, and with the reappearance of the controversial proposal document by Algeria, Saudi Arabia,...
View ArticleWCIT-12 Internet resolution adoption procedure
There seems to be a bit of confusion about how the Internet-related resolution, “To foster an enabling environment for the greater growth of the Internet”, in DT/51 rev. 1 (page 22), at WCIT-12 was...
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Changes to WCIT-12 Internet resolution
For those reading through the recently released DT/55, which contains all the text of the ITRs, its appendices and associated WCIT-12 resolutions, I’ve highlighted the changes made to the...
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Tracking the changes between 1988 and 2012 ITRs
WCIT-12 may have ended, but now begins the work of analysing how the ITR changes will have an effect on international telecommunications. To help those wishing to do that analysis, below is a PDF that...
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Changes between appendices to 1988 and 2012 ITRs
Yesterday, I posted a document comparing the changes between the 1988 and 2012 ITRs. Today is the follow-up PDF: the differences between the appendices that accompany the ITRs. The biggest change is...
View ArticleLooking back at WTPF-13: was it a game-changer?
In many ways, what happened at WTPF-13 reminds me of the first IGF in Athens in 2006. In 2006, the Tunis Agenda was only a year old, and had been crafted as a compromise after a lot of heated debate...
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Member State views on opening the CWG-Internet
[This post is part of a series on the ITU Council 2013 discussions on CWG-Internet. To read from the beginning, go here.] Photo credit: ITU pictures via Flickr Member States on the Council were divided...
View ArticleThe WSIS+10 HLE 6th MPP meeting and its aftermath
I was partly wrong and partly right when I blogged previously about how I thought the sixth and final Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform (MPP) for the WSIS+10 High Level Event (HLE) would happen. I...
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