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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=739063806-01042005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>Thanks for this report but we should not be
surprise as CTO is governamental organization and I see CTO is
mobilizing countries were not in the discussion
before</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=739063806-01042005>Regs/Rosa</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=739063806-01042005> </SPAN>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
Franck Martin [mailto:franck@sopac.org] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, 22 November
2004 01:20<BR><B>To:</B> chapter-delegates@lists.isoc.org<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[chapter-delegates] [Fwd: [pignet] FW: CTO SURVEY SEES DIFFICULTIES FOR
CONSENSUS ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE]<BR><BR></FONT></FONT>FYI<BR><BR>--------
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<TD>[pignet] FW: CTO SURVEY SEES DIFFICULTIES FOR CONSENSUS ON INTERNET
GOVERNANCE</TD></TR>
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<TD>Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:36:26 +1200</TD></TR>
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<TH vAlign=baseline noWrap align=right>From: </TH>
<TD>Abel Caine <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E
href="mailto:acaine@itc.gov.fj"><acaine@itc.gov.fj></A></TD></TR>
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<DIV><BR>To all,<BR><BR>CTO's survey is not comprehensive but the views
expressed would delight<BR>ITU and horrify ICANN. The IG debate/debacle is going
to be the best ICT<BR>fight in 2005.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Abel
<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: CTO News [<A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="mailto:newsletter@cto.int">mailto:newsletter@cto.int</A>] <BR>Sent:
Saturday, 20 November 2004 12:21 a.m.<BR>To: CTO News Subscriber<BR>Subject: CTO
SURVEY SEES DIFFICULTIES FOR CONSENSUS ON INTERNET<BR>GOVERNANCE<BR><BR>CTO
SURVEY SEES DIFFICULTIES FOR CONSENSUS ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE<BR><BR>London, 18
November 2004 - A preliminary survey by the Commonwealth<BR>Telecommunications
Organisation (CTO) warns of potential difficulties<BR>within the international
community in reaching consensus over the<BR>governance of the Internet, one of
the two fundamental issues, together<BR>with the funding of the efforts to
bridge the Digital Divide, that the<BR>second phase of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS II) is<BR>expected to address.<BR><BR>As the Internet
continues to grow as a cultural, economic, and political<BR>phenomenon,
increasing attention is being paid to how it should be<BR>governed. The debate
over this is what led the 11,000 delegates at the<BR>WSIS I in Geneva in
December 2003, to agree that the matter be referred<BR>to the UN Secretary
General for further study. Although the Secretary<BR>General has set up a
Working Group on Internet Governance, a variety of<BR>interest groups are
undertaking their own internal consultations, with a<BR>view to contributing
composite views where possible to the WGIG, for<BR>onward discussion at the next
WSIS in Tunis in November 2005. This<BR>survey by the CTO of its member
countries and institutions represents an<BR>attempt to collate the views of
Commonwealth ICT stakeholders in order<BR>to contribute. <BR><BR>The CTO, as an
intergovernmental agency representing the interests of<BR>governments,
regulators, telephone companies and other ICT stakeholders<BR>mostly based in
Commonwealth countries is centrally concerned about the<BR>impact of the
Internet, its possibilities for making major contributions<BR>to developing
knowledge societies and economies, and the challenges and<BR>risks associated
with certain aspects of this important means of<BR>communication. Cognisant of
the role information and communication can<BR>play in reducing poverty and
promoting growth, and especially in<BR>enabling developing countries to achieve
their targets set in the<BR>Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the CTO
considers it as part of its<BR>responsibility to create, amongst its core
constituencies, awareness and<BR>understanding of the issues involved in
Internet Governance. <BR><BR>Deeper understanding of the critical dimensions of
Internet Governance,<BR>the CTO believes, would enable delegations from
