The best approach is a NGO for a worldwide IS with appropriate connections, donorsThere is an international open source network at http://www.iosn.net/ under the UNDP and partially sponsored by IDRC. I know that its very active in the Asia Pacific region where many of the poor countries are located. The UNDP officers are located in some of these countries providing support on developing projects that use oss.
and legality, e.g., capable of establishing and maintaining appropriate Intellectual Property
rights, a substitute to the for-profit products and services. Sure beats jurisdictions where
legislation can be based upon business interests and the application of governmental
intervention is directed by selected parties tugging on certain levers.
The WSIS was subject to this tugging from the onset. Its demise is expected.
Think about a global NGO organization and what it could do without 'for-profit'
intervention.
We've heard of the recent donation by Microsoft to UNDP of 5 billion over the next 5 years. We don't know how that donation will impact on UNDP's work on promoting oss especially in developing countries.
Molly
