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Interactive Action Line Facilitation Meetings

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9 May – 13 May


Monday 9 May


Past Sessions


WSIS Action Line Facilitation Meeting C8 "The digitization of culture and the creative economy: benefits, challenges and roadmaps"
UNESCO
UNESCO

15:00 – 16:00 (UTC+02:00)
Action line 8 of the World Summit Information Society is “Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content”. The impact of new technologies on culture and the creative economy is multifaceted, bringing benefits and challenges…
Session recording available Covid-19 related Interactive Action Line Facilitation Meeting

Tuesday 10 May


Past Sessions


WSIS Action Line C7: E-Employment
International Labour Organisation
ILO

12:00 – 13:00 (UTC+02:00)
Background: The pandemic disrupted the labour market with a sudden expansion of the digital economy, further transforming the composition of labour demand. The many challenges that were there before the Pandemic are strengthened due to said…
Session recording available Covid-19 related Interactive Action Line Facilitation Meeting
WSIS Action Line C6: Enabling Environment: Economic and fiscal incentives to accelerate digital transformation
ITU
ITU

13:00 – 14:30 (UTC+02:00)
Considering the importance to enable an appropriate environment to​​ address affordable digital connectivity for sustainable development and accelerate digital transformation, this year the 9th Economic Experts Roundtable is organized within the…
Session recording available Real-time human captioning Interactive Action Line Facilitation Meeting

Wednesday 11 May


Past Sessions


WSIS Action Line C4
International Telecommunication Union, UNDP, UN OSET
ITU/UNDP/UN OSET

16:00 – 17:00 (UTC+02:00)
Despite the unprecedented growth in digital technologies over the past two decades, 2.9 billion people worldwide (37% of the global population) are still not using the Internet, with 96% of them living in developing countries.[1] While the access…

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