At the First Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, Member States felt that "while all existing financial mechanisms should be fully exploited, a thorough review of their adequacy in meeting the challenges of ICT for development should be completed by the end of December 2004". This review was entrusted to a Task Force under the auspices of Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Report of the TFFM for ICT for Development

Executive Summary and Conclusions of the report

Consultations with all stakeholders (16 November 2004): The TFFM held a consultation meeting, open to all stakeholders in the WSIS process, on 16 November in Geneva (10:00 - 13:00 hrs). 

• Announcement from UN for the informal consultations
• The Draft Outline for Report was made available to the participants. If you have inputs or comments, please join the online forum.

Online Consultations (25 October - 25 November 2004)

• The Task Force on Financial Mechanisms (TFFM) invites you to join the online forum on Financial Mechanisms for Information and Communication Technologies for Development. This forum will be open between October 25th and November 25th, 2004.

Launch Meeting (4 October 2004)

• UN press release (7 October 2004): WSIS Task Force on Financial Mechanisms launched
• Report of the meeting