The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2018 is co-organized by ITU, UNCTAD, UNDP and UNESCO, in close collaboration with all WSIS Action Line Facilitators/Co-Facilitators (UNDESA, FAO, UNEP, WHO, UN Women, WIPO, WFP, ILO, WMO, UN, ITC, UPU, UNODC, and UN Regional Commissions).
It is the world's largest annual gathering of the "ICT for development" community. UNCTAD will play an active role in the high-level segment, as co-facilitator of the action line on e-business, and as panellist at various sessions, as shown in the programme below.
During the opening segment on Tuesday 20 April, the UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Isabelle Durant, will make a statement on the role of digital economy and trade to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
All stakeholders in the information society and the general public are invited to take part in the WSIS Forum 2018.
Remote participation is possible through the WSIS Forum Website.
19 March | ||
11:00-13:00 | Room A | UNCTAD is a panelist in the session “Identifying and addressing problems that block women in ICTs”, organized by OCAPROCE (session 177) |
11:00-13:00 | Room K1 | UNCTAD is a co-organizer with ITU of the eTrade For All event “ICT Access and Use in the LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS – Opportunities for Sustainable Development and Trade” (session 241) |
14:30-16:15 | Room C2 | UNCTAD is a co-organizer with the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development of the session on “Measurement of Progress Towards the SDGs Through ICT Indicators” (session 134) |
16:30-18:15 | Room G2 | UNCTAD is a panelist in the “Arab Inter-Regional Consultation meeting on Digital technologies for Sustainable Development 2030 and related regional processes” organized by UNESCWA (session 129) |
16:30-18:15 | Room K2 | UNCTAD is a panelist in the session “A Dialogue on different cooperation models for approaches to Internet Public Policy development” organized by ICANN (session 196) |
20 March | ||
09:00-13:00 | CICG Room 1 | The UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Isabelle Durant, is addressing the Official Opening Segment (session 256) |
21 March | ||
11:00 -12:00 | CICG, Room 1, | UNCTAD is a panelist in the Moderated High-Level Policy Session on Digital Economy and Trade (session 328) |
22 March | ||
14:30-16:15 | Room M | UNCTAD is a co-organizer with ITC and UPU of the session on “Action line C7 on e-business: E-business and financial inclusion as a catalyst for the formalization and growth of MSMEs in developing countries” (session 207) |
23 March | ||
09:00-10:45 | Room K2 | UNCTAD is a panelist in the session “ICANN, the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and Capacity Building (ICANN)” organized by ICANN (session 138) |
14:00-17:00 | Room Popov | UNCTAD will attend the WSIS Action Line Facilitators Meeting and the Closing Ceremony |
