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Interactive Action Line Facilitation Meetings

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13 March – 19 March

Monday 13 March

Past Sessions

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WSIS Action Line C7: e-Employment: Towards decent work in the digital economy for forcibly displaced youth
International Labour Organisation
ILO
11:15 – 12:15 (UTC+01:00) Room E
The session will feature an interactive discussion between experts on issues related to decent work, the digital economy, and people in forced displacement contexts as well as profit from the insights of a refugee that has vast experience in helping…
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296
WSIS Action Line C7: e-Business: “Enabling women in eBusiness”
ITC/UNCTAD/UPU
ITC/UNCTAD/UPU
14:15 – 15:15 (UTC+01:00) Room F
The rapid spread of digital technologies after the COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities for women and increased their participation in the digital economy. However, women entrepreneurs are still facing various challenges such as…
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250
WSIS Action Line C3: Access to information
UNESCO
UNESCO
15:30 – 16:30 (UTC+01:00) Room E
The workshop will discuss the scope of the new version of the Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information. The aim of the workshop is to gather input, review and update the Policy Guidelines, taking…
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306
The Next Frontier: Let's talk Digital Resilience - Cyber and Space
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
16:45 – 17:45 (UTC+01:00) Room E
Digital technologies play a key role in promoting equality and social inclusion, providing new opportunities for economic growth, and helping achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. To unleash the potential of these technologies for humanity,…
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Thursday 16 March

Past Sessions

190
WSIS Action Lines C7: e-Learning: Implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER)
United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization
UNESCO
09:00 – 10:00 (UTC+01:00) Geneva Room
The session will also emphasize the sharing of information and experience on OER platforms, the importance of partnerships and the perspectives in this area. Guiding questions: 1. How the 2019 UNESCO OER Recommendation can be used as a…
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Session recording available Interpretation: EN/FR Interactive Action Line Facilitation Meeting
192
Future of e-government assessment in the era of AI: Opportunities and Challenges
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Services
UN DESA
09:15 – 10:15 (UTC+01:00) Room E
The session will reflect on global and regional perspectives on digital/e-government development and suggest new tools and models to better measure digital government and utilize e-government to accelerate the 2030 Agenda. It will provide a platform…
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193
WSIS Action Line C8: Cultural diversity: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, and Local Content Promotion
UNESCO
UNESCO
09:15 – 10:15 (UTC+01:00) Room C
The objective of this session around Action line 8 is to identify what progress has been made by the different stakeholders, such as international organizations, governments, civil society, and the private sector. The following themes will be…
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224
WSIS Action Lines C6: Enabling environment
International Telecommunication Union
ITU
14:00 – 15:00 (UTC+01:00) Room E
As stated in the ITU Global Digital Regulatory Outlook 2023, the digital transition has characterized the development of communication technologies since telecom sector reform in the early 1990s – voice to data, fixed to mobile, monopoly to…
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WSIS Action Line C7: E-Agriculture
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO
14:30 – 16:15 (UTC+01:00) Room 9
A wide range of approaches, technologies and practices exist to tackle agrifood systems challenges. Science, technology and innovation underpin them all and are an essential part of assessing risks, identifying trade-offs and finding new solutions to…
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237
WSIS Action Lines C10: Ethics: The UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Putting ethics at the heart of AI systems
UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Sector
UNESCO
15:15 – 16:15 (UTC+01:00) Room E
Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be a white-hot area of rapid technological development and innovation. Beside the evident benefits, AI technologies embody great risks. To take a recent example, over the past several months, a range of…
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Friday 17 March

Past Sessions

316
WSIS Action Lines C9: Media: Digital platform regulation
UNESCO
UNESCO
09:15 – 10:15 (UTC+01:00) Room C
Rationale The internet and social media have empowered societies with enormous opportunities for people to communicate, engage, and learn. The digital world holds potential for marginalized communities, democratizing spaces for communication and…
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334
The role of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025 in strengthening country’s autonomy in fast tracking UHC and the health related SDGs
International Telecommunication Union / World Health Organization
ITU/WHO
10:30 – 11:30 (UTC+01:00) Room C
The Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025 In July 2018, the Secretary-General convened a High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation to ad­vance proposals to strengthen cooperation in the digital space among Governments, the private sector, civil…
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333
WSIS Action Lines C7: e-Science: Post truth on Open Data, Disinformation and Climate Change: Can Technology help?
UNESCO
UNESCO
10:30 – 11:30 (UTC+01:00) Room E
The rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies is transforming the way people are exchanging information with each other. It is also resulting in new narrative for information sharing in all aspects of human civilization,…
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