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Calendar of Select Upcoming Events in International Trade and Telecommunications

Originally Developed for the
Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy (ACICIP)
U.S. Department of State

February 2004

For further information contact:
Timothy C. Finton
Senior Counselor for International Communications & Information Policy
U.S. Department of State
tele: (202) 647-5385, fax: (202) 647-0158
e-mail:
fintontc@state.gov
web address: http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cip/

This calendar is updated about once per quarter.

Glossary of Acronyms

DATE

 ACTIVITY

LOCATION

2004

 

 

February

 

 

1-3

TACD's Annual Conference

Brussels

2-3

OECD/EC Conference on spam

Brussels

4-6

SUPERCOMM India 2004

New Delhi

6

Mtg. of ITAC Ad Hoc Group on Internet-related issues

Washington

6-7

G-7 Finance Ministerial

Boca Raton

8-11

CompTel's Annual Convention

Anaheim

9-13

2nd Round of U.S.-Dominican Republic Trade Negotiations  Puerto Rico

 

11-12

WTO General Council Meeting

Geneva

12

FCC Commission Meeting

Washington

17-18

G-8 Foreign Affairs Sous-Sherpa (FASS) Meeting

Washington

22

1st Meeting of Palestine Economic Development Group

Jerusalem

23

U.S.-Israel Joint Economic Development Group Meeting

Jerusalem

23-26

4th Round of U.S.-SACU Trade Negotiations

Namibia

23-3/3

APEC Senior Officials Meeting (SOM 1) & related mtgs

Santiago

24-27

U.S.-Mexico High Level Consultative Committee Prep Mtg  Mexico City

 

26-27

ITU Workshop on Internet Governance

Geneva

26-27

eEurope Ministerial Conference

Budapest

 

hosted by the Hungarian government with support of the

 

 

EU Irish Presidency   <http://www.emcis2004.hu>

 

27

Visit of Chancellor Schroeder of Germany to Washington

 

March

 

 

1

U.S.-EU Ministerial

Washington

1-5

3rd Round of U.S.-Dominican Republic Trade Negotiations

Washington

2-5

Satellite 2004 Conference   <http://www.sia.org>

Washington

2-6

ICANN Meetings

Rome

7-10

NARUC Winter Meeting

Washington

11

FCC Commission Meeting

Washington

14

Presidential Elections in Russia

 

14

General Elections in Spain

 

15-19

U.S. Department of Commerce's Microelectronics Trade Mission to Shanghai and Suzhou, China; Contact:  Marlene Ruffin; Tel: (202) 482-0570; Fax: (202) 482-0975;e-mail: marlene_ruffin@ita.doc.gov

 

15-24

U.S. Department of Commerce's Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Trade Mission to Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand; Contact: Matthew H. Wright, Tel: 202-482-2567;  Fax: 202-482-0178; Email: Matthew.Wright@mail.doc.gov

 

17

Visit of Prime Minister Ahern of Ireland to Washington

 

18

Meeting of the Advisory Committee on International Washington Communications and Information Policy; contact: John Finn/EB/CIP

 

18-19

G-8 Sherpa Meeting

Washington

20-27

APEC TEL 29

Hong Kong

24-26

ITU Council's Ad Hoc Group on Cost Recovery for Satellite Network Filings

Geneva

25-26

UN ICT Task Force Global Forum on Internet Governance

New York

29-30

OECD Executive Committee in Special Session

Paris

29-31

CTIA's Wireless 2004

Dallas

30-31

OECD/WPISP

Paris

30-31

G-8 Foreign Affairs Sous-Sherpa (FASS) Meeting

Washington

31-4/2

SATCOM Asia 2004

Hong Kong

 

http://www.terrapinn.com/2004/swa_SG/index.asp?&T1=4/12/2003&T1=4/12/2003

 

April

 

 

1-2

OECD/ICCP

Paris

 

preceded by WPISP

 Paris

4

CITEL PCCII 

Venezuela

4

DOC Business Development Mission to Eire and

Dublin and Belfast, Northern Ireland

 

 

 

15

FCC Commission Meeting

Washington

17-22

NAB Convention 2004

Las Vegas

19-20

G-8 Sherpa Meeting

Washington

19-21

19th Annual Aspen Institute Conference on Tele-

Queenstown, MD

 

communications Policy Spring Meeting

 

21-23

U.S. Trade & Development Agenda Regional Event

New Delhi

21-23

Informal EU Ministerial Conference on broadband

Dundalk, Ireland

23-24

G-7 Finance Ministerial

Washington

24-25

IMF/World Bank Group Spring Meetings

Washington

26-28

USG Telecommunications & Intellectual Property Conf.

