<img src='http://ccmail.sookmyung.ac.kr:8080/nara/servlet/webmail.WebMailReConfServ/853346' border=0><DIV align=left>Dear all,</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>Warm greetings from Seoul. </DIV>
<DIV align=left>Hope everything is fine with you, especially for your WSIS process.</DIV>
<DIV align=left>I am prof. Kio Chung Kim, Director of Asian Pacific Women's Information Network Center (APWINC). </DIV>
<DIV align=left>We are happy to announce that WSIS Thematic Meeting : Forum on ICTs and Gender for WSIS 2005.will be held on <B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">24-25 June 2005</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">, at Sookmyung Womne's University in Seoul, Korea.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left>APWINC is co-organizing the Forum with GWDC, KADO and ITU <SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">. Please refer to </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><A href="http://women.or.kr/wsisforum">http://women.or.kr/wsisforum</A> </SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 12pt; WORD-BREAK: keep-all; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-margin-top-alt: auto" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Following the Forum on ICTs and Gender: Optimizing Opportunities held on 23rd August 2003 in Malaysia as well as the outcome of Women¨s World 2005 (<A href="http://www.ww05.org">http://www.ww05.org</A> ) to be held between June 19 and 24 2005 in Korea, this Forum as a preparatory meeting for the WSIS2005 discusses on ICTs & Gender mainly focusing on e-Governance and Digital Solidarity Fund from the gender perspectives of various stakeholders from international organization, NGOs to academia.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<diV align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 郊伝; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 郊伝; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt">This <STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Forum especially calls upon various stakeholders participating at the WSIS</SPAN></STRONG> to take into consideration its discussions and recommendations in the Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action to be adopted at the WSIS 2005 and beyond.</SPAN></diV>
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<diV align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 郊伝; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt">We'll circulate the declaration from gender perspective to you as soon as it is ready.</SPAN></diV>
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<diV align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 郊伝; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt">Kio Chung Kim, </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 郊伝; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt"><FONT size=2>Director <BR>Asian Pacific Women's Information Network Center<BR>Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea <BR>Tel: +82-2-710-9428, 9886 Fax: +82-2-710-9896 <BR><A href="http://apwinc.sookmyung.ac.kr">http://apwinc.sookmyung.ac.kr</A> <BR><A href="http://www.women.or.kr">http://www.women.or.kr</A> <BR></FONT></diV></SPAN>
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