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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10023

20 November 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/internet
Sharm El Sheikh forum says Internet governance still dominated by United States

Brussels, 19/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - More than 1,800 delegates from 112 countries, including a delegation of MEPs, attended the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh from 15 to 18 November 2009. At the end of the forum, the participants said that the United States still wields tight control over the internet despite a softening of the internet-governance body ICANN on 1 October this year, a step welcomed by the European Commission (see EUROPE 9989) but seen as not going far...

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19 NOVEMBER 2009