{"id":1567,"date":"2012-12-04T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2012-12-04T16:40:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T15:40:56","slug":"access-to-wcit-available-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Access to WCIT available to ALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote earlier, WCIT is now taking place in Dubai.\u00a0 This conference could impact your ability to use the Internet, either by stifling growth due to encoded business models, or by mandating specific standards, rather than allowing creativity to flow.\u00a0 We have the opportunity to listen to <strong>parts<\/strong> of this conference, specifically plenary and whole committee meetings.\u00a0 After a tremendous amount of pressure, the participants of that conference have allowed open access to the streaming.\u00a0 You can access the streams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itu.int\/en\/wcit-12\/Pages\/webcast.aspx\">at the ITU web site<\/a>.\u00a0 To be sure, it&#8217;s a fairly technical conference.\u00a0 If you listen in and have questions, you can join an <a href=\"xmpp:wcit@conference.ofcourseimright.com?join\">XMPP chatroom<\/a>.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m around I will answer your questions.\u00a0 You can also post them here, although in either case I may not have the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote earlier, WCIT is now taking place in Dubai.\u00a0 This conference could impact your ability to use the Internet, either by stifling growth due to encoded business models, or by mandating specific standards, rather than allowing creativity to flow.\u00a0 We have the opportunity to listen to parts of this conference, specifically plenary and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Access to WCIT available to ALL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,17,4],"tags":[445,404,446],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-economics","category-politics","tag-freedom","tag-itu","tag-wcit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}