[WSIS CS-Plenary] briefing on WSIS tomorrow (thursday) at UN

Wed Feb 1 21:23:39 GMT 2006

Hi Rik, 

I’d love to come to this meeting but unfortunately I’ve already made a
commitment to attend another one. I look forward to hearing about the
outcomes.

Many thanks,

Mavic    

Mavic Cabrera-Balleza 
Senior Programme Associate 
International Women's Tribune Centre 
Tel : 1 212 687 8633 ext. 200 
Fax: 1 212 661 2704 
Email:  <mailto:mavic at iwtc.org> mavic at iwtc.org 

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Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] briefing on WSIS tomorrow (thursday) at UN

Sorry folks, I only saw this just now.  Which funny because I'm speaking
on the panel!  Hopefully some other active WSIS people can be there.

Rik Panganiban

CONGO

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DPI/NGO Briefing

The World Summit on Information Society
Second Phase, Tunis, Tunisia 16 – 18 November 2005

2 February 2006
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium

Background Information:

The second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
evaluated the progress made since the Geneva phase in December 2003 and
produced two outcome documents – The Tunis Commitment and The Tunis
Agenda for the Information Society. The breakthrough agreement on
Internet governance acknowledged the need for enhanced cooperation to
enable governments and created the Internet Governance Forum to foster
and enable multi-stakeholder dialogue on public policy and development
issues. The outcome documents also reaffirmed that financing of ICT
deployment was vital to meeting the MDGs and welcomed the creation of
the Digital Solidarity Fund. The Tunis Agenda established a list of
moderators/facilitators for each of the eleven Action Lines in the
original Geneva Action Plan. Their first meeting to coordinate the
implementation of the Geneva and Tunis agreements will take place on 24
February in Geneva.

Speakers:

During the panel discussion from 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Mohamed Samir
Koubaa, Deputy Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the United
Nations; Henk-Jan Brinkman, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Executive
Office of the Secretary General; Sergei Kambalov, Chief, ECOSOC and
Interorganizational Cooperation Branch, Office of ECOSOC Support and
Coordination, DESA; Deputy Executive Coordinator of the Secretariat of
the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task
Force; and Rik Panganiban, Communications Coordinator, Conference on
NGOs, will talk about the follow-up to WSIS, the proposed Global
Alliance as a follow up to the ICT Task Force and the $100 laptop
initiative.

For more information on WSIS, please visit
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/basic/faqs.asp>
http://www.itu.int/wsis/basic/faqs.asp

For more information on $100 laptop, please visit

<http://www.undp.org/dpa/pressrelease/releases/2006/20060128-laptop.shtm
l>
http://www.undp.org/dpa/pressrelease/releases/2006/20060128-laptop.shtml
and/or
 <http://laptop.media.mit.edu/> http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

A video on the importance of bridging the digital divide will be shown
at 10:00 a.m.

The new DPI/NGO Section website will be presented from 11:30 a.m. –
12:00 p.m.

A live webcast of the event may be available at
<http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/www.un.org/dpi/ngosection>
www.un.org/dpi/ngosection and/or
<http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/www.un.org/webcast> www.un.org/webcast

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RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator

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

web: http://www.ngocongo.org

email: rik.panganiban at ngocongo.org

mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524 

* Information on the WSIS at http://www.ngocongo.org/wsis

* Submit NGO Events to http://www.ngoevents.org

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