The Larger Agenda
| Dec.1999 | Seattle | WTO attempts to arrange a Millennium Round of trade talks |
| Early 2000 | Washington | World Bank/ IMF meetings employ I&C Technologies to set up controversial Global Development Gateway, http://www.worldbank.org/gateway/ |
| June 2000 | Tokyo | UNCTAD e-commerce workshop on Asia with PDF file and CD-ROM |
| July 5-7 | New York | UN expert group recommends a UN "ICT Task Force" drawing on private funding such as the "Turner Fund" in their report published for a meeting of the UN's ECOSOC, for the G-8 summit and the UN's Millennium Summit in Sept.; main recommendation, debt, climate, and previous events |
| July 16 | Yokohama,Japan | Meeting of ICANN Board establishes new top-level domains |
| July 21 | Okinawa, Japan | G-8 nations employ ICT to set up the global Digital Opportunity Taskforce, dotforce, http://www.weforum.org/ and http://www.isoc.org/internet/issues/divide/ |
| July 26 | New York | Kofi Annan expands his Davos initiative to set up a Global Compact, http://www.unglobalcompact.org/, "designed partly to keep the debate over labour and environmental standards out of the World Trade Organisation" according to John Ruggie, spec. advisor to Annan (FT 28.7.); criticism |
| Sept. 4-10 | New York | State-of-the-World Forum. Here UNDP's Brown spoke in favor of ICT for combatting the global digital divide, unlike Gates. |
| Sept. 6-8 | New York | UN Millennium Summit; summary of world charter initiatives |
| Sept. 25-26 | Miami FL, USA | Global Business Dialogue discusses its "Digital Bridges" Task Force. |
| Sept. 2000 | Prague | World Bank/ IMF meetings http://www.imf.org/external/am/2000/ngoinfo.htm; criticism |
| Oct. 1-4 | Ulm, Germany | Invitation-only Global Society Dialogue on the topics of Information Society, sustainability and global governance, WTO, WB/ IMF |
| Oct. 6 | Hannover | Public Conference at Expo2000 |
| Oct. 11-13 | Loccum near Hannover | UNEP's Klaus Toepfer and Protestant Academy hold meeting on the topic of the WTO |
| Oct. 16-18 | Seattle | Conference, http://www.digitaldividend.org. Here Gates spoke against using ICT for combatting the global digital divide, unlike Brown. |
| Oct. 19-20 | Sophia-Antipolis, France | Global Forum 2000, http://www.sophia-antipolis.org/ |
| Nov. 13-15 |
Paris | InfoEthics 2000, http://webworld.unesco.org/infoethics2000/index.html |
| 2002 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Rio +10, the UN Earth Summit III, activities planned in this Draft Process Agenda , by this coalition including at the European Partners for the Environment |
| 2003 | Switz. or Tunisia | International Telecommunication Union ITU holds "Information Society Summit", http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press/releases/2000/16.html |
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Updated 23.12.00