Document Number: S1/A/2
Submission by: IFIP, Civil Society
Draft WSIS+10 Statement on the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes
A. Preamble
The WSIS Outcomes have been considerable and there is a fairly close match between
what we set out to achieve and what has been able to be achieved to date, however there is
a need for us, in the next period, to establish professionalism as a basic concept
underpinning and enabling all future achievements around the world. Global
professionalism in ICT practice will ensure the multi-stakeholders are able to manage their
own critical infrastructure reassured by the ethical nature of actors but also to ensure that
similar circumstances apply in all other nations.
At the last WSIS a submission from Global Ethics made the following recommendation
amongst others:
that ethical codes and legal regulations of professions involved in the production,
distribution and archiving of information, communication and knowledge be
promoted and reinforced;
IFIP IP3 would endorse this recommendation for those jurisdictions that support this.
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