Briefing by Co-Facilitators of the Global Digital Compact
Update on the Roadmap to GDC Negotiations

Update on the Roadmap to Global Digital Compact (GDC) Negotiations by Co-Facilitators of the GDC — H.E. Anna Karin Eneström, Permanent Representative of Sweden to UN; and H.E. Chola Milambo, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Zambia to UN
7 December, 10:00–11:15 CET
Secretary-General’s Meeting Room, ITU Headquarters, Geneva
UNGIS Open Forum @ IGF 2023
WSIS Action Lines for Advancing the Achievement of SDGs

This session will focus on the strategic ways governments and partners leverage ICTs, raising key challenges and gaps, identifying digital capacities to prioritize based on needs on the ground, and the synergies necessary to support those. The discussions will be addressing the two major challenges of advancing the world's digital transformation: achieving universal connectivity and enabling meaningful connectivity.
Wednesday, 11 October, 13:30-15:00 (JST/UTC+9) / 06:30-08:00 (CEST/UTC+2)
IGF 2023, Workshop Room 9 (Room C-2), Kyoto International Conference Centre, Kyoto, Japan
UNGIS Side Event @ HLPF 2023
Harnessing the Power of Digital Innovation for a Sustainable World Post-COVID-19 - WSIS Action Lines for Advancing the Achievement of SDGs

This session, organised by the UNGIS, World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and Peru, will address the two major challenges of advancing the world's digital transformation: enabling universal meaningful connectivity and developing the competencies to address related risks and to harness its opportunities across UNGIS’ fields of competence.
18 July, 13:15-14:30 EDT (New York Time) / 19:15–20:30 CEST
HLPF 2023, Conference Room C, UN Headquarters, New York
UNGIS Focus 2023-2024
UNGIS Activities for the Year: 2023-2024

Co-Chairs: ITU, UNDP
Vice-Chairs: UNDP, UNESCO, UNESCAP
- Annual Meeting at WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event
- High-Level Breakfast Meeting
- Working Level Meeting
- Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2023
- UNGIS Open Forum — WSIS Action Lines for Advancing the Achievement of SDGs
- High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2023
- 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5)
- Consultations on the Global Digital Compact (GDC)
- ECOSOC Partnership Forum 2023
- UNGIS side event — WSIS Cooperation for Accelerating Progress on the SDGs
Twentieth Meeting
Twentieth UNGIS Meeting — 14 & 17 March 2023

The twentieth meeting of the United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS) was held as part of the WSIS Forum 2023. This meeting comprised the UNGIS Leaders High-Level meeting that took place on Tuesday 14 March 2023 and the Working Level meeting that will took place on the Friday 17 March 2023.