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WSIS-II/PC-3/DOC/2-E
ANNEX A
ITU COUNCIL 2005 RESOLUTION 1244
ON ITU ROLE IN THE TUNIS PHASE OF WSIS AND
IN IMPLEMENTATION AND FOLLOW-UP
The Council,
recalling
a)
the commitment reached during the first phase in Geneva of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS), in the WSIS Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action, to realizing
a common vision of the information society for ourselves and future generations and to harness the
potential of ICTs to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration;
b)
Resolution 73 of the Plenipotentiary Conference (Minneapolis, 1998); Decision 8 and
Resolution 113 of the Plenipotentiary Conference (Marrakesh, 2002); Resolutions 56/183, 57/238
and 59/220 of the UN General Assembly on WSIS; Resolution 57/270 B of the UN General
Assembly on the implementation of and follow-up to major UN Summits; as well as Council
Resolutions 1158, 1179, 1196, 1214 and 1222;
c)
the decisions of the first two PrepComs of the Tunis Phase of WSIS and the Reports of the
Working Group on Internet Governance and of the Task Force on Financial Mechanisms,
established by the UN Secretary General;
d)
the results and proposals of WSIS regional and thematic meetings;
e)
that the WSIS preparations have been conducted through an inclusive multi-stakeholder
process,
encouraging
the administration of Tunisia in its preparations for the second Phase, to be held in Tunis on 16-18
November 2005,
recognizing
that the core competencies of ITU in the field of ICTs—assistance in bridging the digital divide,
international and regional cooperation, radio spectrum management, standards development and
the dissemination of information—are of crucial importance for building the Information Society, as
set out in paragraph 64 of the WSIS Declaration of Principles,
Part 1: ITU’s preparations for the Tunis phase of WSIS
resolves to instruct the Secretary-General
1.
to continue to participate actively in the WSIS preparatory process, including the Group of
Friends of the Chair (GFC) of WSIS, concerning ongoing discussions on implementation and
follow-up of WSIS through a multi-stakeholder process, including through close co-operation with
UNESCO (in line with Resolution 29 (Kyoto, 1994)) and other relevant UN agencies;
2.
to forward to the WSIS preparatory process all relevant materials, including the amended
report of the short-lived group on WTSA Resolution 46 and the reports of WSIS Thematic
Meetings organized, or co-organised, by ITU;
3.
to continue to contribute examples of ITU’s WSIS-related activities to the WSIS
stocktaking database;