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

[Adam Peake]

the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium's in New York, isn't it?

Adam



>Dear Rik
>
>Just to clarify : there is the "ITU reform 
>meeting" convened by the ITU Council on february 
>23th which is open to the WSIS stakeholders, and 
>on the follwing day there is the "WSIS Action 
>lines coordinators' meeting". Is this meeting 
>a"closed" or more or less "open" one ? In other 
>words : is it worth staying a day more in Geneva 
>for CS members ?
>
>Thanks for giving us some info on that
>
>Best
>
>Jean-Louis Fullsack
>
>
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>  > Message du 01/02/06 22:03
>>  De : "Rik Panganiban"
>>  A : "wsis-cs-plenary"
>>  Copie à :
>>  Objet : [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
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>>  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
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>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:
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>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
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>For more information on $100 laptop, please visit
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>><http://www.undp.org/dpa/pressrelease/releases/2006/20060128-laptop.shtml>http://www.undp.org/dpa/pressrelease/releases/2006/20060128-laptop.shtml 
>>and/or
>>  <http://laptop.media.mit.edu/>http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
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>A video on the importance of bridging the 
>digital divide will be shown at 10:00 a.m.
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>The new DPI/NGO Section website will be presented from 11:30 a.m. ­ 12:00 p.m.
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>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/>http://www.ngocongo.org
>email: <mailto:rik.panganiban at ngocongo.org>rik.panganiban at ngocongo.org
>mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524
>
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>* Information on the WSIS at 
><http://www.ngocongo.org/wsis>http://www.ngocongo.org/wsis
>* Submit NGO Events to <http://www.ngoevents.org/>http://www.ngoevents.org
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