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  • Failing to Agree, U.N. Panel Presents Four Options on Internet Governance

    07/14/2005 3:37:28 PM PDT · by Jean S · 19 replies · 413+ views
    AP ^ | 7/14/05 | Aoife White
    BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A U.N. panel created to recommend how the Internet should be run in the future has failed to reach consensus but did agree that no single country should dominate. The United States stated two weeks ago that it intended to maintain control over the computers that serve as the Internet's principal traffic cops. In a report released Thursday, the U.N. panel outlined four possible options for the future of Internet governance for world leaders to consider at a November "Information Society" summit. One option would largely keep the current system intact, with a U.S.-based non-profit organization,...
  • UNITED NATIONS ESTABLISHES WORKING GROUP ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE

    11/12/2004 10:49:53 AM PST · by B4Ranch · 125 replies · 3,898+ views
    www.un.org ^ | 11/11/2004 | UN Idiot
    11/11/2004 Press ReleasePI/1620 UNITED NATIONS ESTABLISHES WORKING GROUP ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE NEW YORK, 11 November (Working Group on Internet Governance) -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today the establishment of the Working Group on Internet Governance.  The Working Group will prepare the ground for a decision on this issue by the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, to be held in Tunis in November 2005. The Secretary-General was requested to establish a working group on Internet governance by the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society held in Geneva in December 2003.  The task...