World Summit On The Internet And IT

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 8, 2003 @02:29AM from the building-a-future dept.

eegad writes "The Seattle PI reports on the upcoming first phase of the 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 coverage of the event. How come I wasn't invited?" The Washington Times also has a piece on it, as well. We had covered this a bit before.

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Re:Best thing they can do by Total_Wimp · 2003-12-08 02:39 · Score: 0, Flamebait

" Stay the fuck away from my Internet." ...

"But we can do all of these things through education. "

Yes, education solves everything. Once educated to help their fellow internet users, people will do what's best for the internet as a whole rather than their personal self-interest. I didn't used to think that this was human nature, but thank you for educating me that I was wrong.

TW