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    United Nations Group on the Information Society

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UNGIS Focus 2015-2016

UNGIS Activities for the Year: 2015-2016

May, 2015 UNGIS
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Vice-Chairs: ITU, UNDP, UNESCO, UNCTAD, UNECE

  • Annual meeting at WSIS Forum 2016:
    • UNGIS High-Level Leaders Breakfast Meeting, 3 May 2016
    • UNGIS Working Level Meeting, 6 May 2016
  • Chief Executives Board Joint Statement to the United Nations General Assembly
  • UNGIS Announcement at WSIS Forum 2015: UNGIS welcomes the WSIS Action Lines and SDGs Matrix
  • UNGIS Focus
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UNGIS

United Nations Group on the Information Society for Digital Transformation

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In April 2006, UNGIS (United Nations Group on the Information Society) was endorsed by the UN-Chief Executives Board (CEB) as the new inter-agency mechanism with the main objective to coordinate substantive and policy issues facing the United Nations’ implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

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