What was the Coordinating Committee of Business Interlocutors (CCBI)?

Principals of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) host countries, Switzerland and Tunisia and the executive secretariat invited the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) to create the CCBI as a vehicle through which to coordinate the involvement of worldwide business in the processes leading to and culminating in the WSIS in Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005.

The CCBI was made up of – and open to all – representatives of individual business firms, as well as of associations and other organizations that represent business interests. The regional diversity of CCBI members ensured that its views were truly global.

CCBI contributions and interventions throughout the WSIS Geneva and Tunis preparatory processes and Summits are available from the following link:  http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/ebitt/id2343/index.html

Following the WSIS in Tunis, 2005, ICC and many of the CCBI members joined to create the new ICC initiative, Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS), to build on the network and experience of companies and associations from the WSIS processes, in the post-Summit environment.

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