As WSIS approaches...

Yes, as WSIS approaches, I start getting more and more e-mails and articles about the issue of internet governance. As was stated in ZDNet's article: "The three-day summit - originally organized to brainstorm ways to bridge the digital divide in developing countries - has morphed this year into a contentious debate over who should control key portions of the Internet." Which really links to Lisa's comment to my previous post about politics involved in the process.

However, at this point, I just wanted to share with you a few articles that I got today, for I don't have the time to comment in length about it now. The first article is the mentioned above piece from ZDNet UK about the violence between the government and human right activists in Tunisia prior to the summit. The second article from spacewar.com (didn't have the time to check the origins of it) and it is yet another debate about the internet governance issue (I believe we'll have more on this issue). Another interesting article is from news.com.au and it nice, brief summary of the two major positions over the issue (note to myself – read more about the European proposal). The last, but not the least, for now is a view from Indian perspective on the issue of internet government, but even more than that on the (unjustified?) shift from the original focus of the summit on real problems to the issue of “who owns the internet”.

Shall keep on tracking the developments...