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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 are hoping that this week's meeting will... [30 Oct 2006]
$100 laptop: 'Fundamentally flawed'
News Roberts said: "At the UN World Summit [where the OLPC prototype was first displayed last year] there were so many exciting projects that didn't get any attention because all eyes were on the OLPC. Speaking at the Red Hat Summit earlier this month... [21 Jun 2006]
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. Microsoft said around 50,000 students are expected to benefit from the scheme, which was announced at the World... [17 Nov 2005]
Bush agrees web control pact with UN
News But as the official start of the summit on Wednesday neared, China and other critics chose to agree to the set of principles and instead take their complaints to the newly created UN forum during its first meeting next year, which is expected to... [16 Nov 2005]
'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]
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]
US moves to keep control of net names
News Officials on both sides are set to meet about the issue next month at a UN-sponsored summit in Tunisia. The letter said: "Given the internet's importance to the world's economy, it is essential that the underlying domain name system of the internet... [10 Oct 2005]
Photos: Team Silicon completes 3 Peaks Challenge
Photo With little chance to sleep during the 24 hour challenge, one un-fussy team member steals half an hour under the stars at a motorway service station while waiting to be allowed into the Lake District National Park at first light. [19 Jul 2005]
Time for Icann to let the world look after the net?
News Calls for the UN to be involved have failed to impress Icann CEO and president Paul Twomey, who told silicon.com last year: "The countries that most have the internet integrated into their economy don't want the governments involved. [08 Jun 2005]
VeriSign suit not about 'control of the internet' says ICANN chief
News On another front ICANN had to fight off calls from some countries last year at the World Information Summit for an inter-government agency such as the UN to run the internet instead of ICANN. Some of the people calling for the UN to run the... [08 Mar 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 prefer to see the internet in the... [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 opportunities of information technology. [06 Nov 2002]
