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This is an archived article published in October 2003 Lyon to host world summit on information society and the cities Lyon is to host the first world summit of cities and local authorities on the information society in the presence of the French Prime Minister Pierre Rafarin on 4 and 5 December 2003. |
 Angela Spizig, one of Cologne's Deputy Mayors and a member of Germany's Green Party, will attend the Lyon summit Prominent conference participants and speakers • Jean Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister, France • Marcel Boisard, General Secretary, UNITAR, United Nations Institute for Training and Research • Pierre-Alain Muet, Deputy-Mayor, Lyon, General Secretary, World Summit of Lyon • Adama Samassekou, President, Preparatory Process for the World Summit on the Information Society • Albert Bore, Mayor, Birmingham, President, Committee of Regions, European Union • Angela Spizig, Deputy Mayor, Cologne • Anne Marie Comparini, President, Rhône Alpes Region. • Arthur Hussene Canana, Mayor, Maputo, President, Council of African Communes and Regions • Bill Macbeth, President, Network of European Regions on the information society. • Casio Tanigushi, Mayor, Curitiba • Chen Liangyu, Mayor, Shanghai • Didi Ould Bounaama, Mayor, Nouakchott • Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for Companies and the Information Society • Gérard Collomb, Senator-Mayor, Lyon, President, Urban Community of Lyon • Giovanni Salizzoni, Deputy-Mayor, Bologna • Gundars Bojars, Mayor, Riga • Ibrahima N'Diaye, Mayor, Bamako • André Santini, Mayor, Issy les Moulineaux, President, GCD • Juan José Ibarretxe, President, Basque Region Government • Marta Suplicy, Mayor, Sao Paulo • Michel Mercier, President, General Rhône Council • Pedro Sampaio Nunes, Director of the DG of the Information Society at the European Commission • Willi Lemke, Senator for Education and Sciences, City of Bremen • Wolfgang Tiefensee, Mayor, Leipzig • Yoshio Utsumi, General Secretary, International Union of Telecommunications, IUT |