[WSIS CS-Plenary] UN News: UN task force reviews adequacy of global funding for information technologies

[djilali benamrane]

Dear Anriette,
We are discussing this item in our CS
http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/wsis-finance/
Rapidely we ar going to do comments on the Issues
paper discussed by the UN TF-FM, on 4 th October in NY
and do proposals reflecting the CS views on the
matter.
I am sending a message to Karen so she can register
our List among CS List working fir the WSIS Second
phase.
All the best
Djilali
Chère Anriette,
Nous discuttons de cela sur la liste de la société
civile traitant du sujet :
http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/wsis-finance/
Trés rapidement nous allons commencer à réagir au
document de position discuté à NY par la UN TF-FM, le
4 Octobre et ferons les commentaires et propositions
reflétant la point de vue de la Société civile.
J'envoie un message à Karen afin qu'elle puisse nous
inscrire parmi les listes du SMSI, nous n'y figurons
pas encore.
Amitiés
Djilali

--- Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:

> Hallo all
> 
> Willie Currie from the APC attended this meeting. 
> We will post a
> report from him as soon as we can.
> 
> Also, for the record, APC, communicated to UNSP that
> we felt it
> was essential that this process is inclusive and
> transparent both
> before and during the meeting.
> 
> A further meeting will take place in November by
> which time we
> sincerely hope the process would have been
> clarified.
> 
> Best
> 
> Anriette Esterhuysen, APC
> 
> 
> > I hope we also get reports from the outcomes of
> the meeting.
> > Did anybody here attend or knows more?
> >
> > Ralf
> >
> > -------------------------------
> >
> >
>
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12119&Cr=information&Cr1=
> > technology
> >
> > UN News Service
> >
> > UN task force reviews adequacy of global funding
> for information
> > technologies
> >
> > 4 October 2004 – A United Nations task force today
> began examining the
> > adequacy of funding worldwide for information and
> communication
> > technologies (ICT), particularly in developing
> countries.
> >
> > Chaired by the Administrator of the UN Development
> Programme, Mark
> > Malloch Brown, the Task Force on Financial
> Mechanisms was born out of
> > the first phase of the World Summit on the
> Information Society (WSIS)
> > last December in Geneva.
> >
> > At the event, financing of ICT for development was
> one of two key
> > issues left unresolved, the other relating to
> Internet governance.
> > President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal had proposed
> the creation of a
> > Digital Solidarity Fund to bolster ICT in
> developing countries, while
> > numerous western countries favoured using existing
> funding mechanisms
> > instead.
> >
> > The task force was set up to probe the matter
> further with a view to
> > making a recommendation to the Summit's second
> phase, to be held from
> > 16 to 19 November 2005 in Tunis, Tunisia.
> >
> > Consultations during the two-day meeting in New
> York will involve
> > representatives from the private sector, civil
> society, regional banks
> > and commissions as well as individual experts.
> Inputs will also be
> > mobilized through virtual discussions on
> WSIS-online.
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
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> 
> 
>
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> Anriette Esterhuysen, Executive Director
> Association for Progressive Communications
> anriette at apc.org
> http://www.apc.org
> PO Box 29755, Melville, South Africa. 2109
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