On 10 July 2012, the ITU Council resolved that the Council
Working Group on international Internet-related public policy issues
(CWG-Internet) would hold online consultations for all stakeholders on certain
policy issues to be decided by the Group. Council also resolved that all
stakeholders could submit their responses to a reflector set up by the ITU and
that all responses received from stakeholders would be posted, without edits,
to the CWG-Internet website.
On 4 March 2014 the Council Working Group decided that Open Consultations would be convened on the following issue:
On 4 March 2014 the Council Working Group decided that Open Consultations would be convened on the following issue:
- "Recognizing the scope of work of ITU on
international Internet-related public policy matters, represented by the list of topics in Council 2009 Resolution 1305 Annex 1 which was established in accordance with decisions of ITU membership at the Plenipotentiary Conference, the Council Working Group on International Internet Related Public Policy invites all stakeholders to provide their position on following question :
Q1. What actions are to be undertaken by governments in relations to each of the international Internet-related public policy issues identified in Annex 1 to Resolution 1305 (adopted by Council 2009 at the seventh Plenary Meeting)?"
DotConnectAfrica and its Principal and Members have in the
past has worked or been advisors with International organizations such as
Organization for Africa Union (OAU) aka Africa Union, United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa UNECA), and International and regional organizations such
as the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), Internet Corporation of Assigned
Names and (ICANN), The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), The
Internet Society (ISOC), Internationalized Domain Resolution Union (IDRU),
Internet Business Council for Africa (IBCA), and various private sector
technology companies in Africa and internationally, with a view to increase
synergy that encourages all stakeholders to participate in this dialog, in
particular the African Diaspora.
In 11 July 2012, the ITU Council decided that the Draft of
the future ITRS be made publicly accessible for an open consultation process,
where all stakeholders could express their views and opinions on the content of
the Draft of the future ITRs or any other matter related to WCIT.
DotConnectAfrica as a concerned stakeholder in the ICT sector of the African
continent submitted several recommendations to that effect. DCA's contribution
has been published at ITU's
Public Views and Opinions page
DotConnectAfrica takes this opportunity to submit its
comments to the ITU Council Working Group on
international Internet-related public policy issues (CWG-Internet :
Public Consultation (March 2014). Read our comments here
