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WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event 2025

​​​​​​The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event 2025 will be held from 7 to 11 July 2025, co-hosted by the Confederation of Switzerla​nd in Geneva. ​​More

WSIS+20 Review Process - 20 Year Reports

WSIS Forum in 2025, branded as the WSIS+20 High-Level Event 2025, will facilitate multistakeholder dialogue and drive action by assessing achievements, key trends, and challenges since the 2003 Geneva Plan of Action. It will also provide a crucial platform for the international community to build on the outcomes of the Summit of the Future and strengthen global digital cooperation for a renewed, forwardlooking vision.


Ahead of the UN General Assembly's (UNGA) twenty-year review, the event will provide an opportunity to review the progress made in the implementation of the WSIS Outcomes under the mandates of participating agencies and to take stock of the achievements made in the last 20 years based on reports of WSIS Stakeholders, including those submitted by ITU Member States and other stakeholders.

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WSIS-SDG Matrix

Linking WSIS Action Lines with Sustainable Development Goals: this mapping exercise draws direct linkages of the WSIS Action Lines with the SDGs to con​tinue strengthening the impact of ICTs for sustainable development.​​​ Each UN Action Line Facilitator has analyzed the connections and relations of their respective Action Line with the proposed SDGs and their targets.

The goal is to create ​a clear and direct link and an explicit connection between the key aim of the WSIS, that of harnessing the potential of ICTs to promote and realize the development goals, and the post 2015 development agenda, so as to contribute to the realisation of the latter.

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ITU's Role in the WSIS Implementation and Follow-up

 

In line with its mandate and the WSIS outcome documents, the ITU continues playing key role in WSIS implementation and follow-up, including:

ITU Contribution to the WSIS Implementation

 

ITU Contribution to the Implementation of the WSIS Outcomes is a comprehensive report on the ITU activities in context of WSIS carried out annually by the Union. The Report provides detailedd information on the key WSIS related initiatives and activities carried out by the three sectors of the Union (Standardization, Radiocommunication and the Development Sector) and the General Secretariat. Reports provide updates on the tasks carried out by the ITU at the operational and policy level, covering all assigned mandates with reference to the WSIS Process, in particular in its capacity as:​

ITU's annual and five year reports on the ITU contribution to the implementa​tion of the WSIS outcomes are available ​​he​re.

ITU in the WSIS Outcome Documents

 

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ITU Decisions Relevant to WSIS Outcomes

 

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