Processes

This page keeps track of the process leading to the 20-year review of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), in 2025. It also provides background information about WSIS and related activities and processes since 2003. Chair's Summary of the 2024 WSIS Forum https://youtu.be/IF9mNcqQ6gw Text of...

In 2021 the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) approved the creation of a Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) tasked with elaborating a legal instrument on the development, design, and application of artificial intelligence (AI) systems based on the CoE's standards on human rights, democracy and the rule of law, and conducive to innovation....

This will be a critical year for the regulation of tech companies. Europe is progressing particularly fast: The draft Digital Services Act and a Digital Markets Act are now being negotiated by the European Parliament and the EU’s Council (representing member states). Here, we track their progress and what this means for Big Tech....

As the key policy player in modern global trade, the WTO has established a system of agreements which provides the legal architecture for the liberalization of international trade. At the WTO, discussions on e-commerce are taking place in two parallel tracks: the WTO Work Program on Electronic Commerce (WPEC), launched...

Following the work of the United Nations Cybercrime Ad Hoc Committee....

The Roadmap for digital co-operation deals with the implementation of the recommendations of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation....

Following the work of the Geneva Dialogue on Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace....

After nine months of deliberations, the UN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation (Panel) issued its final report with five recommendations on how to deal with the impact of digitalisation felt across industries, sectors, organisations communities and societies....

In this space, we follow the work of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security....

Following the work of the Group of Governmental Experts on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems...

Following the latest on the annual IGF meeting and its related year-long process, and the latest in regional and national initiatives....

Launched at the Global Conference on Cyberspace, The Hague, in April 2015, the initiative lays emphasis on capacity building, exchange of best practices, and strengthened international cooperation....

WSIS+10 Process: Tracking the ten-year review since the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS+10), which culminated with a High-Level Meeting in New York, December 2015....

IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability: Tracking the developments in the transition process of the IANA functions, and the parallel accountability reform as a prerequisite for the transition...

An overview of the New gTLD Program, launched by ICANN in 2012 to open up the Domain Name System to new generic top-level domains (TLDs). And updates related to the programme itself and the ongoing work on preparing for new gTLD rounds.