Information Society summit slated in Manila

By Erwin Lemuel Oliva, INQ7.net

THE COMMISSION on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) will host a Philippine summit on the Information Society next month in Manila.

The summit hopes to gather inputs to create a strategic national consensus on Internet Governance, which will be presented at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis on November 2005, the CICT said.

It also seeks to generate an action plan for building a sustainable Philippine Information Society.

The summit is supported by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Philippine Electronics and Telecommunications Federation, and Information Technology Foundation of the Philippines.

The summit is scheduled on September 9, 2005 at the Grand Ballroom of the Manila Hotel. About 300 participants from government, academe, private sector, and civil society from 16 regions are expected to attend

 

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