UNGIS High-Level meeting
United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS)
Session 119
Twenty-third UNGIS High-Level meeting
UNGIS serves as the United Nations system inter-agency mechanism for advancing policy coherence and programme coordination on digital matters, coordinating 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 Information Society (WSIS). Pursuant to Para 46 of the GA Resolution 62/208, UNGIS also ensures coordination within the United Nations development system in order to respond to the international attention being given to science and technology transfer as reflected by the outcomes of the 2005 World Summit. UNGIS consists of 31 UN system entities as members (i.e., those represented at the CEB) and 21 UN entities as observers.
UNGIS Members emphasize that the WSIS process is a continually evolving process involving many UN agencies, guided by mandates from annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) resolutions, as well as resolutions from several UN agencies involved in the implementation of the WSIS process.
The objective of UNGIS is to strengthen collaboration and partnerships across the United Nations system in support of the WSIS vision and outcomes. Through coordinated action, UNGIS seeks to ensure that digital cooperation, information and communication technologies (ICTs), and science, technology and innovation remain high on the United Nations agenda, while mainstreaming ICT for development across the mandates and programmes of CEB members.
The importance of UNGIS was further reaffirmed through the WSIS+20 review outcome adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2025 (A/RES/80/173). The resolution calls for the continuation and strengthening of UNGIS as the United Nations system’s inter-agency mechanism for advancing policy coherence and programme coordination on digital matters, with a Chair rotating on an annual basis and a secretariat provided by the International Telecommunication Union. The resolution also entrusts UNGIS with key responsibilities related to the implementation and follow-up of WSIS+20 outcomes, including strengthening coherence between the WSIS process and the Global Digital Compact, and fostering multi-stakeholder dialogue, partnership-building on digital cooperation.
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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
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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
- 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