Civil society should continue to be involved in the discussions...
Civil society should continue to be involved in the discussions over the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) and the ITU, Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn said Monday in a statement. While civil society was only able to play a limited role…
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during negotiations at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), civil society groups were able to increase public scrutiny of the conference and pressured the ITU to webcast major portions of the conference, Public Knowledge said. “Public scrutiny and the involvement of civil society held countries around the world accountable while thwarting the most dangerous attempts at global censorship,” Sohn said. Issues raised at WCIT will reappear in discussions at the World Telecom Policy Forum, set for May, as well as at the ITU Plenipotentiary conference in 2014, Public Knowledge said. “Civil society needs to be prepared to push back against countries that continue to pursue a pro-censorship agenda,” Sohn said (http://xrl.us/bn63i8).