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----- Forwarded Subject: [Ecommerce] Notes on WSIS prep meeting in W.DC, February 10, 03 (Open source question) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:49:58 -0500 From: Manon Anne Ress <manon.ress@cptech.org> To: ecommerce <ecommerce@lists.essential.org> Please find a 1) short summary of my informal notes from the Feb 10, 2003 ITA meeting in Washington, DC; 2) a few links for more information; 3)Agenda of the meeting and 4) WSIS Timeline. Note that Ambassador Gross is welcoming comments, send to: wsis@state.gov. (Let me know if you'd like more details.) 1) 2d International Telecommunications Advisory Committee (ITAC) on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) February 10, 2003 3-5pm at National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Building, Washington, DC Ambassador David Gross opened the 2nd meeting of a series planned to prepare for WSIS. He encouraged people to sent written comments to the website. He announced future meetings in Geneva (February 17) and in Beirut and listed the regional meetings that just took place in Bucharest, Tokyo and the Dominican Republic. In Geneva there will be committee meetings following the first 2 days of roundtables. The 3 themes are infrastructure, human capacity building and security. Richard Beaird (State) reviewed key documents: the Tokyo Declaration, the Bavaro Declaration and the Chairman "non-paper." According to Dick Beaird, there's a general consensus emerging from regional meetings. The 4 "industrial sector meetings" (I quote) focused on some common themes. They seem to agree on "competition and privatization, and exceptions were few and depended on "models" selected." However, there were more "nuances" regarding: Access to technology and digital divide. How to promote access in rural areas, not only for telephone but also email? The second theme is the open source issue. He stated that the US "insisted" on adding "as appropriate" in the Tokyo Declaration. For Beaird the "market should decide where open source is appropriate and "there's also a cost issue linked to the compatibility between proprietary and open-source." Another very important "emerging theme" with nuances is network security. He also talked about "local contents" and how each region is different "this diversity has to be captured." Finally, he talked about "good governance" and how the extension of broadband can bring social services to citizens. In Bavaro there was discussion of the role of government using ICT, some think that "government should lead". Until recently, he said, it was about b2b and SME but now it's also linked to government services. Paul Uhlir, The National Academies of Sciences (NAS) commented on the "emerging consensus" and asked "what is the role of the research community in all of this?" He spoke of the upcoming international symposium on "Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science" which will be held in Paris on March 10 - 11, 2003. Open to the public, see: http://www.codata.org/03march/index.html The Q&A included questions or comments by Bill Drake (U of M) Miriam Shapiro, Ruchika Agrawal(EPIC), David Fares - USCIB, Marilyn Cade - AT&T, Marilyn Greene - World Press Freedom Committee, Dick Greene (DOC), Ken Jarboe - Athena Alliance, a Georgetown Law Student and others. I asked how and why in (1)"Priorities areas for action" of the Tokyo declaration language that had called for open source to be "supported" was changed to: "Development and deployment of open source software should be *encouraged, as appropriate*, as should open standards for ICT networking." In his reply, Ambassador Gross described the document as "a consensus document, a non binding document" that should not change US policy...but procures views on the advantages and disadvantages. M. Beaird explained that "there are circumstances where proprietary software is appropriate and the market place should make the decision. "The US is concerned about mandating either approaches...against flexibility important for the developing world...there is no "one" model." In Tokyo, the argument was about changing a text that was "mandating open-source... which is against US policy" 2) More on WSIS at: http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cip/wsis/ http://www.state.gov/e/eb/adcom/c668.htm To be added to the WSIS list serve write to: Anne Jillson at: JillsonAD@state.gov 3) AGENDA International Telecommunications Advisory Committee (ITAC) Meeting on World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) February 10, 2003, 3-5 PM National Academy of Sciences Building AGENDA 1. Introduction / Opening Remarks 2. Review of Key Documents - Tokyo Declaration - Bavaro Declaration - PrepCom II Chairman Adama Samassékou's non-paper - PrepCom II Time Management Plan 3. Comments on Key Documents 4. Future Meetings 4) WSIS Timeline May 2002 African Regional Conference, Bamako July 2002 WSIS PrepCom I Sept./Oct. 2002 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference Sept./Oct. 2002 Third mtg - UN ICT Task Force November 7-9, 2002 Pan European Regional Conference, Bucharest -------- Dec. 9 - Jan 15, 2003 UNESCO: On-line Forum for Civil Society WSIS Preparations January 13-15, 2003 Asian Regional Conference, Tokyo January 29-31, 2003 Latin America and Caribbean Conference February 17-28, 2003 WSIS PrepCom II February 21-23, 2003 Fourth Mtg - UN ICT Task Force March 10-11, 2003 International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science, Paris September 15-26, 2003 WSIS PrepCom III December 10-12, 2003 World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva -- Manon Anne Ress Consumer Project on Technology www.cptech.org PO Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 manon.ress@cptech.org, voice: 1.202.387.8030, fax: 1.202.234.5176 _______________________________________________ Ecommerce mailing list Ecommerce@lists.essential.org http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/ecommerce -- James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology http://www.cptech.org, mailto:james.love@cptech.org tel. +1.202.387.8030, mobile +1.202.361.3040 ----- Backwarded _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold