Autora: Loreto Corredoira
El Internet Governance forum en el que participo ha remitido estas sugerencias a la Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones. La UIT, organismo de Naciones Unidas, se reúne en diciembre en Dubai para su conferencia mundial
y aprobar la futura regulación mundial de las "Telecomunicaciones"
(el borrador en inglés está aqui) en la que con claridad se amplian las competencias de la UIT.
Avanzo aqui algunos párrafos:
Como hemos mencionado al inicio, la UIT plantea varias cuestiones de interés en lo
relativo a control de contenidos para su próxima reunión mundial en Dubai,
coincidiendo en los días de este Congreso introduce en su agenda el documento
El documento de la UIT es especialmente interesante porque marca una tendencia en el
campo de la regulación de las TIC. La UIT es un organismo de ONU, con capacidad de
implementación de políticas sobre radiodifusión, espectro radioeléctrico, que hasta
ahora no se había preocupado por los contenidos, tampoco por la “banda ancha”, claro
que ahora el acceso a Internet por 3G y 4G se distribuye por satélite y, entonces, sí entra
en su ámbito.
Durante los últimos años los organismos reguladores de Telecomunicaciones han visto
aumentadas sus competencias en el campo de las TIC y de la radiodifusión y, más
recientemente ha entrado en su ámbito competencial cuestiones como la
“ciberseguridad”, la protección de datos, la piratería y por supuesto las aplicaciones y
servicios online que median en el comercio electrónico -los social media, los servicios
en la nube, la banca móvil, etc.
.
Esta que sigue es la que envió el IGF.
Statement of civil society members and groups participating in the "Best Bits" pre-IGF meeting at Baku in 2012
We thank the Secretariat of the ITU for making the opportunity to submit our views.
Nevertheless, the process of the revision of the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) has not been sufficiently inclusive and transparent, despite some recent efforts to facilitate public participation. Fundamental to the framing of public policy must be the pursuit of the public interest and fundamental human rights, and we urge Member States to uphold and protect these values.
We as civil society organizations wish to engage with the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) process in this spirit. Member States, in most cases, have not held open, broad-based, public consultations in the lead up to the WCIT, nor have they indicated such a process for the WCIT itself.
In order to address this deficiency, and at a minimum, we would urge:
* All Member States and regional groups to make their proposals available to the public in sufficient time to allow for meaningful public participation;
* All delegates to support proposals to open sessions of the WCIT meeting to the public;
* The ITU Secretariat to increase transparency of the WCIT including live webcast with the video, audio, and text transcripts, as far as possible, to enable participation by all, including persons with disabilities;
* The ITU Secretariat, Member States, and regional groups to make as much documentation publicly available as possible on the ITU's website, so that civil society can provide substantive input on proposals as they are made available;
* Member States to encourage and facilitate civil society participation in their national delegations;
* The ITU to create spaces during the WCIT for civil society to express their views, as was done during the WSIS process.
Given the uncertainty about the nature of final proposals that will be presented, we urge delegates that the following criteria be applied to any proposed revisions of the ITRs.
* That any proposed revisions are confined to the traditional scope of the ITRs, where international regulation is required around technical issues is limited to telecommunications networks and interoperability standards.
* There should be no revisions to the ITRs that involve regulation of the Internet Protocol and the layers above.
* There should be no revisions that could have a negative impact on affordable access to the Internet or the public's rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
More generally we call upon the ITU to promote principles of net neutrality, open standards, affordable access and universal service, and effective competition.
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (AHM Bazlur Rahman / Bangladesh)
Centre for Internet and Society (Pranesh Prakash / India)
Center for Democracy & Technology (Kevin Bankston & Emma Llanso / United States of America)
Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA [Eastern and Southern Africa])
Consumer Council of Fiji (Premila Kumar / Fiji)
Consumers International (Jeremy Malcolm / Global)
Electronic Frontier Finland (Tapani Tarvainen / Finland)
Imagining the Internet Center (Janna Anderson / United States of America)
Instituto Nupef (Carlos A. Afonso / Brazil)
Internet Democracy Project (Anja Kovacs / India)
Internet Research Project (Fouad Bajwa / Pakistan)
Global Partners & Associates (Andrew Puddephatt / United Kingdom)
ICT Watch Indonesia (Donny B.U. / Indonesia)
Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor / Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense (Veridiana Alimonti, Brazil)
InternetNZ (Susan Chalmers / New Zealand)
IT for Change (Parminder Jeet Singh / India)
Media Education Center (Narine Khachatryan / Armenia)
ONG Derechos Digitales (Claudio Ruiz / Chile)
OpenMedia (Steve Anderson / Canada)
Gobernanza de Internet.co (Antonio Medina Gomez / Colombia)
Ginger Paque
Endorsements:
Cyberlaw Clinic, UCM, Spain
