<html><body><div style="color:; background-color:; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">GG,<br><br>Here's another view....<br><br>>>>>>>>><br><br><div><div>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.</div><div><br></div></div>
<div><div>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....</div></div><br>more @<br><br><b>http://tinyurl.com/cmpy36u<br><br>or <br><br>http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion---Analysis/Did-Kenya-win-or-lose-Internet-calls-battle/-/539548/1645934/-/vwo47gz/-/index.html<br></b><br><div><span>walu.<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, 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> Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> jwalu@yahoo.com <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, December 17, 2012 1:07 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] The highlights and low points of WCIT<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1646430842">
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<span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">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, </span><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv1646430842ecxMsoNormal"><span style="">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. </span></div>
<div class="yiv1646430842ecxMsoNormal"><span style=""><br></span></div><div class="yiv1646430842ecxMsoNormal"><span style="">Here are the
main ones from WCIT 2012: </span></div><div class="yiv1646430842ecxMsoNormal"><span style=""></span><font face="Arial, sans-serif">http://news.dot-nxt.com/2012/12/14/highlights-and-low-points-wcit</font></div><div class="yiv1646430842ecxMsoNormal"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div> </div></div><style><!--
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