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Benchmarking E-Government: A Global Perspective - Assessing the Progress of the UN Member States
White Paper In an effort to gain an appreciation of the global e-government landscape in 2001, the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the United Nations Division for Public Economics and Public Administration (UNDPEPA) undertook a research... [11 Jan 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, for instance, implicitly backed the creation of a stronger UN... [16 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]
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 prefer to see the internet in the... [10 Dec 2003]
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 African IT training centre for young people. [17 Nov 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 Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) to... [27 Sep 2004]
'Tunisia not fit to host world web summit'
News Most recently, a large coalition of international human rights groups was forbidden by Tunisian authorities from meeting to discuss the UN summit's topics on their own, the organisation Human Rights Watch reported on Monday. [15 Nov 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]
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