Follow-Up 2006 WSIS SI UN - WSIS

`WSIS Implementation & Follow-Up January 2006 - December 2006`

Principles and elements of a Global Alliance for ICT and Development - Comments ( 4 January 2006 )
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (07-10 January, Las Vegas, NV, USA)
The First International Conference on Communication Systems Software and Middleware ( January 8 - 12 2006, New Delhi, India )
AUTRANS 2006 ( 12 au 14 Janvier 2006. Autrans, France )
P2P génération 2016: ... si le P2P a passé l'hiver 2006 ? ( 13 Janvier 2006. Autrans, France )
Les Voeux de l'Internet 2006 ( Troisième edition des Voeux de l'Internet, 13 Janvier. Autrans, France )
First International Conference on GPLv3 ( January 16th & 17th, Boston, USA )
Polycentric World Social Forum 2006
- WSF Africa ( January 19-23 2006, Bamako, Mali )
- WSF Americas and 2nd Americas Social Forum ( January 24-29 2006, Caracas, Venezuela )
- WSF Asia (March 2006, Karachi, Pakistan )
Role of ICTs in the Evolution of Security Policies in Europe Seminar. (January 27, 2006, Paris )
World Economic Forum The Creative Imperative ( 25-29 January, Davos, Switzerland )
Conference on the Future Digital Economy: Digital Content Creation, Distribution and Access (30-31 January 2006, Rome, Italy)
La Promotion de l'accès et le renforcement de Capacités pour les Ressources de l'Information Scientifique et les Infrastructures TIC dans les pays en voie de Développement - International Workshop on Promoting Access and Capacity Building for Scientific Information Resources and ICT Infrastructure in Developing Countries ( 30-31 janvier 2006, Dakar, Senegal )
Information meeting with George Papadatos, Tunis Summit Rapporteur, on the preparations for the official launch of the Internet Governance Forum to be held later in the year in Athens/Greece. ( Tuesday, 31 January, 15:00-18:00, European Commission, 66, Rue du Grand Pré, Geneva postponed until mid-February )
ITU Reform Forums ( Deadline 30 January 2006 )
Solutions Linux ( 31 janvier - 2 février 2006, Paris, France )
Ninth meeting of the ITU Council WG on WSIS ITU Headquarters ( Geneva, 2-3 February 2006 )
OECD - OER advisory group meeting ( 6 - 7 February, Malmoe, Sweden )
Internet Governance: The Way Forward ( Malta, February 10-12, 2006 )
Deadline : 15 February 2006 : Call for Papers & Writing Competition - Yale ISP Conference on Access to Knowledge ( A2K ) April 21-23, 2006
Informal consultation between the Secretary-General of UNCTAD and the President of CONGO to exchange views on the future role of the ECOSOC Commission on Science and Technology for Development (13 February, 2006 )
Consultation on the preparation of the IGF Athens meeting ( 15 February, 15:00-18:00, Geneva CONGO offices )
Consultations on the Convening of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) ( Geneva, 16-17 February, 2006 ) ( new greek site : 1st Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) )
The WFUNA Task Force on WSIS : Where to go from Tunis? (February 21-22 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark )
sixth International Mother Language Day - Programme (21 February 2006, UNESCO, Paris )
World Language Diversity Network (REDILI) workshop ( 22-23 February 2006, UNESCO, Paris )
The UNESCO World Report : Towards Knowledge Societies Twenty ninth Aurelio Peccei lecture ( February 22, 2006, Brussels )
Grand openning ceremony at the Palais de Tokyo of the official discussion site lestelechargements.com concerning the controversial copyright law ( DADVSI ) ( 22 February 2006, Paris )
4th Annual Digital Music Summit Music 2.0, Music Industry in the Digital Age ( February 23-24, 2006, Los Angeles, USA )
WSIS Implementation Mechanism: Moderators/Facilitators Consultation Meeting ( 24 February 2006, Geneva ) : CONGO report -
5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'06) (27-28 February 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA )
