U.N. Secretary General Appoints CPSR President to Internet Governance Group

United Nations Secretary Kofi Annan has selected forty people from government, business, and civil society organizations to participate in his United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG).  The WGIG will be chaired by Mr. Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.  The group's objectives are to organize an open dialogue on Internet Governance, produce a report by the summer of 2005, and to propose recommendations to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). 

CPSR President William Drake was among those appointed to the WGIG (the press release incorrectly identifies him as CPSR's Chairman).  Drake was nominated for the position by the WSIS civil society coalition and its Internet Governance Caucus.  The UN press release, including a full list of WGIG participants, is available at http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/pi1620.doc.htm and the WGIG's website is at http://www.wgig.org