[Chapter-delegates] End of ITU plenipotentiary in Guadalajara

Khaled KOUBAA khaled.koubaa at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 13:34:56 PDT 2010


Thank you Alex.
I personally was following your tweet each day and I felt that I was 
really present there :)

Le 22/10/2010 19:32, Alejandro Pisanty a écrit :
> Cher Olivier,
>
> thanks for this pointer to the ITU's news release.
>
> The conference hasn't ended yet. In a couple of hours there will still 
> be a Plenary and rounds of objections and reservations to the approved 
> documents.
>
> The official acts at 
> http://www.itu.int/plenipotentiary/2010/pd/final-acts/001S.pdf are not 
> open (only for members, with TIES number.) I am asking the ITU 
> management publicly to make the fine gesture of opening them; it 
> remains in process as I write.
>
> We all owe great thanks to Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) from 
> APNIC, Luis Miguel Martinez of Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City 
> (@lmuia, @electronicaUIA, @UIAdigital), Veni Markovski (@veni), Kieren 
> McCarthy (formerly of ICANN, now GIBC, @kierenmccarthy and @GBIC), 
> Pablo Hinojosa (APNIC, formerly ICANN, @lphinojosa) and a few others 
> for their tireless, smart, well-tuned labor of twittering out from the 
> conference live, sometimes blow-by-blow in what seemed pure madness. 
> You can pick it up through the hashtag #PP10, and statistics for it in 
> http://wthashtag/pp10.
>
> Bill Graham's very good weekly reports will provide many of you with 
> context, more complete information, and analysis, while the lively 
> Twitter stream has served to make thousands of people worldwide 
> immediately aware of the workings of the ITU and the troubles that 
> even the most basic Internet concepts face in being understood.
>
> Whether the result of the Plenipotentiary is good or bad for the 
> Internet will only be known after some time. What seems pretty sure 
> for me is that the openness and transparency that the Internet brought 
> (some times by force) to the ITU meeting have been effective in 
> averting some of the worst results. Just one little sign of this is a 
> speech of Secretary General Hamadoun Toure asking the Delegates to be 
> aware that the meeting is being broadcast and they run the risk of 
> making the world laugh at the ITU.
>
> We will have to analyze the entire experience with Bill soon to 
> understand what went well, what went wrong, and how to fine-tune our 
> strategies towards the future.
>
> For me it has been a motive of pride to try to contribute to this 
> effort but mostly to see these great Internet souls bringing in light 
> and fresh air to the one organization with a claim of a role in 
> Internet Governance that remains most removed from compliance with the 
> core WSIS mandates.
>
> Yours,
>
> Alejandro Pisanty
>
>
> .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .  .  .  .  
> .  .
>      Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
> UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico
>
> Tels. +52-(1)-55-5105-6044, +52-(1)-55-5418-3732
>
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> * LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty
> * Twitter: http://twitter.com/apisanty
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>
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> *Participa en ICANN, http://www.icann.org
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>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:08:34 +0200
>> From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
>> To: Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
>> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] End of ITU plenipotentiary in Guadalajara
>>
>> The press release is on:
>>
>> http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2010/41.aspx
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>> -- 
>> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
>> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
>>
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