There's a piece of mine, a broad summary of the situation wrt Internet governance, in The Guardian today. Quotes from the UK representative, US ambassador, Nitin Desai, Milton Mueller. Not a bad piece on reflection....
My second column/rant has appeared this morning in the Guardian. It is a somewhat sanitised version of the original – no mention of skunk, broken legs and no f-words – but pretty much the same....
It's 7.30pm, the last session of the day, two days to go, and everyone at the WSIS meeting in Geneva is hoping that the heavily disputed committee text will start gelling together. Despite a good...
What the hell is wrong with the US press? The mainstream press all over the world fundamentally fails to understand what the situation is with regard to the Internet and with Internet technology in general,...
I’m at the WSIS meeting in Geneva where the future of the Internet is being decided by the world’s governments. I spoke to the US Ambassador and the Pakistan Ambassador – both of whom will...
It's an amazing building, the Palais des Nations in Geneva, but it is somewhat ironic that with the entire future of the Internet being discussed that the conference rooms are so lacking in technology. The...
Well, it's 3.15pm Geneva time and the afternoon session of Sub-Committee A at PrepCom3 of WSIS at the UN in Geneva will start in 15 minutes. What does all that mean? That for the next...
It's been a while since my last blog entry – not from a shortage of things to write about. I have woken up this morning in Geneva, where the ITU is holding a meeting of...
It was a pretty unique event – two of Britain’s most combative and eloquent figures going head-to-head and arguing about the Iraq War, its results and the philosophy and theory behind it: Christopher Hitchens and...
The first Thursday of the relaunched Guardian, and hence the first revamped Technology section, and I've got a humour column bit in it, called Technobile – although that reads to me like “Tech Nobile”, like...