[Chapter-delegates] IGF update - what but not who or when

[Joly MacFie]

Kieren McCarthy reports from Geneva. Title decided, everything else
uncertain. Selected excerptss below

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/25/cyber_cops_meet_domain_name_registrars/

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.

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.

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.

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.

The end result was the final title: “Internet as a catalyst for change:
Access, development, freedoms and innovation.”

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outdated structures on the IGF, the irony was far from lost on those in the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.

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