Excerpts from speechifying at U.N. Internet summit (selected)

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Subject: CircleID Report: UN Global Forum on Internet Governance
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:31:25 -0800
From: Ali Farshchian <ali () circleid com>
To: <declan () well com>

This report published on CircleID today regarding UN's Internet Governance
forum (based on various quotes from participants) can perhaps help provide
some reflection on the overall tone:

"UN Global Forum on Internet Governance"
http://www.circleid.com/article/544_0_1_0_C/

[...]

More than 200 leaders from government, business and civil society attended
the Global Forum on Internet Governance, held on 25 and 26 March 2004 and
organized by the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) Task Force. The forum, held at United Nations Headquarters in New
York, was intended, according to a UN press release, "to contribute to
worldwide consultations to prepare the ground to a future Working Group on
Internet Governance to be established by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, which
is to report to the second phase of the World Summit on the Information
Society (Tunis, 2005)"...

[...]

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