Posted on 11/05/2005 5:44:20 AM PST by jalisco555
The main objective of the World Summit on the Information Society to be held this month in Tunisia is to ensure that poor countries get the full benefits that new information and communication technologies -- including the Internet -- can bring to economic and social development. But as the meeting draws nearer, there is a growing chorus of misinformation about it.
One mistaken notion is that the United Nations wants to "take over," police or otherwise control the Internet. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The United Nations wants only to ensure the Internet's global reach, and that effort is at the heart of this summit.
Strong feelings about protecting the Internet are to be expected. In its short life, the Internet has become an agent of revolutionary change in health, education, journalism and politics, among other areas. In the United Nations' own work for development, we have glimpsed only the beginning of the benefits it can provide: for victims of disaster, quicker, better-coordinated relief; for poor people in remote areas, lifesaving medical information; and, for people trapped under repressive governments, access to uncensored information as well as an outlet to air their grievances and appeal for help.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Hey Kofi! You're F.O.S.!
A bit tax would become a tax byte. A very bad thing.
Why should he be fired? He's doing the job his employer hired him to do. Seeing as how his employer is a nest of thieves and thugs Kofi is the perfect man for the job.
The man who presided over what may be the most expensive scandal in the history of the planet tells us not to worry...
Please tell me again.
What's the importance of the U.N.
I seem to have forgotten or the U.N. some how is not
doing any and I mean any important work for any country in the world that I can see.
Please rulers of the world, tell me how the U.N. is
benefiting the average Joe in the world.
Said the spider to the fly. My BS detector just went off so loud, the bell cracked.
Anyone who is stupid and/or brainwashed enough to believe anything wannabe tyrants like Kofi Annan have to say deserve to be slaves.
Is this a conflation of Arthur Conan Doyle's, Sherlock Homes deduction about the dog who did not bark, and the old southern expression about the dog who will not hunt?
Whatever, this usurpation of the Web is a tree up with which I will not bark.
the Kofi the Anannan should not worry if the internet continues unde the successful growth and control of the USA.
Further in the article Mr. Annan says:
.. developing countries find it difficult to follow all these processes and feel left out of Internet governance structures.
For historical reasons, the United States has the ultimate authority over some of the Internet's core resources. It is an authority that many say should be shared with the international community.
In summary,
Because some things are difficult- Third-world countries feel left out
They (and nameless "many") expect the U.S. to share the authority we have over the internet.
The absurdity of this notion is enormous.
How can you tell when Kofi is lying? When he says sh*t like this.
I think we both know what old Winston would have said about Kofi's latest work of fiction.
"for people trapped under repressive governments, access to uncensored information as well as an outlet to air their grievances and appeal for help" , Hey it works in China, right?
Yep and the bite from a Fer-de-Lance doesn't kill.
Kofi,
The net is not yours. The net is not for you to prostitute to your cabal of dungheaded dictators and arabists.
Byte me.
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