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<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva; FONT-SIZE:
10pt">More than 2 billion people are now connected to the
Internet, and the progression of mobile connections should
accelerate the trend. Yet, there are questions. Investment
in ‘next generation’ Internet access infrastructure is not
guaranteed, either in advanced or in developing economies.
Convergence between the telecom, IT and media worlds is in
full flow and it is difficult to predict what these
sectors will look like in a few years. The Internet’s
major positive impact on economies and societies continues
to be seen, with steady increases in ‘net-enabled’
productivity, job creation, and ‘new sector creation’,
plus myriad social changes, particularly the vastly
enhanced ability to communicate, in many different ways,
with pretty much anyone, anywhere in the world. But these
rapid evolutions entail questions and risks as much as
hopes.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva; FONT-SIZE:
10pt">In parallel, the debate around the Internet’s
governance continues. The ‘World Conference on
International Telecommunications’ (WCIT), a treaty-making
negotiation to review the 1988 International
Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) International Telecom
Regulations (ITRs) will take place in Dubai in December,
with a number of governments raising crucial questions
about economic, financial, policy and governance
directions for the Internet. The preparatory negotiations
have seen a flurry of activities, with proposals to
include treaty rules about topics ranging from the
architecture and ‘domain name’ system of the Internet, to
online content regulation, human rights, mobile roaming,
or governments setting telecom prices. Some of the
proposals have been described in the media as opposing
developed and developing economies, others contrasting
repressive vs. more open governments. Adding to the
debate, ETNO the European telecommunications incumbents’
association came out with its own suggestions, proposing a
radical overhaul of the WCIT treaty to create a ‘new
Internet ecosystem’ based around new Internet
interconnection rules and charging mechanisms, and
‘levelling the playing field’ between telecom operators
and those they refer to as ‘over the top’ players (OTT).</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva; FONT-SIZE:
10pt">A holistic, open-minded discussion around the future
of the “global public Internet” and the key economic,
social, and political questions it raises is clearly much
needed. Following a lively discussion at the IIC UK
Chapter event on WCIT held on July 11th, IIC and ISOC
England are teaming up to start this future-looking
debate. It will take place less than a month after the
‘Budapest Conference on Cyberspace norms’, one week before
the annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and the WCIT
just one month away. The event will be an opportunity to
ask ourselves what is the reality of Internet access
around the world today; how best and how quickly we can
bring the benefits of the Internet to all 7 billion
humans, looking both at the technologies and the
investment, through some of the exciting examples of rapid
developments which can be seen today in places like Kenya
or South Africa; how advanced and developing economies can
harness Internet access for wider economic and social
benefits; whether there is actually something wrong with
Internet Governance as it is today, that would require a
major intergovernmental enterprise; why multi-lateralism
versus multi-stakeholderism; how can the views and needs
of developing countries regarding the Internet and its
governance best be addressed? And what will future
international negotiations seek or be able to address,
such as the ITU’s 2013 World Telecom Policy Forum (WTPF)
and the 2014-2015 Review of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS Review), all of which are due to
see the same topics debated.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva;
FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Confirmed speakers include:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva;
FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- Markus Kummer, Vice-President
Public Policy, Internet Society</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva;
FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- Isabelle Mauro, GSMA</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva;
FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- Dominique Lazansky, Tax Payers’
Alliance</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva;
FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- Malcolm Hutty, London Internet
Exchange (LINX) and Chair, EuroISPA </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva;
FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- Commonwealth Telecoms
Organisation or Commonwealth Secretariat (tbc)</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva;
FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- Desiree Miloshevic, Oxford
Internet Institute (tbc)</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva; FONT-SIZE:
10pt">The event will be jointly moderated by Olivier
Crépin-Leblond, Chair of the English Chapter of the
Internet Society and Jean-Jacques Sahel, Chair of the UK
IIC Chapter.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva;
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<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva; FONT-SIZE:
10pt">Further information available from
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The event is free to IIC and ISOC members. To register,
please complete and return the attached registration form
to
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with UKCH4-12 in the subject heading. For IIC membership
details please go to
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