WSIS+10 interactive consultations Thursday, 2 July in ECOSOC Chamber

We have received the following from NGLS

Dear Colleagues,

Please find here the programme for the 2 July informal interactive consultations with stakeholders on the review of implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), hosted by the President of the General Assembly in the ECOSOC Chamber at UN Headquarters in New York. The meeting will take place from 10:00am-1:00pm and 3:00-6:00pm. 

The meeting will be web cast live at http://webtv.un.org/

Background

These consultations are part of the preparatory process for the 15-16 December 2015 (Date TBC) UN General Assembly high-level meeting on WSIS+10, follow today's UN Member State preparatory meeting.

In December of 2003, the world came together in Geneva at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) to declare a “common desire and commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society,” and thereby ushered in an era of harnessing the power of information and communication technology (ICT) to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The resulting Geneva Plan of Action established targets and the eleven action lines, which guide development in specific areas. 

The second phase of WSIS, conducted in Tunis in 2005, built upon the achievements of the Geneva Plan, with the resulting Tunis Agenda addressing additional issues, such as financing and internet governance. Paragraph 111 of the Tunis Agenda requested the General Assembly to undertake the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society in 2015.  This review "will be concluded by a two-day high-level meeting of the General Assembly in December 2015, to be preceded by an intergovernmental process that also takes into account inputs from all relevant stakeholders of the World Summit on the Information Society," as specified in UN General Assembly Resolution 68/320. 

The web site for the WSIS+10 review is: http://unpan3.un.org/wsis10/

The preliminary roadmap for the WSIS+10 review is available here:

http://workspace.unpan.org/sites/Internet/Documents/WSIS review preliminary timeline_v5.pptx.pdf

Thank you and best regards,

UN-NGLS