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UNFPA and the World Summit on the Information Society
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| Ms. Susan Pasquariella and Mr. Brendan O'Brien at the UNFPA Exhibit Booth, World Summit on Information Society |
The first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 10-12 December 2003, and was hosted by the Government of Switzerland. It addressed the broad range of themes concerning the Information Society and adopted a Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action . The second phase will take place in Tunis hosted by the Government of Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005 . To learn more about the WSIS, consult the main website at: http://www.wsis.org.
UNFPA's involvement in the Summit included a statement in the General Debate: Plenary Session 4 by the UNFPA Deputy Executive Director, Ms. Imelda Henkin, an exhibit in the ICT4Dev Platform and the formal release of new open source software for Knowledge Sharing.
On December 10, 2003, at the World Summit on the Information Society, UNFPA, the Government of Ireland and the Government of Jordan launched the portable Knowledge Asset Development System (pKADS). pKADS is a CD-ROM version of UNFPA's in-house on-line Knowledge Asset Development System (KADS) which is now in use as part of a broad-based organization-wide Knowledge Sharing Strategy. pKADS is an open source knowledge sharing tool used to collect, distill and synthesize lessons learned in a way that would improve results and inform policy and development strategies. [see press release]
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