World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis

All my discussions about ICANN were channeled into conversations with my students- so there is a blog lag, I apologize. I really had to a make a point that this is important and what they should care. As I'm on my way to Zurich I simply quote from David's wiki: "
"The big-ticket issue at Tunis is not, unfortunately, going to be about bringing Internet to poor countries, which was the original point of this series of conferences. Instead, it's like to be about who has control over the Internet's governance, which is currently the US government's task. An alliance of several nations, including the EU, China, Cuba, and others, has indicated that they feel the Internet is ready for non-US control - the US government's harsh response (basically "screw off, we don't trust you guys a whit") has done little for international diplomacy. Then again, that's never really been this Administration's strong suit. "

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