Sources innovantes de financement du développement ( 28 février - 1er mars 2006, Paris, France )
SRU Implementors Group meeting - "Integration of Services - Integration of Standards" workshop ( March 1-2, 2006 - March 3 , The Hague, Netherlands )
The international forum of ICT strategies & Investments (March 1-3 2006, Marrakech, Morroco )
OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) High Level Meeting ( 2-3 March 2005, Paris )
"Integration of Services - Integration of standards" (March 3, 2006, The Hague )
OECD ICCP Workshop: "The Future of the Internet" (Paris, 8 March 2006 ) - Online Forum ( From Tuesday 14 March to Monday 27 March 2006 midnight EST ) : Contribution by Dr. Francis Muguet ( WSIS-SI & WSIS-PCT )
Power of Language ( 6 - 10 March 2006, Bangkok, Thailand )
Meeting of the OECD Task force on Spam ( 6-7 March 2006, Paris, France )
Second SANGONeT "ICTs for Civil Society" ( 7-9 March 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa )
World Telecommunication Development Conference (7-15 March 2006, Doha, Qatar )
WSIS Action Line Facilitation: Consultation on Information and Communication Infrastructure (C2) (9 March 2006, Doha, Qatar )
3rd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P'06) ( Pisa, Italy, March 17, 2006 )
Intergovernmental Council for UNESCO's Information for All Programme ( IFAP ) - fourth session ( 20 - 22 March 2006 , Paris, France )
Conférence de Restitution et de Prospective sur le SMSI ( Fête de l'Internet en Haute Normandie 20 Mars 2006, Rouen , France )
What rules for IP-enabled NGNs (ITU, 23-24 March 2005, Geneva )
ICANN Wellington: March 2006 ( March 27-31 2006, Wellington, New Zealand )
Innovating e-Learning 2006: Transforming Learning Experiences ( March 27th - 31st, 2006, online conference )
The UN General Assembly endorsed the outcomes of the World Summit for the Information Society, also welcomed the Digital Solidarity Fund. (March 27 2006 )
Commission study addresses Europe''s scientific publication system (March 30 2006) ( Deadline for comments : 1st June 2006 )
Berlin 4 Open Access - From Promise to Practice ( March 29th - March 31st 2006, Potsdam-Golm, Germany )
Adaptation and Learning on the Web (3rd- 4th April 2006,Bristol, UK)
2nd Conference on Next Generation Internet Design and Engineering ( April 3-5 2006,Valencia, Spain )
Closed meeting of the UN System Chief Executive Board for Coordination (UN-CEB) on UN Groups for the Information Society ( 12 April 2006 )
Launch of a Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Development. ( 17 April 2006 )
Deadline to submit recommendations for members of the Advisory Group to the IGF secretariat ( 18 April 2006 )
Email Authentication Summit II (April 19, 2006, Chicago, USA )
CourseWare Consortium Spring 2006 meeting (April 20-21, 2006, Kyoto, Japan )
2nd International Conference on GPLv3 ( April 21st - 22nd, Porto Alegre, Brazil )
1st European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine - Researchers and Open Access ( 21-22 April, 2006, Lund, Sweden )
Yale ISP Conference on Access to Knowledge ( A2K ) April 21-23, 2006 Call for papers
FLOSSWorld International Workshop ( Brussels, April 26-28, 2006 )
A2K IJCLP Writing Competition ( Deadline noon EST, May 1st, 2006 )
Challenges to Media Policies and National Identities ( European Satellite Cultures Conference, May 4-5 2006, Copenhagen )
GKP International Forum ( 8-9 May 2006, Colombo, Sri Lanka )
Global Alliance Strategy Council - Call for Nominations ( Nomination Deadline, 10 May 2006 )
List of nominations received
List of volunteers to participate in the Nomination Committee for CS membership in the Strategy Council of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development,
ITU and UNESCO Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual Internet ( Geneva, 9-11 May 2006 ) Submission deadline: 25 April 2006
