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UN wants the internet.(Insider Report, conference on internet accessibility)(Brief Article)

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March 25 was a busy day for Kofi Annan. In addition to his speech at the Rwanda memorial conference, the secretary-general made another address to a UN summit addressing the so-called "digital divide." Criticizing the current, largely informal and blessedly unregulated nature of the Internet, Annan insisted that the UN must be given power to police cyberspace in order to make the web "accessible and responsive to the needs of all the world's people."

The UN Internet conference heard reports from five working groups "on topics including everything from domain names to ...

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