[WSIS CS-Plenary] RFC: Global Alliance for ICT and Development

[William Drake]

Hello,

Progress continues toward the launching of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development.  Following discussions at the ninth meeting of the UNICT Task Force on 1 October 2005 in Geneva, the UN is assembling a start-up group to finalize the specific features of the proposal that remain open, such as its organizational arrangements, participation and funding.  The start-up group will meet at the Tunis summit, and has been asked to encourage multistakeholder input on the concept during the period prior.  In particular, the group has been asked to solicit views on the following questions, taking into account the discussion in the paper on the principles and elements of the Global Alliance http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/documents.pl?id=1562:

-         What kind of organizational elements would be optimal for ensuring effectiveness, sustainability and impact of the Global Alliance?

-         What should be the criteria for participation that would ensure openness and inclusion, but at the same time be based on relevance to and coherence of purpose?

-         How to build an adequate and sustainable resource foundation on the basis of voluntary financial and in-kind contributions?



Since this list is necessarily busy with other pre-summit matters, it might be difficult to have a focused discussion on these or related aspects here.   In that event, anyone interested in this process could comment in the forum on the UNICT Task Force website at http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/comments.pl?ot=document;oi=1443.

Thanks,

Bill

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