Global Alliance - WSIS - Working Group - Scientific Information - Sciences

Global Alliance for ICT and Development

GAID Annual Meeting and Global Forum 2008 ( 18-20 May 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia )
CONGO contribution to the Report of the Report of the Secretary General on the activities of GAID ( including WSIS-Finance suggestions ) (25 July 2007)
CS Internal Process for Nomination for Renewal of membership in the GAID Strategy Council and Steering Committee ( end of November 2007 )

Renewal of membership in the GAID Strategy Council and Steering Committee

The Secretariat invites nominations for new candidatures for the Steering Committee for 2 governments, 1 civil society/not-for profit, 1 international organization and 1 media organization by 1 September 2007, and the Strategy Council for approximately 20 seats (1/3 of the membership of each stakeholder group) by 30 November 2007

	GAID Steering = Committee	GAID Strategy = Council
Deadline for outgoing members to express = their interest in a renewal of their terms	15 August 2007	1 October 2007
Deadline for new nominations for membership =	1 September 2007	30 November 2007
Date of the GAID structure with its renewed membership	19 September 2007 New = York	May 2008 Kuala = Lumpur

Panel discussion: "Information Society: New Perspectives for Post-WSIS Scenarios?" ( 05 July 2007, Geneva )
Business Plan Draft ( 28 Nov 2006 )
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES "NETWORK OF NETWORKS" TO SPREAD DIGITAL REVOLUTION ( 27 September 2006 )
Inaugural Meeting ( 19-20 June 2006, Kuala Lumpur )
Closed Mailing list of the civil society members of the Steering Committee, the Strategy Council and the High Panel of Advisors of the UN Global Alliance for ICTs and Development(UN GAID,
Public archives

Steering Committee

   1. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (Jordan/Egypt)
   2. Titi Akinsanmi Programme Manager, (Global Teenager Project)
   3. Craig Barrett - Chairman
   4. Renate Bloem (CONGO)
   5. Walter Fust (Switzerland)
   6. Jamaludin Jarjis (Malaysia)
   7. Luis Alberto Moreno (Inter-American Development Bank)
   8. Guy Sebban (International Chamber of Commerce)
   9. Carl-Henric Svanberg (Ericsson)
  10. Hamadoun Touré (ITU)
  11. Sha Zukang / Sarbuland Khan (ex officio)

Strategy Council

Civil Society

   1. Kamel Ayadi, President, World Fed. of Engineering Associations (Tunisia)
   2. Rodrigo Baggio, Executive Director, 
      Committee for Democracy in Information Technology (Brazil)
   3. Peter Bruck, President, World Summit Award (Austria)
   4. Astrid Dufborg, Executive Director, GeSCI
   5. Hiroshi Kawamura, Daisy Consortium, (Japan)
   6. Janet Longmore, President, Digital Opportunity Trust (Canada)
   7. Tracey Naughton, Media Caucus (S. Africa/Australia)
   8. AHM Bazlur Rahman, CEO, Bangladesh NGOs 
      Network for Radio and Communication
   9. Lynn St. Amour, President/CEO, Internet Society
  10. Lynn M. Wanyeki, Executive Director, FEMNET (Kenya)

CS Nomination Process ( 2006 )