Brussels

 

Contact: Timothy C. Finton/EB/CIP

 

28-30

World Economic Forum, European Economic Summit

Warsaw

 

"Europe -- Enlargement and Beyond"

 

May

 

 

1

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,

 

 

Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia become full members of the European Union

 

3-7

ITU Telecom Africa

Cairo

10-11

World Business Forum 2004

New York

10-14

INET/IGC 2004 conference:  13th annual meeting of the

Barcelona

 

Internet Society combined with the 6th annual Internet

 

 

Global Congress. The theme for INET 2004 is "Strengthening

 

 

the Net: Building an Open and Trusted Internet." The deadline

 

 

for the Call for Papers is December 31. <http://www.inet2004.org>

 

12-14

Visit to Washington of French ART President Paul Champsaur

 

13

FCC Commission Meeting

Washington

13-14

OECD Council Meeting at Ministerial Level

Paris

15-17

World Economic Forum Meeting

Jordan

18-19

G-8 Foreign Affairs Sous-Sherpa (FASS) Meeting

Sea Island, GA

19-21

WITSA XIV World Congress on Information Technology

Athens

 

 (WCIT 2004)

<www.worldcongress2004.org>

24-6/2

APEC Senior Officials Meeting (SOM II) and related mtgs.

Pucan

TBD

G-7 Finance Ministerial

TBD

June

 

 

first week

OECD/TISP and WPIE

Paris

2-4

World Economic Forum Meeting, Africa Economic Summit

Maputo

2-4

Second Res. 609 (WRC-03) Consultation Meeting 

Ottawa

4-5,6-9

CompTel's Summer Business Conference

Montreal

6-7

OAS General Assembly

Quito

8-10

G-8 Summit

Sea Island, GA

9-18

ITU Council

Geneva

9-18

ITU Task Group 1/8 (ultra-wideband) 

Boston

10

FCC Commission Meeting

Washington

17-18

4th European Conference on eGovernment

Dublin

20-24

SUPERCOMM 2004

Chicago

28-29

U.S. Mexico Partnership for Prosperity Entrepreneurial Workshop

Guadalajara

July

 

 

1

Netherlands assumes the EU Presidency

 

2

U.S.-Germany Informal Commercial Exchange (ICE Talks)

Hamburg

 

contact:Kelly Parsons, Germany Desk Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce

 

8

FCC Commission Meeting

Washington

11-14

NARUC Summer Meeting

Salt Lake City

19-23

ICANN Meetings

Kuala Lumpur

August

 

 

5

FCC Commission Meeting

Washington

13-29

2004 Olympic Games

Athens

25-28

ICETE 2004 -International Conference on E-business and

Set�bal, Portugal

 

Telecommunication Networks;  <http://www.icete.org>

 

September

 

 

2-3

APEC Finance Ministers Meeting

Santiago

9

FCC Commission Meeting

Washington

17-28

2004 Paralympic Games

Athens

25-10/4

APEC Senior Officials Meetings (SOM III) and

Santiago

 

related meetings

 

27-28

OECD/ICCP

Paris

 

followed by WPISP

 

29-30

EU Dutch Presidency proposed high-level conference

TBD

 

 (Director General level) for EU "e-agenda"

 

Autumn

 

 

TBD

23rd Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress

Bucharest

October

 

 

1

G-7 Ministerial

Washington

5-14

ITU World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly

  Florianopolis, Brazil

 

<http://www.itu.int/events/eventdetails.asp?lang=en&eventid=6806>

 

6-7

APEC Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Ministerial Meeting

Santiago

14

FCC Commission Meeting

Washington

17-20

CompTel's Fall Business Conference

Miami Beach

November

 

 

early

EU Dutch Presidency proposedinformal conference to TBD

 

 

discuss "Innovation in Network Sectors" in Europe

 

2

U.S. Election Day

 

4

FCC Commission Meeting

Washington

14-17

116th NARUC Annual Convention

Nashville

17-18

APEC Joint Ministerial

Santiago

19-21

APEC CEO Summit

Santiago

20-21

APEC Leaders' Meeting

Santiago

December

 

 

1-5

ICANN Meetings

Cape Town

9

EU Telecom Council Meeting

TBD

 

December 8 dinner for Telecom Council Ministers

 

9

FCC Commission Meeting

Washington

2005

 

 

March

 

 

14-16

CTIA's Wireless 2005

New Orleans

June

 

 

5-9

SUPERCOMM 2005

Chicago

November

 

 

16-18

World Summit on the Information Society

Tunis

2006

 

 

TBD

ITU Plenipot '06

TBD

2006

 

 

May

WITSA XV World Congress on Information Technology

Austin

 

 (WCIT 2006)

 

June

 

 

4-8

SUPERCOMM 2006

Chicago

2007

 

 

1st half of year

ITU WRC '07

TBD

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