The United Nations Commission on Science & Technology for Development needs to open its doors and allow many more organizations to join an Internet-related group, according to Google.  Vint Cerf, who serves as "Chief Internet Evangelist" at the search giant, spoke up this morning following a row over a governments-only proposal.

President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations today in a speech in New York City. The event has of course inspired a lot of buzz and conversation on the web and Twitter.

Videos of the speech have been uploaded to YouTube:

Inner City Press, a one-man full-time operation with volunteer contributors, should be back on Google News following an anonymous complaint that caused it to be delisted.

All things being equal, who would you ask for money: the insanely rich or the average citizen?  Most people would go to the first group, and in doing so, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has knocked at Google’s door.

The U.N. has brought representatives from 190 nations to Bali, Indonesia to discuss climate change.  Want to guess what search engine giant is present, as well?  That’s right – Google.

The competition has a slightly goofy name – “Hunger Bytes” – and a strange logo – a globe with two pointy teeth.  But this YouTube-centric contest is for a good cause, and it’s backed by the United Nations World Food Program.

A branch of the United Nations known as the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced plans to continue its relationship with Google; the two groups have already collaborated on an atlas that showed how climate change is affecting the planet.