[kictanet] Did Kenya win or lose Internet calls battle @ WCIT?

[Walubengo J]

GG,

Here's another view....

>>>>>>>>


As Kenyans focused locally on political coalitions, marriages 
and divorces, governments convened and concluded a meeting in Dubai 
known as the World Conference on International Telecommunications, 2012. Governments were revising a 1982 Treaty,  which describes how 
international telecommunication services will be governed over the next 
one to two decades.

ITUs role was best appreciated in 1970s through 
the 1980s & 1990s when telcos were largely government owned and by 
extension, the same governments as members of ITU would make binding 
decisions on how these telecommunication companies (e.g. the defunct 
Kenya Posts & Telecommunication Companies, KPTC) would interconnect 
internationally to others.  ITU would therefore define the technical 
standards and protocols for the interconnection as well as the 
international charges....
more @

http://tinyurl.com/cmpy36u

or 

http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion---Analysis/Did-Kenya-win-or-lose-Internet-calls-battle/-/539548/1645934/-/vwo47gz/-/index.html


walu.



________________________________
 From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>
To: jwalu at yahoo.com 
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 1:07 AM
Subject: [kictanet] The highlights and low points of WCIT
 

 
The logic of
forcing the world’s governments into a box to rewrite a global treaty that has
stood for 24 years in just 14 days may be questionable, 

but it definitely creates
an event and along with that moments that stand out and set the general tone
and atmosphere of the meeting itself. 

Here are the
main ones from WCIT 2012: 
http://news.dot-nxt.com/2012/12/14/highlights-and-low-points-wcit
 
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