Athens Preparatory Meetings

16-17 February 2006 Geneva, Switzerland

About 300 participants representing all stakeholder groups attended a first round of open consultations. The participants addressed a wide variety of issues, such as the IGF's scope of work and substantive priorities as well as aspects related to its structure and functioning. The aim of the consultations was to develop a common understanding among all stakeholders on the nature and character of the IGF.

• Official Notification of the First IGF Meeting to Multistakeholders [HTML]
• Agenda [HTML]
• List of Participants [HTML]
• Proposed Timeline [HTML]
• Transcript of Proceedings

  Date	Session
  16 February 2008	Morning [TXT]
  	Afternoon [TXT]
  17 February 2008	Morning [TXT]
  	Afternoon [TXT]

• Pictures of Proceedings [HTML]

19 May 2006 Geneva, Switzerland

A second round of consultations open to all stakeholders was held on 19 May 2006. The consultations focused on the substantive preparation of the inaugural meeting of the IGF. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Nitin Desai, the Secretary-General's Special Adviser for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

• Transcript of Proceedings

  Date	Session
  19 May 2008	Morning [TXT]
  	Afternoon [TXT]

General Information

• Seretary-General Establishes Advisory Group: 17 May 2006 [HTML]

22 - 23 May 2006 Geneva, Switzerland

• The recommendations were transmitted to the United Nations Secretary-General who was mandated by the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to convene “by the second quarter of 2006, a new meeting for a multi-stakeholder policy dialogue”. For more information about the Draft Agenda and Programme, cliick here [HTML]
• Proposed programme outline, call for contributions and meeting format [HTML]

7 - 8 September 2006 Geneva, Switzerland

• At its second meeting it drew up a short list of panellists, selected the workshops and finalized the programme of the Athens meeting