Agenda | WSIS+20 High-Level Event 2025

Agenda and Programme

The WSIS+20 High-Level Event 2025 will take place from 7 to 11 July 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland, hosted by ITU and co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP, and UNCTAD. The Agenda and Programme for the Event are built based on official submissions received during the Open Consultation Process (OCP).

Webcast

Room K, Palexpo

Monday 7 July

139

Knowledge Café: Youth building the digital future - WSIS+20 Review and Beyond 2025

WSIS

12:15 – 13:45 (UTC+02:00) Room K

Interactive workshop-style youth-led discussions to ideate the youth vision for the next 20 years of the WSIS process. The session will facilitate a collaborative, youth-led dialogue to generate actionable, context-specific solutions to a particular…

Youth Knowledge Café

359

The UAE's AI-Native Blueprint: A New Era of Government

United Arab Emirates

14:00 – 15:00 (UTC+02:00) Room K

Join the UAE to explore its ambitious journey towards becoming the world's first AI-native nation. This workshop provides an executive overview of the UAE's strategic framework, detailing how visionary goals are translated into reality. The session…

Strategic Partner: WSIS Long-Standing Partner Partner's Insight

164

The Last Mile, Reimagined: Building Truly Connected Communities

Malaysia

15:15 – 16:15 (UTC+02:00) Room K

As part of the thematic focus on “The Last Mile, Reimagined: Building Truly Connected Communities,” this session will serve as a dynamic platform for spotlighting transformative insights and real-world experiences from across regions. It will…

Strategic Partner: Platinum Partner's Insight

405

Community-centered connectivity: Empowering local champions to expand Internet access for all

Internet Society

16:30 – 17:30 (UTC+02:00) Room K

The WSIS vision that “everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge” remains an unmet goal. Steady but uneven progress in global Internet connectivity highlights the digital divide's disparities and disproportionately…

Contributing Partner Partner's Insight

Tuesday 8 July

370

Centering People and Planet in the WSIS+20 and beyond

Global Digital Justice Forum, IT for Change and Association for Progressive Communications

09:00 – 10:00 (UTC+02:00) Room K

Twenty years after the WSIS, the dream of a people-centric, inclusive, and development-oriented digital economy and society has never seemed more elusive, yet so urgent, to claim. Though more people than ever have access to the Internet today, the…

WSIS+20 Interactive Session

372

Multilingualism in the Digital Age: Inclusive Strategies on Cultural Diversity for a People-Centered Information Society

UNESCO

10:15 – 11:15 (UTC+02:00) Room K

This session will highlight the importance of multilingualism and cultural expressions in the digital environment, building on the UNESCO 2003 Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace, the…

Interactive Action Line Facilitation Meeting

350

Global Standards for a Sustainable Digital Future

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)

11:30 – 12:30 (UTC+02:00) Room K

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, global standards play a pivotal role in ensuring that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and emerging digital innovations are designed to be scalable, secure, and accessible for all.…

Contributing Partner Partner's Insight

317

La régulation du numérique et de l’IA dans l’espace francophone comme inspiration et bonne pratique internationale

Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie

13:00 – 13:45 (UTC+02:00) Room K

International digital and AI governance is now at a crossroads. The institutional calendar makes 2025 a crucial year, that of the implementation of the recommendations of the Global Digital Compact (GDC) and the ongoing reconfiguration of the global…

Emerging Technologies Interactive Session

177

Governance and assessment of AI systems for reliable service delivery

EY (Ernst & Young LLP)

14:00 – 14:45 (UTC+02:00) Room K

AI tools and products are increasingly being adopted in mission-critical elements of service delivery both in the public and private sector. To manage the potential risks from this use of AI, policymakers, civil-society and business leaders are…

Contributing Partner Emerging Technologies Partner's Insight

495

Regulators Roundtable

WSIS/ITU

15:15 – 17:15 (UTC+02:00) Room K

Regulators only

Regulators Round Table

Wednesday 9 July

448

Bridging the Digital Skills Gap: Strategies for Reskilling and Upskilling in a Changing World

