Following the establishment last week by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan of an Advisory Group to assist him in convening the Internet Governance Forum, the Group's first meeting was held on May 22 and 23.
The Internet Governance Forum represents a new space for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance.
The Advisory Group includes 47 members from Government, the private sector and civil society, including the academic and technical communities, who represent all regions of the world.
It is chaired by Nitin Desai, the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
The Group's main task was to prepare the substantive agenda and programme for the first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, which is to be held in Athens from 30 October to 2 November. Decisions on how to prepare subsequent meetings and on any future structure and working methods of the Forum will be taken in light of the experiences gained during the preparatory process for the Athens meeting.
The Internet Governance Forum is an outcome of the Tunis phase of the WSIS, which took place in November 2005.
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