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December 09, 2003
Furrer solution or final solution?
We
reported that the Swiss government's information chief Marc Furrer had hammered out a compromise on the digital solidarity fund - based on Western leaders agreeing to look into the idea.
But the President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade has just been laying on the line here at WSIS
his view - the fund must be more than looked into, it must happen. He's asking for more clarification from sceptical countries who want to emphasise existing mechanisms, and wants a defninition of what these are, and what they are achieving.