ILO/ITU

09:00 – 10:00 (UTC+02:00) Room K

The session will bring together representatives from government, the private sector, international organisations and academic institutions, to discuss strategies to develop digital skills policies and frameworks that can effectively respond to the…

Digital Skills High-Level Dialogue

194

Fostering Sustainable Digital Innovation: Saudi Arabia’s Approach to Digital innovative Future

Saudi Arabia

11:00 – 12:00 (UTC+02:00) Room K

As the world marks two decades of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), this session—hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia—will showcase national efforts to foster sustainable digital innovation. It will explore how digital…

Strategic Partner: Gold Partner's Insight

183

Ministerial Roundtable

WSIS

14:30 – 16:30 (UTC+02:00) Room K

Ministers only

Ministerial Round Table

455

WSIS+20 Overall Review multistakeholder consultation with co-facilitators

WSIS

16:45 – 17:45 (UTC+02:00) Room K

🎉 Be the first to secure your spot! It's first come, first served for this session. 🎉 🌟 Reserve your seat now by signing up HERE 🌟 ❗️Important Note❗️: Please ensure you complete the event registration first.Without registration, you will not…

WSIS+20 Interactive Session

Thursday 10 July

130

UNGIS High-Level meeting

United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS)

08:00 – 09:00 (UTC+02:00) Room K

UNGIS members only

UNGIS serves as an inter-agency mechanism to coordinate substantive policy issues facing the United Nations system’s implementation of the Geneva Plan of Action and Tunis Agenda for the Information Society adopted by the World Summit on the…

UNGIS

195

How .POST powered services build Cyber Resilience within the global Postal and Logistics Sector

Universal Postal Union

09:00 – 10:00 (UTC+02:00) Room K

The global postal network plays a vital role in facilitating trade, communication, and economic development. However, the increasing reliance on digital technologies and interconnectedness has exposed the postal sector to cyber threats that can…

Interactive Session

466

WSIS-UN Regional Commissions

UN Regional Commissions

10:15 – 11:15 (UTC+02:00) Room K

Interactive Session

328

Measuring ICT for development: the importance of data and statistics in the implementation of the WSIS and the Global Digital Compact

Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development

11:30 – 12:30 (UTC+02:00) Room K

This session will build on the session at the WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event in 2024, with a forward-looking discussion linking the work of the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development to the implementation of WSIS action lines and the outcomes…

Interactive Session

425

Digital Cooperation and Empowerment: Insights and Best Practices for Strengthening Multistakeholder and Inclusive Participation

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

14:00 – 15:00 (UTC+02:00) Room K

Effective digital cooperation hinges on balanced, diverse and inclusive representation from all stakeholders, including governments, international organizations, the private sector, civil society, academia, and the technical community. True…

Contributing Partner Partner's Insight

235

Digital identity solutions: opportunities and challenges in the pursuit of inclusiveness

United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, United Nations International Computing Centre

15:15 – 16:15 (UTC+02:00) Room K

The panel will reflect on how emerging technology can be an agent of change to solve real-world problems. It will include an interactive moderated panel discussion, where speakers will showcase their experience with the application of emergency…

Interactive Session

320

Children & Robots

Ethic Minds Institute

16:30 – 17:30 (UTC+02:00) Room K

What does data provenance, cryptography, quantum computing, and AI-powered robots have to do with children? Come discuss just this. As we move closer to AI-powered humanoid robots becoming part of the societal landscape, it is imperative that we…

Emerging Technologies Interactive Session

Friday 11 July

475

How a growing space ecosystem can be better leveraged to achieve the SDGs?

International Telecommunication Union

09:00 – 10:00 (UTC+02:00) Room K

Satellite technology is now very often quoted as having a crucial role to play in providing connectivity and bridging the digital divide. The Plan of Action adopted at the end of the first session of the World Summit on the Information Society…

Emerging Technologies High-Level Dialogue

344

Global Strategies for Child Online Protection and Tackling Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

SWGfL (South West Grid for Learning)

11:30 – 12:30 (UTC+02:00) Room K

As digital connectivity expands globally, the threats faced by children and women online are intensifying—often faster than policy or platform responses can keep pace. Online child exploitation and tech-facilitated violence against women and girls…

Interactive Session

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