[isoc-ny] WEBCAST WED/THU UN WSIS+10 Review Meetings in NYC

[ISOC-NY announcements]

ISOC-NY will be represented in person at these meetings by Avri Doria. .
One aspect is that it is the WSIS process, started in Tunis in 2005, that
gave birth to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), so one of the items
under discussion will be its continuing support. An initiative was launched
last year <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6954> to take the IGF independent so it's
no longer beholden to UN pursestrings/regulations - see http://igfsa.org

   joly posted: "In August 2014 the United Nations General Assembly, in its
resolution 68/302 on the modalities for the overall review by the Assembly
of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the
Information Society - aka WSIS+10 - decided that that th"

 [image: WSIS+10] <http://unpan3.un.org/wsis10/>In* August 2014* the *United
Nations General Assembly*, in its *resolution 68/302
<http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/68/302>* on the
modalities for the overall review by the Assembly of the implementation of
the outcomes of the *World Summit on the Information Society* - aka *WSIS+10
<http://unpan3.un.org/wsis10/>* - decided that that the overall review will
be concluded by a two-day high-level meeting of the Assembly, to be
preceded by an intergovernmental preparatory process that also takes into
account inputs from all relevant stakeholders. Under the *roadmap
<http://workspace.unpan.org/sites/Internet/Documents/WSIS%20review%20preliminary%20timeline_v5.pptx.pdf>*
that preparatory process takes place this week in NYC and, while
registration to attend in person is closed, remote participation is
available via webcast & twitter.

*1st Preparatory Meeting
<http://unpan3.un.org/wsis10/1julypreparatorymeeting> - Wed 1 July 2015,
10am-6pm EDT | 14:00:22:00 UTC*
* Informal Interactive Stakeholder Consultation
<http://unpan3.un.org/wsis10/2julystakeholderconsultation> - Thu 2 July
2015, 10am-6pm EDT | 14:00:22:00 UTC*
* Webcast: http://webtv.un.org/ <http://webtv.un.org/>*
* Twitter questions: #AskUNGAWSIS
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/askungawsis?vertical=default&f=tweets> (Thursday)*
* Twitter comments: #UNGAWSISReview
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/ungawsisreview?src=hash&vertical=default&f=tweets>*

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