World%20Summit%20on%20the%20Information%20Society%20(WSIS)

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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

• Proposed by delegates to the ITU Plenipotentiary
  Meeting in 1998
• Endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly
  as a multi-sectoral approach
• UN global summit under the high patronage of the
  Secretary General
• Two-Phase
• Geneva in December 2003 will adopt a Declaration
  of Principles and Action Plan
• Tunis in 2005 will assess progress and refine the
  Action Plan with a focus on development

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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

• "To develop a common vision and understanding
  of the Information Society, to better understand
  its scope and dimensions and to draw up a
  strategic plan of action for successfully
  adapting to the new society"
• Proposed themes for WSIS
• Access to ICTs for all
• ICTs as tools for social and economic development
  
• Confidence and security in the use of ICTs

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WSIS and ICANN

• Why Summit?
• Development and ICT with UN MDG (Millennium
  Development Goals)
• Social impacts of ICT deepening
• Reform UN system
• ICANN (or DNS/IP Address management) became
  center of focus on Internet Governance

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Why ICANN became the biggest focus at WSIS process

• Civil Society/NGO circle
• Agree with the status quo or Not
• Not open to citizens enough (AtLarge issues)
• Amongst the Governments
• (Private) International Organization or Formal
  Intergovernmental Organization
• Frustrations from developing countries
• China, South Africa, Brazil, Egypt.
• US makes the control and enforce the framework
• Not sufficient participation by governments,
  especially from developing countries
• NO formal role by governments (at GAC), just
  advisory
• ccTLD and National Sovereignty issues
• ITU interested in being involved

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Original Draft (May 03)

• "44. Management of Internet names and addresses
  Internet governance must be multilateral,
  democratic and transparent, taking into account
  the needs of the public and private sectors as
  well as those of the civil society, and
  respecting multilingualism. The coordination
  responsibility for root servers, domain names,
  and Internet Protocol (IP) address assignment
  should rest with a suitable international,
  inter-governmental organization. The policy
  authority for country code top-level-domain names
  (ccTLDs) should be the sovereign right of
  countries."

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Debate by Governments

• Inter-Governmental Organization
• China, South Africa, Brazil, India, Kenya
• Private sector to lead
• EU, Canada, Australia, US, Japan
• NGOs could participate at WG discussion, not in
  formal negotiation at the plenary

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Final Draft Declaration

• 44. International Internet management
• The international management of the Internet
  should be democratic, multilateral, transparent
  and participative with the full involvement of
  the governments, intergovernmental organizations,
  private sector and civil society. This management
  should encompass both technical and policy
  issues. While recognizing that the private sector
  has an important role in the development of
  Internet at the technical level, and will
  continue to take a lead role, the fast
  development of internet as the basis of
  information society requires that governments,
  take a lead role, in partnership with all the
  other stakeholders, in developing and
  coordinating policies of the public interests
  related to stability, security, competition,
  freedom of use, protection of individual rights
  and privacy, sovereignty, and equal access for
  all, among all the other aspects, through
  appropriate intergovernmental/ international
  organizations.

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Draft Action Plan 33

• 33 Internet governance Internet governance has
  emerged as a key issue of the information
  society. A transparent, multilateral and
  democratic governance of the Internet shall
  continue the basis for the development of a
  global culture of cyber-security. An
  international/intergovernmental organization
  should ensure multilateral, democratic and
  transparent management of root servers, domain
  names and Internet Protocol (IP) address
  assignment.
• ,

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More to come

• PrepCom3 Sep 15-26
• PrepCom4?
• Geneva Summit Dec 10-12
• Tunisia Summit Nov, 2005

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WSIS Meeting Timeline

• Preparatory Committees
• PrepCom 1 Geneva 1-5 July 2002
• PrepCom 2 Geneva, 17-28 February 2003
• Intersessional Meeting Paris, July 2003
• PrepCom 3 Geneva, September 15-26 2003
• 2002-2003, Regional Preparations
• African Bamako (Mali) 28-30 May 2002
• Pan European Bucharest (Romania) 7-9 November
  2002
• Asian Tokyo (Japan) 13-15 January 2003
• LA C Bávaro (Dominican Republic) 29-31
  January 2003
• 2003 December 10-12, WSIS (1) Geneva
• 2004-2005 PrepComs
• 2005 WSIS (2) Tunis
• http//www.itu.int/wsis/

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Remainig Issues

• Who governs the Internet? (and how?)
• Dinosaur Medias Telcos? of 2nd Ind. Rev?
• Incumbent Hitechcos of 3rd Ind. Rev?
• Incumbent NGO-NPOs of 1st Inf. Rev.?
• Newly Rising Smart Mobs of 1st Inf. Rev.?
• Who controls the information rights?
• Who control the spectrum?

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Thank you and See you online

• Izumi Aizu
• Asia Network Research/GLOCOM
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• ltizumi_at_anr.orggt