[OS:N:] Linux @ WSIS conference in Geneva next week

[Evan Leibovitch <evan lpi org>]

This it hasn't received much press in the US, next week the city of Geneva 
will host two major global IT conferences.

The first, the World Summit on the Information Society, is sponsored by the 
United Nations and the International Telecommunications Union. It brings 
together delegations from every country to try to reach consensus on global 
IT issues, especially related to the greater use of IT in lesser developed 
countries.

http://www.itu.int/wsis/

A second parallel conference, ICT-4D (Information and Communications 
Technology For Development) invites participation from non-profit groups, 
NGOs and (to a small extent) vendors.

http://www.ict-4d.org/Marketplace/en/default.htm

Amongst the issues being debates at WSIS and ICT4D is the growing use -- 
and government endorsement -- of open source. The Linux Professional 
Institute will be at the conference, with a booth at the ICT4D Forum 
(#502), a workshop on creating open source infrastructures, and a 
certification exam lab (where people may take LPI certification exams at no 
cost).

If you're going to be in Geneva we hope to see you there. If not we 
encourage you to learn about this conference, the outcome of which will 
affect inter-governmental relations on IT issues such as Internet 
regulation and intellectual property rights.

http://www.lpi.org/en/wsis.html

Evan Leibovitch
President
Linux Professional Institute