Knowledge Café: WSIS+20

WSIS

Session 474

Monday, 30 May 2022 13:00–14:30 (UTC+02:00) ICT Discovery, ITU Montbrillant Building Light meals will be offered to attendees during the session Knowledge Café

Light lunch will be served. Limited to 90 seats, first come first served basis.

This knowledge café will provide opportunity for stakeholders to share their views, insights, and to reflect on the evolution of WSIS implementation process. This session will be focused on the challenges and opportunities to fulfil the vision outlined by WSIS almost 20 years ago of the information and knowledge societies where everyone can benefit from the opportunities that ICTs can offer.

This session will discuss the following:

Over 20 years of the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines, what are some of the main lessons learned/highlights in terms of the progress achieved so far?
’Share your story’’: Concrete examples of the implementation of the WSIS process as collected through the WSIS Stocktaking platform and highlighted through the WSIS Prizes to advance sustainable development.
As we look forward, what are the key emerging trends and opportunities for the evolution of 11 WSIS Action lines and WSIS special initiatives beyond 2025?

Mr. Malcolm Johnson (Welcoming Remarks) Deputy Secretary-General International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Prof. Muhammad Abubakar Managing Director/CEO Galaxy Backbone Plc

Muhammad is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Galaxy Backbone Limited (GBB); Nigeria’s digital infrastructure and shared services provider. It is an agency of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. He is a Professor of Petroleum Geosciences with over two decades of working experience spanning the academia, oil and gas exploration research, development and innovation institutions. He has been a member of the ICT community (a member of Cisco Academy) in Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Nigeria, since its early inception. Muhammad is a strategic thinker with strong leadership and management skills. He has an impressive exposure to global best practice in leadership – the recent being an Executive Certification on “Infrastructure in a Market Economy” at Harvard Kennedy University, Massachusetts, USA.

WSIS Action Lines

C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
C2. Information and communication infrastructure
C3. Access to information and knowledge
C4. Capacity building
C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
C6. Enabling environment
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-government
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-business
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-learning
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-health
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-employment
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-environment
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-agriculture
C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-science
C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
C9. Media
C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
C11. International and regional cooperation

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development