>From: "Myriam Horngren" <mh@wacc.org.uk>
>To: <Crisal@comunica.org>,<cris-brasil@listas2.rits.org.br>
>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:06:09 -0000
>Subject: [CRIS - AL] FW: AHCIET- IV LATIN
>AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN - EUROPEAN UNION
>MINISTERIAL FORUM ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
>
>Available in English only as far as we know.
>
>Myriam
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>From: Ana Ortiz Obregón [aortiz@ahciet.es]
>Sent: 13 December 2005 16:41
>To: aortiz@ahciet.es
>Subject: AHCIET- IV LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN
>- EUROPEAN UNION MINISTERIAL FORUM ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
>
>Dear Sir,
>
>The IV European Union (EU) - Latin American and
>Caribbean (LAC) Ministerial Forum on the
>Information Society will be held in Lisbon,
>Portugal, on 28-29 April 2006. This event is
>being organised by the Portuguese Government and
>by the European Commission, with the support of
>AHCIET (as member of the International
>Stakeholder Network of the @LIS
>Programme). This Forum will pursue the
>exchanges that took place at the previous fora,
>held in April 2002 in Seville (Spain), in July
>2003 in Lima (Peru), and in November 2004 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
>
>This IV Forum will debate a declaration focusing
>on the social impact of ICT to be submitted to
>the EU-LAC Summit of Heads of State and
>Government, which will be held in Vienna on
>11-12 May 2006, in reply to the mandate of the
>LAC-EU Summit of Guadalajara (Mexico) of May
>2004 ( http://europa.eu.int/comm/world/lac-guadal/00_index.htm, paragraph 94).
>
>This Forum will also discuss the implementation
>of the bi-regional work programme for digital
>inclusion adopted at the last Forum held in
>November 2004 in Rio de Janeiro,
>http://www.forumsocinfo.gov.br/forumsocinfo/english/forumsocinfo.
>In this context, the IV Forum will:
>
>=D8 pursue the exchange of experiences on
>the impact of ICT on social inclusion,
>identified as an important axis of the strategic
>partnerships between the two regions,
>particularly in the fields of education, health,
>public administration and digital inclusion;
>
>=D8 exchange views on the status of the
>i2010 and eLAC2007 initiatives on the
>development of the Information Society in each one of the regions;
>
>=D8 discuss bi-regional cooperation in the field of research;
>
>=D8 present the results obtained in the
>context of the @LIS cooperation programme of the
>European Commission (EuropeAid),
>http://europa.eu.int/alis , including a
>demonstration space for the results and best
>practices of the projects within this programme;
>
>=D8 exchange views on the outcome and
>follow-up of the UN World Summit on the
>Information Society, held in Tunis in November 2005.
>
>This Forum will be attended by Ministers,
>coordinators of national programmes for
>Information Society and/or Digital Inclusion and
>Presidents of regulatory agencies of the sector
>of both regions, as well as high-level
>representatives of civil society, the private
>sector and of international organisations.
>
>For logistical reasons, participation at this
>Forum will be subject to invitation from the
>Portuguese Government and the European
>Commission. These invitations will be sent shortly.
>
>_____________________________________________
>
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