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High-Level Track

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Final Week
30 May – 3 June

Monday 30 May

Past Sessions

Ambassadors’ High-Level Briefing
WSIS
WSIS
09:00 – 10:45 (UTC+02:00) Room E
Ambassadors only
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Coffee will be offered during the session Ambassadors Round Table

Tuesday 31 May

Past Sessions

WSIS Forum 2022 Opening Segment
WSIS
WSIS
09:30 – 12:40 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum is a multistakeholder platform to coordinate implementation activities, exchange information and knowledge, showcase innovation, share best practices and foster partnerships to ensure ICTs…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR/Passive AR Opening Ceremony
High-Level Policy Session 1: Bridging Digital Divides
WSIS
WSIS
14:00 – 15:00 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
Globally, over 1 billion new Internet users have been added over the last five years. Yet under half the world's people (3.7 billion) do not use the Internet. Many of them live in least developed countries (LDCs), landlocked developing countries…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR High-Level Policy Session
High-Level Policy Session 2: WSIS Action Lines and the 2030 Agenda / Inclusiveness, Access to Information and Knowledge for All / Bridging Digital Divides
WSIS
WSIS
14:00 – 15:00 (UTC+02:00) Room C2 (with remote participation)
WSIS Action Lines and the 2030 Agenda The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a ground-breaking Summit, held in recognition of the vast, sweeping changes digital technologies would wreak on our society, economy and way of life. The…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning High-Level Policy Session
High-Level Policy Session 3 : Building Confidence and Security in the use of ICTs
WSIS
WSIS
15:00 – 16:00 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
In this digital age, trust is everything. Cybersecurity is crucial to ensuring universal, trustworthy, and equitable access to connectivity. While the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) enables better management and increased…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR High-Level Policy Session
High-Level Policy Session 4 : Bridging Digital Divides
WSIS
WSIS
15:00 – 16:00 (UTC+02:00) Room C2 (with remote participation)
Globally, over 1 billion new Internet users have been added over the last five years. Yet under half the world's people (3.7 billion) do not use the Internet. Many of them live in least developed countries (LDCs), landlocked developing countries…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning High-Level Policy Session
High-Level Policy Session 5: ICT Applications and Services
WSIS
WSIS
16:00 – 17:00 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
"The usage and deployment of ICTs should seek to create benefits in all aspects of our daily life. ICT applications are potentially important in government operations and services, health care and health information, education and training,…
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High-Level Policy Session 6: Climate Change/Bridging Digital Divides
WSIS
WSIS
16:00 – 17:00 (UTC+02:00) Room C2 (with remote participation)
Climate Change Governments, in cooperation with other stakeholders are encouraged to use and promote ICTs as an instrument for environmental protection and the sustainable use of natural resources. Government, civil society and the private sector are…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning High-Level Policy Session

Wednesday 1 June

Past Sessions

High-Level Policy Session 7: Inclusiveness, Access to Information and Knowledge for All / Bridging Digital Divides
WSIS
WSIS
09:00 – 10:00 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
Inclusiveness, Access to Information and Knowledge for All The ability for all to access and contribute information, ideas and knowledge is essential in an inclusive Information Society. The sharing and strengthening of global knowledge for…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR High-Level Policy Session
High-Level Policy Session 8: Enabling Environment
WSIS
WSIS
10:00 – 11:00 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
"An enabling environment at national and international levels is essential for the Information Society. ICTs should be used as an important tool for good governance. The rule of law, accompanied by a supportive, transparent, pro-competitive,…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR High-Level Policy Session
High-Level Policy Session 9: Inclusiveness, Access to Information and Knowledge for All/WSIS Action Lines and 2030 Agenda/Bridging Digital Divide
WSIS
WSIS
10:00 – 11:00 (UTC+02:00) Room C2 (with remote participation)
Inclusiveness, Access to Information and Knowledge for All The ability for all to access and contribute information, ideas and knowledge is essential in an inclusive Information Society. The sharing and strengthening of global knowledge for…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR High-Level Policy Session
High-Level Policy Session 10: Digital Economy and Trade/ Financing for Development and role of ICT
WSIS
WSIS
11:00 – 12:00 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
Digital Economy and Trade Technology is supporting and changing how we organize our governing systems, our economies, and ourcultures in unprecedented ways. There are several opportunities for partnerships and collaborations between countries and…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR High-Level Policy Session
High-Level Policy Session 11: Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content/Ethical Dimensions of Information and Knowledge Societies/Media/ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming
WSIS
WSIS
11:00 – 12:00 (UTC+02:00) Room C2 (with remote participation)
Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content Cultural and linguistic diversity, while stimulating respect for cultural identity, traditions and religions, is essential to the development of an Information Society based on…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR High-Level Policy Session
Ministerial Round Table
WSIS
WSIS
13:30 – 15:30 (UTC+02:00) Room C2 (with remote participation)
Ministers only
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Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR Covid-19 related Ministerial Round Table
High-Level Dialogue: ICTs for Developing Countries (and LDCs)
ITU/UN Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries
ITU/UN Technology Bank for Least Developed…
14:00 – 15:30 (UTC+02:00) Room C1 (with remote participation)
Connectivity has become a critical component to the socio-economic development yet of the 2.9 billion people who remain offline globally, a significant proportion live in the LDCs. In terms of internet access, the LDCs have a usage gap of 56% and a…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning High-Level Dialogue
High-Level Dialogue: Indigenous Languages
UNESCO / ITU
UNESCO / ITU
14:00 – 15:30 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
In the framework of the International Decade, UNESCO, in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and in the context of the 2022 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum, will organize a High-level dialogue on 1…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR High-Level Dialogue
From the lab to the real world: Artificial Intelligence and the decade action
ITU
ITU
15:30 – 17:00 (UTC+02:00) Room C1 (with remote participation)
Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning are transforming all aspects of our lives, economies and societies, in both visible as well as unforeseen ways. Predictive analysis and use of big data is now driving insights and actions…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning High-Level Dialogue
High-Level Dialogue on the Transforming Education Summit and the 2023 GEM Report on technology and education
UNESCO
UNESCO
15:30 – 17:00 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
Poor, inadequate or no education leads to calamitous consequences, appearing in the form of violence, climate disasters, poverty, inequalities, discrimination and threats to global peace. In turn, these consequences are threatening education itself.…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR High-Level Dialogue
Closing of High-Level Policy Sessions ceremony
WSIS
WSIS
17:00 – 18:00 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
This session will conclude the WSIS Forum 2022 High-Level Policy Sessions. Each High-Level Track Facilitator will provide an oral summary of the main outcomes of their respective session, followed by a final summary by this year's Chairman. The…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interpretation: EN/FR High-Level Policy Session

Thursday 2 June

Past Sessions

High-Level Dialogue: WSIS +20 – WSIS Beyond 2025
WSIS
WSIS
14:30 – 16:15 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
Through the Summit’s first phase in 2003, a framework for an inclusive information society was created as set out in the Geneva Plan of Action. Since 2015, the WSIS Process and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are being aligned by…
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning High-Level Dialogue

Friday 3 June

Past Sessions

Closing Ceremony of the WSIS Forum 2022
WSIS
WSIS
16:30 – 17:30 (UTC+02:00) Popov Room (with remote participation)
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Session recording available Real-time human captioning Closing Ceremony
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