2025 will mark 20 years since the inception of World Summit on the Information Society, and this year's high-level meeting will review the overall implementation of the outcomes of the WSIS. This event will ask the question, to ensure a human-rights centred digital future onwards?
The workshop is taking place in New York, please consider the time difference (time zone) when connecting:
19.15-20.30 CET time
13.15-14.30 EST time
Overview
The WSIS+20 review is poised to redefine the future of the Internet and digital cooperation. As technological frontiers expand from Web 4.0 to advanced AI, the international community faces a dual challenge: supporting innovation and ensuring an open, free, global, safe, secure, inclusive, human-centric, and human-rights based digital future. The EU's value-based digital model, which combines innovation with regulation, is a blueprint for this global endeavour.
Concept
This side event aims to bridge high-level strategy with actionable technical partnerships. By examining various approaches to digital public infrastructure, connectivity, infrastructure and governance frameworks, it will facilitate a dialogue on how value-based digital cooperation can advance technological innovation while respecting human rights. The session positions the EU as a trusted and forward-looking partner for both global policymaking and on-the-ground implementation. It will convene high-level stakeholders to explore how lessons from the EU and other regions can serve to build a future-proof Tech Offer encompassing digital public infrastructure, secure connectivity and green data centres. The conversation will link this offer to the broader WSIS agenda while promoting a vision for the future Internet that reconciles interoperability and the prevention of fragmentation, simultaneously reaffirming the commitment to human rights, inclusivity and multistakeholder cooperation. The event will explore both the technological and governance dimensions shaping the Internet’s next phase.
At the EUI and the Robert Schuman Centre, we are dedicated to removing barriers and providing equal opportunities for everyone. Please indicate in the registration form your accessibility needs, if any. Alternatively, you can contact the logistics organiser of the event.
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