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In the last few years there have been many discussions how the Internet is governed, and how it should be governed. The whole World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) ended talking about this problem. It caused exchange of letters between the US Secretary of State and the European Union presidency.

And it caused a public discussion, organized by the US Department of Commerce on that issue. I saw some reflection of this discussion and here’s some comments on that.

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Kieren asked some questions, related to ICANN. Here are my answers.

Kieren McCarthey is a British journalist, and is running for the ICANN Board in the 2006 elections. See the exchange we have had on issues relevant to ICANN Read more…

Macedonia is forming new government.

The new Prime Minister is Nikola Gruevski of the VMRO-DPMNE party. What is interesting is, that several of the ministers are US citizens. These are Vele Samak, working with Microsoft, and Gligor Tashkovich, Executive Vice President AMBO oil pipeline project.

Interesting development. And like a carbon copy of the Bulgarian experience from 2001, where the ex-king of Bulgaria Simeon invited a group of young Bulgarian financial employees at UK banks, but close to his son Kiril, as ministers, members of Parliament, and advisers.

One of my very good friends, Joichi Ito will visit Bulgaria on Oct. 25-26, to meet the Bulgarian bloggers’ community, the free and open source fans, and Bulgarian politicians.

This is a very good news for my country, and we are already working on the program for his visit. Visit this blog regularly for updates. See who Joi is:
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Several articles in the last few days have brought my attention to a problem I’ve already discussed here – about obtainting Bulgarian citizenship, and how the Macedonians are looking for it. See what the Sunday English press says, and my reaction to this:
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In the last seven months many people have asked me if I will be running again for the ICANN Board. Many have come to me and have asked me to run.
Today, that the term for nominations to the ICANN Board is over, I can publish mu response to these questions.

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