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                                                                        Outcomes by UNGA</h1>
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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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relevant stakeholders, including                                                                        civil society, private sector
and academia,                                                                   from the following five categories:</p>
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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">
here</a>.</p>
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                                                                        York time on 11 September 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">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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                                                                        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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