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WITSA Global Policy Action Meeting
May 13, 2011, Montreal, Canada
May 13, 2011
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Public Policy Chairman’s
Remarks
Mr. John Higgins
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Approve Minutes
Oct. 30, 2010 Meeting
(Johannesburg, South Africa)
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Policy Mission, Values, Role, Focus,
Work Plan and Deliverables of the
Policy Action Committee 2011-2012
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WITSA’s Policy Mission
• Advocating policies and actions that fulfill the promise of the
digital age, enabling sustainable economic growth and
development.
• WITSA achieves this mission by:
– Facilitating international trade and investment in IT products
and services, and other trade in goods and services enabled by
ICT;
– Ensuring that ICT intellectual property, information and the
information infrastructure is protected effectively and is an
incentive to innovation, development and use;
– Advancing the growth and development of the ICT industries
globally; and
– Strengthening national ICT industry associations through the
sharing of knowledge, experience, and critical information
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WITSA’s Values
• ICT products and services are important tools for
economic, social and cultural development;
• Liberalization of markets including ICT markets is
central to sustained economic growth and
development by helping economies expand existing
activities and develop new export industries;
• Innovation in the ICT industry creates new value
and enables innovation in other industries; and
• ICT infrastructure, intellectual property and
information must be adequately protected.
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The Role of WITSA’s Policy Action Committee
• to identify issues requiring global ICT industry
advocacy, develop and agree appropriate
responses and communicate these to:
– key stakeholders including policy decision-makers
within governments and inter-governmental forums;
– key influencers, including WITSA’s constituent
members, like-minded national, regional and
international business organisations and other NGOs;
– suppliers of ICT goods and services, who may be
affected, directly or indirectly, by the issue; and
– leading industry analysts, commentators and media
with an interest in the relevant subject matter.
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Focus of Policy Action - 2011-2012
• Objective:
– Promote the relevance and importance of ICT in
achieving sustainable global economic growth and
development by:
• Revealing the economic, social and cultural impact
of ICT
• Documenting, advocating and demonstrating
policies and initiatives for the development and
use of ICT, which:
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Enable sustainable economic growth;
Deliver effective and efficient public services;
Build a thriving ICT sector; and
Protect infrastructure and information
Proposed Work Plan & Deliverables
• Global ICT Impact Portal (pending finance)
• Publication: Policy Actions to Deliver the Promise of
the Digital Age
• Successful GPPS 2011
– Attendance, speakers, output, Declaration
• Aligned program & content for WCIT 2012
• Aligned program & activity for G20-ICT Gp
• Ongoing participation, input and feedback:
– UN (GAID & CSTD) WTO, OECD, ICANN, IGF
• Publication: Digital Planet 2012
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Policy Actions to Deliver the Promise of the Digital Age: Why
• A summary of WITSA’s key messages and priorities
• Target audience is global and national decision makers,
to help them understand the importance of ICT; It will
provide guidance on effective best practices, utilization
of local industries
• Value to WITSA members: Tool for WITSA members to
approach their own decision makers
• Provides guidance to GPPS program every two years
• It also establishes framework for G20 ICT Policy
Network
• Will help establish WITSA as the voice of the global ICT
industry
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Publication’s Key “Promises”
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Deliver sustainable economic growth. Research demonstrates that at a
country and company level ICT is an essential part of productivity
improvement, and is a vital enabler of innovation which in turn lead to
improved competitiveness and economic growth. What’s more such growth
can be sustainable – from both a carbon and natural resource use
perspective. Good policy is needed nationally and globally to deliver this
promise in areas such as broadband infrastructure, skills, taxation, IP and
trade.
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Deliver good public services. There is tremendous know-how in the
sector in how to get good ROI for governments wherever they are on the
journey (early adopters or leading edge) to deliver public services making
best use of ICT.
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Support a thriving ICT industry. Every economy wants to encourage
sectors that pay well and provide good clean jobs. The ICT sector is a prime
candidate. WITSA knows what works and what doesn’t when it comes to
encourage us to thrive in your country.
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Cybersecurity: But as we rely more on networks and keep more of our
information in cyber space we have to protect it. WITSA’s members are at
the leading edge of how to do that.
