UN examines potential Net regulation role
News UN Secretary General Kofi Annan set the tone in a speech on Thursday, criticising the current system through which Internet standards are set and domain names are handled, a process currently dominated by the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan.
[March 26, 2004, 13:50]
MP welcomes UN indecision on Internet policy
News UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has long pressed industry, government and private interest groups to ensure that people in poor nations have greater access to the Internet. But while Annan has fought for the rights of the poorer nations, others...
[July 18, 2005, 15:30]
US endorses Internet Governance Forum
News UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on the other hand, said the agreement highlights "the need for more international participation in discussions of Internet governance issues. Annan acknowledged that the US has exercised its Internet oversight...
[November 16, 2005, 13:40]
UN snooping: the technology of surveillance
News It doesn't matter if you're Kofi Annan or the wife of the Prince of Wales: if you're saying something interesting, the spies will listen in. And their job has never been easier. Not only has modern technology made bugging devices tiny and silent...
[February 27, 2004, 13:35]
US Report: Anti-bombing sites exist ... outside Iraq
News Secretary-General Kofi Annan, several ambassadors to the U.N.and various news organisations. Still, several of those sites do make it easier for grassroots opponents of the Desert Fox operation to log complaints about the bombings.
[December 18, 1998, 8:49]
Should the UN administer the Internet?
News Therefore the group established by Kofi Annan still has to work on these definitions. The International Telecommunication Union is one of the most venerable of bureaucracies. Created in 1865 to facilitate telegraph transmissions, its mandate has...
[March 30, 2005, 16:05]
Keep Internet out of UN control, says US
News Secretary-General Kofi Annan, saying that his subcommittee's investigations had unearthed evidence of far-ranging fraud inside the sprawling bureaucracy. A new resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate offers political backing to the Bush...
[October 19, 2005, 10:05]
Open-source Wi-Fi links remote communities
News In an article written for CNET, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan spelled out the potential benefits that wireless and other technologies could bring to the developing world. European wireless and open-source specialists have embarked on an...
[July 8, 2004, 11:45]
Violence breaks out before Internet summit
News About 10,000 participants, including at least 45 world governmental leaders and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, are scheduled to attend, along with top executives from Google, Intel, Microsoft and others.
[November 15, 2005, 9:05]
Global Web: An Internet governance run-down
News Secretary-General Kofi Annan hinted at this on Wednesday, saying the United Nations works on five-year plans. Thousands of representatives of national governments, corporations and non-profit organisations began meeting in Tunis, Tunisia on...
[November 17, 2005, 15:50]
Internet governance battles to continue
News According to the agreement inked in Tunisia this week, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan will create a new Internet Governance Forum that will meet for the first time in 2006. A brief cessation of hostilities between the United States and its critics...
[November 18, 2005, 15:50]
'$100 laptops' here by next year
News This is truly a moving experience," said UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, who showed up at the beginning of the event. A hand-cranked laptop that will cost roughly $100 is expected to be in the hands of schoolchildren in poorer countries by late 2006.
[November 17, 2005, 8:20]
UN proposes net governance changes
News Nitin Desai, an adviser for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, called this week's event a "harbinger of a new type of multilateralism". A top United Nations official on Monday called for changes in the way the internet is operated, taking aim at...
[October 31, 2006, 11:12]
