UNCTAD should organize workshops and seminars at the regional and national levels for the purpose of promoting contacts among policy makers, the private sector and trade negotiators.

UNCTAD should organize workshops and seminars at the regional and national levels for the purpose of promoting contacts among policy makers, the private sector and trade negotiators.

From the staff viewpoint, direct contact with members' policy-makers is pointed out in their interviews as being one of the biggest rewards of their efforts.

As a step towards strengthening the Task Force's outreach capacity and facilitation of contacts with national decision makers, a global web-based database of government ICT policy makers, as well as private sector and NGO ICT leaders, has been established.

These constitute concrete initiatives to assist UNESCO member States in mobilizing resources and identifying financial opportunities in the field of renewable energy by facilitating contacts among decision makers, policy makers, local authorities, investors, financial institutions, industrialists, electricity utilities, programme managers, researchers and other professionals.

For the participants from eastern Europe, the workshop served as a forum in which to exchange views and establish direct contact with policy makers and experts in the use and applications of GNSS from the United States, western European countries and other developed countries.