[governance] WSIS Forum 2016 underway in Geneva – remote participation details

Tue May 3 06:04:56 EDT 2016

http://www.unite-it.eu/profiles/blogs/acsis-and-gdco-african-civil-society-start-wsis-2016-very-strong

Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Eisa  <ahmed22digital at gmail.com>
+249123031155 Sudani
+249912331155 Zain
 Gedaref digital city organization <http://gedaref.com/>(GDCO) is a
nongovernmental and nonprofit organization (Gedaref Sudan), it is part of
the Telecentres movement <http://community.telecentre.org/profile/AHMED>
where ICT is used for community development. .
<http://www.unite-it.eu/profiles/blog/list?user=21w449uixv4i>GDCO is the winner
of seven (7)information
<http://www.unite-it.eu/profiles/blogs/gdco-sudan-winner-of-seven-iformation-for-development-awards>
for development awards.  It the founder of the firstTelecentre academy in
Africa and middle east and the thirteen in world ..GDCO is founded in
partnership with the Digital City of Eindhoven (DSE) Netherlands and
supported by Eindhoven volunteers for gedaref projects (SPEG )

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> A LOT of great sessions at this. I already attended a comprehensive one on
> accessibility this morning. It's not clear if archives will be available.
> In previous years only highlights and side interviews have been posted on
> their YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/user/WSISProcess/videos>, and none
> since 2013! Hopefully they've turned over a new leaf, but one shouldn't
> depend on it.  Markus Kummer has sent word there'll be an *IGFSA info
> session* <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/Agenda/Session/227> on
> Friday at 11:00 CEST = 09:00 UTC, 5am in NYC.
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> joly posted: "This week May 2–6 2016 ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP host the
> World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2016 in Geneva,
> Switzerland. The WSIS Forum serves the UN as a mechanism for coordination
> of multi-stakeholder implementation activities, inf"
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> [image: WSIS]This week *May 2–6 2016 ITU <https://www.itu.int>*, *UNESCO
> <https://en.unesco.org/>*, *UNCTAD <http://unctad.org/>* and *UNDP
> <http://www.undp.org/>* host the *World Summit on the Information Society
> (WSIS) Forum 2016 <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/> *in Geneva,
> Switzerland. The WSIS Forum serves the UN as a mechanism for coordination
> of multi-stakeholder implementation activities, information exchange,
> creation of knowledge, sharing of best practices and continues to provide
> assistance in developing multi-stakeholder and public/private partnerships
> to advance development goal, building on the *UN General Assembly Overall
> Review of the implementation of the WSIS outcomes
> <https://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/125>* which
> recognized the necessity of holding this Forum on an annual basis, and
> called for a close alignment between WSIS and the *Sustainable
> Development Goals* *(SDG)*
> <https://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/1>
> processes. Ambassador *Daniel A. Sepulveda* (USA) will serve as Chairman
> Designate of the WSIS Forum 2016 High-Level Track. The Policy Sessions will
> be moderated by *High-Level Track Facilitators
> <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/About/Chairman>* (HLTF)
> nominated and identified by Civil Society, Private Sector, Technical
> Community and Academia stakeholders. Remote participation is available
> through both *Adobe Connect
> <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/Media/RP/AdobeConnect>* and live
> *webcast*
> <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/Media/RP/Webcast/Live/>. Geneva
> time is CEST, 6 hours ahead of NYC.
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> *What: WSIS Forum 2016 <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/>*
> * Where: ITU Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland*
> * When: May 2–6 2016*
> * Program: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/Agenda/
> <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/Agenda/>*
> * Webcast: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/Media/RP/Webcast/Live/
> <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/Media/RP/Webcast/Live/>*
> * Adobe Connect:
> https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/Media/RP/AdobeConnect
> <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/Media/RP/AdobeConnect>*
> * Twitter: #wsis https://twitter.com/hashtag/WSIS
> <https://twitter.com/hashtag/WSIS> | #wsis2016
> https://twitter.com/hashtag/wsis2016 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/wsis2016>*
> * Facebook: https://facebook.com/hashtag/WSIS
> <https://facebook.com/hashtag/WSIS>| #wsis2016
> https://facebook.com/hashtag/wsis2016
> <https://facebook.com/hashtag/wsis2016>*
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