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Sessions of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have historically been non-political. There have always been differences among Member States, but, for the most part, disagreements were resolved in a manner that enabled the parties to maintain an emphasis on consensus and collegiality. According to some long-time ITU participants, however, December’s World Conference on International Telecommunications [...]
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Proponents of a more activist, broader-reaching International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are continuing their campaign to take that international body into inappropriate territory. As you recall, there were multiple proposals tabled at last December’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) that addressed an array of topics, including Internet governance, spam, and standardization [...]
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ITI today hosted Ambassador Terry Kramer for his final media event in his position as the lead of the U.S. delegation to the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). We've talked about WCIT many times before on this blog. At that meeting, held in Dubai in early December, nations struggled over treaty language that carried the potential of allowing the UN to regulate the Internet. [...]
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The 2012 version of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) is history, and the next phase has begun, i.e., trying to figure out what it all means! Many theories abound within the Twitter-verse, blogs and various email strings. At a minimum, WCIT served as a lens that brought into greater focus the risks and opportunities that lay before us. With only 89 countries thus far [...]
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Today, at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), a majority of national delegations adopted revisions to the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) that could lead to significant challenges to a free and open Internet, as well to how global information and communications technology (ICT) companies offer Internet-based services. The United States joined with other [...]
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At long last, “WCIT-12” is upon us. Delegates to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, commonly referred to simply as “WCIT,” are boarding flights for a two-week sojourn to the cosmopolitan city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The forecast is unsurprisingly for warm, sunny days, but that may well be the only accurate forecasting we can do. The outcome of the confab, [...]
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The House of Representatives sent a strong signal to the rest of the world today that we must preserve a free and open Internet. In December, the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) will meet to update the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU) treaty-level telecomm regulations. As we’ve discussed here before, preliminary proposals by some other governments [...]
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Two events in Washington, D.C., this week will help to set the tone for critical discussions among governments and stakeholders about the future of Internet governance. First, some background. This December in Dubai, intergovernmental delegations from across the globe will gather for the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) to update the United Nations' International Telecommunication [...]