[WSIS CS-Plenary] Programme for 23 Orientation / Information Sessions

[Rik Panganiban]

Dear Colleagues / Chers Colleges, 

Please find below the programme for the civil society orientation / information sessions planned for 23 June in Hammamet.

Veuillez trouver au-dessous du programme pour les sessions d'orientation/information a projeté pour 23 juin dans Hammamet. (Seulemente en anglais, pour le moment.)

Rik Panganiban
CONGO

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Civil Society Orientation Session

PREPARATORY MEETING
(PREPCOM-1 OF THE TUNIS PHASE OF WSIS)

Medina Conference Centre, Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia 23 June 2004 


This orientation session is designed to give all participants the necessary background information on the WSIS Phase Two process thus far to ensure effective participation. It is open to government delegations, private sector, civil society and international organizations.

Program of Activities

Time:	Event:

10:00 –  10:10	Welcome and Introduction
• Renate Bloem (President, CONGO)

10:10 –  11:00	WSIS Phase 2: Actors, Process and Structures
• Charles Geiger (Deputy Secretary General, WSIS Executive Secretariat) 
• Moncef Achour (Civil Society, WSIS Executive Secretariat)

11:15 – 11:30 	Coffee Break	for Networking

11:30 – 12:00	WG on Internet Governance
• Markus Kummer (Head of Internet Governance Secretariat) tbc
WG on Financing
• UNDP tba
 
12:00 – 13:00 	Civil Society at WSIS
• Families and Bureau: Renate Bloem
• Content and Themes Group: Karen Banks
• Plenary: tba
• Caucuses: tba
• WSIS Online: Bertrand de la Chapelle

13:00 – 14 :30	Lunch for Networking

14:30 – 17:00	Strategies:
• Breakout Groups into Caucuses / Working Groups
• CS Bureau 

17:00 – 18:00	Plenary	Groups report back

18:00 – 18:30	Plenary	Roadmap and Deliverables:
• Yoshio Utsumi, ITU Secretary General, tbc

22:00	Hotel	Nigh-cap with Janis Karklins, Ambassador of Latvia and President elect to be of PrepCom 

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RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator

Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) 
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