No.

Title

Venue and Dates

1.

African Regional Preparatory Conference for the WSIS

Accra, 28-January - 4 February

2.

4^th Meeting of the ECA Committee on Development Information CODI, including meeting of the Bamako Bureau on the African Action Plan on the Knowledge Economy (ARAPKE)

Addis, 23-28 April

3.

Conference on Multilinguism for Cultural Diversity and Participation of All in Cyberspace

Bamako, 6-7 May

4.

Pan Arab Conference for the WSIS, including meeting of the African Ministerial Committee on ICT and the Bamako Bureau

Cairo, 6-10 May

5.

African meeting on Internet Governance

Dakar, 8-9 June

6.

African and Arab Regional Conference on Electronic Transaction Security and Digital Signature

Tunis, 20-22 June

7.

Meeting of the African Ministerial Committee on ICT, including meeting of the Bamako Bureau

Abuja, 3-8 July

8.

African Regional Conference of Local Authorities for the WSIS

Dakar, 13-15 July

9.

3^rd Preparatory Meeting for the WSIS, including meetings of the Ministerial Committee on ICT and the Bamako Bureau

Geneva, 19 September - 1 October

10.

Workshop on the the African Action Plan on the Knowledge Economy (ARAPKE)

Tunis, 16 November from 09 - 1300

11.

Round Table on the Regional Perspectives for the Global Information Society

Tunis, 16 November from 14 - 1530

12.

Round Table on Promoting the participation of women in the Information Society and the Knowledge-based Economy

Tunis, 16 November from 16 - 1700