Moving forward

The publication of this report marks the official launch of the Focus Areas Action Framework of the P2C Digital Coalition. This is also a call to organizations across sectors and industries to continue to step up and contribute to achieving meaningful connectivity for all by pledging concrete action using our Pledging Platform. The platform will remain open for new pledges after the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) event in early June 2022.

As governments, the private sector, UN agencies and other international or regional organizations, civil society, and youth groups continue to commit to more pledges, P2C will publicly announce and promote these pledges on a regular basis. In some instance, pledge-makers will be spotlighted in guest blogs discussing their commitments, implementation, progress and impact.

ITU will play a coordinating role to help track and monitor the fulfilment of the pledges made. For a few select pilot countries, ITU will play a more active role and help coordinate the implementation of the pledges in partnership with the pilot country government and together with all key stakeholders (e.g. UN country team, donors, private sector, civil society) as well as any already planned ITU activities.

There will also be periodic reporting, updates and events planned to share progress on implementation, facilitate collaboration and highlight best practices and impact stories. The key issues outlined under each of the pillars as well as the potential interventions/sample pledges will continued to be discussed and refined at the P2C Web Dialogues planned for 2022:[159]

• Web Dialogue 2 on ADOPTION: Empowering Communities (16 March)
• Web Dialogue 3 on VALUE CREATION: Building digital ecosystems (20 April)
• Web Dialogue 4 on ACCELERATE: Incentivizing investments (11 May)

Finally, at the P2C Digital Development Roundtable, which will take place in Kigali, Rwanda from 7-9 June 2022 during ITU’s WTDC, several discussions around concrete pledges addressing the key issues outlined in the Action Framework will be conducted. After the WTDC, some of the assumptions and recommendations for the key issues outlined in the framework will be tested and implemented in selected “pilot countries” (TBD).