WSIS Civil Society Working Group

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Latest News

24-30 May 2008 Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) eleventh session ( Geneva )

23 May 2008 2008 Stakeholder Consultation on Public Participation in Internet Governance ( UNECE / APC )
21 May 2008 Deadline for submission of candidates to the MAG
14-15 May 2008 MAG meeting ( Geneva closed ) MAG Summary Report - PDF file
13 May 2008 IGF Open Consultations ( Geneva open ) Transcripts - Video - morning - Video - afternoon
12-23 May 2008 Cluster of WSIS-related events ( Geneva )

30 April 2008 Call for Workshops in Hyderabad ( deadline )

26 March 2008 Draft Outline program - PDF file

27-28 February 2008 MAG meeting (closed) - MAG Summary Report - PDF file

26 February 2008 IGF Open consultations ( Geneva )

06 - 08 February 2008 Thirteenth Meeting of the Telecommunication Development Advisory Group (TDAG) ( ITU, Geneva )

25-28 January 2008 ITU Council Working Group - WSIS meeting ( ITU, Geneva, Switzerland )

12 - 15 November 2007 : Second IGF meeting 2007 ( Rio de Janeiro, Brazil )

29 Octobre 2007 : Opening of the online signature xampaign in support of the Open Letter to the UN Secretary General.

23 October 2007 : Open Letter to the UN Secretary General PDF file - ISO odt 22 September 2007 Proposals for speakers in the main IGF sessions in Rio.

13-14 September 2007 . Participation of some group members to the meeting Ethics and Human Rights in Information Society in Strasbourg ( France ). Proposal announcement of a European Internet Governance Forum by Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, head of the Forum des droits sur l'internet ( more on the Strasbourg meeting later )

12 September 2007. Opening of discussions on the mailing list.

03 September 2007. The formal announcement ( speech ) of the group formation was made by its founding president : Louis Pouzin, during the IGF Open Consultations on Monday 3 September 2007, at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva.

Within the overall framework of the implementation of the recommendations of the World Summit on the Information Society, it appears that political and ethical standards demand the formation of a Civil Society working group. The "Civil Society" must be clarified as a group of people sharing such core values as openness, transparency, public interest, diversity, inclusion and a sincere concern for sustainable development, in bridging the digital divide. "Civil Society" shall not be defined “subtractively” as a group of people who neither belong to the government nor business sectors. In this view, "Civil Society" must be differentiated from the "Internet Community", which is increasingly dominated by the technico-industrial complex that manages critical internet resources.
The working group is going to deal with all governance issues related to all information networks, which include not only Internet Governance, but also governance of Telecommunication networks and especially Next Generation Networks. This site Wsis-Gov.org is now the site of the WSIS Civil Society Working Group on Information Networks Governance. Registration to the mailing list is open to anyone, from any constituency.

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