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The Council of the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is set to talk Wednesday about the Union's contribution to follow-up of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the third Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

Turkey has tabled a resolution on strengthening the ITU's role in the IGF. The discussion comes at a time when a tense debate between the ITU and its critics has arisen over the best governance models for the internet. The debate culminated in a highly critical speech by ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Touré at a recent meeting in Cairo of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the other "multi-stakeholder" competitor to the ITU. Touré labelled the IGF as becoming "a waste of time sometimes" and criticised the participation of governments in ICANN's Government Advisory Committee (GAC) as being "cosmetic."

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Related topics: ICANN, Internet Governance