[Lacigf] Comunicado de la ITU sobre WCIT-12

Fri Nov 16 13:15:38 BRST 2012

Julián,

gracias por este envío. Sólo una nota de atención, este comunicado es de la
ITUC, confederación internacional de sindicatos.

Esta organización inició una campaña muy amplia contra las medidas
restrictivas de Internet que pueden surgir de la CMTI-12 o WCIT. El día de
ayer, la UIT, a través de Alex Ntoko y de su oficina de prensa, descalificó
los comunicados de la ITUC y en consecuencia se llevó a cabo la reunión
mencionada en el comunicado de la ITUC que transmites.

Es muy problemática la actitud demostrada por la UIT, que incluso en sus
signos de apertura se vuelve a manifestar contraria a todo el modelo
"multistakeholder", sigue manteniendo bajo llave la casi totalidad de
documentos relevantes (sólo ha abierto realmente uno), y sigue operando en
forma corporativista (su única apertura real ante la ITUC consistió en
invitar a los sindicatos de trabajadores de telecomunicaciones a ingresar
como miembro sectorial, e invitar a empresas no miembros sectoriales,
sociedad civil y comunidad técnica a integrarse dentro de las delegaciones
nacionales, que como sabemos son prerrogativa de los gobiernos).

Parece importante apoyar la campaña de la ITUC y Greenpeace dirigiendo
mensajes como el suyo - o respaldando el mismo - al Secretario General de
la ONU para que interponga sus buenos oficios en contra de esas medidas y a
favor de un proceso abierto y transparente.

Alejandro Pisanty

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Julian Casasbuenas G. <
julian at colnodo.apc.org> wrote:

>
> INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION
>
> ITU Refuses Proposals for Open Discussion of Plans to Regulate Internet
>
> Geneva, 15 November 2012(ITUC Media Release): The International Trade
> Union Confederation (ITUC) today met with Dr Hamadoun Toure, Head of the
> UN’s International Telecommunication Union, to take internet regulation
> proposals off the agenda of the World Conference on International
> Telecommunication (WCIT-12) due to take place in Dubai in December. ITUC
> General Secretary Sharan Burrow said that the internet had always been
> managed by a multi-stakeholder approach, but that the proposed changes
> would radically undermine this model and seriously alter internet
> governance.
>
> “This is not a process that the UN should stamp as having legitimacy when
> governments and in particular telecoms ministries are simply negotiating on
> their own interests, in a forum without proper civil society engagement. We
> strongly oppose plans which would increase costs, reduce the spread of the
> internet and increase net censorship at the expense of human rights.
>
> “We put a proposal to the ITU today to take the damaging proposals off the
> table at Dubai, and join a broad, open and multi-stakeholder process that
> would bring together all the government, civil society and business
> interests to look at the future of the internet. Regrettably, the ITU
> rejected this.”
>
> “The danger for the upcoming World Conference on International
> Telecommunications (WCIT-12) is that certain governments will attempt to
> undermine the multi-stakeholder approach behind closed doors and without
> full transparency.
>
> “Certain proposed changes cause a great deal of alarm to the global labour
> movement - in particular, introduction of a pricing regime; requirements
> that the internet only be used in a ‘rational’ way - these are changes that
> ought to be openly debated; not behind closed doors as the ITU plans.
>
> “We can’t afford to have vested interests of some governments and
> telecommunications companies take over the internet as we know it.
>
> “An internet totally controlled by government and big business contradicts
> the very essence of what the internet represents - open and free access for
> all.
>
> “These are hugely important issues, which should be dealt with in an open,
> transparent and inclusive way,” said Ms Burrow.
>
> Phillip Jennings, the General Secretary of UNI Global Union which
> represents workers in the telecoms and internet sectors, called on the ITU
> to accept trade unions as full discussion partners, which it had never done
> despite repeated requests from UNI.
>
> The meeting with Dr Toure came a week after Equal Times launched ‘Stop the
> net grab’, a global online campaign to press for an open consultation on
> internet regulation
>
> http://www.equaltimes.org/news/stop-the-net-grab-ituc-launches-global-campaign-against-internet-crackdown
> .
> The ITUC and Greenpeace signaled their concerns in a joint letter to
> UN Secretary General Ban K-moon last Friday.
>
> ENDS
>
>
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