Alice
Thanks. That's duly noted. Whilst we do that we must continue to agitate for transparency in the process.
For more information on ITRs see attached PowerPoint and links;-
http://www.itu.int/oth/T3F01000001
http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/3F/01/T3F010000010001PDFE.pdf
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/itr/
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/stratpol/ITRs/itrs_past.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T#International_Telecommunication_Regulations_.28ITRs.29
What should definitely raise our attention is this little bit of information from wikipedia - ' At the December, 2012, World Conference on International Telecommunications,[24] ITU secretary-general Hamadoun Touré will convene member-state delegations in Dubai
to renegotiate the ITR treaty. "The sprawling document, which governs
telephone, television, and radio networks, may be extended to cover the
Internet, raising questions about who should control it, and how",
assessed one journalist looking forward to the conference earlier that
year.[25]'
Listers,
if I sound like a bull-dog with a bone in its jaw please forgive me.
I'm just more convinced than ever that the current status quo of
Internet Governance and Freedom (albeit with more inclusiveness of the
people of the world and less US Government 'control') needs to be
preserved after the events of last night at Pivot East Awards held at
Ole Sereni Hotel. For those of us who may have missed this event Pivot
East is an event in which developers of mobile applications pitch
or “sell” their ideas to groups of venture capitalists and industry
players. The best Pitch gets rewarded by a cash prize that can be used
as “seed” money to start or develop the business idea.
The
overall winner of this event was a gaming app called Ma3Racer. Simply
put the game takes our chaotic matatu industry and general state of driving in the country and puts it into perspective in a very engaging mobile game. What is amazing about this game is that not only is it very local in content (I'm sure Daktari Ndemo is smiling.. :-) ) but it has to-date been downloaded 800,000 times in over 200 countries as far as Mongolia!!
Now imagine if some misinformed functionary decided or decides that this kind of content is not kosher and decides to pull down the site/app?
During yesterday's World IPv6 day at the iHub I was duly impressed by Dr.Ndemo's key note address about the necessity to retain the freedom of expression and communication (read the internet) while at the same time protect ourselves from the minority elements who are hellbent on abusing these freedoms. This kind of balanced approach I am hoping is what we all want and what we all should be fighting for otherwise I can assure you there will be no ma3racers, cellulants, pesapals, Seven Seas, Virtual Cities, iHubs, mlabs and other labs to be proud of.
Can we be proactive about this? May I suggest ISOC takes this discussion to the next level with an open hour or two at ihub? Is this possible Barrack? As a member of ISOC, Kenya Chapter I offer my services however you can use them.
Thank you all for listening/reading through my rumblings...:-)
Ali Hussein
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:19 AM,
<alice@apc.org> wrote:
Dear Ali and all,
While we request for documents to be made available I would first urge listers to read what is publicly available, for example the ITR's etc. My assumption is that once what is available is understood then we would know what documents we want to have access to.
Best
Alice
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