U.N. Website Hacked

THE official website of the United Nations appeared to have been hacked last night and briefly displayed a message protesting US and Israeli policies in the Middle East
"The chief architects of this protest are myself, Eno 7 from Turkey, and the byond hackers team from Chile ... We expanded our efforts as nine other countries joined us afterwards," it said.

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What remains to be seen is how the governments of Turkey and Chile will respond to this.

Governing Cyberspace

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a two phase conference from which the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) emerged.

Such international efforts are important since they lay the groundwork for a future convention that will try to govern what can be called global cyberspace. Such governance is not only aimed at securing cyberspace from criminal and terrorist misuse, but also to assure that the developing world will be able to exploit cyber-resources.

Lets wish them luck, visit their sites, and contribute to their mission. After all, we too are members of the “interested stakeholders” which the The World Summit on the Information Society identifies as one player in the development of Internet governance structures.

U.N.I.T.A.R. Webinars

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research Webinars offer a great glimpse into where the future of computing lies. After wathcing some of the topics, it is safe to say that the the future is with Wi-Fi enabled youth who use Free Open Source Software. That seems to be the trend that has been going on in there once, and future, webinars.