[Chapter-delegates] [Community Input] WTDC-17 Background Paper

Tue Aug 8 11:04:05 PDT 2017

Hi,

coming out of the CITEL (PCC or CCP 1) meeting last week, I think the ONE
most important thing ISOC has to do with respect to WTDC is to keep the
ITU's mission as tight as possible, focussed on the telecommunications
layer, and clear about its lack of commitment to multistakeholder
governance of anything. And CITEL is, I think, the most benign region (the
Americas.)

Every instance in which over the years we have - most ot the time
inevitably - for the word "telecommunications" to be substituted by
"Telecommunications/ICTs" has planted  a seed that is growing into an
inescapable and tightening vine. Removing wording in new resolutions about
Artificial Intelligence, "OTTs", etc. has become increasingly hard and
takes the utmost capacity of negotiating, finding allies, and in particular
always finding governmental actors who are also sensitive.

On the other hand, the problem of access for isolated or not profittable
communities of users continues to be dominated by the paradigm of private,
market-driven suppliers. Community networking continues to be perceived as
marginal, testing the limits of regulation, spectrum allocation, etc. and
most usually beyond those limits. The one-by-one approach to villages and
suburbs is not scaling well and that non-scalability further feeds the
paradigm without any haste to actually go out and connect. Further,
connections that are not data, IP, Internet oriented feed on 2G and other
voice-oriented technologies. Voice continues to be important but it can be
supplied - and is - over IP with calls by Skype, WhatsApp, FB, and yes,
even actual cellphones, but most telcos know the time has passed.

IPv6 is another case in point, where our reps and Internet-savvy
participants have a hard time. Even questioning the role of governments in
collecting statistics on IPv6 address assignments like they were a national
scheme took a week.

Look at everything in WTDC and its preparatory process, ask "how would this
work as a Trojan horse?" and you'll be much better placed to just say "no."

Alejandro Pisanty

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Roberto Zambrana <rzambrana at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Elizabeth,
>
>
> I wanted to provide some inputs to the Background paper, in two parts.
> First some thoughts I would like to share with you, and then some
> adjustment proposals for the document.
>
>
> During WTDC-17, I think it will be extremely important to evaluate the
> existing technological deployments in terms of availability and use of the
> available infrastructure, in order to determine if those who have access
> are consuming all the existing resources, or if we require more, or If we
> are constrained by existing models of marketing of Internet services, which
> also limit access to new beneficiaries, meaning more connected users.
>
> About costs of Internet services, at least in most of the countries of our
> region, they Telecom Operators still present very high costs in fixed
> broadband services. Services that ideally should arrive with appropriate
> speeds to the houses of the users, at affordable prices. Perhaps one of the
> reasons for this slow progress has to do with the deceptive penetration of
> mobile telephony, which has allowed access to high-speed Internet Services
> (HSPA, LTE), but in a very limited and unaffordable way.
>
>
> In the same vein, it is necessary to evaluate traditional marketing
> models, where quotas are still applied with costs per Mbyte transmitted,
> instead of offering unlimited transmission services, with adequate speeds
> and at affordable prices. In other words, what good is it to have 4G mobile
> systems with speeds of 20, 30 or 60 Mbps, if I'm going to have a limited
> information capacity to transfer (such as 50 Mbytes per day). For that it
> is preferable to have lower speeds (3 or 4 Mbps), but that have no limit on
> the transmitted information.
>
>
> Finally, it is important to make the delegates understand that due to the
> importance of the Internet in our lives, the bisectorial approach
> (government-operators) is no longer enough to define an effective Internet
> development agenda in our countries. On the contrary, it is vital to
> increase the number of countries where different actors, particularly
> governments, promote multi-stakeholder dialogue processes to generate
> adequate inputs in decision-making.
>
>
> These two aspects would imply the following proposed adjustments that I
> prepare for your consideration:
>
>
> In the section *Internet Society’s Objectives*:
>
>
> First bullet paragraph:
>
> In Buenos Aires, we intend to deliver our key messages on “Access and
> Trust” in support of our Strategic Objectives. We will not only advocate
> the key principles in our Enabling Environment Framework and the
> Multistakeholder Approach for Internet development but invite governments
> to fully commit to these approaches to ensure that Internet growth
> continues and meets the goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for
> Sustainable Development.
>
>
> Proposal of adjustment for First bullet paragraph:
>
> In Buenos Aires, we intend to deliver our key messages on “Access and
> Trust” in support of our Strategic Objectives. We will not only advocate
> the key principles in our Enabling Environment Framework and the
> Multistakeholder Approach for Internet development but invite governments
> to fully commit to these approaches, particularly in those countries where
> does not have National Internet Governance Forums, to ensure that Internet
> growth continues and meets the goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for
> Sustainable Development.
>
>
>
> Proposal to include a new bullet paragraph (after the one above).
>
> Related to Infrastructure, delegates will be encouraged to perform an
> evaluation about the existing infrastructure and current state of use, with
> the purpose of analyzing if more users can be connected sooner, and what
> are the difficulties to do it, and particularly analyze the current models
> of commercialization of services, as probable cause for this limitation.
>
>
>
> Those are my suggestions Elizabeth, I hope you find them useful.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Roberto Zambrana
>
> Chair
>
> ISOC Bolivia Chapter
>
> 2017-07-28 15:57 GMT-04:00 Elizabeth Oluoch <oluoch at isoc.org>:
>
>> Dear Chapter Leaders,
>>
>>
>>
>> The ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-17) is
>> taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 9-20 October, 2017. As a Sector
>> Member of the ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D), ISOC will
>> be participating. As part of our preparations, we have developed a Draft
>> WTDC-17 Background Paper
>> <https://isoc.box.com/v/WTDC17-background-paper-review> that is intended
>> to provide an overview of the conference and outline ISOC’s main objectives
>> for the conference.
>>
>>
>>
>> We invite you to read the draft paper and provide any comments/feedback
>> by *Monday, August 7th*.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please note that the paper is intended as an informational paper,
>> particularly for audiences that are less familiar with the conference.
>>
>>
>>
>> We welcome and appreciate your input on the paper which is located in the
>> Box link below. Please either include any input using the Box comment
>> feature or send them directly to *Oluoch at isoc.org <Oluoch at isoc.org>*.
>>
>>
>>
>> https://isoc.box.com/v/WTDC17-background-paper-review
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Elizabeth
>>
>>
>>
>> Elizabeth Oluoch
>>
>> Policy Advisor
>>
>> Internet Society
>>
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>>
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