[kictanet] WebRTC/RTCWEB Congestion Control Workshop on July 28 in Vancouver
Gideon
gideonrop at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 12:37:07 EAT 2012
Hi Listers,
Everybody remember Dan York one of the presenters for the African IETF
conference , here is another workshop.
You can attend to this meeting Remotely
Links,
http://www.iab.org/cc-workshop/
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120621_webrtc_rtcweb_congestion_control_workshop_on_july_28_in_vancouver/
Thanks
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> Implementation: The Ongoing Fight For Development In IP
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> Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 13:19:39 +0300
> From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [kictanet] 1st African Internet Standards Forum: May 12th at
> the iHub (live streamed)
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> Listers FYI ,
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>
> This Saturday at the iHub, you are cordially invited to attend a
> conference that will be live streamed from Gambia. The forum is
> technical in nature and will be discussing
> Internet standards and how to encourage more African participation in the
> IETF <http://ietf.org>. Those who can make it please attend, KENIC will be
> sponsoring the local event and will provide snacks. You can read more about
> the event<
> http://internetsociety.org/events/african-internet-standards-forum>from
> the Internet Society website.
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> --
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> Subject: [kictanet] The role of Media in political developement
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> Listers,
>
> Having watched a couple of programmes focusing on current political
> happenings i am left wondering on the role of the media, are some of
> this media houses engaged in political activism or are they educating
> the masses?. Why cant media houses be more innovative and focus on
> debates such as what we had on this list (Ndemo for president). This
> populist debates centered around opinions are a recipe for chaos. One
> just needs to look at what happened in Sabatia to know what can happen
> when this opinion contests are not handled well. We need to evaluate
> the possible impact of some of this opinion based discussions, they
> may shore up profits for media houses but divide the country.
>
> --
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> Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] WIPO Development Agenda
> Implementation: The Ongoing Fight For Development In IP
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> FYI
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Anne-Rachel Inn? <annerachel at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:38 PM
> Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] WIPO Development Agenda Implementation: The
> Ongoing Fight For Development In IP
> To: africann at afrinic.net
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>
> WIPO Development Agenda Implementation: The Ongoing Fight For Development
> In IP
>
> http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/05/09/wpo-development-agenda-implementation-the-ongoing-fight-for-development-in-ip/?utm_source=post&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts
>
> Published on 9 May 2012 @ 8:23 am
>
>
> By William New <http://www.ip-watch.org/author/william/>, Intellectual
> Property Watch
>
> As World Intellectual Property Organization members engage this week in
> discussions about the extent of change to the UN agency?s development
> orientation, a new substantive proposal for reform has been put forward
> based on an external review of WIPO technical assistance.
>
> The Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) is meeting
> from 7-11 May <
> http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=25013>.
> The committee exists to implement the 2007 WIPO Development Agenda.
>
> In general, it could be said that developing countries, which initiated the
> movement that led to the Development Agenda, are working to enact a
> substantive transformation at the organisation, while developed countries
> are eager to make improvements without drastically altering the agency.
>
> The work in the CDIP addresses a full range of WIPO activities. With a wide
> range of reports and activities being carried out, a wide range of WIPO
> professional staff and consultants are cycling through the committee.
> Projects range from databases, to competition policy, to flexibilities in
> IP law, to the public domain. Technical assistance is only one aspect, but
> it reaches into the core of the organisation?s orientation.
>
> The breadth of issues was reflected in opening statements, such as by Iran
> on behalf of the Asian Group, available
> here<
> http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/asian-group-general-statement-in-CDIP-9.doc
> >.
>
>
> On the first day, an attempt was made again by developing countries to
> create a permanent agenda item on ?IP and development,? which developed
> countries again resisted on the grounds that it is repetitive with the
> title of the committee itself. But developing countries? concern is that
> broader issues of IP and development do not have a place in a committee
> that spends most of its time working through specific projects. They have
> raised this issue for several years.
>
> The first day also saw a discussion of the relation of the CIP to other
> committees and activities within WIPO, which raises recurrent issues of how
> far-reaching the committee?s work is.
>
> The remainder of the week will focus on the WIPO secretariat?s extensive
> report on the implementation of the Development Agenda, and numerous
> project reports as well as evaluations of past projects. There are now some
> 23 projects completed or in the process of being completed, according to
> the secretariat.
>
> The timetable for the week (as of 8 May) is available
> here<
> http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WIPO-CDIP-Timetable-7-11-May-2012-v2.pdf
> >[pdf].
>
> Deere/Roca Report
>
> A key element of the week?s agenda is to address an external review of WIPO
> technical assistance called for by member states and co-authored by Carolyn
> Deere and Santiago Roca. The report found numerous areas for improvement
> for member states to consider.
>
> Yesterday, the entire day was spent discussing the report, but no decisions
> were made on how to proceed. The chair is expected to draft a summary of
> this and other activities by week?s end.
