FYI* * *Current proposals by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) member states in Africa and the European Telecommunications Network Operators Association (ETNO) could slow economic progress, raise costs on users who can least afford them and limit Internet access in developing countries, a report released Friday by LIRNEasia, an information and communication technology (ICT) policy and regulation think tank based in Sri Lanka, argues. * The report,* “A Giant Step Backward or the Way Forward? An Analysis of Some Proposals Before the WCIT,”<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=88026010&msgid=260208&act=ZC5J&c=1118670&destination=http%3A%2F%2Flirneasia.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F09%2FSamarajiva-WCIT-Final_9.12.pdf> ** *explains that the economic and personal benefits the digital economy is currently bringing to nations and peoples in the developing world could come to a standstill should proposals that give the ITU broad jurisdiction over Internet communications be legitimatized by the force of law. Read on http://www.africasciencenews.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl... -- Best regards.