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ITU Plenipot14 begins in Busan with a potentially troubling ministerial statement

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The ITU has kicked off three weeks of wrangling over the future of the Internet – the 2014 Plenipotentiary – with a ministerial statement that’s likely to spark concerns about the direction of the coming summit. The Busan Declaration, issued at the close of the Busan ICT ministerial meeting, is filled with high-minded language about …

ITU Plenipot 2014: How the U.S. plans to avoid a U.N. vote on the future of the Internet

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Washington Post: The latest battle over who should run the Internet will be waged in the South Korean port city of Busan over the next three weeks. For U.S. officials headed to the  United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference, the goal is simple: prevent a vote. In short, the State Department’s approach is this: Convince the representatives of …