[WSIS CS-Plenary] Trade talks in Geneva...? => Internet Governance

[William Drake]

Hi,

One might add to Tom's note that some of the items that will be under
discussion at the GC meeting, particularly with respect to the GATS
agreement, have a direct bearing on Internet  governance broadly defined,
e.g. the shaping of electronic commerce and trade in "cultural products" and
potentially even infrastructure-related services such as international
interconnection charging.  Unfortunately, developments in the WTO have
remained very much off the radar of the WSIS and WGIG processes, a problem I
spoke about at the recent WSIS thematic meeting in Guatemala.  The
conference website http://www.sit.gob.gt/tematicamundial.asp seems to be
down at the moment but the presentation should be there if anyone's
interested.  I also addressed this in a couple of issue papers on ICT global
governance and civil society done in the context of the Social Science
Research Council's research network on IT Governance and Civil Society,

"ICT Global Governance and the Public Interest: Transactions and Content
Issues."
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/publications/knowledge_report/memos/drakem
emo4.pdf

"ICT Global Governance and the Public Interest: Infrastructure Issues"
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/publications/knowledge_report/memos/drakem
emo3.pdf

Cheers,

Bill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org]On
> Behalf Of Thomas Ruddy
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 9:46 AM
> To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Trade talks in Geneva...?
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> There will be a General Council meeting at the WTO
> from Tuesday to Wednesday, 15-16th February 2005, 10
> am, but it is not open to the public,
>  http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news_e.htm#WhatsOn
>
> The WTO's annual public symposium takes place this
> year from 20 to 22 April 2005.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Ruddy
>
> --- Robert Guerra <rguerra at lists.privaterra.org>
> wrote:
>
> > There seems to be another high level meeting going
> > on in geneva this
> > week as well. I think it's related to WTO. can
> > anyone find out?
> >
> > --
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> > Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>
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