[governance] IGF Rio: Draft program and meeting schedule now available - 23 May Open Consultation

[Robin Gross]

A new draft program and meeting schedule for the Rio IGF meeting are now 
available on the IGF website.  See the details below and please provide 
feedback on the draft documents to the IGF.  And remember to register 
for the Open Consultation on 23 May at the UN in Geneva and make your 
written contribution by 17 May.

Thank you,
Robin

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*Preparing for the Second Meeting of the IGF *

[NEW] A draft programme outline 
<http://www.intgovforum.org/Rio_Meeting/DraftProgramme.30.04.2007.rtf> 
and meeting schedule 
<http://www.intgovforum.org/Draft_Rio_Schedual.html> for the Rio de 
Janeiro Meeting are available for comment.

The documents aim to provide an input into the open round of 
consultations on 23 May 2007 to discuss programme and agenda for the 
second meeting of the IGF in Rio de Janeiro.  The programme outline will 
be revised in light of comments received. Comments submitted to the IGF 
Secretariat ( igf at unog.ch <mailto:igf at unog.ch>) or posted in our online 
discussion section <http://intgovforum.org/forum/index.php?board=13.0> 
by 17 May 2007 will be reflected in a revised version.

Open Consultations

The second round of consultations will be part of a cluster of WSIS 
related events <http://www.itu.int/wsis/follow-up/index.html> which will 
take place in Geneva from 15-25 May, 2007. All entities involved agreed 
to pool resources to smooth the logistics and the ITU offered to take 
care of registration. All stakeholders interested in attending are 
invited to register online 
<http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/edrs/ITU-SG/edrs15/edrs.registration.form> 
now.

The meeting will be held at the ITU Tower, Room C. There will be 
interpretation into all six UN languages and real-time transcription.

*Contributions:* Stakeholders are invited to send in contributions, as 
an input into these consultations to : igf at unog.ch <mailto:igf at unog.ch> 
or post their comments in our online discussion section 
<http://intgovforum.org/forum/index.php?board=13.0>. Contributions and 
discussion posts received by 14 May, 2007 will be reflected in a 
synthesis paper summarizing the input received. The paper will be made 
available on this Web site prior to the consultations.

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