in the eyes of the participants, were those meetings that were held in conjunction with a series of Global Forums: 1st meeting: at UN headquarters in New York City, NY, (United States) - November 19–20, 2001. 2nd meeting: at UN headquarters in New York City, NY, (United States) - February 3–4, 2002. 3rd meeting: at UN headquarters in New York City, NY, (United States) - September 30 - October 1, 2002, focused on ICT for development in Africa. It also reviewed the results of the first year of Task Force activities and agreed on an ambitious strategy for the next two years. 4th meeting: at UN in Geneva, (Switzerland) - February 21–22, 2004, with a Private Sector Forum. 5th meeting: at WIPO in Geneva - September 12–13, 2003, to allow participants to discuss the Task Force's contribution to WSIS. 6th meeting: at UN headquarters in New York City, NY, (United States) - March 2004, with a Global Forum on Internet Governance. 7th meeting: at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, Germany - November 18–20, 2004, with a Global Forum on an Enabling Environment. 8th meeting: in Dublin, Ireland - April 13–15, 2005, with a Global Forum on Harnessing the Potential of ICTs in Education. 9th meeting: at ILO in Geneva, Switzerland - October 1, 2005. 10th (final) meeting: at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia - November 17, 2005. In addition, a Global Roundtable Forum on "Innovation and Investment: Scaling Science and Technology to Meet the MDGs" was held in New York City, 13 September 2005. The primary focus of the Forum was on the critical role of science, technology and innovation, especially information and communication technologies, in scaling-up grassroots, national and global responses to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. WSIS II in Tunis Parallel to the booth at the ICT4ALL exhibition, a series of events was held under the auspices of the UN ICT Task Force and its members: Measuring the Information Society The Partnership for Measuring ICT for Development involves 11 organizations—Eurostat, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations ICT Task Force, the five United Nations Regional Commissions and the World Bank. Role of Parliaments in the Information Society Key parliament leaders presented their views on the role that national and regional assemblies can play