Friday, 18 May 2007, 10:00 - 13:00 - ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland

An informal consultation between ITU and civil society on the participation of all relevant stakeholders took place at ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday May 18 2007. The meeting was opened by Dr Hamadoun TOURE, Secretary-General of ITU and Ms. Renate BLOEM, CONGO President, and it was chaired by Mr Thomas Schneider, BAKOM, Switzerland. 

This meeting was undertaken as part of the cluster of WSIS-related meetings in Geneva from 14-25 May 2007.

Meeting documents

• Invitation
• Draft Agenda

• Draft Summary of Discussion and Outcomes New!

Official Contributions

• Opening Remarks by Ms. Renate BLOEM, CONGO President
   
• Submitted documents:
  
  - Civil Society and the ITU by Max Cadet, Head, External Affairs Unit and Tim Kelly, Head, Strategy and Policy Unit, International Telecommunication Union
  - Opening the Door to Civil Society Participation in the ITU by William Drake, Director, Project on the Information Revolution and Global Governance, Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
  - APC Input to the Informal Consultation between ITU and Civil Society on the Participation of all Relevant Stakeholders by Willie Currie, Communications and Information Policy Programme Manager, Association for Progressive Communications
  - Contribution from Louis Pouzin, Director of project, EUROLINC, Chairman, NLIC (Native Language Internet Consortium)

Background documents

Relevant Resolutions

• Resolution 141: Study on the participation of all relevant stakeholders in the activities of the Union related to the World Summit on the Information Society

Other Related Resolutions

• Resolution 14 : Recognition of the rights and obligations of all Sector Members of the Union
• Resolution 140 : ITU's role in implementing the outcomes of WSIS
• Resolution 145 : Participation of observers in conferences, assemblies and meetings of the Union

Basic Texts of ITU

• Basic Texts of ITU
      - ITU Constitution
      - ITU Convention
• Final  Acts  of  the  Plenipotentiary  Conference (PP-06)

ITU Work on WSIS

• Council Working Group on WSIS
• Council Working Group on WSIS: ITU Reform Meeting
• Council Working Group on Resolution 141 (WG-Study)
• Other ITU Activities Related to WSIS

Documents & Resources on Civil Society

This page includes background material relevant to the study on the participation of all relevant stakeholders in the activities of the Union related to the WSIS. Included in this material are older versions of the study. To explore this page, please click  here.

Selected Links (A-Z):

• CONGO - NGO Participation Arrangements at the UN and in Other Agencies of the UN System
• The United Nations - We the Peoples: Civil Society, the United Nations and Global Governance
• The United Nations Joint Inspection Unit - Report on the Involvement of non-NGO Civil Society Organizations in the United Nations System