[hr-wsis] Accreditation for PrepCom2

[Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>]

This is a very important information for Civil Society organizations 
willing to participate to PrepCom2, the 2nd preparatory conference of 
the WSIS process.

PrepCom2 will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, February 17-28, 2003 (yes, 
11 days!).
 From the official secretariat information, it is envisaged that the 
first week be mainly multi-stakeholder roundtables on the themes 
pre-selected by the Subcommittee 2 (I'll explain this organization in 
subcommittees in a next message).

ACCREDITATION IS NEEDED, whether or not you have participated to 
PrepCom1.

The deadline for accreditation is December 15, 2002.

To ask for accreditation, you have to:

1/ Register on the web site of the Civil Society Official Secretariat, 
which is at:
http://www.geneva2003.org (information available in English, French and 
Spanish).
See http://www.geneva2003.org/home/index01.htm for English version.

2/ Provide the requested information and documents:
a)	name of the organization/entity and pertinent contact information, 
including address and main contact;
b)	legal status;
c)	year of establishment;
d)	purpose of the organization/entity;
e)	a list of the members of the governing body of the 
organization/entity and their countries of nationality;
f)	a description of the membership of the organization, indicating the 
total number of members, the names of organizations that are members and 
their geographical distribution;
g)	programmes and activities in areas relevant to the subject of the 
Summit and indicating in which country, or countries, they are carried 
out;
h)	copies of the annual reports, with financial statements and a list 
of financial sources and contributions, including governmental 
contributions, if applicable;
i)	a copy of the constitution and/or by-laws of the organization;
j)	a completed pre-registration form prepared by the Executive 
Secretariat;
k)	confirmation of the activities of the organization at the national, 
regional or international levels.

Note that this means that your organization must have a legal status, 
and must be older than two years. For such organizations, the 
accreditation process is manageable, though needing some paperwork.

Civil Society organizations which are accredited with ECOSOC or have the 
status of ITU sector member (this applies in fact to business companies 
only) do not have to provide all these documents, but they do have to 
register and indicate their ECOSOC accreditation status.

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