FYI The World Conference on International Telecommunications – 12 (December 3 - 14) Call to Human Rights and Technology Activists by Civil Society participants We, the physical and remote participants at The World Conference on International Telecommunications WCIT12 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, wish to call the attention of all human rights and technology activists that the recent outage of the ITU website has proved to be of considerable disadvantage to the efforts on the review of the International Telecommunications Regulations - ITRs. The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) is a critical event that the Civil Society believes is key in shaping greater connectivity and growth in international telecommunications. The satisfactory functioning of the ITU website, is central to the success of the meeting as it serves as the document repository, primary webcast channel and orientation platform for all participants. We therefore call on all concerned activists to refrain from any possible disruptions, hacks or attacks on the ITU website and its related domains. Such effort will be counterproductive, and will hugely disenfranchise remote participants. The Civil Society participation in ITU deliberations is the result of a long and a hard process that requires constructive efforts for improvement. We invite you to follow remotely on http://www.itu.int/en/wcit-12/Pages/default.aspxAnd #WCIT12 on Twitter Dubai World Trade CenterDubai, United Arab EmiratesFriday, 7th of December 2012 == Nnenna Nwakanma | Founder and CEO, NNENNA.ORG | Consultants Information | Communications | Technology and Events | for Development Cote d'Ivoire (+225)| Tel: 225 27144 | Fax 224 26471 |Mob. 07416820 Ghana: +233 249561345| Nigeria: +234 8101887065| http://www.nnenna.org nnenna@nnenna.org| @nnenna | Skype - nnenna75 | nnennaorg.blogspot.com From: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> To: governance@lists.igcaucus.org; Nnenna <nne75@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, December 7, 2012 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [governance] WCIT12 update - CS call to activists Hi Nnenna, Can't access the document. Could you send as an attachment or just send the text to the list. Do you know who hacked: a protest or someone (some govt) wanting to look like a protest, what better way to justify having the hacked organization take more responsibility for cyber-security :-) Best, Adam On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Nnenna <nne75@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear all,
Just a quick update from the CS lunch-meeting:
we're finalising the letter to be submitted to the ITU Secretariat about civil society public comments and participation; if you have comments please submit them by 15:30 today; refer to this google doc: https://docs.google.com/a/publicknowledge.org/document/d/1b7ljrjIDf_h6nuvUps... - the time pressure has to do with the formal procedure to submit this; below is the letter we have agreed to disseminate widely that comments on the negative effects of the recent blackout of the ITU website for civil society who want to follow conference proceedings; we can tweet the google doc from Nnenna's email or just forward the text; we (civil society) have been invited to meet with the ITU SG – Harold is coordinating and will aim to organise something early next week.
Next CS meeting – tentatively at 13:30 for whomever is at the venue tomorrow. Easy to cancel if there's no need for it.
Nnenna Nwakanma | Founder and CEO, NNENNA.ORG |
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