Content of our initiative in 2 parts … Input to World Summit 2005 WSIS I Geneva 2003 Declaration of Principles – finished Action Plan – implementation - - still open for input, which must be practical WSIS II Tunis Nov Side event Enviroinfo Sept Brno CZ Enviroinfo 2006 ? time

Future Enviroinfo conferences should have a: 1.financial account to reduce conference fees and pay travel expenses for highly qualified participants from developing countries, and an 2.ongoing track of papers to deal with improving the match between: Data usersData producers

Future Enviroinfo conferences should provide for: 3. technology transfer from N to S in ministries of the environment in collaboration with UNEP and other participants such as mapping agencies, some of which have had thus far only other purposes. organizations could serve environmental aims now, and have e.g. biodiversity info. Provide for better equipment in government as capacity building and teaching/training Promote collaboration among diverse stakeholder groups. Provide for donors to receive value-added in exchange for their funding. –Civil society (i.e. nonprofits) –Private sector –Government agencies –Intergovernmental agencies –Academics

Future Enviroinfo conferences should provide for: See Annex for details Our side event in Tunis should focus on N/S capacity building, info. tech. for the S., strengthening ICT capacities in the S. –Regional S-to-S cooperation (in addition to global N/S level, which becomes too abstract) such as NEPAD, groupings in LA with diverse, but more concrete agendas, exchange of lessons learned from them with others

Multistakeholder partnership Academic: Ges. für Informatik Fachausschuss for scientific input and continuity in conference organization as part of its “Europaisierung“ process with reliable partners who prove their commitments Etat de Geneve (Alberto Susini) Intergovernmental organizations –UNEP, Nairobi – helps select recipients, links Johannesburg (sust. dev.) with Geneva/Tunis topics (InfoSoc) –UNDP, Montevideo –UNITAR recommended speaker from UNESCO/OSS, Tunis – on site for WSIS II –UNECE, Geneva, Environmental and Human Settlements Division – strong in Central and Eastern Europe (Brno) –UNECA, Addis Abeba, Ag. and Food Security (Mr. Dosi, U. Faye), Strike Makandle European Commission, JRC, DG Env‘t, EEA, DG InfSoc Denmark (in view of enviroinfo2006) Min.of Env‘t, Danish EPA, NERI, RISO (inter alia on energy with UNEP), Dan. Hydraulic Institute Civil society: Donors: software producers, etc. you

Contact Thomas Ruddy Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research convenor of the WSIS Environment and ICT Working Group at