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Digital divide attracts UN attention
News The UN is increasingly worried about the estimated four billion people worldwide with no access to computers or the internet. The taskforce will also help UN member states develop effective policy and regulatory frameworks for information technology. [20 Nov 2001]
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 UN group couldn't decide what should be done about it. [18 Jul 2005]
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 are hoping that this week's meeting will... [30 Oct 2006]
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 bureaucracy. [19 Oct 2005]
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 opportunities of information technology. [06 Nov 2002]
Digital divide still too wide claims UN
News As part of the efforts to bring internet services to developing countries, top CEOs have signed a charter to donate at least 20 per cent of their charity budgets to the UN's Forum Task Force. There is still a wide digital divide between developed... [18 Jun 2002]
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 brings together governments, businesses, the UN... [10 Dec 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 divide' between developed... [22 Oct 2003]
'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]
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 spread digital infrastructure, but we also see... [05 Nov 2003]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.03
Comment He's concerned about its mobile phone infrastructure (as you would be.which is practically non-existent at the moment due to UN sanctions. It's commonly referred to as Global System for Mobile Communications these days, which is fair enough given... [04 Apr 2003]
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