Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Slashdot | World Summit On The Internet And IT: "World Summit On The Internet And IT"

eegad writes "The [0]Seattle PI reports on the upcoming first phase of the [1]World Summit on the Information Society to be held in Geneva on December 10-12. 192 nations are involved in the effort to set some ground
rules for the Internet (a little late, eh?) including ways to deal with spam, a possible "digital solidarity fund" to help developing nations, and discussion of UN regulation. The goal of this phase is to adopt a "Declaration of Principles" and "Plan of Action". Some countries plan on asking for a UN commission to study new ways of running the Internet
aimed at the 2005 phase. The official website will provide [2]coverage of the event. How come I wasn't invited?" The [3]Washington Times also has a piece on it, as well. We had [4]covered this a bit before.

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