Commissions
- Arbitration
- Banking Technique and Practice
- Commercial Law and Practice
- Marketing and Advertising
- Competition
- Financial Services and Insurance
- Customs and Trade Regulations
- Intellectual Property
- Taxation
- Transport and Logistics
- Trade and Investment Policy
- Corporate Responsibility and Anticorruption
- Electronic Business, IT and Telecoms
- Environment and Energy
- Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP)
- Corporate Economists Advisory Group (CEAG)
- Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS)
Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS)
Mandate
To project the views of global business on critical information society issues, notably Internet governance and information and communications technologies (ICTs) to spur development, in forums created at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
Tasks for 2011
- Advocate business positions and coordinate presence at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) (September 2011, Nairobi) and all preparatory processes.
- Provide business input to the WSIS follow up and action lines activities.
- Represent world business in the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID).
- Coordinate opportunities for business representatives to profile priorities and positions in global discussions and events on Internet governance and ICTs for development.
- Raise awareness about business interests in these global discussions, and expand BASIS membership.
