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GSR 2023

Council Working Group and Expert Group meetings

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Schedule of Council Working Group and Experts Group meetings

At its Extraordinary session of 14 October 2022, the Council decided to postpone the appointment of Chairmen and Vice-chairmen of Council working groups (CWGs) and expert groups (EGs) to its ordinary session of Council 2023 (11 to 21 July 2023)​.

The CWGs and EGs currently shown below are related to the cycle between the two Plenipotentiary Conferences PP-18 and PP-22. The candidatures for the next cycle 2023-2026 are available here (the page will be updated regularly)​. The information for each group will be updated once the groups and candidates are confirmed, at Council 2023.

The spring cluster of CWGs 2023 was cancelled. The autumn cluster of CWGs and EGs will take place in Geneva, from 18 to 29 September 2023.

Events from the General Secretari​at can be seen here. ITU calendar of events is available here. Registered participants (only) can access to the virtual platform by clicking on "virtual restricted events" from this link. Circular letters/invitations are available here​, and the web page related to registration to the CWGs is to be found here.​

CWG-FHR - Financial and human resources


Chair: Ms Vernita Harris (United States)​​
Vice-Chairs 

Open to Member States and Sector Members of ITU
Website

CWG-Internet - International Internet-related public policy issues


Chair: Mr Majed Al Mazyed (Saudi Arabia)
Vice-Chairs 

Open to Member States of ITU
Website

CWG-WSIS&SDG


​Chair: Mr Vladimir Minkin (Russian Federation)
Vice-Chairs 

Open to Member States and Sector Members of ITU

Website

CWG-COP - Child online protection


Chair: Mr Abdelaziz Al Zarooni (United Arab Emirates)
Vice-Chairs 

Open to Member States and Sector Members of ITU​​​, and nominated experts
Website

CWG-LANG - Use of the six official languages of the Union


Chair: Ms Monia Jaber Khalfallah (Tunisia)
Vice-Chairs 

Open to Member States of ITU
Website

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CWG-SFP - Strategic & Financial Plans for 2024-2027


Chair: Mr Frederic Sauvage (France)
Vice-Chairs 

Open to Member States and, when addressing the draft Strategic Plan, also open to Sector Members
Web​site

EG-ITRs - Expert GRoup on ITRs


Chair
: Mr Lwando Bbuku (Zambia)
Vice-Chairs 

Open to Member States and Sector Members of ITU
Website



EG-DEC.482 - Council Expert Group on Decision 482


Chair: Mr Nikolay Varlamov (Russian Federation)
Vice-Chairs 

Open to Member States and Sector Members of ITU
Website


Informal EG on WTPF (IEG-WTPF-21)


​Chair: Mr Fabio Bigi (Italy)
 

Open to nominated experts
Website



Former Council Working Groups and Committees