The United Nations Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force is spearheading the Global Forum on Internet Governance which will take place on 25-26 March 2004 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA.

More world-wide discussions are being conducted in relation to the impact of WSIS as well as evaluations and critiques of the first WSIS phase last December 2003.

Reports and discussions about the December 2003 phase one of the World Summit on the Information Society have died down a bit, but new activities surrounding upcoming events are being created and planned already.

It took intensive lobbying by several groups from Civil Society to include the words "free software" in the WSIS declaration of principles, Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Europe, told the International Data Group (IDG).

The Center for International Media Action (CIMA), a non-profit organisation based in New York City, is conducting a survey of civil-society participants involved with the World Forum on Communication rights, WSIS, We Seize! (Geneva03) and related events. The information collected in this survey will be used expressly for the production of a directory of advocacy groups that will be distributed to all participants at the beginning of next year as a tool for organising and information sharing.

To join the survey, visit http://www.mediaactioncenter.org

Signo y Pensamiento, the journal published by the Communications Department of Universidad Javeriana's School of Language and Communications (Bogot, D. C., Colombia) wants to take part in the national and international debates that have emerged around WSIS.