Category Archives: Paul Budde
Telecoms: the case for transformation
An overview of a video interview with Paul Budde, Independent analyst at #WCIT12 Among the policies being presented and deliberated at WCIT-12 is a concentration on the real issue of the need to connect the whole world in terms of telecommunications and Internet broadband. According to Paul Budde, what has been clear during the first week […]
WCIT off to a flying start
The buzz, debates and misinformation This is the report on Day One of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), directly from Dubai. The conference started off in a positive way that did not reflect the sometimes bitter debate that has taken place in the press in recent months – although, of course, there was […]
Report on the eve of WCIT
Hello from Dubai where the WCIT – World Conference on International Telecommunications #WCIT12 – under the auspice of the United Nations agency the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) - is set to get underway. But obviously there is already a buzz around the World Trade Centre in Dubai , where the conference takes place, as there are […]
The real work starts after WCIT
The really important part of the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT-12) is not the Internet battles that have caught the interest of the press – it’s what will happen after the conference has ended. Membership of WCIT is on a per-country basis and currently 193 countries will be participating in this international event. […]
The Internet Monopoly
People are increasingly becoming aware of an emerging internet monopoly. Companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and many of the other national social network and media sites are becoming so large and powerful that they can dictate the use of their services in such a way that people lose control over their own information and […]
Technological solutions to assist vulnerable user groups online
The majority of social network site users around the world are young people. Various issues regarding their involvement in social media have been well documented in many reports such as the one by ACMA in Australia. As we have seen in cases around the globe, some of these youngsters are rather naïve. Teenagers are inclined […]
WCIT and the tower of Babel
A key reason for the heated debate in relation to the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) at the next World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) is the problem that different parties are talking about different elements while using the same words. In the USA, the internet is regarded as an ‘information service’. For regulatory purposes, this includes […]
