WSIS ALFM C7: E-Science
UNESCO
Session 431
Friday, 3 June 2022
11:00–12:45 (UTC+02:00)
Room C1, ITU Tower Building (with remote participation)
Interactive Action Line Facilitation Meeting
Access to “existential information” for Climate Change: Is openness of data THE solution to address “existential disinformation”?
The session shall address issues as below:
o What is the state of affairs for climate change and natural resource consumption data in citizen communication processes?
o How is the endless plethora of details and subsets of climate-consumption information enhancing existential disinformation for citizens, obscuring existential information and how can this be counteracted?
o What can stakeholders do to enhance citizens’ access to and understanding of big picture existential climate-consumption data?
o What can be done to institutionalize good practices and processes to expose existential climate-consumption disinformation and enhance citizens' access to existential information to secure the future of all?
Topics
Digital Divide
Environment
Ethics
Smart Cities
WSIS Action Lines
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C3. Access to information and knowledge
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-environment
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-science
Sustainable Development Goals
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Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
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Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
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Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
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Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
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Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
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Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
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Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
