Hamadoun Ibrahim Touré, from Mali, elected to replace Japan's Yoshio Utsumi as Secretary General of UN's International Telecommunication Union.
Hamadoun Ibrahim Touré, ITU's new Secretary General
Created on May 17th 1865, ITU is the UN's oldest international organisation. It is also the one with the closest links to the Internet in general and more specifically the question of Internet governance. ITU was instrumental in getting the World Summit on the Information Society up and running and is generally seen as rivalling with ICANN for control of the Internet.
The election of a new Secretary General to head the ITU is therefore an important event for the Internet as a whole and the naming industry in particular.
Hamadoun I. Touré was keen to highlight the importance of these issues in his mind as he addressed 1,500 delegates attending the ITU's 17th Plenipotentiary Conference in Turkey on November 10th, the day of his election. "The Millennium Development Goals that were endorsed by all the world’s leaders as well as the WSIS resolutions are the ingredients we need to get down to work," he said, promising to work with "vigour to realize the two main objectives that were central to his campaign: to eliminate the digital divide and to ensure that cyberspace would become more secure."
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