Digital Cooperation – Report of the UN High level panel (PART I and II) – Q&A 2019
19 June 2019 | 16:00-16:30 | KING WILLEM-ALEXANDER AUDITORIUM | 
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20 June 2019 | starting 15:45 | AMAZON |
Consolidated programme 2019 overview
The UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation submitted its report The Age of Digital Interdependence on Monday 10 June 2019. EuroDIG will be the first opportunity for a face to face discussion on the findings of the report.
Background
In July 2018, UN Secretary-General António Guterres established the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation. Co-chaired by Melinda Gates and Jack Ma, the Panel consisted of 22 international experts from government, the private sector, academia, the technical community and civil society. Its goal was to identify good examples and propose modalities for working cooperatively across sectors, disciplines and borders to address challenges in the digital age. On 10 June, the Panel submitted the report to the UN Secretary General. You find the report and further information on https://www.un.org/en/digital-cooperation-panel/.
Collating European views on the Report of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation
The IGF, EuroDIG and other relevant platforms for inclusive multi-stakeholder dialogue have laid important ground for the work of the Panel and play a key role in discussing digital cooperation and governance. At its preparatory meeting in January 2019, the EuroDIG community decided to provide for a space to discuss and assess the HLP report and collate views from all stakeholders from all over Europe on the report and its recommendations.
Get ready to contribute!
The EuroDIG meeting in The Hague on 19 and 20 June 2019 will be a first occasion to physically discuss the findings of the report. In addition, EuroDIG is offering an online space where European stakeholders can express their views via two complementary ways: you can either comment on specific paragraphs of the report on the commenting platform – work in progress for the Report of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation – and/or you can send a more holistic assessment of the report and its findings by sending a comment or feedback document in PDF format to the EuroDIG secretariat via email on the following address: digitalcooperation@eurodig.org.
The deadline for comments is the 15 September. EuroDIG will then summarise the views received in a single document and make them available to the global public for further discussion at the UN Internet Governance Forum in Berlin in November or at any other occasion.
It is important to note that EuroDIG sees this process as one opportunity to trigger a debate and exchange on the findings of the Panel and does not intend to consider itself as the only platform to discuss views on and possible follow-up actions to the findings of the report. EuroDIG welcomes other initiatives that provide for a space to discuss and assess the Panel’s report and invites all European stakeholders to also participate in these.