Working Groups
Council Working Group and Experts Group meetings
The cluster of Council Working Groups initially scheduled in September 2023 has been postponed further to a decision from Council-23, and will take place from 9 to 20 October 2023 (physical meeting, remote participation will be possible) (See invitation letter CL-23/23).
Go to the Participation webpage so to find information on registration, as well as the invitation letters.
In line with Council Resolution 1333 (C11, last amended C16), as well as with Decision 11 (Rev. Bucharest, 2022) of the Plenipotentiary Conference, and following intensive consultations and coordination with the regions prior and during the 2023 ordinary session of the ITU Council, the full list of chairs and vice-chairs of the groups shown below, who have been confirmed for the next cycle until the 2026 Plenipotentiary Conference, can be found here. The additional session of Council-23 will be invited to consider and nominate changes of/new candidatures received since July 2023.
Daily schedule for the cluster of CWGs and EGs in October 2023:
MONDAY
(9 Oct 2023)
no meeting in the morning
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CWG-LANG
English only
Room Popov
(afternoon)
MS only
Deadline
to submit contributions:
27 September
TUESDAY
(10 Oct 2023)
CWG-COP
English only
Room Popov
(all day)
MS+SM+COP experts
Special info session:
staring at 13:30 pm
Deadline
to submit contributions:
28 September
WEDNESDAY
(11 Oct 2023)
CWG-FHR
with interpretation*
Room Popov
(all day)
MS+SM
Deadline
to submit contributions:
27 September
MONDAY
(16 Oct 2023)
EG-ITRs
with interpretation*
Room Popov
(all day)
MS+SM
Deadline
to submit contributions:
2 October
TUESDAY
(17 Oct 2023)
CWG-WSIS&SDGs
English only
Room Popov
(all day)
MS+SM
Deadline
to submit contributions:
5 October
WEDNESDAY
(18 Oct 2023)
CWG-Internet
English only
Room Popov
(all day)
MS only
Deadline
to submit contributions:
6 October
* By the deadline of 4 September 2023, the Council secretariat received interpretation requests for Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish languages.
MS= Member States; SM= Sector Members
Go to each group’s web page by clicking on the boxes below:
CWG-INTERNET
(INTERNATIONAL INTERNET-RELATED PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES)
Chair: Mr Wojciech Berezowski (Poland)
Open to Member States of ITU
CWG-COP
(CHILD ONLINE PROTECTION)
Chair: Mr Abdelaziz Al Zarooni (United Arab Emirates)
Open to Member States and Sector Members of ITU, and nominated experts
CWG-WSIS&SDG
Chair: Ms Cynthia Lesufi (South Africa)
Open to Member States and Sector Members of ITU
CWG-FHR
(FINANCIAL AND HUMAN RESOURCES)
Chair: Ms Vernita Harris (United States)
Open to Member States and Sector Members of ITU
CWG-LANG
(USE OF THE SIX OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF THE UNION)
Chair: Ms Sharon Bosire (Kenya)
Open to Member States of ITU
EG-DEC.482
(COUNCIL EXPERT GROUP ON DECISION 482)
Chair: Ms Fenhong Cheng (China)
Open to Member States and Sector Members of ITU
EG-ITRS
(EXPERT GROUP ON ITRs)
Chair: Ms Shahira Selim (Egypt)
Open to Member States and Sector Members of ITU
CWG-SFP
(COUNCIL WORKING GROUP ON STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL PLAN)
Chair: Mr Mansour Al-Qurashi (Saudi Arabia)
Group to established between now and the next Plenipotentiary Conference 2026
IEG-WTPF
(INFORMAL EXPERT GROUP ON THE WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION / ICT POLICY FORUM)
Chair: Mr David Bedard (Canada)
Group to established between now and the next Plenipotentiary Conference 2026
FORMER COUNCIL WORKING GROUPS AND COMMITTEES
(concluded)