[WSIS CS-Plenary] "Our Common Humanity in the Information Age" - 29 Nov. 2006, NY

[CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam]

Dear all, 

 

UN DESA and the Secretariat of the Global Alliance for ICTs and Development
will organise on 29 November a one-day event on the theme: "Our Common
Humanity in the Information Age: Principles and Values for Development".

 

The scope of the meeting is, based on the UN Millennium Declaration and on
the wording of the outcome document of the 2005 World Summit, to promote a
dialogue among various categories of stakeholders to revive the spirit of
cooperation on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT)
for enhancing the achievement of internationally agreed development goals,
including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), notably reduction of
poverty. The dialogue will be organised around 4 sessions.

 

*	Webpage of the meeting <http://www.un-gaid.org/commonhumanity/> 
*	Concept
<http://www.un-gaid.org/commonhumanity/Concept%20Paper%20rev3.pdf>  paper
(Our Common Humanity in the Information Age)
*	Programme <http://www.un-gaid.org/commonhumanity/programme.html> 

 

Note as well that a blog has been set up for this meeting at
http://och-forum.blogspot.com/ to guide questions for the purpose of
stimulating debate and discussion on the theme of the meeting and is open to
guest contributors.

 

Since the meeting is public and open to all representatives of civil society
entities, please contact Mrs. Aleyi Celik at +(1-646) 369-2270 or at
celik at un.org in order to get an invitation and a access badge to the UN for
this meeting. 

 

Best regards, 

 

Philippe Dam

 

 

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
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