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UN to make internet a global "common heritage"?(Insider Report)
This November, the UN will convene a "World Summit on the Information Society" in Tunis. In Tunisia, reported a February 21 Reuters dispatch, "global control of the world wide web may be decided."
At present, "the most recognizable Internet governance body is a California-based non-profit company, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)," continued the report. "But developing countries want an international body, such as the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU), to have control over governance--from distributing Web site domains to fighting spare." According to Nitin Desai, chairman of a UN working group on the Internet created in December 2003, "There is an issue that is out there that needs to be resolved."
The draft "Declaration of Principles" for the Tunis Summit calls for the creation of "a people-centered, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society ... premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations...." Under that vision, the Internet--rather than being a market-oriented entity controlled by no political body--would be used "to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration," ...
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