The announcement of the group formation was made during the IGF Open Consultations on Monday 3 September 2007, at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva

This meeting is held on 8 March 2007 at the Omar Dengo Foundation new campus in San Jose, Costa Rica, and presided by Mr. Walter Fust, Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Knowledge Partnership

"Strategies to Build Successful Partnerships" is the theme of a  half-day interactive workshop, organised by Strategic Communication Resources [SM], will take place in New York on April 20 2007