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Intersessional Meeting
Paris (France) 15-18 July 2003


  • WSIS preparatory session event held at the Libre Software Meeting ( Metz, FRANCE, July 9-12 2003 ) by Frederic Couchet ( Chancellor of FSF France) and member of the WG-PCT advisory board to discuss recommendations related to Free Software.

  • Study of the recently released documents that contains among other things, the comments and amendments made by the states to our specific recommandations :

  • Reference documents : Compilation of contributions to the Draft Declaration of Principles and Draft Plan of Action :
    • WSIS/PCIP/DT/3 - Part I (Declaration of Principles), Section I - Governments' contributions
    • WSIS/PCIP/DT/3 - Part I (Declaration of Principles), Section II - Observers' contributions
    • WSIS/PCIP/DT/3 - Part II (Plan of Action), Section I - Governments' contributions
    • WSIS/PCIP/DT/3 - Part II (Plan of Action), Section II - Observers' contributions
  • Refined version (June 5th) incorporating government contributions received by established deadline
    • WSIS/PCIP/DT/4 Draft Declaration of Principles
    • WSIS/PCIP/DT/5 Draft Plan of Action
as well as :
  • Received contributions Intersessional Period PrepCom2 - PrepCom3
    A few links are indicated .
    • Governments.
    • International Organizations
      • CERN, UNESCO and ICSU (in cooperation with TWAS and ICTP): comments and inputs from the Scientific Community. WSIS/PC-3/C/0113
    • Accredited NGOs and Civil Society entities
      • MDPI, on behalf of the Thematic Working Group on Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks WSIS/PC-3/C/0124
      • International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and International Publishers Association (IPA) WSIS/PC-3/C/0027
  • ITU sector members and accredited business entities
  • Miscellaneous inputs (submitted by non-accredited entities)
    • Corrections of previous recommandations and preparation of new ones.
    • The working group did not have time to send inputs to the Civil Society Priorities Document ( 12 July version, 15 July version ) and subsequently to endorse it. What we feel is missing : references to "Open Source / Free Software" and "Open Access".





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