The U.N.’s work in 2015 on the 10-year...
The U.N.’s work in 2015 on the 10-year review of implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) must include “all stakeholders at the table,” said the Computer & Communications Industry Association,…
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the Information Technology Industry Council, the Software & Information Industry Association and seven other Internet industry groups Monday. The U.N. should align the two reviews “to ensure that the WSIS goals and accompanying measurable targets are fully connected to the outcomes of the MDG review process,” the groups said in a joint letter to the Finish and Tunisian ambassadors to the U.N. The two ambassadors are leading consultations on how to organize the WSIS review. The U.N. should pursue “concrete, measurable targets” for the WSIS review and a “bottom-up-driven review process” that encourages multistakeholder participation, they said (http://bit.ly/1fnHfk0).