Financing Mechanisms in the WSIS Context

	Financing Mechanisms in the WSIS Context
	Facts, Ressources, Events, and Links
	„Financing“ has been the last conflictive isse to be resolved before the first World Summit on the Information Society took place in December 2003. There has not been a real solution, though, as the governments agreed to not agree and set up a Task Force to study existing and possible new financing mechanisms. The report was published in January 2005. WSIS second phase: drafts of official summit documents on finance PrepCom-2 (Geneva, 17-25 February 2005) Compilation of Comments on Chapter Two of the Operational Part (Financial Mechanisms), WSIS-II/PC-2/DT-1, 19 February 2005. Part One (Para 12-26) doc pdf \| Part Two (Para 27) doc pdf Revised Chapter Two of the Operational Part (Financial Mechanisms), 1 March 2005 WSIS Task Force on Financing Mechanisms (TFFM) Administered by UNDP Contact: Radhika Lal <radhika.lal(at)undp.org>, Tel. +1-212-906-5020. Official Website Final report (22 December 2004) Schedule of activities, 23 June 2004 Brief on TF on Financing, by Shoji Nishimoto (UNDP), Assistant Administrator and Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy at PrepCom 2, Hammamet, 23 June 2004 TFFM Issues Paper, released for the first meeting of the TFFM on 4 October 2004 TFFM launched at UN Headquarters, UN press release (with members list), 6 October 2004 TFFM meetings: - TFFM founding meeting, 4 October 2004, UNDP, New York - TFFM consultation meeting with Group of the Friends of the Chair (GFC): 16 November, UN Palace, Geneva, open to observers. - final TFFM meeting: 29 November, UNDP, New York Online Forum on Financing Mechanisms 25 October to 25 November, 2004 Go to the forum \| More on the forum WSIS Civil Society Finance Caucus Contact: Djilali Benamrane, <dbenamrane(at)yahoo.com> Website \| Mailing list \| Archive Digital Solidarity Fund The contested “digital solidarity fund” has been set up on 1 October 2004 as a voluntary action by Senegal, Dominican Republic, and number of cities like Geneva, Paris and others. Contact / more information: http://www.dsf-fsn.org/ or http://www.digital-solidarity.org/. Civil society and other papers on financing Financing Information and Communication Infrastructure Needs in the Developing World: Public and Private Roles (draft) by the World Bank's Global Information and Communication Technologies Department, 28 February 2005 Contact: Charles Kenny, Senior Economist, Global ICT Department (ckenny@worldbank.org) dowload pdf in English \| download press release, pdf, English "Anregungen zur WSIS-Finanzierungsdebatte und zur Umsetzung davon abhängiger Maßnahmen" Prof. Rainer Kuhlen, University Konstanz, for the German WSIS Civil Society Coordination Group, 5 February 2004 Download rtf in German "Who pays for the Information Society? Challenges and Issues on financing the Information Society" edited by Bread for All and Comunica-ch (Swiss Civil Society platform for the Information society), February 2005 Download pdf in English Financial mechanisms for the information society from a global public goods perspective by Fernando Prada, Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM), January 2005 Download pdf in English \| Español \| Français Financing ICTs for Development with Focus on Poverty by Lishan Adam, University of Stellenbosch, prepared for Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM), January 2005 Download pdf in English \| Español \| Français The funding of universal access By Joëlle Carron, Download pdf in English \| Español \| Français \| Arabic Community ownership of ICTs: New possibilities for poor communities, briefing paper By Seán Ó Siochrú, Nexus Research Cooperative, Dublin Download pdf in English \| Español \| Français \| Arabic Progress and issues in Financing ICT4D in Sub-Saharan Africa, briefing paper By Lishan Adam, University of Stellenbosch Download pdf in English \| Español \| Français \| Arabic A systemic Vision for Financing the Information Society as a Global Public Good, briefing paper By Fernando Prada, Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM) Download pdf in English \| Español \| Français \| Arabic Possibilités de financement dans la société de l’information: recherche de données sur la Suisse, Pré-étude réalisée pour Pain pour le Prochain By Joëlle Carron in collaboration with Chantal Peyer, October 2004 Download rtf in French Financing the Information Society in the South: A Global Public Goods Perspective By Pablo Accuosto and Niki Johnson, June 2004, commissioned by APC download pdf in English Networking Communities In The South -- Challenges For Diverse Actors: Remittance, Microfinance And Technology By Scott Robinson(June 2004) download pdf in English Financing measures for overcoming digital divides By Rainer Kuhlen, June 2004 download rtf in English Comunica-ch: Groupe de travail « financement et solidarité Nord-Sud » draft, April 2004 download rtf in French Civil Society Statement on Information and Communication Solidarity Funding Mechanisms submitted to PrepCom 3 by the Civil Society Content and Themes Subcommittee with inputs from those present at the South-South and Friends of the South Meeting, 25 September 2003 Financing news from http://www.worldsummit2005.org/ 28 April 2005: Neue Studie zur Finanzierung der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit von Heinrich Böll Stiftung und Global Policy Forum 6 March 2005: World Bank Says Digital Divide is Narrowing Rapidly, by Rik Panganiban 23 February 2005: Finance negotiations slow down, but agreement on Digital Solidarity Fund 22 February 2005: PrepCom debate on finance: Night session in Geneva 21 February 2005: Civil Society event on Financing the Information Society: A focus on Global Public Goods 18 February 2005: PrepCom2: Debate on financial mechanisms. Strong criticism by Southern governments 17 February 2005: Financing Debate Heats Up. Task Force Report critizised, but consensus emerging? 1 December 2004: Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had Final Meeting 26 November 2004: Geneva informal meeting on financial mechanisms disappointing. But view of information and communication as “global public good” gains support 23 November 2004: WSIS PrepCom2 will be “stormy”. Dispute over financing was stepped up at UN ICT Task Force meeting 23 June 2004: Previews on Financial Mechanisms Taskforce 9 December 2003: Finance / final negotiations ended with consensus 6 December 2003: Summit Preparations Closer to Agreement. Only finance still open 25 September 2003: North-South and South-South Perspectives on the Information Society