<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear all,<br><br></div>For those of you who hadn't seen this message yet: registration for the second informal interactive stakeholder consultation on the WSIS+10 has now begun, and will close on 11 September. More info can be found below.<br><br></div>Best regards,<br></div>Anja<br><br><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">WSIS Team</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wsis-info@itu.int" target="_blank">wsis-info@itu.int</a>></span><br>Date: 18 August 2015 at 04:35<br>Subject: WSIS Flash Special Issue - WSIS+10 UNGA Overall Review - Registration for the Second WSIS+10 Informal Interactive Stakeholder Consultations<br>To: Anja Kovacs <<a href="mailto:anja@internetdemocracy.in" target="_blank">anja@internetdemocracy.in</a>><br><br><br><div>
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Stakeholder Consultations</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0;margin:0;font-family:Calibri,Candara,Segoe,'Segoe UI',Optima,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" align="justify">The President of the General Assembly will
convene a second informal interactive WSIS stakeholder
consultations with all relevant stakeholders on <b>19
October 2015</b>.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0;margin:0;font-family:Calibri,Candara,Segoe,'Segoe UI',Optima,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" align="justify"><b>Registration is now open</b> for all
relevant stakeholders, including civil society, private sector
and academia, from the following five categories:</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0 0 0 10px;margin:0;font-family:Calibri,Candara,Segoe,'Segoe UI',Optima,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" align="justify">• Non-governmental
organizations in consultative status with the Economic and
Social Council<br> • Organizations accredited to the World
Summit on the Information Society held in Geneva (2003)
and Tunis (2005)<br> • Organizations accredited to the WSIS Forum
held from 2011 to 2015<br> • Organizations with observer
status with the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development<br> • Attendees of the UNESCO WSIS+10 - ICT4D
Conference or the UNESCO WSIS - Connecting the Dots
Conference</p>
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please click <a href="https://www.itu.int/ITU-D/hcb/newsletter/link.php?M=39366&N=251&L=829&F=H" target="_blank">
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<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0;margin:0;font-family:Calibri,Candara,Segoe,'Segoe UI',Optima,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" align="justify">The General Assembly, in its resolution
68/302 on the modalities for the overall review by the
Assembly of the implementation of the outcomes of the World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), decided that
that the overall review will be concluded by a two-day
high-level meeting of the Assembly, to be preceded by an
intergovernmental preparatory process that also takes
into account inputs from all relevant stakeholders of the World
Summit on the Information Society.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;padding:0;margin:0;font-family:Calibri,Candara,Segoe,'Segoe UI',Optima,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" align="justify">The General Assembly also decided that
during the preparatory process for the high-level
meeting, the President of the Assembly will organize informal
interactive consultations with all relevant stakeholders
of the World Summit on the Information Society, in
order to collect their inputs for the intergovernmental
negotiation process.</p>
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General Assembly's overall review of the implementation of WSIS
outcomes, please visit: <a href="https://www.itu.int/ITU-D/hcb/newsletter/link.php?M=39366&N=251&L=782&F=H" target="_blank">
unpan3.un.org/wsis10/</a></p>
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