[Chapter-delegates] ITU Propaganda in APRICOT: ITU is the original multistakeholder approach

[Veni Markovski]

Thank you! Helpful!

On Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Sivasubramanian M wrote:

> Copied from the APRICOT live transcript, proceedings of the session
> Internet Governance:
>
> .....
>
>  In terms of what I would like to say for the structure, I think the most
> important thing to remember -- when I was introduced, there was reference
> made to my role in the expert group appointed by the secretary-general of
> the ITU on internationaltelecommunication regulations, ITRs.
> I thought it was fascinating, because that is in fact the second attempt
> to create anintergovernmental organization -- the very first one was the
> ... postal union.
> Those associated with ITU, like myself, we don't talk about the IPU that
> much, but as a schoolar, I have to be honest and say the UPU was the very
> first one.
> Then in 1865 the governments of Europe got together to come up with rules
> about how the telegraph would be governed.
> The telegraph was active from 1848.
> Among the things, among the at the nomna they had to deal with were
> things like the telegraph line coming from Germany to a place called Achen
> and stopping, and then the physical messages being carried across the
> border in France and being put into the telegraph line again on [ ...] on
> the other side of the border, because this was seen as something the
> governments wanted to control.
> Of course, we had the at the nomna of a man called Julius Ryeter, whose
> name lives on in the company Reuters, who decided to use the pigeons to
> accelerate the processby which this information came from the telegraph and
> was walked across the border and then re-inputd into the telegraph.
> He carried the financial and economic information using pigeons from the
> Germanside, who were not amenable to the customs procedures and so on, and
> as a result the ah kayak procedure that was in place did not last for
> very long, Mr Mr Reuter managed to leverage his activities into
> longstanding and powerful news organization that carries his name until
> today.
> So you can see that from the very beginning of electronic communication,
> the question of governmental coordination, governmental control over
> content, the private sector's involvement in it in various ways, including
> in getting around thegovernment controls, was a feature of the way
> electronic communications weregoverned.
> I find it interesting to think that these issues that we think are being
> addressed for thevery first time were in fact addressed -- they are not
> really new, they have just taken different forms.
> One of the things about the ITU that was created at that point and which
> continuesuntil today is the involvement of technical experts in the day-to-day
> activities of decision-making and coordination.
> For example, while the deliberation that some of us, for example, when I
> was working in government, I used to go to the meny potentialry and spend
> five or [ ...] five or six days, go through interminable long discussions
> about how to elect the nextoffice bearers and give direction to the
> organization per se.
> But in fact the really important work in the ITU is done in the various
> Working Groups.
> Under the ITU, particularly
>
>

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Best,
Veni

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