[WSIS CS-Plenary] Reminder about 1st international WSIS follow-up conference

[Ezendu Ariwa]

Thanks


Kindly send me a letter of invite for the VISA application

I will attend

Ezendu

> The WFUNA Task Force on WSIS and the Danish Network on WSIS
> cordially invites you to attend the international conference on
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> Where to go from Tunis?
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> - Implementation of and follow-up to the World Summit on the Information
> Society and the role of Civil Society in this process
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> Date: February 21st -22nd, 2006
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> Venue: The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
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> On November 18th 2005 the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
> concluded with an agreement among world leaders on ambitious objectives
> and promises for the future Information Society. Now that the Summit has
> ended and world leaders have returned home, we are wondering - will these
> objectives and promises be fulfilled and kept?
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> Time has come to evaluate the results and take stock of what impact the
> Tunis Agenda for the Information Society will have on global development
> in general, and more specifically on the future of the Information
> Society. How do we go on from here, how do we ensure that ICTs truly
> become tools for development, and what will be the role of civil society
> in the implementation of the Tunis results?
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> These issues will be addressed at the international conference on Where to
> go from Tunis. More specifically, the conference will present keynote
> speeches and workshops focusing on:
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> ¨       National ICT strategies
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> ¨       Local access to ICT
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> ¨       Human Rights and ICT
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> ¨       International follow-up mechanisms to the WSIS process - with
> special focus on the Internet Governance Forum and the ECOSOC Commission
> on Science and Technology
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> Participation in the conference is free of charge. Lunch and refreshments
> are included. For more information about the conference and how to
> register, please visit our website www.una.dk/wsis or contact Project
> Coordinator Ms. Jane Johnsen at jane at una.dk. Deadline for registration is
> February 13th.
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> Please note that remote participation to the conference will be available
> through advanced collaboratory tools.
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