[WSIS CS-Plenary] Open consultations on Financial Mechanisms for Meeting the Challenges of ICT for Development, Geneva PALEXPO, 8-9 October 2009

[Charles Geiger]

(Sorry for possible cross-posting)

Dear colleagues and friends

I have the pleasure to inform you that the the United Nations Group on the 
Information Society (UNGIS) will hold Open Consultations on Financial 
Mechanisms for Meeting the Challenges of ICT for Development, to be held 
on 8-9 October 2009, in Geneva, Switzerland. This meeting is organized 
jointly by UNGIS chair and co-chairs, i.e. ITU, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNDP, 
UNECA and hosted by the ITU.   

Pursuant to ECOSOC resolution 2008/3 which called for UNGIS to organise 
this consultations, the meeting will provide an opportunity for an 
interactive multi-stakeholder dialogue on matters related to the 
implementation of part B of the Tunis Agenda, i.e. Financial Mechanisms 
for Meeting the Challenges of ICT for Development. The meeting will be 
open to representatives from government and international organizations as 
well as from civil society and the private sector. No accreditation is 
needed (similar to the meetings during the WSIS Forum week)

More information is available at the the following webpage of UNGIS:   
http://www.ungis.org/Default.aspx?tabid=621  .  This webpage carries also 
a link for registration and to the invitation letter.  Registration is 
free of cost.  Be reminded that the meeting takes place at PALEXPO (the 
Geneva Exposition Center near the Airport, where the WSIS Geneva Summit 
took place in 2003), during the last two days of the ITU TELECOM World (5 
to 9 October 2009, see http://www.itu.int/WORLD2009/ ). 

There is no need to be registered for TELECOM World to participate in the 
Open Consultations. But as both events are taking place at the same 
premises, you  will need a badge to enter PALEXPO, therefore please 
register through the link on the UNGIS website mentioned above. ITU may 
offer participants at the UNGIS Open Consultations the possibility to 
visit the Telecom World Exhibition at a reduced rate or free of cost. The 
decision on reduced rates or free access to the exhibition is still 
pending, and we shall inform you (through this mailing list)  as soon as 
ITU has taken a decision. 

With best regards

Charles Geiger 
Special Adviser to the CSTD






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