The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event
- Silvia Vivanco
- Olivier Crépin-Leblond
- Gisella Gruber
Information on the Netmundial Conference
The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event is scheduled to be held from 27 to 31 May 2024.
- October – November 2025 - UNGA WSIS+20 Review.
- The WSIS+20 website can be viewed here.
ICANN org website WSIS+20 Outreach Network
At-Large contribution to the WSIS + 20 conference
| Member | RALO | In Person or Remote |
|---|---|---|
| Sebastien Bachollet | EURALO | In Person |
| Olivier Crepin-Leblond | EURALO | In Person |
| Date/Time | Session | Speakers | Link: |
|---|---|---|---|
28 May at 16:00-16:30 UTC | Leaders TalkX: Partnership Pivot: Innovating International Cooperation to Scale Digital Inclusion | Tripti Sinha, ICANN Board Chair | https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2024/Agenda/Session/502 |
| 29th May | WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 Session 145— Digital inclusivity - Connecting the next billion | WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024 | Chris Buckridge - Moderator Ms. Elena Plexida - Vice President, Government and IGO Engagement, ICANN Mr. Bhanu Neupane - Advisor, Open Solutions and ICT & Sciences, UNESCO H.E. Ms. Léocadie Ndacayisaba - Minister of Communication, Information Technology and Media, Burundi | |
Reports
Session 468 - Digital Governance 3.0
This session, as its name implies, no longer referred to "Internet Governance" but "Digital Governance", in-line with the common direction taken by the ITU, the WSIS and the IGF process.
The panel discussed the very evolution that we are seeing, from the bottom-up multistakeholder Internet Governance that was used in the development of the Internet, to today's "Digital Governance" implying that the old multilateral processes used within the ITU and at the United Nations, needed to bring other communities to the table through multistakeholder initiatives. The panel included several experts known to the ICANN Community, including Dr. Bruno Lanvin, a former ICANN Board member. the format of the session was interesting in that the room was made up of small round tables, thus there was a good interaction between the room and the panellists.
Centre: Mr. Danil Kerimi, Moderator; Right: Dr. Bruno Lanvin
High Level Sessions - Main Stage Room D
The high level sessions for WSIS+20 were headed by the "Leaders TalkX" on Monday and Tuesday only.
Past the first day of sessions, the main high level sessions took place to a room that was not very busy. It was unsurprising as most of the high level sessions "TalkX" consisted of 6 or 7 panellists, each having 3 minutes to present their, often written speech in a 30 minute session, with no interaction with the audience whatsoever.
From Wednesday the Main Stage Room D was transformed and doubled in size to host the "AI for Good" Summit which was also held in the Conference Centre.
Reported by Olivier Crépin-Leblond