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UN, Microsoft set up Tunisian IT training centre
News The UN group is providing the hardware for the scheme while Microsoft is to supply the training and technical support for the centre. The United Nations has partnered with Microsoft to launch a North... [17 Nov 2005]
Bush agrees web control pact with UN
News China, Cuba, South Africa and other nations have argued the US and other wealthier nations must share power - complaints that will now be taken to the new UN forum. The European Union,... [16 Nov 2005]
'Tunisia not fit to host world web summit'
News Just days before the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society begins in Tunis, Tunisia, watchdog groups are reporting clashes with authorities and violence toward at least one... [15 Nov 2005]
Protect the net from UN menace, says US senator
News Senator Norm Coleman, a Republican from Minnesota, said his non-binding resolution would protect the internet from a takeover by the UN that's scheduled to be discussed at a summit in Tunisia next month. [19 Oct 2005]
Who's deciding the future of the internet?
News The UN recently announced that its members had agreed that the internet was a global 'facility' whose management should be 'multilateral, transparent and democratic'. To this end, the UN has set up the... [27 Sep 2004]
World Summit on the Information Society kicks off
News The summit brings together governments, businesses, the UN and the man in the street and aims to hammer out a general agreement on ICT strategy and then put a plan of action in place. The anti-Icann countries would... [10 Dec 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]
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