<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">It is you my friend.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 3/10/10, Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <I><nyangkweagien@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <nyangkweagien@gmail.com><BR>Subject: [governance] Who is Incharge of the Web's Future?<BR>To: "WSIS Internet Governance Caucus" <governance@lists.cpsr.org><BR>Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 9:34 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><STRONG>Hi all, What you find below is an except from a story carried our by the BBC yesterday. A conundrum?</STRONG></DIV><STRONG></STRONG>
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<DIV><BR clear=all><FONT color=#ff9900>Who's in charge of the web's future? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff9900>So far it has grown on principles of openness and mutually agreed standards - but some now fear the emergence of a corporate web where innovation and free expression will be shackled. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff9900>"There are no guarantees that it will carry on to evolve the way it is now - open, free and with universal standards," says Professor Wendy Hall, Southampton University scientist . </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff9900>"If you lose that or the standards are taken over by a commercial concern, then the web will change dramatically." </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>-- <BR>Aaron Agien Nyangkwe<BR>Journalist-OutCome Mapper<BR>Special Assistant The President<BR>ASAFE<BR>P.O.Box 5213<BR>Douala-Cameroon<BR><BR>Tel. 237 3337 55 31, 3337 50 22<BR>Fax. 237 3342 29 70 </DIV></DIV><BR>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<BR><BR>
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