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Accra to kick off with a high level training for Civil Society participants

01/13/2005 (APC) -- The African Regional Preparatory Conference for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to be held from 2 to 4 February 2005 in Accra, Ghana is set to kick off with a high level training for Civil Society participants. The Civil Society Forum will take place on the 28th February as one of the pre-Conference workshops from 29 January to 1 February 2005.

Africa Civil Society Forum

WSIS Africa Regional PrepCom 2005 Pre-Event: 28th January 2005

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

The Forum has objectives/outputs:

A: Capacity Building/Training

B: Issue Statements & Strategies for effective civil society inputs

C: Organizational & Structural Issues

A:


Capacity Building/Training Session

TIME


SESSION


PRESENTER

9:00 – 9.30


Welcome:

* Introductions (participants etc.)
* Adoption of agenda



Dr. Olivier Nana Nzépa

9.30 – 11:00


* An overview of civil society engagement in national, regional and international policy making
o Different types of ICT policy and the processes that shape them at national, regional and Global levels:
o Global (WSIS, WTO, WIPO, ITU, etc.)
o Regional (NICI, SADC, COMESA, ECOWAS, Nepad etc.)
o National (e-strategies, NICI, national ICT policy)
* Influencing policy: overview of a range of options (advocacy, lobbying, awareness raising, training etc.)
o Two country case studies (Guinea, DRC)



APC

UNECA

ACSIS National Focal Points

11:00 – 11:30


Tea

11:30 – 12:15


* Policy negotiations and relations of civil society with United Nations, ECOSOC, UN mainline consultations and organizations like WIPO, ITU, WTO, AU, NEPAD



CONGO, NGLS





12:15 – 13:00


* WSIS processes and Civil Society
o Establishment and use of caucuses
o Content and themes group
o Working Groups



APC

Civil Society Bureau


13:00 – 14:00


Lunch

B:


Issue Statements & Strategies for effective Civil Society inputs

14:00 – 15:15


* Position Papers: Presentation of reports from online discussion
o Financing ICT4D
o Internet Governance
o ICT priorities for Africa



Participants discussion

15:15 – 16:00


* Strategies for effective civil society inputs
* Advocacy and Lobbying during the Accra conference



Participants forum

16:15 – 16:30


Tea


C:


Organizational & Structural Issues

16:30 – 17:00


* Use of online collaboratory software for online and distance organization



Derrick L. Cogburg

17:00 – 18:00


* Africa Civil Society in the Information Society (ACSIS) Meeting


Olivier Nana Nzépa

Date: 01/13/2005
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Source: APC

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