Veni Markovski: "Tomorrow I will go to the UN and will send a strong message to the organizers that this is supposed to be the WSIS, not the W$I$."

The cost, in Swiss Francs, of Wi-Fi access at WSIS: 9.- for 30 minutes, 19.- for two hours, 48.- for 24 hours and 198.- for seven days. In U.S. Dollars, one day of Internet access is about $38.00. [Via No-Such-Weblog.]

International Herald Tribune: "On Friday night, Mr. Twomey, who flew 20 hours to Geneva from a meeting in Vietnam to take part in a preparatory session for this week's United Nations summit meeting on Internet issues, was escorted to the exit of the meeting room by guards after participants suddenly decided to exclude observers."

Dr. Twomey's response: "At ICANN, anybody can attend meetings, appeal decisions or go to ombudsmen, and here I am outside a U.N. meeting room where diplomats — most of whom know little about the technical aspects — are deciding in a closed forum how 750 million people should reach the Internet. I am not amused." Me either.