Why the WSIS+20 Review Matters and How National and Regional IGFs Can Enhance Stakeholder Participation – MT 01 2025

13 May 2025 | 09:00 - 10:30 CEST | Hemicycle
Consolidated programme 2025

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Working title: Why the UN WSIS+20 Review is important and how the national and regional IGFs can help stakeholders engage in the review process.
Proposals: #13, #16, #27, #29, #36, #42

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Session teaser

This year’s 20 year review by the UN General Assembly of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society – the WSIS+20 Review – gets under way in July with the first preparatory meeting of Member States and the WSIS+20 High Level Event hosted by the ITU. EuroDIG will subsequently have the opportunity to submit an input into the WSIS+20 “non-paper”. The EuroDIG messages from its session on WSIS+20 in Vilnius in June 2024 recommended that the review a) should enhance the existing processes of Internet governance, global digital policy and cooperation, and b) renew the IGF's mandate. The aims of the plenary session in Strasbourg are to agree on 1) new consensus-based messages concerning the modalities for stakeholders – assisted by the platforms of the national and regional IGFs – to engage in the WSIS+20 process; and 2) to consider what would be desirable outcomes from the WSIS+20 review.

Session description

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Format

We introduce a new format for all Main Sessions. They are NOT panel discussion and conducted as follows:

• 30 min input (2 x 15' or 3 x 10' VIP / expert presentation)
• 45 min moderated discussion with the entire audience along a set of guiding questions
• 15 min agreeing on the messages

Further reading

• Role of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) in the WSIS+20 Review: https://unctad.org/topic/commission-on-science-and-technology-for-development/wsis-20-year-review
• WSIS+20 Review updates from the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) https://publicadministration.desa.un.org/wsis20
• The ITU’s WSIS+20 High Level Event: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2025/
• EuroDIG Messages from Vilnius (2024) on the WSIS+20 Review: https://www.eurodig.org/eurodig-2024/messages-from-vilnius/

People

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Programme Committee member(s)

• Mark Carvel, Independent consultant on Internet governance policy
• Vlad Ivanets, Journalist and media researcher

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Focal Point

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Organising Team (Org Team) List Org Team members here as they sign up.

• Craig Stanley-Adamson, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, UK Government
• Alena Muravska, Ripe NCC
• Nebojša Regoje
• Mariam Chaladze, ISET
• Tatiana Tropina, Internet Society
• Oksana Prykhodko, iNGO European Media Platform
• Henry Wang, SmartMesh
• Titti Cassa, AGID | Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale
• Akriti Bopanna
• Bruna Martins dos Santos, WITNESS Inc

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Key Participants

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Moderator

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Remote Moderator

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Reporter

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Current discussion, conference calls, schedules and minutes

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Messages

• are summarised on a slide and presented to the audience at the end of each session
• relate to the session and to European Internet governance policy
• are forward looking and propose goals and activities that can be initiated after EuroDIG (recommendations)
• are in (rough) consensus with the audience

Video record

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Transcript

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