<div><br></div>Kieren McCarthy reports from Geneva. Title decided, everything else uncertain. Selected excerptss below<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/25/cyber_cops_meet_domain_name_registrars/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/25/cyber_cops_meet_domain_name_registrars/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Over two days, representatives from business, government, civil society, and the technical community met in Geneva in order to decide the path forward for the sixth annual meeting of the Forum, due to be held in Nairobi toward the end of the year.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Those plans have been hamstrung by the United Nations in New York, which continues to delay crucial decisions about the event dates and the event’s key decision makers.</div><div><br></div><div>Kenya’s representative and meeting chair Alice Munyua repeatedly asked for others’ indulgence as she explained she did not have final dates for the event. It will be somewhere between September and December, she said. Nor had dates been finalized for the second preparatory meeting in May.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In the course of discussions, the theme that has been on the minds of many in recent weeks – the role the Internet has played in the Middle East uprisings – came to the forefront. </div><div><br></div>
<div>The end result was the final title: “Internet as a catalyst for change: Access, development, freedoms and innovation.”</div><div><br></div><div>With traditional governments doing everything they can to impose old and outdated structures on the IGF, the irony was far from lost on those in the room.</div>
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