( Adapted from a message, courtesy of Chantal Peyer ) :

1) Switzerland, as the host country, has been given the mandate to act as a
"facilitator" between now and prepcom 3B (5-6th december).

2) To do this, they are conveining several working groups next weeks (two
sessions for each topic).
The working group are "informal" consultations, which means they are
governemental only.
There will be the following groups:
- Security
- Intellectual property rights
- Human rights
- Medias
- Financing
- Internet governance
And a last group which will look at all the others brackets which still
remain, outside of the points covered by those topics.

3) On the 1st of december, there will be an information meeting about the
results of the consultations,conveyed by the swiss governement.

4) We asked that on the 1st of december, information about the new texts be
also given to the people from civil society, so that they can see them
before prepcom 3B. It should be done. We will ask them to be sent to Sally
and Bill. But there will be no civil society participation in the informal
consultations before the 1st of december.

5) At prepcom 3B, the rules of procedures will remain the same than at the
former prepcoms. Which means that there should be an opportunity to read a
statement from civil society on the 5th morning...

1) Switzerland will be chairing the different meetings (which means also that 
they have to remain "neutral" and will rely entirely on others states to defend 
their position, which is bad in the fields of medias and HR)

2) For the states invited:
An invitation has been sent to all the missions of Geneva, which means that all 
countries are invited to those meetings. But for each theme, they will insist 
that the main governments which are disagreeing are present. And also, where 
possible, one or two governements which have an in-between position, who can be 
moderating the debate. Which basically means:

- security: Russia, EU, China, Pakistan, Norway
- financing: Senegal, Egypt, Cuba, Japan, EU, Canada, India
- intellectual property rights: EU, USA, India, Bresil, Egypt, Argentina, Japan
- Human rights: EU, China, Norway, USA, Syria, Canada
- Medias: EU, Norway, Syria, El Salvador, China, Botswana, USA, Canada
- Internet governance: EU, China, USA (and I ma not sure of the others on this 
topic)

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4. Welcome the creation of the new world organisation United Cities and Local Governments in Paris in May 2004 that will be the united voice of local authorities around the world. United Cities and Local Government will promote the participation of local government in the development of a fair, equitable and inclusive Information Society.
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II. Our commitments
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35. Privileging, whenever possible, the use and development of free software in the investments made by our cities and regions, so that these investments can be used by other local authorities.
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III. Our recommendations for following-up the LYON summit
47.. We, mayors, presidents of regions and elected representatives of cities and local authorities, associated with representatives of civil society and private sector organisations involved in local and regional development, gathered together in Lyon on December 4th and 5th 2003 for the first World Summit of Cities and Local authorities on the Information Society
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48. That the Lyon Declaration be attached to the Declaration of the Geneva WISI;
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62. That the mechanisms for monitoring and implementing the Geneva and Lyon Declarations and Action Plans, as well as the preparatory process of the second phase of the WSIS at Tunis ensure coherence between, on the one hand, the principles formulated in these declarations and action plans and, on the other, the decisions taken by other international organisations, such as the WIPO and WTO, whenever these decisions concern the information society;
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64. Invite the parties concerned by the preparatory process of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society to be held at Tunis from 15 to 18 November 2005 to take account of the conclusions and recommendations of the Lyon Summit.