"Group agrees on voluntary digital solidarity fund"

Lead: "Negotiators at a meeting in Geneva last week appear to have defused one of the contentious issues looming over the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) later this year. They agreed to make contributions to a 'digital solidarity fund' voluntary and not mandatory as demanded by a number of developing countries at the first phase of the summit in 2003." John Blau, IDG News Service via Computerworld (Australia(m March 1, 2005.

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Contributor: John Daly
Published Date: March 1, 2005