[WSIS CS-Plenary] Internet Governance in Davos

[Fullsack Jean-Louis]

Many Thanks Wolfgang for these revealing informations from our "WSIS partner
WEF".
I'll try to find what they told about "financing digital opportunities" and
who was there to tell about it.

Tschüss
Jean-Louis Fullsack

----- Original Message -----
From: <wolfgang at imv.au.dk>
To: "William Drake" <wdrake at ictsd.ch>; <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 9:34 AM
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Internet Governance in Davos


> Dear all,
>
> the World Economic Forum (WEF)in Davos discussed Internet Governance last
week. The interesting point here is, that three different issues "Spam",
"Technology Abuse (Cybercrime)" and "Internet Governance" has been packed
into opne panel. The three questions for the Panel included as Question No.
3: "How the Internet should be governed on a global scale?"
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> The composition of the Panel was also interesting:
> Stratton Sclavos, CEO from VeriSign, Kevoin Ryan, CEO from DoubleClick and
Bradford Smith, Vice President of Microsoft, three "big fishes" from the
Private Secor. Additionally, there was, obviously as an expert Prof. Stephen
J. Kobrin from the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania, a business
school, Gisele Yitamben  President Association pour le Soutien et l'Appui à
la Femme Entrepreneur (ASAFE) (??). Governments has been represented by the
Jordanian Minister for Information, Fawaz Hatim Zu'bi
> Moderator was a journalist from Fortune Magazine.
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> Unfortunately the statements are not published and there is no audio or
video file available from the discussion.
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> Other WEF issues, related to the WSIS agenda, included Open Source, Future
of Wireless and Financing Digital Opportunities.
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> Two other interesting panel had the title "Strategic Alliances between
Business and NGOs" and "Can Civil Society contribute to Peace?"
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> The WEF is one of the main partners of WSIS and will produce the annual
WSIS benchmark report in cooperation with two other institutions.
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> Here is the text from the announcement for the Internet Governance Panel:
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> The Curse of Spam, Technology Abuse and Internet Governance
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> Date: Wednesday, 21 Jan 2004
> Time: 20.00
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> Everyone with e-mail access has received spam or suffered the
inconvenience, or worse, caused by computer viruses. With new technology
inevitably comes those who find a way to use it for obnoxious and nefarious
purposes -- thus Internet governance issues are coming increasingly to the
fore. 1) What are the costs to business of this 'social nuisance'? 2) What
new 'abuses' are on the horizon? 3) How should the Internet be governed on a
global scale?
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