Civil Society Orientation Session

PREPARATORY MEETING

(PREPCOM 3 OF THE TUNIS PHASE OF WSIS)

Room C, ITU Building, Geneva 18 September 2005

This orientation session is designed to give all participants the necessary background information on the WSIS Phase two processes thus far to ensure effective participation at PrepCom3. It is open to everyone: government delegations, private sector, civil society and international organizations.

Program of Activities

Time:                                  Event:

10:00 – 10:10                   Welcome and Introduction

•  Renate Bloem (President, CONGO)

10:10 – 11:15                   WSIS PrepCom3: Actors, Process and Structures

•  Ambassador Janis Karklins (President of PrepCom)

•  Ambassador Masood Khan, Pakistan (Chair-designate of   Sub-Committee A)

•  Mrs Lyndall Shope-Mafole, Minister of Communication, South Africa (Chair-designate of   Sub-Committee B) tbc

•  Charles Geiger (Executive Director WSIS Executive Secretariat)

•  Moncef   Achour (Civil Society, WSIS Executive Secretariat)

11:15 – 11:30                Coffee break for Networking

11:30 – 12:15                   Presentation of State of Art for the Tunis Summit

•  Secretary- General of World Summit on the Information Society Organizing Committee (COWSIS), Mr Mohamed Hajtaïeb

12:15 – 13:00                  Civil Society at WSIS

•  CSB Secretariat: Renate Bloem, Viola Krebs

•  Methods of Work: Ramin Kaweh, Rik Panganiban

•  Content and Themes Group: Tracey Naughton , Karen Banks

•  Youth: Titi Akinsanmi

•  Cities and Local Authorities Summit: Josu Ocariz, Leandro Ardanza

•  WSIS Online: Bertrand de la Chapelle

13:00 – 14:00                   Lunch for Networking

14:00 – 16:30                   Internet Governance

•  WG/Caucus on IG

1  What is Internet governance:

a) Short overview how the prevailing ideas in Internet Governance have been changing over the past 10 years.

b) Origins in WSIS context.

c) How the Internet works, introduction to net architecture.

d) ICANN, what it does, the DNS.

e) Broader issues (spam, interconnection, capacity building, etc.)

2      WGIG report explained.

3       Issues for the PrepCom:

a) Overview of Sub-Committee A's agenda

b) Civil society contributions to prepcom3

16:30 – 1645                    Coffee Break

16:45 – 18:00                  Civil Society Bureau

Break out for other Caucuses and WGs   

Please return the registration form in English or French to wsis@ngocongo.org or via fax to +41-22-301-2000.