How does it work?
The ICC Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms meets twice a year to discuss the work undertaken by the task forces and to outline future work items and strategy.
Structure
The ICC Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms serves as the overarching body for issue-specific task forces which include:
Projects
The Commission also oversees the following special projects:
World Summit on the Information Society - Geneva (2003), Tunis (2005)
UN Secretary General's Task Force on Financial Mechanisms
UN Secretary General's Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)
Digital opportunities initiatives, such as the UN ICT Task Force
Global Action Plan for electronic business
A number of projects, products and services are managed by the ICC International Secretariat and draw upon the expertise of interested members of the EBITT Commission and other ICC Commissions.
ICC contributes its network and expertise to key global efforts to help developing countries improve and create their telecommunications, IT and e-business capabilities and infrastructures, and encourage investment and entrepreneurship.
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/ebitt/id2343/index.html
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held during the week of 8 December 2003 in Geneva, culminating in the Summit segment on 10-12 December 2003. The second part of this Summit took place from 16-18 November in Tunis.
Principals of the Summit host countries and executive secretariat invited the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) to create the Coordinating Committee of Business Interlocutors (CCBI) as a vehicle through which to mobilize and coordinate the involvement of the worldwide business community in the processes leading to and culminating in the Summit. ICC and the CCBI group led the private-sector effort to provide substantive input into the two phases of the Summit, and mobilized the private sector to participate in the preparatory phases and at the Summits themselves. The CCBI is constituted of business organizations and their member companies from all sectors, of all sizes and from all regions. The companies and associations range from information and communication technology service providers, product developers, and users, to legal and policy experts, as well as entrepreneurs from developed and developing countries.
UN Secretary General's Task Force on Financial Mechanisms (TFFM)
ICC was asked to serve on the UN Secretary General's Task Force on Financial Mechanisms (TFFM), which was established following WSIS, Geneva 2003, to evaluate existing financing mechanisms for ICTs and development
http://www.itu.int/wsis/tffm/
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UN Secretary General's Working Group on Internet Governance
ICC's secretariat and members also served on the UN Secretary General's Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG).
http://www.wgig.org/
The first phase of World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) agreed to pursue the dialogue on Internet Governance in the Declaration of Principles and Action Plan adopted on 12 December 2003, with a view to preparing the ground for a decision at the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis in November 2005. In this regard, the first phase of the Summit requested the United Nations Secretary-General to establish a Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). The WGIG has been asked to present the result of its work in a report "for consideration and appropriate action for the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis 2005."
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UN ICT Task Force
ICC and the EBITT Commission contribute to the work of the UN ICT Task Force (www.unict.org) which is a multistakeholder initiative launched by the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. ICC contributes substantive policy and practice input to the UN ICT Task Force meetings and Global Forums, and supports particular projects both through substantive input and providing its network of global business repres entatives.
Global Action Plan for electronic business (GAP)
ICC co-ordinates with the Alliance for Global Business (AGB) to update this global reference document which records base policy positions of many business groups and serves as one single interface on all fundamental policy issues vis- -vis governments and intergovernmental organizations.
Members of the Alliance for Global Business are:
Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC)
Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC)
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
International Telecommunications Users Group (INTUG), and,
World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA)
The 3rd edition of the Global Action Plan for electronic business (.pdf file - 83 pages) was distributed and made available on the ICC website end of July 2002.
ICC compendium on ICT and E-Business policy and practice
This selection of policy and practice documents prepared by ICC's Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms (EBITT) has been prepared for presentation at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (10-12 December 2003). It gives a comprehensive picture of the substantive work of ICC's experts on the public policy and practice aspects of information and communications technologies (ICTs).
This compendium is structured in three sections:
1. ICC global ICT and e-business policy;
2. ICC responses to specific ICT and e-business policy initiatives; and
3. ICC ICT and e-business tools.
ICC compendium on ICT and E-Business policy and practice (.pdf - 164 pages)
The Compendium is a snapshot that shows the extensive work accomplished by the members of the Commission on E-Business, IT & Telecoms up to 2003.
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