countries that will be<BR>represented at WSIS II in Tunis to speak from a common
framework of<BR>understanding, and hopefully lead to a more harmonious outcome
of<BR>deliberations and agreements. As a true multi-stakeholder
partnership<BR>with representation from the varied sectors of the ICT sector and
with<BR>membership from all major geographic regions of the World, the CTO
is<BR>increasingly becoming recognised as a honest broker. Its efforts
to<BR>provide hard facts about the opinions of decision-makers in its
member<BR>countries should facilitate a deeper appreciation of the areas
of<BR>convergence and the areas of divergence amongst countries and types
of<BR>entities, thereby providing early warning signals about likely
flash<BR>points in the debate. It is hoped that the interim findings of
this<BR>preliminary survey will already demonstrate the need for
considerable<BR>knowledge sharing and public education long before November
2005, if the<BR>global gathering in Tunis is to succeed. <BR><BR>This interim
survey has been conducted purely as a preliminary effort to<BR>begin mapping of
opinions, attitudes and positions on some of the<BR>contentious aspects of
Internet Governance. It was conducted entirely<BR>with the CTO's own resources
and therefore does not pander to any<BR>special interest. <BR><BR>The survey was
conducted based on a formal questionnaire that posed some<BR>25 questions to
government ministers, other public servants from<BR>ministries, regulators,
telephone company executives, and other ICT<BR>practitioners who had gathered
in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in September<BR>2004, for the annual CTO
Forum that precedes the Organisation's Annual<BR>Council meeting. Responses were
obtained from delegates from some 30<BR>countries, mostly from the developing
regions of Africa, Caribbean and<BR>the Asia-Pacific regions. <BR><BR>As results
coming out of surveys of small sample size can possibly be<BR>skewed, it is the
intention of the CTO to conduct further surveys on<BR>larger samples to minimise
distortions in reaching conclusions. If the<BR>results show clear consensus on
aspects such as the need for a clear and<BR>broad definition of Internet
Governance, they also reveal disparities of<BR>opinion and potential
disagreement and on other aspects, as the summary<BR>below shows.
<BR><BR>General governance issues <BR><BR>1. Asked how broad a definition of
Internet Governance they wished<BR>to see, most participants (78%) stated the
need for a broad definition<BR>of internet governance, to include such issues as
spam, Internet pricing<BR>and interconnection, rather than a narrower definition
that would limit<BR>the discussion to such matters as IP addresses and root
server<BR>administration. <BR><BR>2. Asked what kind of organisation respondents
felt should govern<BR>the Internet, 41.4% said they preferred an
inter-governmental<BR>organisation while 27% were happy for things to remain as
they are. <BR><BR>3. To the question regarding how Internet Governance
decisions<BR>should be made, 37% of respondents wanted the WSIS to be the main
focal<BR>point for decisions, 29% asked for a new
inter-governmental<BR>organisation, 25.9% were happy with the status quo and
3.4% thought<BR>ICANN should be in charge. <BR><BR>4. Asked about the role of
ICANN, 47.8% of respondents felt that<BR>ICANN is only one of several important
actors in the Internet Governance<BR>system, with 21.7% stating that ICANN
dominates the system, and 4.3%<BR>reporting that ICANN's role is
minimal. <BR> <BR>5. Asked about any changes they may wish in
ICANN's role, the<BR>majority of open-ended comments suggested that ICANN should
have more<BR>representation for developing countries, and listen to their
concerns,<BR>especially on matters such as bandwidth pricing. <BR><BR>6. On
linguistic accessibility, 44.8% of respondents expressed<BR>satisfaction with
the current English-dominated system for e-mail<BR>addressing and web-page
addressing, while 27.6% supported<BR>multilingualism and internationalisation of
the Internet-perhaps<BR>reflecting the bias of a Commonwealth English-speaking
audience group. <BR> <BR>Policy/technology issues - Spam and cyber
crime<BR><BR>7. While respondents were informed by the questionnaire that
90% of<BR>all spam originated from OECD countries of which the USA alone
accounted<BR>for 57%, some 38% of respondents stated that nation states are
not<BR>responsible for spam originating from their countries, and that it
is<BR>better to find the actual perpetrators of spam and to punish them.
