[hr-wsis] Fwd: [WSIS CSCG] FW: US - Net. Security KEY FOCUS OF INFORMATION SOCIETY SUMMIT

[Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>]

This info on US position has been sent to the WSIS CS coordination 
group. Let me add this other information : contributions to PrepCom2 
received so far by governements, business, IGO and NGOs are available 
at: http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/prepcom2.html
Meryem

Début du message réexpédié :

>
> U.S. WANTS TO MAKE NETWORK SECURITY
> KEY FOCUS OF INFORMATION SOCIETY SUMMIT
>
> The U.S. is pushing hard to make network security a top theme at next
> year's World Summit on the Information Society to be held in Geneva
> in December 2003.  The issues to be discussed at the meeting are still
> being debated and will be hashed out in a series of pre-summit
> meetings held around the world.
>
> Ambassador David A. Gross, coordinator for International
> Communications and Information Policy in the State Department's
> Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, said today the summit is
> likely to be attended by a number of world leaders, including President
> Bush.  Mr. Gross and other State Department officials discussed
> details of the summit during a planning session in Washington.
>
> Mr. Gross said the U.S. was hoping to focus the summit on three key
> issues:  1) network security; 2) infrastructure development, especially
> in the developing world; 3) and education that was necessary
> worldwide to allow people to use new information technologies.
>
> "How precisely important the meeting is will depend on what the
> themes are, which have yet to be agreed upon by the nations of the
> world that must come together," Mr. Gross said.  "Clearly, it will have
> an impact if nothing else on our international telecom companies
> because it will help, we hope, stimulate the growth and development
> of [information and communication technology] around the world."
>
> Unlike many summits that gather together world political leaders,
> businesses will be invited to play a critical role in the 2003 summit 
> and
> their contributions are being solicited, Mr. Gross said.  A number of
> U.S. telecom companies sent representatives to today's planning
> session.
>
> The U.S., working through the International Telecommunication
> Union, has been promoting greater network security as a major goal of
> the Geneva summit.  To that end, at a meeting last week in Lisbon, an
> ITU working group on the summit agreed to several guiding
> principles, including one stating that "the development of the
> information society must occur in an environment of trust, for all
> stakeholders."  The principles adopted suggested the ultimate creation
> of an international convention on information and communications
> network security.
>
> "We live in an interconnected world," Mr. Gross said. "We're only as
> secure in the U.S. as we are internationally." - Howard Buskirk,
> hbuskirk@tr.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wsis-cscg mailing list
> Wsis-cscg@comunica.org
> http://comunica.org/mailman/listinfo/wsis-cscg_comunica.org
>