WSIS Tunis Phase SI UN - WSIS

`WSIS final Summit in Tunis 16 - 18 November 2005 Resumed session of Prepcom 3 : 13 - 15 November Parallel events : 14 - 19 November`

Attendance	Number of Participants	Number of Entities Represented
TOTAL	19401
States and European Community	5857	174
International Organizations	1508	92
NGOs and civil society entities	6241	606
Business sector entities	4816	226
Media	979	642

There was about 7000 participants more than in Geneva, It was the largest ever UN Summit in terms of number of participants.

Outcome Documents :

Tunis Commitment & Tunis Agenda for the Information Society ( Official source, 6 languages )
Tunis Commitment
Tunis Agenda
- Internet Gouvernance -

Schedule :

Resumed session of PrepCom 3 (13-15 November 2005, Tunis )

World Summit on the Information Society ( Host country site, 16-18 November 2005,Tunis)

Civil Society overall coordination sites :

Plenary Speakers :

List of Speakers
List of Plenary Speakers from Civil Society - -

Selected speakers with themes relevant to Open Access, Education and Free Software :
First Plenary Meeting, General Debate ( Wednesday, 16 November 2005: Plenary Session, 11:00H-13:00H )
United Nations University (UNU) ( Professor Hans van Ginkel )
Second Plenary Meeting, General Debate (16 November 2005: Plenary Session, 15:00H-18:00H)
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) ( Prof. Divina Frau-Meigs,WSIS-EDU )
Third Plenary Meeting, General Debate ( 16 November 2005: Plenary Session, 18:00H-20:00H )
University of Toronto ( Dr. Derrick De Kerckhove )
Fourth Plenary Meeting, General Debate ( Thursday, 17 November 2005: Plenary Session, 09:00H-13:00H)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (Mr. Koichiro Matsuura )
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (Mr. Yoshio Utsumi )
Centre Feminin pour la Promotion du Developpement (CEFEPROD) ( Ms. Delphine Nana Mekounter, WSIS Africa family )
Access2Democracy ( Prof. Nicholas Negroponte, MIT One Laptop per Child )
Fifth Plenary Meeting, General Debate ( Thursday, 17 November 2005, 14:00 - 17:00H )
Digital Solidarity Fund ( Mr. Guy-Olivier Segond)
Sixth Plenary Meeting, General Debate ( Thursday, 17 November 2005, 17:00 - 20:00H )
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (Mr. Philippe Petit)
Seventh Plenary Meeting, General Debate ( Friday, 18 November 2005, 09:00 - 13:00H )
IP Justice ( Ms. Robin D. Gross )
World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) ( Mr. Mohamed Tijani Bem Jemaa )
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) ( Mr. Marcel A. Boisard )
Internet Society (ISOC) ( Ms. Lynn St Amour )
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ( Mr. Shoji Nishimoto )
Eight plenary meeting : General Debate
PrepCom of the Geneva Phase ( His Excellency Mr. Adama Samassekou )
Eight plenary meeting : Report from Multi-stakeholder Events
(Friday, 18 November 2005 Eighth Plenary Meeting, 16:00H-17:30H )

Dr. Francis Muguet ( WSIS-SI , WSIS-PCT )

Speech ( English translation ) ( HTML ) -
Speech ( English translation ) ( Multimedia / regretfully Real Player proprietary format )
Discours original en Français ( HTML ) -
Discours original en Français ( regretfully Real Player proprietary format )

National Youth Campaigns and Beyond Tunis as youth ( Ms. Titi Akinsanmi, WSIS Youth Caucus )
Conferences and Campaign on Volunteering and ICTs ( Viola Krebs, IC Volunteers )
Intergouvernemental Organizations speakers :
African Research and Education Networking ( Mr. Robert Aymar, CERN )
UNESCO's Parallel Events during the Tunis phase of WSIS ( Ms. Elizabeth Longworth )
other Civil Society speakers not moninated by WSIS Civil Society :
Information Commons for Science Initiative ( Professor Shuichi Iwata, CODATA)
Message of Youth to Heads of State and Government and to International Organizations ( Miss. Ines Chermiti, Association Jeunes-Sciences de Tunisie )
Libraries - the Information Society in Action ( Dr. Alex Byrne, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions )
Report on Roundtable for a Multilingual Cyberspace with the Participation of All in the Information and Shared Knowledge Society ( Prof. Essayed Nagia, African Union )
Global Knowledge Partnership Forum ( Miss. Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) )
ITU's Events during the Tunis phase of WSIS ( Mr. Roberto Blois, ITU )
Round Table 2 (November 17, 2005, 15:00 - 17:00 )
Dr. Tatiania Ershova ( Institute of the Information Society, WSIS MSP family )

Parallel Events :

UNESCO Events Live Webcast
UNESCO Events Webcast on-demand
List of all events including ICT4all ( established from the Official document available only in the Excell proprietary format )
Civil Society Parallel Events at the KRAM ( 14-19 November 2005,Tunis)
ICT4all exhibition ( 15-19 November 2005, KRAM, Tunis)

Side Events :

Past, Present, and Future of Research in the Information Society ( 13-15 November 2005, Tunis )

Press Releases

ParisTech Open Educational Ressource Press Release at the WSIS
Comminiquée de Presse de ParisTech au SMSI concernant ses Libres Cours en ligne

Some Information Ressources :

WSIS.TV and TUNIS.TV ) ( P2PTV sites )
World Tour of the Information Society ( see also WTIS.TV )
A few pictures
WSIS blog aggregator