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FYI<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling"><br><br><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" id="ecxinternal-source-marker_0.9747586781535628"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The World Conference on International Telecommunications – 12 (December 3 - 14)</span></div><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Call to Human Rights and Technology Activists by Civil Society participants</span></div><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We,
the physical and remote participants at The World Conference on
International Telecommunications WCIT12 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates,
wish to call the attention of all human rights and technology activists
that the recent outage of the ITU website has proved to be of
considerable disadvantage to the efforts on the review of the
International Telecommunications Regulations - ITRs.</span></div><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The
World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) is a
critical event that the Civil Society believes is key in shaping greater
connectivity and growth in international telecommunications. The
satisfactory functioning of the ITU website, is central to the success
of the meeting as it serves as the document repository, primary webcast
channel and orientation platform for all participants.</span></div><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We
therefore call on all concerned activists to refrain from any possible
disruptions, hacks or attacks on the ITU website and its related
domains. Such effort will be counterproductive, and will hugely
disenfranchise remote participants.</span></div><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The
Civil Society participation in ITU deliberations is the result of a
long and a hard process that requires constructive efforts for
improvement.</span></div><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We invite you to follow remotely on</span><a href="http://www.itu.int/en/wcit-12/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.itu.int/en/wcit-12/Pages/default.aspx</span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">And #WCIT12 on Twitter</span></div><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dubai World Trade Center</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dubai, United Arab Emirates</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Friday, 7th of December 2012</span></div><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal"><span>==</span></div><div> </div><div><br style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br>Nnenna Nwakanma | Founder and CEO, NNENNA.ORG | Consultants<br>Information | Communications | Technology and Events | for Development<br>Cote d'Ivoire (+225)| Tel: 225 27144 | Fax 224 26471 |Mob. 07416820<br>Ghana: +233 249561345| Nigeria: +234 8101887065| http://www.nnenna.org <br>nnenna@nnenna.org| @nnenna | Skype - nnenna75 | nnennaorg.blogspot.com</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:italic"></span><br></div> <div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org; Nnenna <nne75@yahoo.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 7, 2012 11:22 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [governance] WCIT12 update - CS call to activists<br> </font> </div> <br>
Hi Nnenna,<br><br>Can't access the document. Could you send as an attachment or just<br>send the text to the list.<br><br>Do you know who hacked: a protest or someone (some govt) wanting to<br>look like a protest, what better way to justify having the hacked<br>organization take more responsibility for cyber-security :-)<br><br>Best,<br><br>Adam<br><br><br><br>On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Nnenna <<a href="mailto:nne75@yahoo.com">nne75@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Dear all,<br>><br>> Just a quick update from the CS lunch-meeting:<br>><br>> we're finalising the letter to be submitted to the ITU Secretariat about<br>> civil society public comments and participation; if you have comments please<br>> submit them by 15:30 today; refer to this google doc:<br>> <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/publicknowledge.org/document/d/1b7ljrjIDf_h6nuvUpsm9OqPE6_IlHBMZyJs8g3hFSxk/edit" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/a/publicknowledge.org/document/d/1b7ljrjIDf_h6nuvUpsm9OqPE6_IlHBMZyJs8g3hFSxk/edit</a><br>> - the time pressure has to do with the formal procedure to submit this;<br>> below is the letter we have agreed to disseminate widely that comments on<br>> the negative effects of the recent blackout of the ITU website for civil<br>> society who want to follow conference proceedings; we can tweet the google<br>> doc from Nnenna's email or just forward the text;<br>> we (civil society) have been invited to meet with the ITU SG – Harold is<br>> coordinating and will aim to organise something early next week.<br>><br>> Next CS meeting – tentatively at 13:30 for whomever is at the venue<br>> tomorrow. Easy to cancel if there's no need for it.<br>><br>><br>> Nnenna Nwakanma | Founder and CEO, <a href="http://nnenna.org/" target="_blank">NNENNA.ORG</a> |
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