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UNESCAP News Services |
Date 30
May 2005
Press Release No: N/24/2005 [Reissued
as received]
Building an effective Information Society
in Asia and the Pacific
WSIS Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, 31
May - 2 June 2005, Tehran
Genava, 30 May 2005 - The High Level Asia-Pacific
Conference for the World Summit on the Information Society
will be held in Tehran from 31 May to 2 June 2005, jointly organized
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific (UNESCAP), ITU regional office for Asia and the
Pacific, and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran
in cooperation with UNDP-APDIP. The Conference is expected to
adopt the Regional Action Plan towards an Information Society
for Asia and the Pacific, and the Tehran Declaration
on Building an Information Society and discuss follow up
and implementation strategies/activities. The Conference will
also discuss progress made between the first and second phases
of WSIS, issues of Internet governance, and best practices of
financial mechanisms for ICT for development. It will deliberate
on ICT for knowledge-based disaster management with a view to
formulating a regional framework for disaster management. The
outcome of the Conference will be presented to WSIS PrepCom-3
in Geneva in September 2005.
The Conference is expected to build on the outcomes
of earlier conferences that focused on follow-up of the Geneva
phase of WSIS particularly on the four sub-regional meetings
in Bishkek, Suva, Bali and Kathmandu.
What: xxxWSIS
Regional Preparatory Conference for Asia and the Pacific
When:xxx 31 May
- 2 June 2005
Where: xxInternational
Conference Centre, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Why:xxxx Develop
Regional Action Plan and input for WSIS Tunis
Who: xxxxKeynote
addresses by
xxx xxx xx Mr Kim Hak-Su, Executive
Secretary, UNESCAP;
xxxxxxxxx Mr Nitin Desai, UN Special
Adviser to WSIS.
xxxxxxxxx Mr Charles Geiger, Director,
WSIS Executive Secretariat
xxxxxxxxx and representing ITU;
xxxxxxxxx Mr Janis Karklins, President
of the WSIS PrepCom;
For further information:
Mr Sunil Narula
United Nations Information Centre
# 39, Shahrzad Boulevard
Darrous, Tehran
Tel: +98 21 287 3837
Email: unic@unic.un.org.ir
For further information about the World Summit
on the Information Society contact:
Mr Sanjay Acharya
Communication Officer
WSIS Executive Secretariat
Tel: +41 22 730 5046
Email: sanjay.acharya@itu.int
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