DADVSI Sénat - Discussion en séance publique ( Paris 4, 9, 10, 12 mai 2006 )
Congrès SFSIC Bordeaux 2006 Société Française des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication ( Bordeaux, 10 - 12 mai 2006 )
Consultation meeting on action line C4: Capacity building. Organized by UNDP at:ITU, Montbrillant building, Room K2, 10h00 - 13h00. (Geneva, 11 May 2006 )
Consultation meeting on action line C6: Enabling environment. Organized by UNDP at: ITU, Montbrillant building, Room K2, 15h00 - 18h00. (Geneva, 11 May 2006 )
Consultation on WSIS Action Line C8 : Cultural Diversity and Identity, Linguistic Diversity and Local Content organized by UNESCO at Palais des Nations, Room XX, 10h00 - 18h00. ( 12 May 2006, Geneva, Switzerland )
Archive ouverte, Libre Accès : Quelle mise en place ? ( 12 mai, Champs sur Marne, France )
Consultation meeting on action line C11: International and regional cooperation (organized by UN-DESA at: Palais des Nations, Room XXV. ( 15 May 2006, Geneva, Switzerland )
Consultation meeting on action line C5: Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs (organized by ITU at: ITU Headquarters, Room B. ( Geneva,15-16 May 2006 )
Ninth session of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development CSTD ( 15-19 May 2006, Geneva )
Informal Meeting with Civil Society ( May 16 )
Le logiciel libre en tant que modèle d'innovation sociotechnique : pratiques de développement et de coopération dans les communautés (15-19 mai 2006, Montréal, Canada )
Sixth International Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing ( 16-19 May 2006, Singapore )
Consultation meeting on action line C1: The role of public governance authorities and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development organized by UN-DESA at: Palais des Nations, Room XXIII, 10h00 - 13h00 ( Geneva, 16 May 2006 )
Consultation meeting on action line C7 e-government organized by UN-DESA at: Palais des Nations, Room XXIII, 15h00 - 18h00. ( Geneva, 16 May 2006 )
First World Information Society Day ( Geneva, 17 May 2006 )
Cluster of WSIS-related events ( 9-19 May 2006, Geneva )
C7 e-business and C7 e-employment organized by UNCTAD, ILO, and ITC at: Palais des Nations, Room XXIII, 15h00 - 18h00. ( Geneva, 17 May 2006 )
ITU World Information Society Award 2006 ( Geneva, 17 May 2006 )
Second consultation meeting on action line C2 Information and communication infrastructure organized by ITU at: ITU Headquarters, Room H (TBC), afternoon. ( Geneva, 18 May 2006 )
Le sommet mondial sur la société de l'information et après ? Analyses et perspectives sur l'avenir de la cité globale ( Strasbourg, 18-19 mai 2006 )
New round of consultations on the convening of the IGF ( 19 May 2006, Geneva )
L'Université du Numérique ( 22-24 Mai 2006, Paris )
Meeting of the IGF Advisory Group ( 22-23 May 2006, Geneva )
The 15th International World Wide Web Conference (22-26 May Edinburgh, UK)
"Information Society: Governance, Ethics and Social Consequences" ( 22-23 mai 2006, Namur - Belgique)
Réunion bilan "Internet dans dix ans" ( 30 mai 2006, 14h 00 Salle Monnerville , Sénat, Paris )
Deadline for comments : 1st June 2006 : Commission study addresses Europe's scientific publication system
Second European Research & Innovation Exhibition ( 8 - 11 June 2006, Paris, France )
MTP06 : MTPs, Logiciels Libres et P2P ( 11 Juin 2006, Paris, France )
3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference ( 11 - 14 June, 2006. Budva, Montenegro )
TACD Workshopa: The "Paris Accord" ( June 19-20, 2006, Paris, France )
Global Alliance for ICT Policy and Development Inaugural Meeting ( 19-20 June 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ) , Programme
The 3rd International GPLv3 Conference: ( June 22-23, Barcelona, Spain )
Stratiégie Web 2.0 ( 22 juin 2006, Paris )
