Dear members, The outcome document of the United Nations General Assembly’s ten-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2015 included a direction for the Chair of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) to "establish a working group to develop recommendations on how to further implement enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda” . This will continue work done by an earlier CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation, that was active from 2013-2014. and current CSTD Chair, Peter Major of Hungary, has indicated that he will establish the new working group in a similar fashion, with 20 UN Member States and 5 representatives from each of the four identified stakeholder groups (business, civil society, intergovernmental organizations, the technical & academic community). Independent Civil Society experts (i.e. those who are not nominated by a civil society network or other community are welcome to send self-nominations directly to the CSCG nomcom (email address: [email protected]) Deadline: 14 March (23:59 UTC) Details of the UNCATAD call: available here http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1193&Sitemap_x0020_Taxonomy=Commission%20on%20Science%20and%20Technology%20for%20Development We encourage people from our region to apply and represent us in this intarnational fora. -- ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh