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<p>Intellectual Property Watch</p>
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<p>By Monika Ermert for <em>Intellectual Property Watch</em></p>
<p>The United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs
(UNDESA) has a new boss. Chinese career diplomat Wu Hongbo was
nominated earlier this year by the UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon, UNDESA only recently <a
href="http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/usg/index.shtml"
target="_blank">announced</a> on its website. Taking office as
UN Undersecretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs on 1
August, Wu became responsible for the UN Internet Governance
Forum (IGF) as UNDESA oversees the work of the UN Committee on
Science and Technology and thereby the follow-up activities to
the 2003-2005 UN World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS).
In the role, Wu follows Sha Zukang, also from China. </p>
<p>According to experts, UNDESA has taken on the proxy for the UN
Secretary General who officially convenes the IGF and acted as
de-facto supervising agency of the IGF. Many stakeholders of the
IGF – which has been said to be not an official UN body and
therefore had to seek financing elsewhere – have urged the UN
administration for quite some time now to fill the vacant
positions of the IGF Executive Secretary and also of the
“Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General for Internet
Governance”. Whether Wu will address this before the upcoming
IGF meeting in Azerbaijan remains to be seen. Wu formerly held
diplomatic positions in Germany, Manila, Hong Kong and at the
Sino-British Joint Liaison Group that worked to integrate Hong
Kong’s administration into China. </p>
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