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Dear all,<br>
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please find the invitation below which we sent out at the beginning
of the month, with an excellent line-up of guests but also many
people who will intervene from the floor.<br>
Please hurry to register -- last 10 spaces and a couple of days left
for registration!<br>
See you at the event,<br>
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Olivier Crépin-Leblond<br>
ISOC England Chair<br>
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SOCIETY ENGLAND</span></h2>
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INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATIONS</span><span
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CHAPTER EVENT</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';
FONT-SIZE: 14pt">The Internet's next ten years:
needs, opportunities and governance</span></b></span></p>
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MS','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Tuesday
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limited: </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet
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closes on Friday 26 October 2012</span></h2>
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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<br>
</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;
FONT-SIZE: 10pt">REGISTRATION </span></strong></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms,geneva; FONT-SIZE:
10pt">Further information available from <a
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href="mailto:j.grimshaw@iicom.org">j.grimshaw@iicom.org</a>.
The event is free to IIC and ISOC members. To
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