[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 189 (Friday, September 30, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 57350]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-19641]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 5167]


Meeting of Advisory Committee on International Communications and 
Information Policy

    The Department of State announces the next meeting of its Advisory 
Committee on International Communications and Information Policy 
(ACICIP) to be held on Thursday, October 20, 2005, from 2 p.m. to 4:30 
p.m., in the Loy Henderson Auditorium of the Harry S. Truman Building 
of the U.S. Department of State. The Truman Building is located at 2201 
C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20520.
    The committee provides a formal channel for regular consultation 
and coordination on major economic, social and legal issues and 
problems in international communications and information policy, 
especially as these issues and problems involve users of information 
and communications services, providers of such services, technology 
research and development, foreign industrial and regulatory policy, the 
activities of international organizations with regard to communications 
and information, and developing country issues.
    The meeting will be led by ACICIP Vice Chair Mr. Rhett Dawson of 
the Information Technology Industry Council. Ambassador David A. Gross, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary and U.S. Coordinator for International 
Communications and Information Policy, and other senior State 
Department and U.S. Government officials will also address the meeting. 
The main focus of the event will be to discuss U.S.-India relations, 
with an emphasis on industry input for the first meeting of the newly-
formed U.S.-India Information and Communications Technologies Working 
Group. State Department officials will also present a status report on 
preparations for the second phase of the World Summit on the 
Information Society, which will take place in Tunis, Tunisia from 
November 16-18, 2005.
    Members of the public may attend these meetings up to the seating 
capacity of the room. While the meeting is open to the public, 
admittance to the Department of State building is only by means of a 
pre-arranged clearance list. In order to be placed on the pre-clearance 
list, please provide your name, title, organization, social security 
number, date of birth, and citizenship to Robert M. Watts at 
[email protected] no later than 5 p.m. on Tuesday, October 18, 2005. 
All attendees for this meeting must use the 23rd Street entrance. One 
of the following valid ID's will be required for admittance: Any U.S. 
driver's license with photo, a passport, or a U.S. Government agency 
ID. Non-U.S. Government attendees must be escorted by Department of 
State personnel at all times when in the building.
    For further information, please contact Robert M. Watts, Executive 
Secretary of the Committee, at 202-647-5820 or by e-mail at 
[email protected].

    Dated: September 23, 2005.
Robert M. Watts,
Executive Secretary, ACICIP, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 05-19641 Filed 9-29-05; 8:45 am]
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