Earlier this week we noted that the ITU will convene a Workshop on Internet Governance on 26-27 February in Geneva. Yet it was Kofi Annan who was asked by WSIS to organize the drafting of a report with recommendations on this subject. To that end we learned from the International Chamber of Commerce that there will be an Open Global Forum on 25-26 March 2004 in New York hosted by the UN's ICT Task Force. Apparently the purpose of the Forum is to discuss the composition and methods of activity of the "Internet Governance Working Group" to be created by the UN Secretary General. In the meantime, according to ICC, the UN's ICT Task Force has created its own Internet Governance Advisory Committee, headed by Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (click here to see his resume).
Unfortunately, the agenda of the Open Global Forum is not at the ICT Task Force's website - at least not on the public pages yet - even though ICC says that written contributions are being solicited for discussion at the Forum. Nor does the UN ICT Task Force's website mention their new Internet Governance Advisory Committee. Why is that?