[kictanet] WCIT Lowdown its all about Africa and Commitee 5

[Grace Githaiga]

Alice,

Thanks for sharing. This  sentence below
and the predictions caught my eye.

 

And it will be the African Region -
which acts as a voting block and has also provided documents to the ITU as a
group - that ultimately decides where the axe comes down on the many different
aspects of the conference.

 

Predictions

Foolish as it may be, we have
some predictions for what will happen between now and the end of WCIT. Here
they are:





·        
Nothing radical will appear
in the ITRs. Instead it will be agreed that they

will be reviewed in four or eight years' time and a range of working groups

will be formed to work on various issues and report to the Council next year,

take it to the ITU Plenipotentiary for initial review in 2014, and onto the

World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) in 2016.

·        
The United States will push
its hand incredibly hard (bolstered by its huge

delegation of industry representatives and over-excited civil

society/Internet groups who have all persuaded each other of their own

truth). It will threaten to take a reservation once too often and will end up

being saved by either Canada or a European country.

·        
The African contingent will get extra wording in about the
importance of

providing access to the developing world, but will fail in their efforts to

get the rest of the world to put in any money for the effort.

·        
The Committee 5 meetings will
go on late into the night and the conference

will stretch into Saturday.

·        
There will be a two-hour
argument about Palestine that will have nothing

whatsoever to do with telecoms or WCIT but Middle East representatives won't

be able to stop themselves from getting involved.

·        
ITU Secretary-General
Hamadoun Toure will be forced to plea personally with

the room to be reasonable, consider the larger picture, and tell delegates

that the world is watching.

·        
There will be an hour recess
while everything that has been argued over for

more than a year is finally agreed to in a private meeting between the main

actors. What results is then green-lighted by everyone even though they

aren't quite sure what the final text looks like.
> From: alice at apc.org
> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 05:35:19 +0000
> Subject: [kictanet] WCIT Lowdown its all about Africa and Commitee 5
> CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
> 
> Article has very interesting predictions.
> Best
> Alice
> 
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