EGENI 2006 ( 22 juin 2006, Paris )
Paris Capitale du Libre 2006 ( 26 juin 2006, Paris )
ICANN meeting ( June 26-30 2006, Marrakesh, Morocco )
The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (June 26-29 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA )
OECD ministerial meeting Tertiary education ( June 27 Open Forum , June 28 closed meeting, Athens, Greece )
Substantive Session of ECOSOC 2006 ( 3 - 28 July 2006, New York )
Ecocomic and Social Council Substantive Session on CSTD reform ( 27 June - 29 July 2006, Geneva )
eContentplus Information Day (28 June 2006, Luxemburg )
eContentplus Journée française d'information, coorganisée par la DDM (Direction du Developpement des Média) ( Lundi 3 juillet 2006, Paris, France )
7es Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (RMLL) ( 4 - 8 juillet 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France )
President's Strategy Committee Consultation with the ICANN Community Improving the Inherent Strength of the Multi-stakeholder Model ( 11 July 2006 )
Call for IGF contributions & Program Outline ( 15 July Deadline for Contribution to IGF "Synthesis Papers" )
Open Access: threat or blessing? (Euroscience Open Forum 2006, 16 July 2006, Munich )
Assembly of Parties of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization ( ISTO ) ( Paris, Unesco, 19 - 21 July 2006 )
The 4th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA '06 ( July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA. )
Interoperability and Institutional Repository Symposium (July 26 - 28, 2006, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA )
IGF Workshop proposals ( Deadline for all UN languages except English : 31 July 2006 )
"Peer-to-Peer Paradigm" Minitrack ( 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems , August 04-06, Acapulco, Mexico )
World Library and Information Congress 2006 ( 20-24 August 2006, Seoul, Korea )
2006 International Symposium on Wikis ( August 21-23, 2006, Odense, Denmark )
Festival de l'Internet de l' Association Tunisienne de l'Internet et des Multimiédias (ATIM) ( 24 - 26 August, Sousse, Tunisia) ( Rubrique de Louis Naugès )
IGF Workshop proposals ( Deadline English 24 August 2006 )
Community informatics for developing countries ( 1 August - 2 September 2006, Cape Town, South Africa )
Reasoning Web 2006 ( 4 - 8 September 2006, Lisbon, Portugal)
The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing ( 06-08 September 2006, Cambridge, UK )
Digital World Africa 2006 - ICTs for Learning and Development ( September 12-13 2006, Abuja, Nigeria )
Forum de la société civile/Banque Mondiale ( 13 - 20 septembre 2006, Singapour )
Civil Society Forum / World Bank ( September 14 – 20 2006, Singapore )
"Quelles solidarités scientifiques en francophonie ?" ( 14 - 15 septembre 2006, Nantes, France )
21st Century Talks: "Knowledge-Sharing: Always Tomorrow’s Concern?" ( 25 September 2006, UNESCO, Paris, France )
Hearing with civil society and the private sector / Fifty-third session of the Trade and Development Board (TDB) ( Geneva, 26 September 2006 )
OCW Consortium meeting ( September 25-29, 2006 - Logan, Utah, USA)
Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content ( September 27-29, 2006 - Logan, Utah, USA )
XIe sommet de la francophonie ( 28 - 29 septembre 2006, Bucarest, Roumanie ) - Déclaration de Bucarest
IR 7.0 Internet Convergences (September 27 - 30, 2006, Brisbane, Qld, Australia ) ( Deadline for paper submission : 21 February 2006 )
Commons of Science Conference ( October 3-4, 2006, Washington DC, USA )
MULTILINGUAL INTERNET TECHNICAL FORUM concertation meeting ( Octobre 5, 2006. Versailles, France )
15e Edition de la Fête de la Science ( 9-15 octobre 2006, France )
"Sciences en Bobines" ( 11-14 Octobre 2006, Paris, France )
Consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C3 ''Access to information and knowledge' ( 16 October 2006, UNESCO (Room IV), Paris, France )
Consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C10 ''Ethical dimension of the Information Society'' ( 17 October 2006, UNESCO (Room IV),Paris, France)
Consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C7 ''E-learning'' ( 18 October 2006, UNESCO (Room IV), Paris, France)
Consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C9 ''Media'' (19 October 2006, UNESCO (Room IV), Paris, France )
World eGov Forum ( 18-20 October 2006, Issy les Moulineaux, France)
Multinational Enterprise and Sustainable Development ( October 19-20th 2006 )
Consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C7 ''E-science'' (22 October 2006, CODATA Annual Conference, Beijing, China)
Scientific Data and Knowledge within the Information Society ( 22-25 October 2006, Beijing )
Forum on a Responsible Globalization" ( 25-28 October 2006, Lyon, France )
CERI project on Open Educational Resources (OER) Expert Meeting ( 26-27th October 2006, Barcelona, Spain )
1st Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) ( Monday 30 October - Thursday 2 November, 2006, Athens, GREECE )
Workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access ( 2-3 November 2006,Bangalore, India )
The 5th International Semantic Web (ISWC'06) ( 5-9 November 2006, Athens, GA, USA )
CSTD Panel : Promoting the building of a people-centred, development-oriented and inclusive information society, with a view to enhancing digital opportunities for all people (6–8 November 2006, UNESCO headquarters, Paris, France )
The ITU Plenipotentiary Conference ( Monday 6 November - Friday, 24 November 2006, Antalya, Turkey )
Semana Nacional de la Ciencia, la Tecnologia y la Innovacion ( 8 - 14 Noviembre 2006, Columbia )
Diffusion et distribution de musique en ligne ( 8 Novembre, Paris, France ) (Catalyseurs Numériques )
Global Forum 2006, The Digital Convergence ( 9 - 10 November 2006 , Paris, France )
Rendez-Vous Electroniques - Forum des webradios ( 11 Novembre 2006, Paris, France )
Académie des Sciences "Nouvelles technologies de l'information et diffusion internationale du savoir scientifique" ( 14 Novembre 2006, Paris, France )
10 ans de Logiciel Libre avec l'APRIL, ça se fête ! ( 18 novembre & 21 novembre, Paris, France )
Colloque "Politiquement Internet" ( 20 Novembre 2006, Paris, France )
International conference for the Reform of the International Institutions ( 20-21 November, Geneva )
4ème Salon juridique de l'Internet et du numérique 2006 (21 Novembre ,Paris )
Dialogs of the XXI century ( 25 Novembre, Paris )
République des blogs IV ( 29 novembre 2006, Paris )
Musique et Communautée en ligne ( 29 Novembre 2006, Paris)
Septième Rencontres européennes des artistes ( 30 novembre - 1er décembre 2006, Cabourg, France )
Mobile and wireless content, services and networks ( November 30th - December 1st 2006, Lyngby, Denmark )
ICANN 27th International Public Meeting ( 2-8 December 2006, Sao Paulo, Brazil )
La création littéraire à l'heure du numérique ( 5 décembre 2006, Paris, France )
ITU Telecom World ( 4-8 December 2006, Hong-Kong )
Expert Meeting in support of the implementation and follow-up of WSIS: Using ICTs to achieve growth and development (Jointly organized by UNCTAD, OECD and ILO) ( 4 - 5 December 2006, Geneva )
First international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT) ( 6-8 December 2006, Athens, Greece )
Septièmes Rencontres parlementaires sur la Société de l'information et l'Internet ( 7 Décembre 2006, Paris, France )
Le Web3 ( 11-12 December, Paris, France )
Journée d'Etudes "Blogs politiques" ( 14 décembre 2006, Paris )
Tour de France de la solidarité numérique : Etape 2 Région Ile de France Journée de rencontre avec les chercheurs du domaine des TIC ( 18 décembre, Paris )

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