The Pan-Arab Regional Conference on WSIS

The Pan- Arab Regional Conference on WSIS
Cairo, 16-18 June 2003

Organized by MCIT, and the League of Arab States

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The conference will be held in the headquarters of the League of Arab States.

The Pan-Arab Regional Conference is a regional preparatory conference to be held in the intersession between Prep-Com II and Prep Com II 1/2 that will be followed by Prep Com III and thus will be action-oriented taking off from the outcome of Prep- Com II.

The results of the conference will be taken up to 22 Arab Ministers of Communications and Information Technology for endorsement.

Objective:
Reaching a unified Arab stance on the action plan to be presented at Prep Com II 1/2 and Prep Com III as well as the Summit.

Organizers:
The conference will be held in coordination with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

-	The League of Arab States: the Technical Secretariat of the League of Arab states and the Technical Secretariat of the Council of Arab Ministers of Communications and Information Technology
-	The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
-	Arab Business Forum for Information and Communication Technology
-	The concerned regional and international organizations

Attendees:

1-	Arab Ministers of Communications and Information Technology or charge d' affairs
2-	Delegations from the Arab administrations
3-	Representatives of the Arab business sector (through the Arab Business Forum for Communications and Information Technology)
4-	Representatives of NGOs
5-	Public Figures
6-	Mass media
7-	Representatives of the concerned UN agencies, regional and international organizations ITU and the executive bureau of the WSIS