Knowledge Café: WSIS+20 Consultation: Sharing Stories from the Ground - Showcasing Impact through WSIS Prizes 2025
WSIS
Session 467
First come, first served
Thursday, 10 July 2025
12:00–13:45 (UTC+02:00)
Physical (on-site) participation only
Room L, Palexpo
Light meals will be offered to attendees during the session
Knowledge Café
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Meet WSIS Prizes Awardees
This session will spotlight inspiring stories from the ground, shared directly by the winners, champions and nominees of the WSIS Prizes. It will highlight concrete achievements and best practices that demonstrate how ICTs are transforming communities, bridging digital divides, and making impact on the ground. Participants will hear first-hand experiences, challenges, and lessons learned from diverse projects recognized through the WSIS Prizes.
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Topics
5G Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Blockchain
Capacity Building
Cloud Computing
Cultural Diversity
Cybersecurity
Digital Divide
Digital Economy
Digital Inclusion
Digital Skills
Digital Transformation
Education
Emerging Technologies
Environment
Ethics
Global Digital Compact (GDC)
Health
Human Rights
Infrastructure
Machine Learning
Media
Smart Cities
WSIS+20 Review
WSIS Action Lines
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C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
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C2. Information and communication infrastructure
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C3. Access to information and knowledge
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C4. Capacity building
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C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
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C6. Enabling environment
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-government
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-business
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-learning
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-health
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-employment
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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-agriculture
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-science
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C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
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C9. Media
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C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
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C11. International and regional cooperation
www.wsis.org/prizes
Sustainable Development Goals
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Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
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Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
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Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
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Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
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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 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
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Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
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Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
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Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
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Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
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Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
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Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
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Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
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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
GDC Objectives
- Objective 1: Close all digital divides and accelerate progress across the Sustainable Development Goals
- Objective 2: Expand inclusion in and benefits from the digital economy for all
- Objective 3: Foster an inclusive, open, safe and secure digital space that respects, protects and promotes human rights
- Objective 4: Advance responsible, equitable and interoperable data governance approaches
- Objective 5: Enhance international governance of artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity
