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World Summit On The Internet And IT

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. cross your fingers.. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    192 nations are involved in the effort to set some ground rules for the Internet ... including ways to deal with spam

    I hope Nigeria doesn't have any sort of veto power at this summit.

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  2. "a little late, eh?" by musikit · · Score: 5, Funny

    not really. considering it takes OUR government 10-20 years to recognize technology. i would say this is a rather fast turn around for a body of government set up by bodies of government.

  3. Al Gore by pdjohe · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard they are going to make Al Gore in charge of the whole meeting.

    After all, he did create the thing, right? ;)

  4. analysis by theMerovingian · · Score: 5, Funny


    The goal of this phase is to adopt a "Declaration of Principles" and "Plan of Action".

    Person 1: Sounds like it was created by an MBA.

    Person 2: Actually, it was a committee.

    Person 1: OK, a committee of MBA's.

    Person 2: A committee of MBA's who work for the government!

    Both: (run away and hide under cubicles)

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  5. Re:First Election by Mohammed+Al-Sahaf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do not believe the lies my friend. There is only one man for this job. Make no mistake, when I am made Minister of the Information Society the blood of the spammers will flow like wine. Our low price septic tanks will be full of the corpses of the armies of slaughtered spammers. We shall strike them down like the dogs they are. They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone. And we shall destroy them.

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  6. Workshop on Free Software, Free Society by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    The most promising and interesting for us is the thematic Working Group (WG) dealing with Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks (P.C.T) and related issues, within the framework of the Civil Society.

    See the website of this group at http://www.wsis-pct.org/

    The Working Group is holding a workshop "Free Software, Free Society" with a group of top speakers, including Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project, and Lawrence Lessig.

  7. Are you sure? by Raven42rac · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you sure there are 192 nations participating, and not 192.168 nations? What about the 10.x or the 169.254 nations you insensitive clods?

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  8. html by loconet · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should start by banning frontpage as a tool to create webpages. Yes that would mean they'll have to recode their official website as well

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