[MLB-WIRELESS] World Summit on Information Society

[Clae]

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>   Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 18:10:56 +1000
>    From: Larry Stillman <larrys at vicnet.net.au>
>Subject: WSIS consultations -- please confirm attendance to me!
>
>Please don't call the conference centre to confirm your attendance. Please
>email me.
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>
>    Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 18:05:07 +1000
>    From: Larry Stillman <larrys at vicnet.net.au>
>Subject: Invitation to participate in World Summit on the 
>Information Society Consultations
>
>Dear colleague
>
>You are invited to participate in consultations in Melbourne to develop an
>Australian civil society society statement for the World Summit on the
>Information Society.
>
>The World Summit on the Information Society is a UN summit on the
>information age.  Its two major meetings are taking place in December of
>this year in Geneva and in Tunisia in 2005 (see www.itu.int/wsis/ ). In
>UN-speak, the  statement is on behalf of ''civil society', in contrast to
>the government and business sectors which have their own inputs to the
>Summit.  More information about the Australian process towards a statement
>can be found at www.ccnr.net/wsis/.  The draft statement on which we are
>working can be found on the website.
>
>A meeting was held in Canberra earlier this year, and you are invited to
>participate in the Melbourne meeting. Please let me know if you wish to
>attend, and forward this invitation to interested colleagues.  If you
>cannot attend, but would like to forward comments on the basis of the draft
>statement, please do so.
>
>When: Friday, 17 October, 2003 2-6pm
>
>Where: Monash Conference Centre, Seminar Room 1.  Level 7, 30 Collins
>Street Melbourne,  in between Spring and Exhibition Streets.  For further
>information,
>see  http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/mpm/conference/intro/mcc/location.html.
>phone -- 9903 8000. Space is limited so you must confirm your attendance
>
>Refreshments will be served.
>
>Agenda:
>
>2 pm Welcome/chair Don Schauder, CCNR, Monash
>
>2.15 - 2.45.    Report on Prepcom 3 (Preparatory Commitee for WSIS),
>Geneva, September 2003 and processes - Graeme Johanson, CCNR
>
>2.45-3pm        For your information: Current government perspective on
>WSIS and the Prepcom (Peter Huta, National Office for the Information Economy)
>
>3pm.    Working session on the draft statement (attached). Given the
>frequent changes in WSIS action plans and principles, please refer to
>www.itu.int/wsis for updates.
>
>Afternoon tea ~ 4.30pm.
>
>4.45            Next steps and further consultations
>
>5.pm-6.15pm     Guest speaker /function with E-community Networking
>Association Inc.
>
>
>
>
>**********************
>Larry Stillman
>Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University
>www.ccnr.net larrys at vicnet.net.au
>03 9903 1801 fax 9903 2564 
>

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