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2006 calendar of events with relevance to our group

(in chronological order; care is taken, but not any liability for accuracy; confirm with organizers; archive here)

January 14th - 21st, 2006: One World Forum 2006, the world's largest student-run international event, Amnesty International, the BBC, Al-Jazeera, Financial Times, Ashoka, Accenture, Transparency International, International Committee of the Red Cross, UNIFEM, etc.
January 23, 2006: SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE. This seminar will address the issue of how multilateral agreements can be designed to foster sustainable development while also promoting and providing protection for investment, PDF file, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
January 25-29, 2006: The World Economic Forum: MASTERING OUR FUTURE, annual meeting in Davos Switzerland
February 4–6, 2006: International Conference on Chemicals Management, in Dubai
February 5-6, 2006: The 7th Global Civil Society Forum, in Dubai, prior to the 9th Special Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (Session/Forum), February 7-9, 2006
February 5th-7th, 2006: Governance for Sustainable Development: Steering in Contexts of Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Distributed Control, Workshop in Berlin
February 6th-7th, 2006: The WTO and the Development Agenda: Prospects after Hong Kong, Chatham House, London
February 7–9, 2006: 9th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Dubai
February 10, 2006: Book presentation, THE NEW PUBLIC FINANCE - Responding to global challenges, edited by Inge Kaul, Pedro Conceicao; Presentation: Inge Kaul, Director, Office of Development Studies (ODS), UNDP, Discussion leader: Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Galerie der Heinrich-Böll- Stiftung, Berlin, Germany, 10am - 1 pm (in German), Anmeldung: Teilnahmebestätigung an Herrn Jost Pachaly , book Website
February 13-16th, 2006: "Sustainable solutions for the information society", the 11th International Conference on Urban Planning & Regional Development in the Information Society, to be held at the Congress Center "Messe Wien", Vienna, Austria.
February 16th-17th, 2006: "Industrial Ecology in Germany Symposium", in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
February 17-18, 2006: Research Conference "Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Innovation". Latest Research Results and Implications for Social Science Research, in Tramelan (Switzerland)
February 23-24, 2006: International Symposium - Perspectives on Electronics and Sustainable Development, Technical University in Berlin, Germany.
March 27-29, 2006: Third International Conference on Early Warning (EWC III), Bonn, Germany
March 27, 2006: Building, housing, lifestyles: oppotunities and limits for application of sustainable development in the construction sector, ETH Zürich (in German)
March 28 (workshop) / March 29 - 31 (conference), 2006 : "Berlin 4": International Conference on Open Access following the Berlin Declaration Golm / Potsdam, Germany
March 28-29, 2006: Forum économique international: Technologies de l'information et développement durable / International Economic Forum: The Contribution of the Information Technologies to Sustainable Development,Valenciennes, France
April 3-7, 2006: The Fifth session of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention ( OEWG5 ), in Geneva, Switzerland
April 6-9, 2006: European Social Forum (ESF) in Athens, Greece
April 20, 2006: 7th Swiss Global Change Day in Bern
May 1–12, 2006: 14th Meeting of the Commission for Sustainable Development – CSD 14, New York
May 7-11, 2006: Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), the Hague, Netherlands
May 8-11, 2006: ISPRS Mid-term Symposium 2006 "Remote Sensing: From Pixels to Processes", Enschede, the Netherlands
May 11, 2006: BUIS (including Sustainable Supply Chains) call for papers in PDF at FHTW Berlin (in German)
May 23-26, 2006: Power, poverty and sustainability: The role of impact assessment, 26th Annual Conference of IAIA (AIA06), Stavanger, Norway
May 31st - June 2nd, 2006: LCE2006, the 13th CIRP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING in Leuven, Belgium
May / June 2006: G7 Finance Ministers meeting , St. Petersburg
July 13-15, 2006: Social Inclusion: Societal & Organizational Implications for Information Systems, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) 8.2, Limerick, Ireland
June 15th, 2006: Life cycle perspective for social impacts: Including social effects in LCA?, EPF Lausanne (in English)
August 7–11, 2006: Annual ESRI International User Conference, in San Diego, CA, USA
August 19-25, 2006: World Renewable Energy Congress IX, in Florence, Italy.
August 26 – September 1, 2006: Annual conference of the Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN) in Davos, Switzerland
September 6-8, 2006: 20th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection: Celebrating Two Decades of Environmental Informatics (EnviroInfo-2006), in Graz, Austria
September 19-20, 2006: The 2006 Annual Meetings of the IMF/World Bank in Singapore.
September 27-30, 2006: International Symposium on "Geospatial Databases for Sustainable Development", Goa, India
Oct.23th and Oct.25th, 2006: The 20th International CODATA Conference, Beijing, China
Oct.31st, 2006: Workshop on "Greening IT" in Athens, Greece
November 6 to 17th, 2006: the Climate Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP), Nairobi, Kenya
Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2006: the Basel Convention is holding its Eighth COP, with "a world forum on e-waste" as part of it. Nairobi, Kenya
November 6-24th, 2006: ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, Antalya , Turkey
November 28th, 2006: Life cycle approaches for biofuels, Berne (in German)
December 4-5, 2006: UNCTAD Expert Meeting in support of the implementation and follow-up of WSIS: Using ICTs to achieve growth and development (Jointly organized by UNCTAD, OECD and ILO) in Geneva
December 6-9, 2006: Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Synthesis Conference Bali, Indonesia
January 23-27, 2007: International Dialogue on Science and Practice in Sustainable Development: Linking Knowledge with Action , Chiang Mai, Thailand
June 20-22, 2007: The 11th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (erscp), Basel, Switzerland
Aug. 22 - 24, 2007 World IT Forum 2007, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Calendar links:

Eco-tax Events listed by the FÖrderverein Ökologische Steuerreform / Green Budget Germany
IISD Recent Meetings on Sustainable Development
The Economist Diary 2006
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) calendar
Paul Metz' calendar
THE WEEK AHEAD AT THE UNITED NATIONS from the Regional United Nations Information Centre for Western Europe in Brussels, Belgium
UN Dispatch, a blog sponsored by the United Nations Foundation
Calendar of events, workshops and conferences organised by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) projects.
Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability at Harvard
The Public Voice, Washington, D.C.
The UN calendar (Economic and Social Development)
The UN calendar for NGOs (Economic and Social Council)
NGOCONGO New Information and Events (in reverse chronological order)
Events calendar of the WSIS Working Group on Scientific Information (best viewed on Open Source browsers)
The World Calendar with key events from openDemocracy , also in downloadable form
The Stakeholder Forum events planner in PDF form
Calendar feed from IFIwatchnet, which "connects organisations worldwide which are monitoring international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, the IMF, and regional development banks."

The World Bank maintains a great portal called the Global Development Gateway, which features our work under http://www.developmentgateway.org/ict/environment. Answers to the question: What relationship does the Development Gateway Foundation have with the World Bank Group? are to be found here.

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	Update: 7 November 2006
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