United States of America
John Marburger
The United States joined the United Nations on October 24, 1945. John Marburger has served as the U.S. science advisor to the president and director of the Office of Science and Technology since October 2001. The following is excerpted from his November 18, 2005, speech to the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia.Two years ago, I had the pleasure of speaking at the first phase of this summit in Geneva. And at that time I expressed my conviction that information and communication technology is the key to the future prosperity of all nations.This week,…