Dear Anoop,
I am glad to hear your voice.
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Anoop-focus wrote:
> Dear Susanna and all,
> I would agree with the fact that the Asia Caucus needs to have much
> greater visibilty. I would like to list down the following issues
I fully agree to this point. But my question is how we can do that?
> 1. Communications rights, specifically with respect to the right of
> community control over airwaves (community radio etc). I would think of
> subsuming Internet governance as a subset of the right to communicate, a
> key subset nevertheless.
I have already mentioned in my previous comments. Briefly, the notion of
communication rights had already gone away. Don't dream more of the
return of the notion at least in the first phase of WSIS!
> 2. Intellectual property rights, focusing on TRIPs and GATS within and
> outside the WTO framework, including bilateral agreements and free trade
> agreements(FTAs)
Throughout last PrepCom III, I saw that those phrases or words concerned
with international trade had been intentionally excluded from the current
text. As a result, except for some parts of the heading of "enabling
environment", we can hardly find out such words in current text. The
reason is that trade related issues should be talked in approprite forum
like WTO or something else and in WSIS, they would concentrate only on
"informatio society" and in fact on "ICT" itself. This concern has been
reiterated by many governments in the plenary of contents and themes and
has become a consensus among governments.
Additionally, as you can perceive it in paragraph 33, the balance between
user's rights and IPR has been already broken. Rather it is a severe
question whether to restore the balance is possible or not.
> 3. Right to Development, particularly models of development that
> challenge existing paradigms of development policy
Now, paradigm of development policy has not been one of major concerns in
WSIS process. Rather, the issue is whether to include the word of "right
to development" in the current text or not.
regards,
Chun
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