[WSIS CS-Plenary] New APC Policy Issue Papers in English and French

[karen banks]

Dear all

Please find below an announcement about a series 
of papers APC has produced in readiness for the IGF.

I look forward to seeing some of you there ..

karen
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*New APC Policy Issue Papers in English and French*
(Version française plus bas)

In the occasion of the Internet Governance Forum, 
the Association for Progressive Communications is 
launching three new papers on key ICT policy and internet rights issues.

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CONVERGENCE: The importance of convergence in the ICT policy environment
By Kate Wild

This paper looks at the meaning and importance of 
convergence and considers some of the challenges 
to implementing it, along with strategies for 
overcoming them. It also provides a global 
perspective on regulating convergence and 
broadband from ITU and then it looks at 
experiences in North America and Europe as well 
as regional and country approaches in Africa.
http://rights.apc.org/documents/convergence_EN.pdf (English)
http://rights.apc.org/documents/convergence_FR.pdf (French)

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OPEN ACESS: Lowering the costs of international bandwidth in Africa
By Mike Jensen

This paper was commissioned by the APC as part of 
the Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa 
initiative and to contribute to APC's efforts to 
promote open access to ICT infrastructure in 
Africa. According to the author, a variety of 
factors are responsible for the lack of acess to 
bandwith in Africa, but the biggest cause is the 
high cost of international connections to the 
global telecommunication backbones.
http://rights.apc.org/documents/open_access_EN.pdf (English)
http://rights.apc.org/documents/open_access_FR.pdf (French)

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WSIS: Whose information society? Developing 
country and civil society voices in the World Summit on the Information Society
By David Souter

This paper summarises a study of developing 
country and civil society participation and 
influence in WSIS that was commissioned by the 
Association for Progressive Communications (APC). 
As well as analysing participation, the study 
looked at the impact of WSIS on international ICT 
decision-making in general and makes 
recommendations to all main actors about how 
future decision-making might become more 
inclusive of developing countries, nongovernmental actors and their concerns.
http://rights.apc.org/documents/wsis_EN.pdf (English)

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Les nouveaux thèmes émergents d'APC en anglais en français

A l’occasion du Forum sur la gouvernance de 
l’internet (FGI), l’Association pour le progrès 
des communications lance trois nouveaux articles 
sur les thèmes fondamentaux des politiques de TIC et des droits d’internet.

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CONVERGENCE : L’importance de la convergence dans 
le contexte des politiques des TIC
Kate Wild

La première partie de ce document porte sur le 
sens et l’importance de la convergence et sur 
certains des problèmes associés à sa mise en 
oeuvre, ainsi que sur les stratégies qui 
permettent de les surmonter. La deuxième partie 
présente un survol de la régulation de la 
convergence et de la bande passante par l’Union 
Internationale des Télécommunications (UIT) et 
s’intéresse aux expériences en Amérique du Nord 
et en Europe ainsi qu’à certaines approches régionales et de pays d’Afrique.

http://rights.apc.org/documents/convergence_EN.pdf (Anglais)
http://rights.apc.org/documents/convergence_FR.pdf (Français)

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ACCÈS OUVERT : Abaisser les coûts de la bande 
passante internationale en Afrique
Mike Jensen

Cette analyse a été commandée par APC dans le 
cadre de Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa et 
pour contribuer aux efforts d´APC pour promouvoir 
l´accès ouvert à l´infrastructure de TIC en 
Afrique. Selon l’auteur, la situation actuelle de 
la bande passante en Afrique est attribuable à un 
certain nombre de facteurs, mais elle est due 
essentiellement au coût élevé des connexions 
internationales vers les dorsales de télécommunication internationales.

http://rights.apc.org/documents/open_access_EN.pdf (Anglais)
http://rights.apc.org/documents/open_access_FR.pdf (Français)

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Uniquement en anglais:
WSIS: Whose information society? Developing 
country and civil society voices in the World Summit on the Information Society
By David Souter

This paper summarises a study of developing 
country and civil society participation and 
influence in WSIS that was commissioned by the 
Association for Progressive Communications (APC). 
As well as analysing participation, the study 
looked at the impact of WSIS on international ICT 
decision-making in general and makes 
recommendations to all main actors about how 
future decision-making might become more 
inclusive of developing countries, nongovernmental actors and their concerns.
http://rights.apc.org/documents/wsis_EN.pdf (English)