guardian.co.uk / Internet
David Smith is the Observer's technology correspondent
The sound of a thousand laptops snapping shut must mean the UN's first Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has come to an end.
More than 1,500 delegates from governments, businesses and interest groups around the world came to Athens to chew the cud over where the net goes from here.
This was very different from a UN security council passing resolutions or imposing sanctions. The IFG chairman, Nitin Desai, began his summing up this morning: "It's not possible to speak of anything as a product of this meeting. We are not trying to come at some agreement or conclusion."
So another example of all talk and no action? You can judge for yourself from the session transcripts at intgovforum.org.
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