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

[Marianne Seger]

Hallo, dear all!
This note is just to let you know: I am still on the road.

I am taking part in the UNESCO-Action Line Facilitation meetings (16-19 October 2006), PARIS.

Greetings from desk to desk
MARIANNE
(Gender Caucus & European Caucus)

Marianne Seger
permanent NGO Representative of EURAG
at the U.N. New York & Geneva
Kohlenkamp 45
D-45468 Muelheim (Ruhr)
GERMANY
e-mail: maseger at t-online.de

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"CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam" <wsis at ngocongo.org> schrieb: 
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 (Room IV, UNESCO HQ, Paris, France)

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 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 and will be regularly up-dated.
More information will come later.

Best regards,  Philippe Dam  
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
11, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 301 1000
Fax: +41 22 301 2000