BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a598fa4a2430 DTSTART:20170126T080000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20170126T160000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Suisse SUMMARY:Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC 2016-2018)\, Second mee ting CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The second meeting of the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Developmen t will be held on 26 and 27 January 2017 in room XXI of the Palais des Nat ions\, Geneva. It will commence at 10 a.m. This meeting is the second in a series of meetings intended to facilitate the reporting of the Working Gr oup to the twenty-first session of the Commission on Science and Technolog y for Development in 2018.Background and purpose of the meetingDuring its seventieth session\, the General Assembly undertook a comprehensive review of the 10-year implementation of the World Summit on the Information Soci ety outcomes. In the outcome document of that review\, General Assembly re solution 70/125 of 16 December 2015\, the General Assembly requested the C hair of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development\, through the Economic and Social Council\, to establish a working group to develop recommendations on how to further implement enhanced cooperation as envis ioned in the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society\, taking into consid eration the work that had been done on the matter thus far. Pursuant to th is request\, the Chair established the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperati on on 2 May 2016. Register online for this meetingDownloads:Meeting Regis tration Guidelines EnglishMap of Palais des NationsThe Working Group held its first meeting on 30 September 2016 (the Chair'\;s Summary is annex ed to this notification)\, at which it agreed on the following two questio ns that will guide the discussion at its second meeting:What are the high- level characteristics of enhanced cooperation?Taking into consideration th e work of the previous Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation and the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society\, particularly paragraphs 69-71\, what kind of recommendations should be considered?As a follow-up to the meetin g\, the Chair of the Working Group invited all stakeholders to submit thei r contributions to these two questions by e-mail to the Commission on Scie nce and Technology for Development secretariat.All contributions will be m ade available for consideration by the Working Group\, in their original l anguages\, unless requested otherwise.The deadline to submit inputs is 7 D ecember 2016.http&\;#58\;//www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B8954/(httpAssets)/88 FFDD768F055AECC1256F2A0052A3CC/$file/Palais%20des%20Nations%20map.pdf" \; target="\;_blank\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/ meeting/working-group-enhanced-cooperation-wgec-2016-2018-second-meeting DTSTAMP:20260717T021252Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a598fa4a24a6 DTSTART:20170127T080000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20170127T160000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Suisse SUMMARY:Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC 2016-2018)\, Second mee ting CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The second meeting of the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Developmen t will be held on 26 and 27 January 2017 in room XXI of the Palais des Nat ions\, Geneva. It will commence at 10 a.m. This meeting is the second in a series of meetings intended to facilitate the reporting of the Working Gr oup to the twenty-first session of the Commission on Science and Technolog y for Development in 2018.Background and purpose of the meetingDuring its seventieth session\, the General Assembly undertook a comprehensive review of the 10-year implementation of the World Summit on the Information Soci ety outcomes. In the outcome document of that review\, General Assembly re solution 70/125 of 16 December 2015\, the General Assembly requested the C hair of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development\, through the Economic and Social Council\, to establish a working group to develop recommendations on how to further implement enhanced cooperation as envis ioned in the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society\, taking into consid eration the work that had been done on the matter thus far. Pursuant to th is request\, the Chair established the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperati on on 2 May 2016. Register online for this meetingDownloads:Meeting Regis tration Guidelines EnglishMap of Palais des NationsThe Working Group held its first meeting on 30 September 2016 (the Chair'\;s Summary is annex ed to this notification)\, at which it agreed on the following two questio ns that will guide the discussion at its second meeting:What are the high- level characteristics of enhanced cooperation?Taking into consideration th e work of the previous Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation and the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society\, particularly paragraphs 69-71\, what kind of recommendations should be considered?As a follow-up to the meetin g\, the Chair of the Working Group invited all stakeholders to submit thei r contributions to these two questions by e-mail to the Commission on Scie nce and Technology for Development secretariat.All contributions will be m ade available for consideration by the Working Group\, in their original l anguages\, unless requested otherwise.The deadline to submit inputs is 7 D ecember 2016.http&\;#58\;//www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B8954/(httpAssets)/88 FFDD768F055AECC1256F2A0052A3CC/$file/Palais%20des%20Nations%20map.pdf" \; target="\;_blank\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/ meeting/working-group-enhanced-cooperation-wgec-2016-2018-second-meeting DTSTAMP:20260717T021252Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR