WSIS 2022

15 Mar 2022 - 3 Jun 2022

Online

Session reports

14:00 - 16:00 Physical Meeting of the Open Consultation Process on WSIS Forum
09:00 - 10:00 WSIS ALFM C7: E-Environment
09:00 - 10:40 WSIS ALFM C3: Access to information and knowledge
09:00 - 10:45 WSIS and NGOs--Indispensable Cooperation (in implementing the WSIS Action Lines)
11:00 - 12:45 WSIS ALFM C1, C7: E-Government, C11
14:30 - 16:15 The "Monster” that is threatening global destruction can transform into the world’s saviour.
14:30 - 16:15 WSIS ALFM C7: E-business
16:30 - 18:15 Celebrating Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises – Conversations with tech SMEs and presentation of the Trade4MSMEs/GTH online resources
16:30 - 18:15 ICC Basis workshop
16:30 - 18:15 WSIS Action Line C2: Emerging Technology in Digital Connectivity
16:30 - 18:15 WSIS Action Line C5: Privacy-Preserving Techniques
09:30 - 10:30 WSIS Forum 2022 Opening Ceremony
10:40 - 11:40 High-level Strategic Dialogue with Partners: ICTs for Well-Being, Inclusion and Resilience: WSIS Cooperation for Accelerating Progress on the SDGs
11:40 - 12:40 High-Level Strategic Dialogue : WSIS+20: Multistakeholder Digital Cooperation for Global Development
14:00 - 15:00 High-Level Policy Session 1: Bridging Digital Divides
14:00 - 15:00 High-Level Policy Session 2: WSIS Action Lines and the 2030 Agenda / Inclusiveness, Access to Information and Knowledge for All / Bridging Digital Divides
15:00 - 16:00 High-Level Policy Session 3 : Building Confidence and Security in the use of ICTs
15:00 - 16:00 High-Level Policy Session 4 : Bridging Digital Divides
16:00 - 17:00 High-Level Policy Session 5: ICT Applications and Services
16:00 - 17:00 High-Level Policy Session 6: Climate Change/Bridging Digital Divides
17:00 - 18:00 WSIS Prizes 2022 Ceremony
09:00 - 10:00 High-Level Policy Session 7: Inclusiveness, Access to Information and Knowledge for All / Bridging Digital Divides
10:00 - 11:00 High-Level Policy Session 8: Enabling Environment
10:00 - 11:00 High-Level Policy Session 9: Inclusiveness, Access to Information and Knowledge for All/WSIS Action Lines and 2030 Agenda/Bridging Digital Divide
10:00 - 11:30 Academia Round Table
10:00 - 11:30 WSIS Prize Champion Ceremony
11:00 - 12:00 High-Level Policy Session 10: Digital Economy and Trade/ Financing for Development and role of ICT
11:00 - 12:00 High-Level Policy Session 11: Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content/Ethical Dimensions of Information and Knowledge Societies/Media/ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming
14:00 - 15:30 High-Level Dialogue: ICTs for Developing Countries (and LDCs)
14:00 - 15:30 High-Level Dialogue: Indigenous Languages
15:30 - 17:00 From the lab to the real world: Artificial Intelligence and the decade action
15:30 - 17:00 High-Level Dialogue: Transforming Education Summit
17:00 - 18:00 Closing of High-Level Policy Sessions ceremony
09:00 - 10:45 Academic perspectives on WSIS & SDGs
09:00 - 10:45 Cybersecurity for the future: Deep dive on Cyber Defence Centers
11:00 - 12:45 Assurance and conformity assessment of digital products and services
11:00 - 12:45 ICTs, women entrepreneurs and climate change adaptation: a path to sustainability
11:00 - 12:45 Promoting knowledge creation in the digital era: wisdom for young people
11:00 - 12:45 WSIS Gender Trendsetters
14:30 - 16:15 High-Level Dialogue: WSIS +20 – WSIS Beyond 2025
14:30 - 16:15 IPR 4 ICT – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow A Prospective towards Young Think-Tanks
14:30 - 16:15 Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development
14:30 - 16:15 WSIS ALFM C7: E-Agriculture
16:30 - 18:15 International Conference on Digital Transformation of Education: Road towards SDG 4
16:30 - 18:15 Launch of the GovStack CIO Digital Leaders Forum
16:30 - 18:15 WSIS Action Line C10: Implementing Ethical AI Globally
16:30 - 18:15 WSIS Regional Commission Meeting
09:00 - 10:45 SDGzine - Collaborative publication and projects on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
09:00 - 10:45 WSIS ALFM C9: Media
09:00 - 10:45 WSIS Multistakeholder Alliance on ICTs and Older Persons
09:00 - 10:45 WSIS Stocktaking and WSIS Prizes
11:00 - 12:45 1st Episode of the GovStack CIO Leaders Forum
11:00 - 12:45 IGF 2022
11:00 - 12:45 WSIS ALFM C7: E-Health
11:00 - 12:45 WSIS ALFM C7: E-Science
14:30 - 16:15 WSIS Action Line Facilitation Meeting
16:30 - 17:30 Closing Ceremony of the WSIS Forum 2022

The 2022 edition of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum will be held online from 15 March to 3 June. The WSIS Forum is co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD, in close collaboration with all WSIS Action Line Facilitators/Co-Facilitators.

The theme of this year’s WSIS forum 2022 will be ‘ICTs for Well-Being, Inclusion and Resilience: WSIS Cooperation for Accelerating Progress on the SDGs’.

The final week, which will be held online from 30 May to 3 June will highlight policy statements, interactive high-level dialogues, a WSIS Prize ceremony, a ministerial round table, as well as a series of WSIS Action Line facilitation meetings.

For more information, visit the dedicated webpage.