<P>这是一份联合国发布的全球性电子商务状况报告,里面有安南的签名,多达1M,内容含量很高,值得推荐。</P> <P>资料节选:</P> <P>launched a new data collection exercise to compile<BR>e-business statistics from developing countries and<BR>make them available in its annual E-Commerce and<BR>Development Report. The results can be found in<BR>chapter 1.<BR>B. The dialogue about ICT-fordevelopment:<BR>Some suggestions<BR>The question of Internet governance<BR>The discussions throughout the World Summit on<BR>the Information Society (WSIS) process made it<BR>clear that a majority of developing countries feel<BR>that the status quo in this matter does not serve<BR>their interests well and needs to be changed. The<BR>establishment of some sort of intergovernmental<BR>mechanism has been proposed. Concerns have<BR>been expressed, for instance, about the dominance<BR>by a small group of countries over core Internet<BR>resources. Legal mechanisms based on the enforcement<BR>of private contracts (to be carried out essentially<BR>by the national courts of one country) are<BR>not necessarily the optimal way to settle international<BR>public policy issues. Some view the Internet<BR>as a new kind international public utility in which<BR>they feel they are not playing the role that is legitimately<BR>theirs.<BR>Once the need to respond to questions such as<BR>those outlined above is understood, it is also necessary<BR>to admit that there are not many examples of<BR>concrete policy areas in which such responses</P> |