The United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) group plans to solve a big part of the spam problem during a July 7 to 9 2004 meeting which focuses on the development of international cooperative measures to counter spam on a global level.

In the list of the activities in preparation for the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), ITU (International telecommunication Union) is organizing a WSIS thematic meeting on Countering Spam. The forum participants will be government policy-makers and regulators, consumer groups, Internet service providers, software companies, academics and civil society organizations. On the summit, which is a part of two year United Nation efforts for organazing a new type of Internet regulation the delegates will exchange experiences and share their views on technical, legal and other solutions to countering spam. On the meeting also is planned disscussion round table on possible initiatives at the national and international level.

The Summit is expected to result in releasing and accepting of a group of initiatives and policies, prioritized to address the problem of spam in a coordinated manner.

The meeting will take place from 7 to 9 July 2004, at the International Conference Center of Geneva (CICG), next to ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The organizators will provide regularly updated information about the event.

"If we achieve full international cooperation among governments and software companies, this plague, which affects so many of us in our everyday life, will be defeated in short order," said Robert Horton, Australia's top regulator.

The Australian Communications Authority have signed a week ago a memorandum with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry to exchange best policy ideas in battling with the internet serious spam violations.

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