Agenda

Agenda and Programme


The WSIS Forum 2022 will be held starting in March, featuring a weekly programme, including a series of thematic/country workshops, high-level policy sessions, special tracks on various thematic areas, knowledge café, a Hackathon, and exhibition addressing issues that are critical to WSIS implementation and follow-up in a multistakeholder setting. The final week of the WSIS Forum 2022 will take place on 30th May – 3rd June 2022, consisting of policy statements, interactive high-level dialogues, a WSIS Prize ceremony, a ministerial round table as well as a series of WSIS Action Line facilitation meetings.

The WSIS Forum programme is completely crowdsourced, the engagement of governments, civil society, the private sector, academia, the technical community and intergovernmental organizations in the preparatory process ensures broad ownership and continual improvements of the Forum. The Agenda and Programme for the Forum is built on the basis of official submissions received during the Open Consultation Process on Shaping the Themes and Format of WSIS Forum 2022.


21 March – 25 March


Tuesday 22 March


Past Sessions


WSIS TalkX: Using ICTs to Preserve Life Below Water
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

13:00 – 14:00 (UTC+01:00)
"Healthy oceans and seas are essential to our existence. They cover 70 percent of our planet and we rely on them for food, energy and water. Yet, we have managed to do tremendous damage to these precious resources. We must protect them by eliminating…
Session recording available WSIS TalkX
Code Like a Girl!: Intro to Computer Programming with the TechGirls
TechGirls
TechGirls

17:00 – 18:00 (UTC+01:00)
Have you ever wondered who is behind the website you're scrolling through? Or how their experience shapes the website they create? Join us as the TechGirls dive into the basics of computer programming, discuss how bias impacts Computer Science and…

Wednesday 23 March


Past Sessions


Support programmes for women’s cooperatives
Habitat Association
Habitat Association

14:00 – 14:40 (UTC+01:00)
Through this workshop, we would like to talk about the program we have implemented to support women's cooperatives. We have created an application model in order to increase women's employment and economic growth as well as their digital capacities.…
Session recording available Covid-19 related ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming Thematic Workshop
Panel Discussion on WSIS Forum 2022 Healthy Ageing Innovation Prize
WSIS, The Global Coalition on Aging
WSIS, GCOA

15:00 – 16:00 (UTC+01:00)
This is the second year of the WSIS Forum Healthy Ageing Innovation Prize. We are gathering a group of several Judges for this competition to review their criteria for success in the competition, how they incorporate technology within their…
Session recording available WSIS Special Prize

Thursday 24 March


Past Sessions


Smart Solutions to connect everyone
Basic internet Foundation/ African Child Projects
ACP/ BIF

13:00 – 14:00 (UTC+01:00)
Information and communications technology (ICT) has made widespread digital literacy important and urgent. The wide gap between those who have easy access to the internet and those who do not, popularly known as the “digital divide”, means that…
Session recording available Thematic Workshop
Women in STEM Speak Up!
TechGirls
TechGirls

16:00 – 17:00 (UTC+01:00)
Stereotypes that women do not belong in the STEM fields start young, and sometimes even parents and teachers instill that STEM is no place for Women. This may cause women to be skeptical about their abilities. However, studies show that women…

Friday 25 March


Past Sessions


Digital Entrapment
EC MEDICI Framework
MEDICI

13:00 – 14:00 (UTC+01:00)
Information is built on top of single or aggregation of data, for quite a long time people use to think that cyberspace is a “black hole” without memory where you pour data without any side effect. Young generations shared online sensitive…
Session recording available Thematic Workshop

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