>
> The day opened with a presentation to the plenary by Deere, who outlined a
> number of key recommendations from the report. These fell into the areas of
> transparency and mutual accountability, management and strategic planning,
> effectiveness and impact, good governance, and orientation.
>
> Deere, who is a senior researcher in the Global Economic Governance
> Programme at Oxford University, told the plenary that the report research
> was completed in August 2011. At the last CDIP in November 2011, the
> committee set up an ad hoc working group to look at the report and among
> other things identify where there might be redundancy in the report
> recommendations and help prepare for a committee decision on how to proceed
> (*IPW*, WIPO, 18 November
> 2012<
> http://www.ip-watch.org/2011/11/18/wipo-development-committee-completes-work-creates-technical-cooperation-review-group/
> >).
>
>
> Also at the last CDIP meeting, the WIPO secretariat was asked to respond to
> the Deere/Roca report. The WIPO management response was completed in March
> and reflects a number of improvements, including many in the past few
> months, leading to a debate over which Deere/Roca recommendations had
> already been addressed or whether and how the WIPO secretariat?s claims
> need to be confirmed.
>
> The secretariat clustered the Deere/Roca recommendations into three
> categories. Cluster A are those which are ?already reflected in WIPO
> activities, or ongoing reform programs.? Cluster B is made up of those
> which ?merit further consideration.? And Cluster C represents those which
> ?raise concerns as to implementation.?
>
> The management response is
> here<http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=199874>.
>
>
> Some developing country members said that some recommendations listed as
> completed in Cluster A may need to be confirmed. Co-author Deere took a
> similar view on this, suggesting the regularisation of a monitoring
> mechanism would be helpful. Concern was also raised on the criteria used to
> place recommendations into Cluster C.
>
> The Group B developed countries generally accepted the secretariat response
> and moved right into discussing items in Cluster B. But Group B appears to
> be looking to slow down the work of the committee.
>
> The *ad hoc* working group only began meeting in March, and was crippled in
> part by a lack of translation services. After a series of five meetings
> ending two weeks ago, the group could not reach agreement and left off its
> work.
>
> The minutes of the *ad hoc* group meetings are
> here<
> http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WIPO-Minutes-of-Ad-Hoc-WG-on-Ext-Rvw-CDIP_-May-20121.pdf
> >[pdf],
> and the report of the group is
> here<
> http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WIPO-Rpt-of-Ad-Hoc-WG-on-External-Rvw-CDIP_-May-20121.pdf
> >[pdf].
>
> New DAG/African Group Proposal
>
> The African Group and the Development Agenda Group (which includes
> countries from other regions) issued a large, new proposal today on ways to
> take forward the Deere/Roca report. The new document includes a variety of
> specific proposals ?aimed at improving WIPO?s development cooperation
> activities.?
>
> The DAG/African joint proposal is available
> here<
> http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WIPO-CDIP-DAG-Propl-8-May-2012.pdf
> >[pdf].
>
> Under ?relevance and orientation,? the groups proposed experts to develop
> guidelines with details on how to plan and implement more
> development-oriented assistance. They also call for the secretariat to
> develop a comprehensive manual on delivery of technical assistance.
>
> The 17-page document also includes proposals for the WIPO program and
> budget, including moving ?funds-in-trust? ? targeted funding from
> governments intended for specific activities ? into the regular WIPO
> budget, programming and reporting processes.
>
> Other proposals lay out steps for addressing: extra-budgetary resources;
> human resources; expert/consultants; transparency and communication;
> redesigning the technical assistance database; assessing impact, monitoring
> and evaluation; IP policies and strategies in countries; provision of
> legislative and regulatory assistance; IP office modernization, training
> and capacity building; coordination; and follow-up.
>
> The joint proposal also includes a 25-point appendix of guidance for WIPO,
> such as ensuring development cooperation assistance is more than just
> responding to requests, but also a dialogue with appropriate assistance.
>
> A presentation on the new set of proposals was made by Algeria on behalf of
> the DAG, but it could not be agreed by the committee how to proceed on it.
> Developed countries suggested they would need time to review the proposal.
>
> Protection and Development
>
> The WIPO Development Agenda?s 45 recommendations reach well beyond
> technical assistance and development cooperation, but there continues to be
> disagreement on how far they should go in the organisation?s activities.
> Last week, for instance, there was disagreement over whether it relates to
> the WIPO Committee on Standards.
>
> The discussion is reaching into the original purpose of the organisation,
> as the United States and Japan today raised Article 3 of the original WIPO
> Convention, noting that it does not mention development but does emphasise
> IP protection. The United States said a shift from an ?IP-centric? to
> development-oriented WIPO would contravene Article 3.
>
> Article 3 states<
> http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/convention/trtdocs_wo029.html#P68_3059>:
>
>
> *The objectives of the Organization are:*
> *
>
> (i) to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world
> through cooperation among States and, where appropriate, in collaboration
> with any other international organization,
>
> (ii) to ensure administrative cooperation among the Unions.
> *
>
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