Rio forum to shine torch on the dark side of the Internet

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) — The darker corners of the Internet are to be exposed under the bright light of Brazil's sun next week when a UN conference on how the web is run gets underway.

Rio de Janeiro will from Monday host the UN Internet Governance Forum, in which 2,000 participants from 100 countries will examine ways to tackle pedophilia and cybercrime.

It will also discuss the implications of more than 80 percent of the world's population not having access to the worldwide network, mainly those in developing countries.

The forum, which has no power to pass or enforce rules on the Internet, was created at the world summit in Tunisia in 2005 as a way for representatives from governments, the private sector, associations, Internet communities and the media to...