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The Second Phase of WSIS: Tunis 2005
The second phase of the WSIS was held in Tunis on November 16-18 2005. The outcome documents were the Tunis Commitment http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/7.html
and Tunis Agenda for the Information Society http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html.

Swiss statements in Tunis 2005
Bundespräsident Samuel Schmid

Swiss President Samuel Schmid's speech during the WSIS Opening Ceremony
November 16 2005. http://www.bundespraesident.admin.ch/internet/president/en/home/redint/reden2005/051116b.html

→ Archived Speech available here (English)
→ Archived Speech available here (French)

Two statements from Federal Counsellor Moritz Leuenberger, head of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications, during the plenary session http://www.uvek.admin.ch/dokumentation/reden/chef/20051117/02407/index.html?lang=fr
of November 17 2005 and at the occasion of the Summit closing ceremony

http://www.uvek.admin.ch/dokumentation/reden/chef/20051118/02408/index.html?lang=fr

→ Archived Speech available here (French)

NEWS IN SECOND PHASE OF THE WSIS
	Information and Communications Technology for Peace: The role of ICT in preventing, responding to and recovering from conflict A report by Daniel Stauffacher, William Drake, Paul Currion, Julia Steinberger, with a preface by Kofi Annan and a foreword by Micheline Calmy-Rey. This report was commissioned by the ICT4Peace project, www.ict4peace.org.
	Internet, pour le meilleur et pour le pire: A speech by the Swiss Federal Councillor for Environment, Transportation, Energy and Communication, Moritz Leuenberger, at the start of the third preparatory committee (PrepCom 3) for the second phase of the WSIS, in Geneva on September 19, 2005.
	Le temps de l'information solidaire: a speech by the Swiss Federal Councillor for Environment, Transportation, Energy and Communication, Moritz Leuenberger, at the start of the second preparatory committee (PrepCom 2) for the second phase of the WSIS, in Geneva on February 17 2005.
	The Swiss Contribution to the second phase: "Swiss Non-Paper on the structure and focus of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society"
	Speech of Mr Marc Furrer, Secretary of State, at PrepCom 1 in Hammamed: "Statement by Marc Furrer, Secretary of State of Switzerland, held at the opening ceremony of PrepCom I in Hammamet on 24 June 2004"

THE WAY FORWARD FROM GENEVA
The second phase of WSIS will be held in Tunis from 16 to 18 November, 2005, hosted by the Government of Tunisia.

	The World Summit on the Information Society: Moving from the Past into the Future: a collection of articles by different stakeholders in the WSIS process edited by Ambassador Daniel Stauffacher and Professor Wolfgang Kleinwächter published by the UN ICT Task Force. → The World Summit on the Information Society (ISN ETH Zürich)
	WSIS Executive Secretariat: Complete information for the intergovernmental process.
	WSIS-ONLINE is the community platform which binds the Summits of Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005. Identify the projects, events and partners according to the Plan of Action.
	Tunisia 2005, website of the host country
The First Phase of WSIS: Geneva 2003 The World Summit on the Information Society - held in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003 - brought together over 11,000 delegates representing 176 countries. The three-day Summit was the first multi-stakeholder global effort to develop a shared vision of an information society that empowers and benefits all people. The Summit's most notable achievement was the consensus earned for the Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action. Download the pdf brochure (1.46 MB) of the WSIS 2003 Geneva Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action Read more about the Summit: Geneva, Phase1 ; Summit Events
NEWS ABOUT THE FIRST PHASE OF WSIS
	Reports about the the first phase: Wsis-Book ; Swiss Article by Ambassador Daniel Stauffacher and Thomas Schneider (OfCom) published in "La Vie Economique" (german and french) June 2004
	To access all information of the WSIS intergovernmental process go to: http://www.itu.int/wsis/geneva/index.html
	To access Switzerland's official contributions to WSIS go to: http://www.itu.int/wsis/geneva/coverage/statements/switzerland/ch.doc

SUMMIT EVENTS
More than 200 workshops, conferences, symposium, roundtables and exhibitions. Read more...

WSIS-ONLINE
The online community platform to discover WSIS events, identify participants, organizations and explore Summit themes.

Reports from Multi-stakeholder events
Reports from Multi-stakeholder events presented in the WSIS Plenary session. Includes reports from WSIS Gender Caucus, Youth, ICT4D Platform, World Electronic Media forum, Business, Science and others.

WSIS Official Guide
Available as pdf download in English and French. Includes general information about WSIS, official program and roundtables and summit events.