[WSIS CS-Plenary] Meeting with WSIS ES - 25/01/06

Fri Jan 27 12:39:32 GMT 2006

Dear all, 

Following a short informal meeting held on 25 January with Charles Geiger,
WSIS Executive Director, to clarify some issues on the up-coming steps to
WSIS, please find below some points you might find of interest. 

We were confirmed that the WSIS Executive Secretariat will be maintained in
the post-Summit period, even though its size will be reduced. Its main
mandate will be to coordinate/facilitate multi-stakeholder implementation
and stocktaking, but also to maintain close interaction with WSIS
stakeholders, in particular with civil society. This implies that the list
of contacts is now up-dated on-line
(http://www.itu.int/wsis/contact/index.html), the events calendar will be
completed, the Newsletter E-Flash will be published.

We also got some information about up-coming meetings on international
implementation mechanisms.

On the ITU Reform Meeting (1 February 2006, ITU, Geneva), we were confirmed
that this meeting is open only to ITU members as of now, but CONGO will push
so that this meeting will be more inclusive for civil society.

In line with paragraphs 108-109 of the Tunis Agenda, ITU, UNESCO and UNDP
will convene a multi-stakeholder consultation on implementation at the
international level on 24 February 2006 (Palais des Nations, Geneva). On the
agenda: list of moderators/facilitators on action lines, nature of the
coordination process, its inputs, modalities and logistics. More information
and invitations might be made available soon on the WSIS-ES website
www.itu.int/wsis/implementation. 

For your information, we have posted on the website
www.csbureau.org/posttunis.htm, a calendar of UN related activities for the
implementation of WSIS outcome provisions. Do not hesitate to contact us for
any additional event.

Three additional points:

-          Dr. Georges Padadatos confirmed that the consultation on the
preparation of the IGF Athens meeting will take place on 15 February in
Geneva (probably at the CONGO offices, Place des Nations, time to be
confirmed).

-          As you may know, CONGO, due to its mandate to strengthen Civil
Society in the UN system and as interface to ECOSOC, was invited by UNCTAD
to participate in a very informal preliminary brainstorming to exchange
views on the future role of the ECOSOC Commission on Science and Technology
for Development. Some of you already sent us you comments in this regard.
Please continue to send ideas and contributions to Renate or to
wsis at ngocongo.org. 

-          To get your access badge to the UN, don't forget to fill in the
registration for the IGF consultation at the UN:
<http://www.intgovforum.org/Registration_Form_eng.pdf> English |
<http://www.intgovforum.org/Registration_Form_Fra.pdf> French 

Best regards, 

Philippe

For any additional information or remark, please contact
<mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org 

1 February 2006
ITU Council Working Group on WSIS - ITU Reform Meeting (ITU, Geneva)
Only open to ITU members as of now. An on-line forum gives non-ITU members
to possibility to contribute in brainstorming for ideas.
 <http://www.itu.int/reform/index.html> http://www.itu.int/reform/index.html

13 February 2006
Informal Consultation on the Reform of the Commission on Science and
Technology for Development 
Closed informal meeting convened by UNCTAD.
Please share any great ideas you would like to be brought forward for Civil
Society at  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org 
 <http://stdev.unctad.org> http://stdev.unctad.org 

15 February 2006
Informal consultation with the Greek Mission in Geneva (Internet Governance
Forum host country).
Open to civil society stakeholders.
Place and time to be confirmed.
 <http://www.igf-greece2006.org> http://www.igf-greece2006.org  

16-17 February 2006
Consultations on the convening of the Internet Governance Forum (Palais des
Nations, Geneva)
Organised by the UN SG's Special Advisor for WSIS, open to all WSIS
accredited entities.
Don't forget to fill in the registration for UN Badging:
<http://www.intgovforum.org/Registration_Form_eng.pdf> English |
<http://www.intgovforum.org/Registration_Form_Fra.pdf> French 
 <http://www.intgovforum.org> http://www.intgovforum.org

23 February 2006
Consultation on WSIS implementation (Geneva)
Open only to UN agencies. Closed for civil society.

24 February 2006
Consultation of WSIS Action Line Moderators/Facilitators (Palais des
Nations, Geneva)
Open to all WSIS stakeholders.
A draft agenda will be circulated soon.
 <http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation>
http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation 

7-15 March 2006
World Telecommunication Development Conference, organised by ITU-Telecom
Development (Doha, Qatar)
WSIS Action Line on IC Infrastructure as well as the ITU initiative Connect
the World will be discussed during this Conference.
 <http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/wtdc06/index.html>
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/wtdc06/index.html

End of April 2006
Meeting of the UN System Chief Executive Board for Coordination (UN-CEB) on
UN Groups for the Information Society
Open only to UN agencies.

15-19 May 2006
Ninth session of the UN Commission of Science and Technology for Development
(Palais des Nations, Geneva)
 <http://stdev.unctad.org> http://stdev.unctad.org

27 June - 29 July 2006
Ecocomic and Social Council Substantive Session (Palais des nations, Geneva)
UN CSTD reform will be addressed.
 <http://www.un.org/docs/ecosoc> http://www.un.org/docs/ecosoc 

4-8 December 2006
ITU Telecom World
 <http://www.itu.int/WORLD2006> http://www.itu.int/WORLD2006

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000
E-mail:  <mailto:wsis at ngocongo.org> wsis at ngocongo.org
Website:  <BLOCKED::http://www.ngocongo.org> www.ngocongo.org 

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