Dear WSIS CS colleagues
Am reposting a message below from Francis Muguet to one
of the WSIS CS Working Groups, then reposted to the
Internet Governance Caucus list by Adam Peake.
It has a short update of how the logistical arrangements
of the Tunis Summit (including the summit venue) are
shaping up. FYI
Al
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>Dear Friends
>
>Following my visit in Tunisia last week,
>the context of the WSIS appears to the be the following
:
>150 heads of states are expected to attend the
>WSIS from 16-18 November 2005.
>President Bush is likely to attend the Summit.
>18,000 participants are already registered.
>It seems it is going to be an event of
>a much greater magnitude that the WSIS in Geneva.
>
>All the Hotels of Tunis from the **** Hotels to
>the ** Hotels are fully booked.
>The US has booked a complete Hotel in front of the
>US embassy.
>There is question to accomodate the extra participants
>in Hammamet and to bus them daily.
>
>The WSIS is going to take place at the
>Exhibition Park at KRAM
>http://www.fkram.com.tn
>
>Civil Society is invited to
>organize Parallel Events
>see guidelines
>http://www.smsitunis2005.org/plateforme/guideline.php
>at the KRAM
>from 14 to 19 November.
>The deadline for proposal
>http://www.smsitunis2005.tn/plateforme/docs/formulaire.
doc
>is now very near : * 30 April *.
>We hope that the conference halls are given for
>free to the Civil Society like in Geneva, but
>this is not clear yet.
>
>I visited the Exhibition Park at KRAM
>see my pictures
>http://www.wsis-pct.org/kram-apr05.html
>It appears too small and the access roads
>too narrow to allow the fluid traffic of the motorcade
>of 150 head of states with their suites.
>Other participants are likely to have to get there
>by bus and spent a long time on tight security checks.
>
>It is not going to be easy to organize the logistics
>of events there.
>
>To help us all, it would be probably a good idea to
organize
>an Umbrella event that would regroup all the events
>concerning the themes that are relevant to this group.
>
>Best regards
>
>Francis
>
>
>
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