2005
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)
Sometime
in 2005: All countries should
have "made progress in the formulation and elaboration of national
strategies for sustainable development" and also have begun their
implementation according to a consensus reached at the 2002 World
Summit on Sustainable Development.
Assessment in this research project.
February
3- 4, 2005: "TIC
21": The contribution of
information and communication technologies to sustainable development /
le 1er forum international
TIC et développement durable,
Valenciennes, France (Kuehr, Kuhndt, Koch, Oudet, Brodhag, Soupizet,
Segond, Minier, Jensen, etc.)
February
3- 4, 2005: Domain Pulse organized by nic.at,
Austria Trend Eventhotel Pyramide, Vienna, Austria, featuring Wolfgang
Kleinwaechter, Paul Verhoeff, Marc Holitscher, Jeanette Hoffmann
February
14, 2005: in the "morning from
11.00 to 13.00" -- Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) open
consultation [instead of February 15-16, below], and "in the afternoon
from 14:00 -19:00 -- General CS Orientation Session [to WSIS PrepCom 2]
..., which will allow for breakout sessions of Caucuses and WGs. More
detailed information from Renata Bloem of NGOCONGO in her updated
info. from Feb. 4 (in RTF)
February
23, 2005:: Environmental Life
Cycle Information Management and Acquisition (ELIMA) product life cycle
technology, results and implications for business strategy. Reporting
on the costs and benefits of product information management systems,
Vienna, Austria. Program in PDF.
April
22-23, 2005:
„Umwelt- und
Technikkonflikte“.
Gemeinsame Tagung der Arbeitskreise „Umweltpolitik/ Global
Change“ und „Politik und Technik“ der
Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft,
Universität Hamburg
May
16-17, 2005:
Towards the Realization of the Ubiquitous Network Society,
Tokyo (Japan). This meeting organized by the Government of Japan,
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and United Nations
University (UNU) will focus on four main areas: ubiquitous network
society; digital divide; technological innovation and knowledge sharing
(capacity development).
June
3-5, 2005: McPlanet.com
- Consumption. Globalisation. Environment,
an Attac, BUND and Greenpeace conference (with 1,600 participants in
2003), in cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, to be held at the
University of Hamburg partially with English speakers, with Martin Khor
and Lori Wallach (invited), and partially with English translation
June
14, 2005: Ms Jody Williams,
Nobel Price Laureate, on “Sustainable Arms Reduction
– The Role of Non-governmental Organizations”.
Biography:
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1997/williams-cv.html
. Attendance free of charge, no registration. Venue: University of
Zurich, Aula, Rämistrasse 71, 6:15 pm (18h15). Information:
Schweizerisches Institut für Auslandforschung, siafcd@pw.unizh.ch
, Phone +41-1- 632 63 62, Fax +41-1 632 19 47,
www.siaf.ch
June
20-22, 2005: Green
Electronics'05: International Workshop on the Implementation of the
WEEE Directive in Prague, Czech Republic PDF
file
June
20-24, 2005: From Local to
Global, Data Interoperability - Challenges and Technologies PDF file
, IEEE Computer Society International Symposium, Sardinia, Italy
July
1, 2005: Bob Geldof's White Band Day No. 1
(of 2, see also Sept. 10 for White Band Day 2 below). Millions of
people will wear a white band as an act of solidarity against poverty
and call for world leaders to do more to eradicate poverty.
September 6, 2005: WSIS Group
of Friends of the Chair (GFC) meeting (consultations open to all
stakeholders) in the morning and in the afternoon: Internet governance
(consultations open to all stakeholders per Charles Geiger on 28.7.05)
September
7-9, 2005:
the Helsinki Conference 2005, in
Helsinki, Finland, as part of the Helsinki Process on Globalisation and
Democracy, a multi-stakeholder dialogue initiated by the Finnish and
Tanzanian governments.
September
8-9: JEUNE GENEVOIS
(Geneva holiday)
September
10, 2005: Global
day of mobilisation
on the eve of the Heads of States meeting at the UN and Bob Geldof's White Band Day No. 2
(of 2, see also July 1 for White Band Day No. 1 above). Millions of
people will wear a white band as an act of solidarity against poverty
and call for world leaders to do more to eradicate poverty.
United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service's (UN-NGLS) special webpage showcasing civil society statements and position papers relating to the summit
Inaugural Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative with session on climate change, Lovins, Pachauri (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), Hilary, Blair, Chirac, Wolfowitz, J.Sachs, Sandor, Figueres, Stigson, Lash, Dupont, GE, etc.
September 18-20, 2005: 6th Meeting for PhD students and advisors working in the field of natural hazards, Ticino, Switzerland, held by CENAT, a network of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and several Swiss universities, Davos, Switzerland (see also August 26, 2006, below)
October
5-7, 2005:
ERSCP 2005 - 10th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and
Production, Antwerp, Belgium,
organized by Vito, the Flemish Institute for Technological Research and
the Province of Antwerp, in close collaboration with IHOBE, the
Environmental Performance Agency of the Basque Government, the
Institute of Environmental Technology of the University of Applied
Sciences Basel, and the PREPARE Network (Preventive Environmental
Protection Approaches in Europe)
October
11-13, 2005:"S-DEV
Geneva 05," a platform on
sustainable urban development (modelled after ICT4D, which was a major
event at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003),
Geneva Palexpo in Switzerland
October 13, 2005: Dr. Kurt Roth, Assistant Principal in the Appliance and Building Technology group of TIAX (http://www.tiaxllc.com/), speaks on "The Potential to Reduce Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Energy Consumption" at 5:15 pm in the GEP-Pavillon, Polyterrasse, at ETH Zuerich (flyer in PDF)
October 16, 2005: Hong Kong, China: NGOs' ROUNDTABLE FORUM ON THE SIXTH WTO
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE (MC6). This roundtable is intended to provide
non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with a platform to express, discuss,
and exchange views on various issues related to the MC6, which will be held
from 13-18 December in Hong Kong. WTO Director General Pascal Lamy will be a
keynote speaker at the event. The roundtable will be broadcast live online from 2.30 pm to 5pm (Hong Kong local time) at www.wtomc6.gov.hk. For further information contact the WTO Sixth Ministerial Conference Co-ordination Office, tel: (+852) 2911-0374; fax: (+852) 3426-3571; Email ;
announcement on their Webpage.
October
17 - 21, 2005: WTO's "Geneva
Week" for non-resident delegations, as announced in
this PDF
November
13-15, 2005:The
Past, Present and Future of Research
in the Information Society. A
satellite event preceding Phase II of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis. Participating organizations
include the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International
Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), the Committee on Data
(CODATA) for Science and Technology, the National Science Foundation
(United States), the World Federation of Engineering Organisations,
etc.
November
16-18, 2005: The Citizen's Summit on the Information Society opening ceremony at 16:00 in Tunis. The CSIS program will consist of a series of panels and conferences addressing major WSIS issues from a decidedly public perspective. A detailed program and practical information will be circulated by early November, together with a list of CSIS supporters.Contacts: Expressions of support: support@citizens-summit.org Press enquiries: press@citizens-summit.org General contact, questions: contact@citizens-summit.org
November
28 to December 9 2005: United
Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 11),
the Eleventh Session of the Conference of Parties (COP 11) and First
Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (MOP 1) at the Palais des
Congrès de Montréal
December
13-17, 2005: Hong Kong Trade and Development Symposium agenda including on Dec 17, afternoon, 14.15-16.30: Room 403, Rethinking International Investment Law in the Era of
Globalization: IISD's Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable
Development, Organisers: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Hong Kong, China
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.
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.
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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