[WSIS CS-Plenary] Next WSIS implementation and follow-up meetings - Action Line Facilitation and CSTD

Wed Oct 11 19:31:47 BST 2006

Dear all, 

After a pretty busy 2nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, please find
below some information regarding up-coming events related to WSIS follow up
and implementation:

-          Action Line Facilitation meetings organised by UNESCO in October
2006;

-          CSTD Expert Panel - 6-8 November 2006;

-          Cluster of WSIS related meetings - 15-25 May 2007;

Action Line Facilitation meetings convened by UNESCO - 16-22 October 2006,
Paris and Beijing

16 October 2006
Consultation meeting on action line C-3 "Access to Information and
Knowledge" (Room IV, UNESCO HQ, Paris, France)

<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22546&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT
ION=201.html> More information - Invitation letter (
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22558/11527153631Invitation_letter-Par
is.pdf/Invitation%2Bletter-Paris.pdf> English -
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22558/11527153633Lettre_d'invitation-P
aris.pdf/Lettre%2Bd'invitation-Paris.pdf> French)

17 October 2006
Consultation meeting on action line C-10 "Ethical Dimension of the
Information Society" (Room IV, UNESCO HQ, Paris, France)

<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22547&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT
ION=201.html> More information - Invitation letter (
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22558/11527153631Invitation_letter-Par
is.pdf/Invitation%2Bletter-Paris.pdf> English -
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22558/11527153633Lettre_d'invitation-P
aris.pdf/Lettre%2Bd'invitation-Paris.pdf> French)

18 October 2006
Consultation meeting on action line C-7e "E-Learning" (Room IV, UNESCO HQ,
Paris, France)

<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22548&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT
ION=201.html> More information - Invitation letter (
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22558/11527153631Invitation_letter-Par
is.pdf/Invitation%2Bletter-Paris.pdf> English -
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22558/11527153633Lettre_d'invitation-P
aris.pdf/Lettre%2Bd'invitation-Paris.pdf> French)

19 October 2006
Consultation meeting on action line C-9 "Media" (Room IV, UNESCO HQ, Paris,
France)

<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22549&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT
ION=201.html> More information - Invitation letter (
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22558/11527153631Invitation_letter-Par
is.pdf/Invitation%2Bletter-Paris.pdf> English -
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22558/11527153633Lettre_d'invitation-P
aris.pdf/Lettre%2Bd'invitation-Paris.pdf> French)

22 October 2006
Consultation meeting on action line C-7 "E-science" (Huarun Hotel, Beijing,
China)

<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22550&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT
ION=201.html> More information -
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22673&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT
ION=201.html> Invitation letter 

Further information, including documentation of the meetings, agendas and on
line registrations are available on the UNESCO website.

In addition, note that a regularly up-dated calendar of WSIS related event
is available at: http://www.csbureau.org/posttunis.htm 

CSTD Expert Panel - 6-8 November 2006, Paris (UNESCO Headquarters)

The annual inter-session panel convened by the CSTD Secretariat will be held
in Paris on the theme "Promoting the building of a people-centred,
development-oriented and inclusive information society, with a view to
enhancing digital opportunities for all people". 

More information is available on the UNCTAD
<http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=2068&lang=1&m=12233&y
ear=2006&month=11>  website. 

Participation is open to NGOs in Consultative Status with ECOSOC. To
register, representatives of NGOs in Consultative Status with ECOSOC have to
send an e-mail indicating their interest to mongi.hamdi at unctad.org or
stdev at unctad.org. 

Findings and recommendations to emerge from this Panel will be considered by
the Commission at its tenth session in May 2007.

Cluster of WSIS related events - 15-25 May 2007

As initiated this year around the 9th CSTD session, international
organisations, in charge of facilitating implementation at the international
level, are exploring ways to organise a cluster of WSIS Action Line
Facilitation meetings in conjunction with the up coming celebration of the
World Information Society Day (17 May 2007) and of the 10th session of the
CSTD (21-25 May 2006). 

A provisional timetable of this cluster of meetings between 15 and 25 May
2007 is available here
<http://www.csbureau.org/Time%20table%20IS%20week%202007.doc>  and will be
regularly up-dated.

More information will come later.

Best regards, 

Philippe Dam

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
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Fax: +41 22 301 2000
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