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US web stranglehold challenged
News Speaking at the opening of a four-day UN summit in Athens Yoshio Utsumi criticised the current rules for overseeing domain names and internet addresses, stressing that poorer nations are dissatisfied and... [30 Oct 2006]
'Tunisia not fit to host world web 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. [15 Nov 2005]
Protect the net from UN menace, says US senator
News In December 2004, Coleman called for the resignation of UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, saying that his subcommittee's investigations had unearthed evidence of far-ranging fraud inside the sprawling... [19 Oct 2005]
US can't dominate domain names, says UN
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 the... [18 Jul 2005]
World Summit on the Information Society kicks off
News The possibility of having to make a decision on the issue has been sidestepped, however, with UN secretary general Kofi Annan charged with convening a working group to discuss the matter. The summit... [10 Dec 2003]
Is UK egovernment doing something right for once?
News Jose Antonio Ocampo, UN Under-Secretary-General for economic and social affairs, said at the launching of the report: "Many governments turn to internet-based services as a way to cut red tape, or to... [05 Nov 2003]
5 years ago... ITU appoints Utsumi as chief
News And of course the kind of politicking that goes on at somewhere such as the UN - for the ITU is a division of that body - means he will have enemies. Much of the debate was indeed still focused on narrowing the 'digital... [22 Oct 2003]
Special Report: Kofi Annan's IT challenge
News The United Nations Information Technology Service, a global consortium of volunteer corps coordinated by the UN Volunteers programme, is training people in developing countries in the uses and... [06 Nov 2002]
Digital divide still too wide claims UN
News There is still a wide digital divide between developed and developing nations despite commendable efforts from high-tech companies according to Kofi Annan, United Nations... [18 Jun 2002]
Digital divide attracts UN attention
News United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan today launched a special taskforce to address the widening digital divide. The UN is increasingly worried about the estimated four billion... [20 Nov 2001]
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