[Chapter-delegates] [Isoc-ext-board] ISOC's involvement at ITU Telecom World 2009

[Bill Graham]

a few comments

-----Original Message-----
From: "Alejandro Pisanty" <apisan at servidor.unam.mx>
Sent: Friday, October 9, 2009 11:10pm
To: "Gerard Ross" <ross at isoc.org>
Cc: "ISOC Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>, "ISOC Extended Board" <isoc-ext-board at elists.isoc.org>
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] [Isoc-ext-board] ISOC's involvement at ITU Telecom World 2009

Hi Gerard, others who were in charge and/or attended ITU Telecom World 
2009:

1. I've heard that the event was a major flop. What does this really mean? 

<Primarily that attendance was  MUCH less than predicted.  Registration was about 15% of the 40,000 advertised.  But also the trade show failed to attract the global firms or customers, so the aisles were not exactly full.

Only lack of attendance? A failure of the ITU to deliver its message(s)?

The forum itself was reasonably good.  ITU had a fair range of speakers, and frankly the ISOC speakers <Lynn, Karen) made good points and attracted good interaction.  ISOC was  not alone on panels in supporting the Internet.  ITU on the other hand hosted a CTO summit which we were not informed of even as sector members.  They also tried to have a Ministers-only discussion of the future of the  Iinternet and to produce a statement from it.  Fortunately, and by accident, the Canadian delegation  found out about it and intervened to remind them that only Member States can produce declarations from the ITU, so that fell flat.  They also hosted a meeting on financing ICT for D, but I have not had a report from that.

2. Does anyone have a (self- or third-party or any other) assessment of 
how ISOC and the Internet fared altogether? 

my personal assessment is that we did well.  we were very prominently placed, and had good flow-by traffic.  We met lots of interested people, at quite high levels, and had a lot of good side meetings.  While traffic was not huge, the people we attracted were people we wanted to reach.  <I cant say how the other organizations feel yet - we need to do a post-mortem.

What was not only the 
cost-benefit but the risk-cost-benefit for ISOC?

my assessment is that both were positive.  we needed to be in the forum, and the booth worked out well.  Presumably we will be doing a review in the near future and will let you know.  And if we do something like this again (not a given) we will be in contact earlier in the planning phase.

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Gerard Ross wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:14:31 +0200
> From: Gerard Ross <ross at isoc.org>
> To: ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>,
>     ISOC Extended Board <isoc-ext-board at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: [Isoc-ext-board] ISOC's involvement at ITU Telecom World 2009
> 
> Dear colleagues
>
> The Internet Society has a strong presence at the ITU Telecom World 2009 in 
> Geneva this week.
>
> On Thursday 8 October, both Lynn St. Amour and Karen Rose will be speaking on 
> panels in the main Telecom World Forum. The ITU is providing a live web cast 
> of proceedings here:
>
>  http://www.itutelecomtv.com/
>
> Lynn St.Amour will speak on the Future Internet Panel from 11:00 - 12:30 (UTC 
> +2).
>
> Karen Rose will speak on the panel "Rethinking regulation in emerging 
> markets" from 09:00 - 10:30 (UTC +2).
>
> Also, at the Youth Forum today, ISOC announced the launch of the Next 
> Generation Leaders programme. A more detailed news release about this 
> programme will be circulated tomorrow, but for now, please see:
>
>  http://www.isoc.org/leaders
>
> For more details on the Internet Society's involvement in Telecom World 2009, 
> see:
>
>  http://www.isoc.org/itu-tw2009
>
> Kind regards
> - Gerard
>
> --
> Gerard Ross
> Senior Manager, Outreach and Coordinated Communication
> Internet Society
> Email: ross at isoc.org
>
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