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Revised report on the WSIS stocktaking
30 August 2005
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
The WSIS stocktaking is intended to fulfil the dual purpose of providing an inventory of activities undertaken by governments and all stakeholders in implementing the Geneva decisions (the WSIS Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action) and taking stock of the progress made in building the Information Society. It complements the report on WSIS Stakeholder Commitments announced during the Tunis Phase.
The WSIS stocktaking was launched by the WSIS Executive Secretariat (WSIS-ES) in October 2004. Following an initial brainstorming meeting of stakeholders, an online consultation and discussions within the WSIS Bureau on the form the stocktaking should take, a questionnaire was developed, sent to all stakeholders and posted online (see www.itu.int/wsis/stocktaking). On the basis of responses received, a searchable, publicly accessible database of WSIS-related activities has been created. As of 20 August 2005, the database contains details of more than 2’200 WSIS-related activities, including project descriptions, supporting documentation and URLs, which are searchable by WSIS action lines, type of entity, the development Goals contained in the Millennium Declaration (MDGs), geographical coverage, keywords, etc.
The WSIS stocktaking database is intended to be a dynamic portal to all WSIS-related activities undertaken by stakeholders and it will continue to be updated beyond the completion of the Tunis Phase. A preliminary report was made to PrepCom-2 (Document PC-2/6) and a revised report was submitted for comments between 15 July-15 August 2005. This revised report covers a representative sample of interesting projects, chosen to reflect a balance between different stakeholders, different regions and different action lines. It incorporates comments made on earlier versions and is submitted to PrepCom-3. It contains hyperlinks to sources of information on the different projects listed. However, it does not aim to be a comprehensive report on the activities submitted to the website: rather, it points to the richer and continually updated information available in the database itself and on the Web more generally.
Keywords: WSIS stocktaking
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