IGF 2024 Day 0 Event #71 Internet Universality Indicators for human-centered Internet

    UNESCO
    Tatevik Grigoryan, UNESCO, Intergovernmental organization

    Speakers

    UNESCO

    Polish National Commission for UNESCO

    German National Commission for UNESCO

    Council of Europe

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

    Association of Progressive Communications

    Missions Publiques

    CETIC.br

    Internet Society (ISOC)

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

    E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA)

    Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)

    Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut

    Global Network Initiative (GNI)

    Onsite Moderator

    Tatevik Grigoryan

    Online Moderator

    Sonia Savci

    Rapporteur

    Camila Gonzalez

    SDGs

    4. Quality Education
    5. Gender Equality
    10. Reduced Inequalities
    16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    17. Partnerships for the Goals


    Targets: This session will emphasize the importance of the Dynamic Coalition in establishing and fostering collaborations with global stakeholders and institutions through the Dynamic Coalition on ROAM. This collaborative effort aims to shape global digital transformation, promote digital collaboration, and contribute to the formulation of the global digital compact. UNESCO's Internet Universality Indicators framework addresses the lack of global and national standards and serves as a comprehensive research tool to foster Internet policies that promote sustainable development, especially the above highlighted targets, in all countries.

    Format

    Roundtable

    This will be an interactive hybrid roundtable, facilitated by targeted questions.

    Description

    The Dynamic Coalition on Internet Universality ROAM-X indicators, which was launched at the IGF 2020, has played a critical role in advancing digital governance in over 40 countries across five continents. The Coalition has organized meetings and sessions consistently during global IGF and regional IGF conferences in Africa, Asia Pacific, EuroDIG, and other high-level events where UNESCO is actively engaged.

    This year, the Dynamic Coalition session will discuss the way forward following the launch of the Second Generation Internet Universality Indicators framework.

    The session also aims to continue encouraging collaboration with multi-stakeholders within the IGF community to jointly advance evidence-based digital policy making.

    To this end, this session will trigger discussions to achieve below objectives:

    Discuss the role of the updated ROAM-X framework and UNESCO in light of various challenges posed by digital transformation.

    Reflect on how the updated ROAM-X framework can better support the formulation of digital governance policies at national level.

    Gather and expand the members of IGF  Dynamic Coalition on Internet Universality ROAM-X indicators, expand partnership with the Dynamic Coalition community to advance human rights based digital governance.

    UNESCO will prepare targeted questions for the speakers (online and onsite) and for the participants to ensure active engagement from everyone. to this end, there will be no long presentations.