[WSIS CS-Plenary] Feb 17-17: Consultations on the convening of the Internet Governance Forum

[karen banks]

dear all,

for your information.

karen

>To: wgig-discuss at wgig.org
>From: MKUMMER at unog.ch
>Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:16:09 +0100
>Subject: [wgig-discuss] Consultations on the convening of the Internet
>         Governance Forum
>
>
>Dear colleagues,
>
>As you will recall, the Secretary-General was asked by the World Summit on
>the Information Society (WSIS), held in Tunis last November, to convene in
>an open and inclusive process an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) for
>multi-stakeholder policy dialogue.  I have been asked to organize
>consultations on the convening of the IGF. They will take place in Geneva
>on 16 and 17 February 2006 and will be chaired by Nitin Desai in his
>capacity as the Secretary-General's Special Adviser for WSIS.
>
>The meeting will take place in Room XVIII of the Palais des Nations.
>Interpretation in all UN languages will be provided. The schedule on both
>days is as follows: 10 -13 and 15 - 18 hours.
>
>We have created a website to support this consultative process. More
>details on the consultations, including a draft agenda, are available on
>this website, which is still under construction: http://www.IntGovForum.org
>.
>
>Again, we encourage all stakeholders to submit written contributions as an
>input into the consultations. Contributions will be posted on the same
>website
>
>We are aware that this meeting is called at unusually short notice and
>apologize for it. We had originally planned to hold the consultations in
>late February, but learned that all hotels were already fully booked in the
>entire Geneva area at that time, because of the Geneva Motor Show which
>opens on 2 March. The dates finally chosen were the only available
>alternative on this side of the April holidays.
>
>I hope to see many of you again on the occasion of these consultations.
>
>Best regards
>
>Markus
>
>
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