http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-internetgovernance/future_tunis_3048.jsp Comments for "The net's future after Tunis, Bill Thompson " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-internetgovernance/future_tunis_3048.jsp <p> It would be easy to dismiss the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (<a href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/" target="_blank">WSIS</a>) held in Tunis on 16-18 November 2005 as just another United Nations-sponsored waste of time, effort and money. </p> <p> After all, an event that attracts Robert Mugabe and Muammar Gaddafi, enhances the political <a href="http://campaigns.ifex.org/tmg/" target="_blank">credibility</a> of Tunisia’s own President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and at the same time endorses control by the United States of core aspects of the net’s technical architecture would seem to have nothing to recommend it to anyone committed to freedom of expression, accountability or progressive politics. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-internetgovernance/future_tunis_3048.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-internetgovernance/future_tunis_3048.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-internetgovernance/future_tunis_3048.jsp#comment Bill Thompson Creative Commons normal governing the net media &amp; the net Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 3048 at http://www.opendemocracy.net