IGF 2025 Open Forum #18 Digital Cooperation for Development: UNGIS in Action

    Roundtable
    Duration (minutes): 60
    Format description: The roundtable format creates a circle of connection, where every participant is equal. It is a space for open dialogue, shared insights, and collective action on digital cooperation.
    Description
    This session highlights how UNGIS is driving digital cooperation for sustainable development through strategic partnerships. Global digital cooperation is essential to ensuring that digital transformation benefits all communities. While UNGIS recognizes that resolving interconnected global challenges requires new formats and modes of cooperation, stronger and broader partnerships, it continues to remain a key platform for the UN system to work together, providing strategic guidance and facilitating coordination among stakeholders to achieve the SDGs and objectives of the WSIS process, as well as the commitments of the Global Digital Compact. This session will explore the role of digital transformation in addressing global challenges and advancing the SDGs, as well as the objectives of the WSIS process. The session also provides a platform for discussing the ongoing WSIS+20 review, focusing on how digital cooperation can further strengthen global efforts and align with the commitments of the Global Digital Compact, ensuring inclusive growth and sustainable development for all UNGIS and the WSIS process have long recognized that digital technologies are cross-cutting facilitators and enablers of economic growth and sustainable development.

    The moderator will regularly engage with both online and onsite speakers, ensuring equal participation. We will encourage online attendees to ask questions, provide feedback, and share insights through a live chat feature, which will be monitored and addressed in real-time by the moderator.
    Organizers
    🔒ITU
    Ruth Sidabutar, ITU, United Nations, WSIS/SDG Gitanjali Sah, ITU, United Nations, WSIS/SDG
    Speakers
    1. Gitanjali Sah, ITU 2. UNESCO 3. UNCTAD 4. UNDP
    Onsite Moderator
    Gitanjali Sah
    Online Moderator
    Ruth Sidabutar
    Rapporteur
    Ruth Sidabutar
    SDGs
    17. Partnerships for the Goals


    Targets: The proposal links with SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) by fostering multistakeholder collaboration, enhancing digital cooperation, and strengthening partnerships to achieve sustainable development through shared digital solutions.