Session
Subtheme
Organizer 1: Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Organizer 2: Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Organizer 3: Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Organizer 4: Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Organizer 2: Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Organizer 3: Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Organizer 4: Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 1: Anriette Esterhuysen, Civil Society, African Group
Speaker 2: Jimson Olufuye, Private Sector, African Group
Speaker 3: Jordan Carter, Technical Community, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 4: Jorge Cancio, Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 5: Renata Mielli, Government, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Speaker 6: Suto Timea, Private Sector, Eastern European Group
Speaker 2: Jimson Olufuye, Private Sector, African Group
Speaker 3: Jordan Carter, Technical Community, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 4: Jorge Cancio, Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 5: Renata Mielli, Government, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Speaker 6: Suto Timea, Private Sector, Eastern European Group
Format
Roundtable
Duration (minutes): 90
Format description: The 90-minute duration facilitates the discussion of complex issues characterized by multiple perspectives from different stakeholder groups and regions, and also for allowing time for the audience participation through questions & answers. The round-table is a more flexible format and allows the session to have a better display and dynamics of participation. The round table will include short speeches from participants, while also boosting the participation from the audience when putting up an overarching debate driven by the policy questions.
Duration (minutes): 90
Format description: The 90-minute duration facilitates the discussion of complex issues characterized by multiple perspectives from different stakeholder groups and regions, and also for allowing time for the audience participation through questions & answers. The round-table is a more flexible format and allows the session to have a better display and dynamics of participation. The round table will include short speeches from participants, while also boosting the participation from the audience when putting up an overarching debate driven by the policy questions.
Policy Question(s)
1. How to update the WSIS Action Lines to better reflect emerging and pressing issues and a proper integration with the SDGs?
2. What are the gaps within the WSIS framework and between its different parts, such as the IGF and the WSIS Forum? Does the governance structure follow an adequate multistakeholder approach, for instance as expressed by the São Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines?
3. How to strengthen the IGF to better respond to the challenges of an improved WSIS process, combined with the GDC implementation and follow-up, and especially to avoid duplication of efforts and promote better coordination?
What will participants gain from attending this session? The session will present and discuss multiple perspectives on the global digital ecosystem, its future, and the urgent action needed for the preservation of achievements and improvement in the dynamics within collaboration and decision-making. In this sense, speakers will address challenges within each of the most important ongoing processes in global digital governance, such as the WSIS+20 review and how to improve it by dealing with subject matter-related gaps and emerging technology trends (AI, data governance, DPIs etc).
We also expect the session to critically reflect upon architectural gaps within WSIS, GDC and beyond, dealing with topics such as strategic and holistic governance, synergies within and between frameworks, responsiveness to emerging developments, political visibility, impact and funding of the IGF, among others.
Description:
This session aims to address gaps and opportunities of the global digital governance ecosystem, especially the governance architecture and cooperation. In the last 20 years, the World Summit on The Information Society (WSIS) has been playing the role of being the standard framework for the digital, for Internet governance and its technologies, as well as a platform to promote the multistakeholder approach and foster collaboration between stakeholders. In recent years, several processes have been launched inside and outside the UN system to advance discussions about global digital governance and especially to improve global digital cooperation. One famous example is the Global Digital Compact (GDC), which gathered commitments, proposals and endorsement from a range of States and from multiple stakeholders worldwide. The GDC and other processes have the common objective of bridging the gaps in digital ecosystems, strengthening their structures, and moving towards better cooperation and decision-making. Stakeholders have been perceiving our time as a critical juncture in the global ecosystem, with many processes carrying the potential to heavily impact the Internet, digital technologies and society as a whole. To address such challenges, a broad range of contributions have been pointing to a need for going beyond traditional global divisions, establishing better coordination and a more intense campaign in advancing the multistakeholder approach for all spaces and forums, including the multilateral ones. Collaboration, better procedures, and a revamping of the dynamics of interactions and decision making are at the menu of solutions for building a better digital future. Initiatives such as the NETmundial+10 São Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines are key for solving the puzzles of our time, for bolstering the governance architecture and decision making. In this session, we expect to discuss this and other efforts, towards building a common base for the decisions to come in the global ecosystem.
This session aims to address gaps and opportunities of the global digital governance ecosystem, especially the governance architecture and cooperation. In the last 20 years, the World Summit on The Information Society (WSIS) has been playing the role of being the standard framework for the digital, for Internet governance and its technologies, as well as a platform to promote the multistakeholder approach and foster collaboration between stakeholders. In recent years, several processes have been launched inside and outside the UN system to advance discussions about global digital governance and especially to improve global digital cooperation. One famous example is the Global Digital Compact (GDC), which gathered commitments, proposals and endorsement from a range of States and from multiple stakeholders worldwide. The GDC and other processes have the common objective of bridging the gaps in digital ecosystems, strengthening their structures, and moving towards better cooperation and decision-making. Stakeholders have been perceiving our time as a critical juncture in the global ecosystem, with many processes carrying the potential to heavily impact the Internet, digital technologies and society as a whole. To address such challenges, a broad range of contributions have been pointing to a need for going beyond traditional global divisions, establishing better coordination and a more intense campaign in advancing the multistakeholder approach for all spaces and forums, including the multilateral ones. Collaboration, better procedures, and a revamping of the dynamics of interactions and decision making are at the menu of solutions for building a better digital future. Initiatives such as the NETmundial+10 São Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines are key for solving the puzzles of our time, for bolstering the governance architecture and decision making. In this session, we expect to discuss this and other efforts, towards building a common base for the decisions to come in the global ecosystem.
Expected Outcomes
We expect the session to provide insights for how to avoid the duplication of efforts and bridging the various ongoing processes in order to improve the overall system. Other than that, we expect the session to provide clear and concrete guidance on how to improve the dynamics of collaboration and decision making, including in multilateral fora. The implementation of the São Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines (SPMGs) and other related standards are possible tools to fill the gaps of the global ecosystem. Recommendations for related processes and forums such as the IGF, GDC, WSIS, CSTD and others are also expected from this session.
Hybrid Format: The workshop session will be divided into three segments: the first will consist of a brief opening and presentation of the discussion. The second segment will handle short speeches from invited speakers to address the proposed policy questions. In the last part, an overarching debate with the audience will happen, allowing for participants to ask, comment and discuss topics with the speakers. The session will have onsite and online moderators. The onsite moderator will be responsible for supervising interventions and interact with the speakers to ensure that the session's goals will be sought appropriately, also safeguarding due balance and diversity within interventions. The online moderator will take care of the flow of questions within all the online tools involved in the session, reading, selecting and guaranteeing that the onsite moderator will be aware of questions and comments from the remote audience (Zoom Chat and Q&A).