[Chapter-delegates] ITU Speech: Governance Monday: Do We Need a Global Cybersecurity Framework

[Narelle Clark President ISOC-AU]

Here is another take on it:


ITU learns from the best in a new internet regulatory bid
Bernard Keane | Jul 19, 2013 11:04AM

In making another bid to “secure cyberspace”, the International
Telecommunications Union has revised its tactics — and learnt
from its opponents.

Let’s take a brief trip back to the pre-Ed Snowden era, when those of us
who warned that the United States was the biggest threat to online
security on the planet were dismissed as “cyber anarchists” and conspiracy
theorists.

Last December saw Anglophone countries refuse to sanction what was
portrayed as an attempt by the International Telecommunications Union to
take control of internet regulation, partly for the benefit of
uncompetitive European telcos, and partly for the benefit of some of the
world’s most repressive régimes.

As we now realise, the efforts of the US and faithful allies like the UK
and Australia to block the ITU weren’t only or perhaps even mainly in
favour of protecting the online rights of their citizens, but to safeguard
their massive investment in global internet and telephone surveillance.

Now the ITU is back for another bite at the, um, cybercherry.

In a speech this week in (where else?) Geneva, ITU secretary-general
Hamadoun Touré called for the establishment of a “global framework on
securing cyberspace” in a “multilateral but also multi-stakeholder
fashion”. Touré pitched the ITU’s IMPACT as an appropriate model for an
“alliance against cyber threats”.

What’s IMPACT? It’s the ITU’s Malaysian-based cybersecurity arm. However,
it is in effect boycotted by nearly every Western
country — few European countries participate and no Anglophone
countries. Nor does Russia.

etc at:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/07/19/itu-learns-from-the-best-in-a-new-internet-regulatory-bid/

including some numerical analysis on the numbers in the Sec Gen's speech.

Narelle


On Fri, July 19, 2013 2:02 pm, Narelle Clark President ISOC-AU wrote:
> What's everyone's take on this?
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> Narelle
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> from
> http://www.itu.int/en/osg/speeches/Pages/2013-07-15.aspx
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> Speech by ITU Secretary-General, Dr Hamadoun I. Touré