Re: [DC3] Guadalajara Declaration and DC3 Report

Dear Luca, thank you very much for all you work on the declaration and the report. The declaration does not incorporate the concern I raised about the first sentence of the preamble ( "Over three billion people do not have access to communication infrastructure") being a potential source of discrediting the whole declaration as it is not accurate. While there is common agreement that there are only 3 billion people connected to (using) the Internet, that does not mean that they do not have access to communications. For instance, the ITU shows that coverage for both GSM and 3G networks is way beyond that number [1]. Other reasons may explain this gap, affordability, lack of relevant content, confidence/skills, etc, but not lack of access. Thus, I propose, after the input from John Dada in the same email thread, to rephrase that sentence to: "Over four billion people may remain unconnected to the Internet, including around a billion who do not have access to basic telephony services".