The laterst version of the Draft Declaration of Principles for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is now available, following discussions last week. It's a fascinating document; you can just see where the interests of certain groups jut into the thread and context of the document as a whole. Hence we see, for example, a resolution only to alleviate 'extreme' poverty, and, of course, the entrenchment of strong intellectual property rights, including 'authentication' (say "bye-bye privacy") into the core of the work. The authors assert that they are "the representatives of the peoples of the world," but I don't feel very represented. And it's not like this document, or any part of it, is ever going to come to a vote or anything.
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