9 February 2004, 14:00-16:00
Information Briefing on the WSIS
Palais des Nations, Room XXV, Geneva, Switzerland
Objective: The meeting is an informal event to brief all interested actors on the latest developments on WSIS. It includes official speakers as well as ad-hoc reports from WSIS NGO Caucuses and Working Groups.After the briefing, there will be a short meeting of the CONGO ICT Task Force and the Task Force on ICTs and Poverty. All interested NGOs are invited to participate.
Speakers: Habib Mansour, Tunisia Delegation to WSIS, Daniel Stauffacher, Swiss Delegation to WSIS, Yoshio Utsumi, WSIS Secretary-General, ITU Secretary-General (invited), Charles Geiger, Head of WSIS Executive Secretariat, Alain Clerc, Civil Society Division, WSIS Executive Secretariat, Bertrand de la Chapelle, Open-WSIS.net.
Attendance: The meeting is open to any interested party, but NGOs must have their own accreditation to the UN to be able to enter the building.
Contact: Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO), Rik Panganiban, <rik.panganiban(at)ngocongo.org>

23 February - 29 March 2004
WSIS Online Evaluation
Objective: To provide a clear picture of what has been achieved - the impact made on WSIS processes and any outcomes and to learn from the process and approaches used and provide clear aims and objectives to shape and drive ongoing/future work. One question each week will be discussed. The outcome will be a report to pe published on 29 March 2004.
Participation: This evaluation is open to all interested stakeholders from civil society. Send a blank mail to nne75@yahoo.com with "Evaluation" as a header to join the aisi-l mailing list.
Contact: African Civil Society Coordination. See the invitation.

25 February 2004
ITU Council Working Group on WSIS
ITU, Geneva, Switzerland
Objective: To discuss the future role of the ITU in the WSIS process and in the implementation of the Declaration of Principles and Action Plan. The working group welcomes contributions from ITU Member States and Sector Members, as a basis for future work and the report to Council. The meeting is a preparation for the ITU workshop on Internet Governance on the next two days.
Attendance: The meeting is only open to ITU member states and sector members.
Contact: Background and registration documents are available here.

26-27 February 2004
ITU Workshop on Internet Governance
ITU, Geneva, Switzerland
Objective: The workshop will be a start to prepare ITU's inputs and position vis-à-vis the UN working group to be established on Internet governance, as decided in the WSIS 2003 summit declaration. The output will be submitted to the ITU decision-making bodies for their further consideration.
Attendance: Attendance is open to all ITUMemberStatesand Sector Members and individually invited selected experts in Internet governance.
Contact: ITU Strategy and Policy Unit, Mail: spumail@itu.int.

2-6 March 2004
ICANN Meetings
Melià Roma Aurelia Antica Hotel, Rome, Italy
Objective: The ICANN meetings are not directly WSIS-related, but at this event there will be discussions on the Internet governance working group that was decided upon at the Summit. It will be used to prepare for the UN ICT Task Force meeting in New York later in March (see below).
Attendance: The meetings are free to attend, and open to any interested person. ICANN encourages broad participation in its bottom-up consensus-development process.
Contact: ICANN website | local website on Rome events and locations.

2-3 March 2004
Informal Preparatory Meeting for WSIS 2005
Tunis, Tunesia
Objective: To brainstorm on the process and added value of WSIS phase 2. The event will also be a preparation for a more formal meeting in late spring 2004 to prepare for the first PreCom of WSIS phase two.
Attendance: The meeting is said to be open to all stakeholders, but modalities are unclear.
Contact: The Tunesian Minister of Communication Technologies and Transport, Mr. Sadok Rabah

25 - 26 March 2004
CTO Conference on Implementing the WSIS Action Plan
Nairobi, Kenya
Objective: The conference will act as a follow-up to WSIS, focusing on “Implementation and Best Practices”.
Contact : Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, AITEC Africa

25-29 March 2004
UN ICT Task Force Open Forum and Sixth Meeting
UN Headquarters, New York City, USA
Objective: The Sixth Meeting of the UN ICT Task Force will address the outcomes of the Geneva phase of WSIS. During the first two days of the meeting, the discussion will be held in a format of a Global Forum on the subject of Internet governance. It will be an opportunity for relevant stakeholders - including those who are not members of the Task Force - to engage in an open discussion of all aspects of this range of issues. In the period leading up to the Global Forum, an on-line discussion of these issues will be organized to ensure as broad and comprehensive representation of views, perspectives and recommendations as possible.
Attendance: The Global Forum will be open to interested stakeholders, the ICT Task Force Meeting will be members-only. Pre-registration is necessary to be able to enter the UN building. Fill in this form and send it to sanchez2@un.org and khan2@un.org very quickly.
Contact: UN ICT Task Force

26 March 2004, 14:00-16:00
Public Voice Civil Society Meeting on WSIS
Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY 10017
Objective: To discuss and strategize civil society participation in WSIS phase two.
Attendance: The meeting is open to any interested civil society people, especially those who are in town for the meeting of the UN ICT Task Force. Pre-registration with Frannie Wellings <wellings(at)epic.org> is necessary to get access to the building. Bring a photo ID for entrance into the Ford Foundation. No press attendance.
Contact: The Public Voice

1 April 2004
Vienna, Austria
ITU High-Level Summit Organizing Committee (HLSOC) Meeting
Attendance: The meeting will presumably only be open to members of the HLSOC.

7 - 9 July 2004
WSIS Thematic Meeting on Countering Spam
Geneva, Switzerland
Contact: ITU
UN NGLS Report on the meeting

15 July 2004, 18:00
ITU Informal Consultations on Internet Governance
Geneva, Switzerland
Contact: ITU-T, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
Attendance: The meeting was originally only for heads of delegation but is now open to anyone. Please register with tsbdir@itu.int.