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Last week I had the privilege of attending various side meetings held in conjunction with the United Nations High Level Meeting on WSIS+10 (World Summit on the Information Society), a ten-year review of progress in advancing digital access in the developing world. At the conclusion of the session, the General Assembly took a bold stand in reaffirming multistakeholder governance of the Internet as an [...]
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The 2012 version of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) is history, and the next phase has begun, i.e., trying to figure out what it all means!聽 Many theories abound within the Twitter-verse, blogs and various email strings.聽 At a minimum, WCIT served as a lens that brought into greater focus the risks and opportunities that lay before us.聽 With only 89 countries thus far [...]
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Today, at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), a majority of national delegations adopted revisions to the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) that could lead to significant challenges to a free and open Internet, as well to how global information and communications technology (ICT) companies offer Internet-based services.聽 The United States joined with other [...]
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At long last, 鈥淲CIT-12鈥� is upon us.聽 Delegates to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, commonly referred to simply as 鈥淲CIT,鈥� are boarding flights for a two-week sojourn to the cosmopolitan city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.聽 The forecast is unsurprisingly for warm, sunny days, but that may well be the only accurate forecasting we can do.聽 The outcome of the confab, [...]