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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Alice,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Thanks for sharing. This sentence below
and the predictions caught my eye.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:#181818;background:#EEEEEE">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#2A2A2A">Foolish as it may be, we have
some predictions for what will happen between now and the end of WCIT. Here
they are:<br>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#2A2A2A">Nothing radical will appear
in the ITRs. Instead it will be agreed that they<br>
will be reviewed in four or eight years' time and a range of working groups<br>
will be formed to work on various issues and report to the Council next year,<br>
take it to the ITU Plenipotentiary for initial review in 2014, and onto the<br>
World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) in 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#2A2A2A">The United States will push
its hand incredibly hard (bolstered by its huge<br>
delegation of industry representatives and over-excited civil<br>
society/Internet groups who have all persuaded each other of their own<br>
truth). It will threaten to take a reservation once too often and will end up<br>
being saved by either Canada or a European country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";
color:#2A2A2A">The African contingent will get extra wording in about the
importance of<br>
providing access to the developing world, but will fail in their efforts to<br>
get the rest of the world to put in any money for the effort.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#2A2A2A">The Committee 5 meetings will
go on late into the night and the conference<br>
will stretch into Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#2A2A2A">There will be a two-hour
argument about Palestine that will have nothing<br>
whatsoever to do with telecoms or WCIT but Middle East representatives won't<br>
be able to stop themselves from getting involved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#2A2A2A">ITU Secretary-General
Hamadoun Toure will be forced to plea personally with<br>
the room to be reasonable, consider the larger picture, and tell delegates<br>
that the world is watching.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#2A2A2A">There will be an hour recess
while everything that has been argued over for<br>
more than a year is finally agreed to in a private meeting between the main<br>
actors. What results is then green-lighted by everyone even though they<br>
aren't quite sure what the final text looks like.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> From: alice@apc.org<br>> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 05:35:19 +0000<br>> Subject: [kictanet] WCIT Lowdown its all about Africa and Commitee 5<br>> CC: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>> To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com<br>> <br>> Article has very interesting predictions.<br>> Best<br>> Alice<br>> <br>> http://news.dot-nxt.com/2012/12/06/<br>> wcit-lowdown-its-all-about-afr<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> kictanet mailing list<br>> kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>> https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet<br>> <br>> Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ggithaiga%40hotmail.com<br>> <br>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.<br>> <br>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.<br></div> </div></body>
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