Turbulence In Tunisia
News How has the WSIS summit addressed online civil liberties? So you were trying to get the WSIS delegates to mention that the Declaration applies to the Internet, and you couldn't? On Thursday, Tunisian police barred the head of Reporters Without...
[November 21, 2005, 13:55]
Global Web: An Internet Governance Run-down
News But a last-minute deal at the WSIS effectively shifted the debate to a new United Nations "Internet Governance Forum" that's scheduled to meet for the first time next year. Thousands of representatives of national governments, corporations and non...
[November 17, 2005, 15:50]
US Endorses Internet Governance Forum
News The last-minute deal, reached just hours before the WSIS began on Wednesday, effectively postpones a long-simmering dispute over the future of Internet management. The lead-up to the WSIS has been marred by violence against journalists and human...
[November 16, 2005, 13:40]
Global Row Brews Over Internet Management
Talkback I wish the WSIS would be the right time to prepare a space for cooperative: It has been a long public private partnerships issue. The information society placed between public and private sectors. Within this cooperative framework, we will be...
[September 17, 2003, 4:47]
US Stands Firm Over Internet Control
News Q: What are the stakes at the WSIS summit? But now the WSIS event, which begins on 16 November in We've encouraged WSIS and other forums to work cooperatively in solving those issues. If critics of the US join forces at WSIS and oppose the US, are...
[November 11, 2005, 16:20]
Bridging The Digital Divide: An Opportunity For Growth For The 21st Century
White Papers Bridging the digital divide is a challenge on which much has been written and to which many events have been devoted, including the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) organized by the United Nations in December 2003, a second phase of...
[October 12, 2004, 3:00]
ISPs Plan To Can The Spamvertisers
News We shall also be asking for support from the UK government at WSIS (the World Summit on the Information Society), OECD and other international forums. UK ISPs are adopting a code of practice that will enable them to shut down e-commerce sites found...
[August 18, 2004, 17:45]
MP Welcomes UN Indecision On Internet Policy
Talkback If these documents and others available on the WSIS website had been considered, then many of the inaccuracies in this story might have been avoided. I believe that the main premise of this article is incorrect - the WGIG did agree - to provide...
[July 19, 2005, 15:10]
ICANN Still Rules The Internet Roost
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a last-minute reprieve at the World Summit on the Information Society, when the Bush administration agreed to the creation of a new
[November 23, 2005, 12:20]
Microsoft: Linux Is Anti-commercial
News Microsoft asked for references to free software to be removed from a document presented at last week's UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference, the software giant admitted on Friday.
[November 25, 2005, 16:30]
