Knowledge Café: WSIS+20 Follow-up towards 2035 WSIS-GDC Coherence
ITU
Session 440
The Knowledge Café provides an informal and interactive space to reflect on the enduring importance of the WSIS process as a central, trusted, and uniquely multistakeholder platform for global digital cooperation. Reaffirmed by the recent UN General Assembly resolution, WSIS continues to serve as a practical, implementation‑driven framework that delivers results without duplication and supports Member States in advancing inclusive, people‑centered digital development.
The WSIS Stocktaking Knowledge Café will provide an interactive platform for the WSIS multi-stakeholder community to explore recent developments in the WSIS Stocktaking process and discuss future opportunities for collaboration.
The session will begin with an overview of the latest updates on the WSIS Stocktaking process, followed by the official launch of the WSIS Stocktaking Report 2026 and the WSIS Stocktaking Success Stories 2026 publication.
Participants will then engage in an open discussion and thematic roundtable exchanges focusing on:
how stakeholders can contribute to and benefit from the WSIS Stocktaking Platform and related activities;
how the WSIS Stocktaking process can further support the needs of the WSIS community through enhanced knowledge-sharing, networking and partnership-building.
As WSIS Prizes constitute an integral component of the WSIS Stocktaking process, the session will also provide an opportunity for WSIS Prizes 2026 awardees to share their experiences and reflections.
The Knowledge Café aims to gather community feedback, identify new collaboration opportunities, and strengthen the role of WSIS Stocktaking as a global knowledge repository and networking platform supporting the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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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
www.wsis.org/stocktaking
www.wsis.org/prizes
www.wsis.org/sdg