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[September 9, 2009, 9:55]
United Nations and Microsoft team up in Africa
News Under the agreement, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation will support the software maker's efforts to expand the number of languages featured in its Local Language Program.
[November 17, 2004, 17:15]
United Nations calls for ISPs to police spammers
Talkback Trying to block spam is pointless. Only going after the source will make a change. There are two targets here: those that transmit the spam and those that pay to have spam sent. Both are traceable, especially the latter because if nothing else...
[March 9, 2006, 19:10]
United Nations calls for ISPs to police spammers
Talkback I am never a big fan of populist knee-jerk regulation, it usually misses the point entirely and ends up hurting the innocent and making no difference to the guilty. This might actually be a good idea though.
[March 10, 2006, 12:38]
United Nations calls for ISPs to police spammers
News The UN on Wednesday recommended enforceable codes of conduct for ISPs as a way to cut down on spam. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN organisation responsible for global telecoms standards, recommended that ISPs be required to...
[March 9, 2006, 16:55]
Academy Student Ye Jing Addresses United Nations Assembly
White Papers Ye Jing, 25 years old and married can boast of several accomplishments at a very young age. Ye Jing signed up for the program because she wanted to obtain a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification and she had thought she was not...
[April 13, 2007, 1:01]
Sun to base pricing on UN economic data
News Sun Microsystems announced in Shanghai today that it would use United Nations economic data to set fees under a new population-based enterprise software licensing scheme aimed at developing countries.
[June 2, 2004, 15:15]
UN examines potential Net regulation role
News The United Nations wants a big piece of the Internet. The United Nations hastily backed away from that proposal, however, after prominent members of the US Congress slammed it as a "bureaucracy looking to get its greedy mitts on the Internet...
[March 26, 2004, 13:50]
UN audit finds weakness in peacekeepers' IT
News Network traffic and data in the United Nations peacekeeping logistics system were not secure in 2008, according to an internal report. The report, entitled Audit of the Galileo System at the United Nations Logisitics Base in Brindisi, Italy found...
[January 14, 2009, 16:09]
UN proposes net governance changes
News A top United Nations official on Monday called for changes in the way the internet is operated, taking aim at "self-serving justifications" for permitting the United States to preserve its unique influence and authority online.
[October 31, 2006, 11:12]
UN attacks tech giants over China co-operation
News Delegates to a United Nations summit on Tuesday assailed Google, Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Yahoo for co-operating too closely with China, suggesting that new global regulations of free expression might be necessary.
[November 1, 2006, 9:42]
Cybercrime treaty may conflict with UN declaration
News A leading UK Internet rights group is to warn United Nations representatives that international plans to fight cybercrime pose a serious menace to the privacy and rights of all Internet users. Akdeniz will issue the warning at a United Nations...
[December 12, 2000, 13:30]
First World, not World Wide, Web
News While a new report from the United Nations says the world's poor are suffering partly because they have little access to technology, the hurdles to extending Internet access beyond the developed world will take decades to overcome, experts said.
[July 13, 1999, 9:52]
Keep Internet out of UN control, says US
News Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet. Senator Norm Coleman, a Republican from Minnesota, said his nonbinding resolution would protect the Internet...
[October 19, 2005, 10:05]
Videoconferencing via VoIP gets standard
News A United Nations-affiliated telecommunications group has ratified a new standard for videoconferencing using VoIP, or voice over IP, a technology that routes phone calls over the Internet. The United Nations' ITU, originally called the...
[September 8, 2003, 12:55]
Treaty casts shadow on public domain
News A United Nations committee on Wednesday approved the world's first Webcasting treaty, which has drawn criticism that it limits the use of works that are in the public domain. Seth Greenstein, a partner at law firm McDermott Will & Emery who...
[November 7, 2003, 14:50]
XML variant will boost corporate responsibility says UN
News A new XML-based reporting language could improve companies' reporting of their businesses' social and environmental impact, according to a report from the United Nations. Published this week by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and...
[November 8, 2004, 17:03]
Governments 'play key role' in reducing digital divide
News A study released on Wednesday by the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) assesses Internet accessibility around the globe in 2002. African nations dominated the bottom 30 slots in the list.
[November 21, 2003, 9:50]
British e-government hailed by UN
News The UK has been ranked third in a global chart measuring the readiness of its e-government strategy, according to a report published by the United Nations (UN) this week. It was put together by United Nations Online Network in Public Administration...
[January 12, 2005, 13:40]
UN summit reopens debate over control of the net
News A long-simmering dispute over whether the US government has too much control over the internet's underpinnings will heat up again next week at a United Nations summit in Greece. Officially, the inaugural meeting of the United Nations' Internet...
[October 27, 2006, 16:00]