27%<BR>felt that the solution to eliminating cyber crime is
technological,<BR>requiring users to acquire the necessary software to eliminate
it. <BR><BR>8. In an open-ended question about which form of cyber crime
is<BR>most prevalent in their respective countries, most respondents
thought<BR>it is illegal access while most respondent also stated that the
most<BR>serious cyber crime is the financial fraud. <BR><BR>Revenue sharing
issues<BR><BR>9. On revenue dimensions of the Internet, 60% of respondents
agreed<BR>on the need for international agreements to govern taxation
and<BR>e-commerce, while 35.7% disagreed with the need for any such
agreements.<BR><BR><BR>Control of Root Server <BR><BR>10. While 20.7% of
respondents were satisfied with the current<BR>system of root server
administration, 72% felt that an organisation<BR>under the UN umbrella should be
responsible for control of root servers.<BR><BR>11. On ccTLDs management, 51.7%
favoured a single private sector<BR>multi-stakeholder entity, endorsed by
Governments to manage ccTLDs,<BR>while 27.6% felt a Government agency in each
country should manage<BR>ccTLDs and domain space.<BR> <BR>Impact of
Internet Governance<BR><BR>12. Regarding how important a consensus on Internet
Governance<BR>issues is to enable countries to achieve their Millennium
Development<BR>Goals, 53.8% of respondents thought this was very important,
while only<BR>7.7% thought it was not important. <BR><BR>13. Nevertheless, 81.5%
of respondents said good Internet Governance<BR>cannot directly create gender
equality or end poverty, but will enable<BR>ICTs to be an effective tool for
social action and positive social<BR>change, while some 11.1% thought it would
help create gender equality<BR>and end poverty.<BR><BR>Participation of
developing countries in ICT decision-making<BR><BR>14. Asked in a ranked order
what factor seemed most to withhold<BR>developing countries from active
participation in international ICT<BR>decision-making, the factor selected by
the highest group of respondents<BR>was 'lack of technical and policy capacity
on ICT issues', followed by<BR>lack of financial resources to travel to events
involving ICT<BR>decision-making. <BR><BR>UN ICT consultation
processes<BR><BR>15. Some cumulative 80% of respondents either strongly agreed
or<BR>agreed that it is an excellent idea for the UN Secretary General to
have<BR>constituted the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG),
while<BR>7.7% strongly disagreed. <BR><BR>16. On the online forum initiated by
UN ICT Task Force, respondents<BR>indicated that around 63% had no prior
experience with the online forum<BR>and felt that the forum could be more useful
through regional discussion<BR>groups, seminars and workshops conducted by the
CTO with better<BR>publicity to increase participation by
LDCs.<BR><BR>Confidence in UN WGIG<BR><BR>17. While 37.5% of respondents are
confident and 45.8% mildly<BR>confident that their views will be recognised by
the UN WGIG, over 66%<BR>are not optimistic or only mildly so, that the UN WGIG
would be able to<BR>achieve consensus amongst its members and produce a workable
definition<BR>of Internet Governance by the time WSIS Tunis 2005 begins, with
only<BR>8.3% feeling very optimistic that consensus would be
reached.<BR><BR>***<BR><BR>For more information, please visit <A
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contact Marcel<BR>Belingue at <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:m.belingue@cto.int">m.belingue@cto.int</A> or telephone: +44 20
7839 5174.<BR><BR>About the CTO - The Commonwealth Telecommunications
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Commonwealth and<BR>non-Commonwealth governments, businesses and civil society
organisations<BR>focused on information and communication technologies (ICT)
and<BR>development. The CTO supports the international community's efforts
to<BR>bridge the digital divide and promote social and economic
development,<BR>by delivering to developing countries unique
knowledge-sharing<BR>programmes in the use of ICTs in the specific areas
of<BR>telecommunications, IT, broadcasting and the Internet. Recently, the
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Franck Martin
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