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WITSA Event Calendar
European Union Presidency
Schedule (2006-2018)
[List of Acronyms]
Special
WITSA Events
November 1-3, 2009
WITSA Global Public Policy
Summit (GPPS
2009)
Bermuda
May 25-27, 2010: World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2010) Amsterdam
2009
January 2009
| 8-9 | International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) | Las Vegas |
| 26 | OECD International Economic Forum: Latin-America & The Caribbean, organized by the French Ministry for Economy, Finance and Employment, the OECD Development Centre and the Inter-American Development Bank. At the French Finance Ministry/Bercy, Paris | Paris |
| 27-29 | International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) 23rd Advisory Committee meeting | London |
| 28-01 Feb. | World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (WEF) | Davos, Switzerland |
February 2009
| 3-4 | WTO General Council | Geneva |
| 4-6 | Radiocommunication Advisory Group | Geneva |
| 11-13 |
NASSCOM India Leadership Forum Contact: akansha@nasscom.in |
Mumbai, India |
| 13-14 | G-7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting, with participation of the OECD Secretary-General | Rome |
| 16-19 | GSMA Mobile World Congress<http://www.mobileworldcongress.com | Barcelona |
| 18 | NATO Parliamentary Assembly, annual meeting with the OECD Secretariat | Paris |
| 19-20 | OECD 8th Global Forum on Competition | Paris |
| 23-24 | U.N. Internet Governance Forum (IGF): Taking Stock & Preparing the IGF Review Process | Geneva |
MARCH 2009
| 1-6 | Meetings of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) | Mexico City |
| 10-11 | International Telecommunications Satellite Organization Advisory Committee meeting | Washington, DC |
| 9-10 | OECD ICCP Working Party on Information Security and Privacy (WPISP) . More information. | Paris |
| 11 | OECD ICCP Technology Foresight Forum Session on “Virtual Worlds” | Paris |
| 12-13 | 57th Meeting of the OECD/ICCP (More information) | Paris |
| 24-27 | Satellite 2009 http://www.satellite2009.com | Washington, DC |
| 29-31 | G8 Labor Ministerial Meeting | Rome, Italy |
APRIL 2009
| 2 | G20 ministers' meeting on the economic crisis. London, United Kingdom | London |
| 20 | Special high-level meetings of the Economic and Social Council with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and UNCTAD [Web] | New York |
| 22-24 | World Telecommunications Policy Forum (WTPF 2009) | Lisbon |
| 25-26 | 2009 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund [Web] | Washington, DC |
MAY 2009
| 5-8 | Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) PCC.1 Meeting | Cuzco, Peru |
| 18-22 | WSIS Forum 2009 (Contact: jaroslaw.ponder@itu.int and wsis@unesco.org) | Geneva |
| 21-22 | Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD General Assembly (BIAC) with participation of the OECD Secretary-General. Lisbon, Portugal | Lisbon, Portugal |
| 24-26 | World Business Summit on Global Climate Change, organized by the Copenhagen Climate Council. Participation of OECD. Copenhagen, Denmark. [Copenhagen Climate Council] | Copenhagen |
| 25-27 | OECD 3rd Expert Meeting on ICT in the Health Sector (Contact) | Paris |
| 26-27 | WITSA Meetings in The Hague, Netherlands [Contact] | Amsterdam |
| 27-28 | WTO General Council | Geneva |
JUNE 2009
| TBA | WTO General Council: 2nd Global Review of Aid for Trade | Geneva |
| 3-5 | 6th World Chambers Congress: Leading Sustainable Growth and Change (Web) | Kuala Lumpur |
| 8-11 | SUPERCOMM 2009 | Chicago |
| 8-11 | Adapting to a New World Order: Realities and Changes, International Economic Forum of the Americas Conference of Montreal | Montreal, Canada |
| 21-26 | ICANN Meeting 35 | Sydney |
| 24-25 | OECD Council Meets at Ministerial Level under the chairmanship of Korean Prime Minister Seung Soo Han | Paris |
| 29-24 July | United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, forty-second session | Vienna |
JULY 2009
| 21-22 | APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade | Singapore |
| 28-29 | WTO General Council | Geneva |
AUGUST 2009
| 26-28 |
World Information Technology Forum
(WITFOR 2009)
Hosted by Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC), this
event will be held in Hanoi under the theme “ICT for Sustainable
Development”. This is the first time Vietnam host this important ICT
event, and we expect to get the participation of 1.500 ICT organizations
and companies from around 70 countries all over the world. On this
occasion, VINASA is in charge to
organize side events as follows (contact):
|
Hanoi, Vietnam |
SEPTEMBER 2009
| 2-4 | GAID Annual Events (Global Forum and meetings of the Strategy Council and Steering Committee) - tentative | Monterrey, Mexico |
| 8-11 | Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) PCC.1 Meeting | TBD |
OCTOBER 2009
| 1-2 | European Identity Conference "Net-ID 2009 - Identity, Trust, Privacy and Security [More information] | Berlin |
| 6-7 | Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund Istanbul | Istanbul |
| 13-14 | WTO General Council | Geneva |
| 25-30 | ICANN Meeting 36 | Seoul |
NOVEMBER 2009
| 1 | WITSA Board & Public Policy Meetings | Bermuda |
| 1-3 | WITSA's Global Public Policy Summit 2009 (GPPS 2009) | Bermuda |
| 2-6 |
ExpoTech Technology Week [Web] Co-organized by: Palestinian IT Association of Companies (PITA) The Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator "PICTI" Palestine Trade Center (PalTrade) |
Ramallah |
| 14-15 | 17th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting | Singapore |
| 15-18 | U.N. Internet Governance Forum (IGF) | Sharm-el-Sheikh |
| 17-19 |
ASOCIO ICT Summit 2009 (Web)
|
Melbourne |
| 17-19 |
MENA ICT Week 2009: "Driving Economies for a Better Future" "The premier ICT event in the Arab world, Middle East and North Africa" The event is held in collaboration between BIS and IJMA3. More information here. |
Bahrain |
December 2009
| 9-10 |
OECD Conference on E- Commerce (review of OECD
Guidelines for Consumer Protection in the
Context E-Commerce) Hosted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission NOTE: Based on the “Seoul Ministerial Model”, they have also requested to both BIAC and to Civil Society, if we would be able to organize a ½ stakeholders meeting the day before. |
Washington, DC |
| 17-18 |
WTO General Council
|
Geneva |
February 2010
| 7-13 |
ICANN Meetings 37 |
Africa TBD |
May 2010
| 25-27 |
WITSA's 2010 World Congress on IT (WCIT 2010) |
Amsterdam |
June 2010
| 20-25 |
ICANN Meetings 38 |
Latin-America |
OCTOBER 2010
| 4-22 |
ITU Plenipotentiary |
Veracruz, Mexico |
| 17-23 | ICANN Meetings 39 | Europe TBD |