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 PREPCOM-3 : ANNOUNCED PARALLEL AND SIDE EVENTS
 

Note: Parallel and side events are not official part of PrepCom-3.


 Parallel Events
 

Sunday, 18 September 2005

10.00 – 13.00 and 15.00 – 18.00 hours, ITU building, room C, “Civil Society Orientation Session


Monday, 19 September 2005

13.00 – 15.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, “Children and Telecoms” (part 1), organized by Child Helpline International

14.00 – 15.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room IX, presentation of the World Summit Award, organized by the International Center for New Media


Tuesday, 20 September 2005

13.00 – 15.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, “WSIS and e-child protection”, organized by ECPAT

13.15 – 14.45 hours, Palais des Nations, room XVI, book launch “ The WSIS moving from the Past in to the Future”, edited by Ambassador D. Stauffacher and Professor Kleinwächter. The event is organized by the Swiss Executive Secretariat for the WSIS.

14.00 – 15.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room IX, “IP Adressing and the RIR System”, organized by Number Resource Organization (NRO)


Wednesday, 21 September 2005

10.00 – 12.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, “Knowledge Transfer for Development”, organized by Bangladesh Friendship Education Society

12.00 – 14.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, “Children and Telecoms (Part 2)”, organized by Child Helpline International

13.00 – 15.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room IX, “Creation and promotion of a culture of peace - the role of the information society”, organized by Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University

13.00 – 15.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XVI, “The Internet Governance Forum Function”, organized by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, with William Drake, Milton Mueller, Peng Hwa Ang, Avri Doria, and others.

14.00 – 16.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, “Information Society and Sustainable Development: Next Generation Policy Intersections”, organized by International Institute for Sustainable Development

15.00 – 17.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXIII, “Cities and local authorities in the Information Society”, organized by Association Mondiale des Régions pour la Société de l’Information (AMRSI)

16.00 – 18.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, « Rôle de la société civile dans l’édification de la Société de l’Information », organized by the Association tunisienne de la communication (ATUCOM)


Thursday, 22 September 2005

10.00 – 12.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, « Femmes et média », organized by the Association Tunisienne des Femmes Démocrates

13.30 – 14.45 hours, Palais des Nations, room IX, "Developing a Digital Opportunity Index (DOI)”, organized by International Telecommunication Union

14.00 – 18.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, « Human Rights in the Information Society: Where are we ? “, organized by IRIS (CS Human Rights Caucus)


Friday, 23 September 2005

10.00 – 13.00 and 15.00 – 18.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, “Droits de l’enfant & TIC, quelles possibilités ? », organized by OCAPROCE International

13.00 – 15.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XVI, “W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium, Multilinguism and Accessibility », organized by World Wide Web Consortium

13.00 – 15.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, Report on the Millennium Summit+5 (part 1), organized by the Conference of NGOs (CONGO)

13.00 – 14.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXIII, Presentation of the ICT4Peace Report by Ambassador Stauffacher, Mr. William Drake, Mr. Paul Currion and Ms. Julia Steinberger. The event is organized by the Swiss Executive Secretariat for the WSIS.

15.00 – 18.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXIII, “Internet Governance and Gender Panel Discussion”, organized by APC-NSP/FENMET/WSIS Gender Caucus


Monday, 26 September 2005

10.00 – 14.00 hours, Palais des Nations room XXIII, “Towards a platform for Media Reforms in the Arab States”, organized by the Arab NGO Network for Development

11.00 – 12.00 hours, Palais des Nations room IX, “Presentation of the project DEPRANET’”, organized by OILD (Organisation internationale de Lutte contre la Drépanocytose

13.15 – 14.45 hours, 13.00 – 15.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room IX, "Workshop on Country Code Top Level domains", organized by Country Code Names Supporting Organization/ICANN

13.00 – 15.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, “Poverty knowledge – a development communication project”, organized by Cooperativa Tecnico Scientifica di Base (COBASE)

15.00 – 17.00 hours, ITU, room XXIII, “Freedom of Expression and the Information Society», organized by World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters


Tuesday, 27 September 2005

13.00 – 14.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXIII, "Le Financement de la Société de l'Information - Présentation du Fonds de Solidarité Numérique", organized by the Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF)

13.00 – 14.30 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, “WSIS in the context of the ICTs global governance processes», organized by Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM)

14.30 – 15.30 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, “Grassroots voices – Film Screening”, organized by One World International Foundation

16.00 – 18.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, “Cities and local authorities in the Information Society”, organized by Association Mondiale des Régions pour la Société de l’Information (AMRSI)


Wednesday, 28 September 2005

13.00 – 15.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XVI, “The Internet Governance Oversight Function”, organized by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, with William Drake, Carlos Afonso, Raul Echeberria, Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Izumi Aizu, and others.

15.00 – 16.30 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXIII, “Redefining ICTs: the grassroots perspective”, organized by One World International Foundation

16.00 – 18.00 hours, Palais des Nations, room XXII, Communication Rights and a Rights based approach, organized by the Lutheran World Federation


Friday, 30 September 2005

13.00 – 14.00 hours, Palais des Nations room IX, “Presentation of the project DEPRANET’”, organized by OILD (Organisation internationale de Lutte contre la Drépanocytose

 

 Side Events
 

Side events are WSIS related events taking place outside the PrepCom-3 premises.

25-27 September 2005 International Workshop on African Research & Education Networking, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland) co-organized by CERN, ITU, and UNU.

 

 

 

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