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Publication’s Next Steps
• GPAC to establish a WITSA lead in each of the four key issue areas
• To establish a drafting group for each issue area to be lead by
WITSA lead, with support of WITSA staff
• Drafting group to make final review of publication and help identify
case studies for inclusion (3 to 6 weeks)
• Policy Actions publication to be finalized by early July; available as
PDF and limited print
• Each WITSA lead will present the key WITSA messages from the
publication at the GPPS 2011
• Will form the basis for the GPPS 2011 Declaration
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Global Public Policy Summit 2011
GPPS 2011 will feature sessions that cover the
four WITSA policy priority areas:
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Enable sustainable economic growth;
Deliver effective and efficient public services;
Build a thriving ICT sector; and
Protect infrastructure and information
Dr. Amado Espinosa and
Dr. Jim Poisant
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G20i and Engagement with G20 ICT Project
Mr. Phil Bond
President & CEO, TechAmerica
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G20 ICT Policy Network (G-ICT) Update – WITSA
G-ICT Network Update
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14 IT Association members - Goal of 20
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Retention and Increased Involvement of Existing G20 Country WITSA Association Members
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Recruitment of associations continues rest of year
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Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey, Spain, Germany, Italy, China, European Union
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May be unrealistic to recruit all 20 G20 Country associations until 2012
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Corporate Recruitment:
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Focusing on upcoming May 17 Guadalarja Special Event to include short term Corporate target
recruits
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Participation from additional corporates
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RIM
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Telfonica
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American Movil
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Operations and Governance
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Bylaws approved; operating with two co-chairs: Association: Phil Bond Corporate: Greg Farmer
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Balance between association and corporate members ensured both in membership and leadership
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Financial Status and Forecast: Operating in black but actions and growth constrained by revenue
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Growth of corporates and associations both essential to support resources and activities
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G20 ICT Policy Network (G-ICT) Update
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Looking Back:
Seoul Forum: G20 ICT Innovation Forum November 10 in Seoul
Industry: KT, Samsung, LG, Telefónica, AT&T, Qualcomm, Oracle, HP, VeriSign, Huawei, FKII,
TechAmerica, Intellect,
Government: MKE, World Bank, OECD, USG, French Embassy
Looking Forward:
Guadalajara May 17 : Establishing a G20i: Americas Regional G20i Preparatory Meeting
May 16: Industry Briefing/Meeting/Preparatory Discussions followed by Informal Reception
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Mix of member companies, government guests-ICT global representatives,
May 17 Program Overview:
One Day event with key role from Mexican national and state government; corporate members and two co
chairs.
Roundtable with government speakers, followed by corporate respondents and dialogue
Identifying key issues for G20 Innovation Ministers
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Key Goal for Meeting : Continue to develop strategy and plans to gain support for G20i in
conjunction with GPPS in November, 2011
Discussion of Key Themes for G20i Ministers and linkage to WITSA’s overall Policy agenda and core
focus
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G20 ICT Policy Network (G-ICT) Report
G20 ICT Policy Development
Timetable:
Completed end September
Methodology: Utilize global corporate policy expertise
Extend WITSA policy themes
Support/identify G20 priorities
WITSA Proclamation of
Policy Principles
"The development of ICT
infrastructures must be a top
priority for developing and
emerging economies."
"Governments should lead by
example through the adoption
and use of smart public services."
"WITSA advocates free market
principles, and open trade and
investment regimes as central
components of global growth,
employment and poverty
reduction."
WITSA Themes
Building a Thriving
ICT Sector
Building a Thriving
ICT Sector
ICT and Sustainable
Economic Growth
(especially low carbon)
"Protecting global cyber assets is
the shared responsibility of the
private and public sectors."
Protecting Infrastructure
and Information
(Cyber Security)
Working on behalf of
development – 2011
Global Flows of Data ICT
Products & Services,
Investments & People
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G20 Policy Priorities
Broadband Deployment,
Adoption & Innovation
ICT for Effective &
Efficient Public Services
"Technology will be the central
element of response strategies to
climate change.”
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G-ICT Themes
Green Growth
Framework for Sustainable
and Balanced Growth - 2009
Trusted & Secure
Networks & Services
International policy priority not
currently addressed by G20
G20 ICT Policy Network
• Questions and Discussion
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WITSA Global Impact Study
Progress & Next Steps
Mr. Tim Conway
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MENA 2011 Conference
Report by
Mr. Nizar Zakka
CEO, IJMA3 & PCA
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IGF, ICANN & the WTO
Report by
Dr. Jimson Olufuye and
Mr. Anders Halvorsen
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Proposed IGF 2011 Workshop
• Follow-up to 2010 IGF workshop on cloud computing
• Entitled “A Practical & Pragmatic Look at Making Cloud Successful
in Developing World”, the workshop would be co-organized with the
Global Infrastructure Commission (GIIC)
• GIIC and WITSA will bring together a broad array of stakeholders to
discuss these issues
• Workshop will feature users and providers of cloud services to
highlight efforts in Africa to use cloud services to overcome
developmental and economic barriers, and to discuss further steps
to ensure that Africa not only catches up but use technologies to
achieve growth and prosperity
• Dr. Jimson Olufuye, Waudo Siganga and Coura Fall are among
proposed panelists
• Workshop proposal (#214) is posted at
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/w2011/proposals
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WTO ITA Product Coverage Expansion
• High-tech sector has exploded with new and improved products in
recent years, yet product scope of the ITA has never been
expanded (since inception in 1997)
• WITSA is committed to working with governments to move quickly to
advance this initiative, which will expand trade, stimulate growth,
increase jobs, spur innovation, and promote prosperity around the
world.
• March 7, 2011 letter asking governments to expand the product
coverage of the WTO Information Technology Agreement (ITA)
• WITSA and several member associations signed the letter
(including: ATCI, CSK, TechAmerica, FKII, SOFEX, HKITF, INT@J,
Intellect, MASIT, IKT Norge, ITAC, ITAN, ITAP, and JISA
• Other WITSA members are invited to sign on to the letter
• In the U.S. on May 6, a Federal Register Notice was published,
soliciting public comment on whether USG would undertake
negotiations to expand the ITA
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Other Business
Open Discussion
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THANK YOU!
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