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Opening Multilateralism: Two Pathways to Digital Legitimacy
15 Sep 2025
As digital technologies reshape global power, the rules that govern them are increasingly negotiated in multilateral fora. But if these bodies are to deliver legitimate and future-proof governance frameworks for the Internet, AI, cybersecurity, and data, their processes must adapt – expanding participation to include the wider set of actors…
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28 Jan 2026
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Looking Back: Tracking National Positions in the WSIS+20 Review
Over the course of 2025, a major United Nations (UN) digital governance process, the 20-year review of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS+20) unfolded. The WSIS+20 Review was a key opportunity to assess the progress made towards the original goal of the WSIS–building a people-centered, inclusive, and development-oriented Information…
27 Jan 2026
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Joint Civil Society Statement on the Draft Rules of Procedure of the Conference of States Parties to the UN Cybercrime Convention
The undersigned civil society organisations welcome the development of draft Rules of Procedure (RoP) for the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Cybercrime. The Rules will play a decisive role in shaping how the Convention is implemented in practice and whether its institutional framework supports transparency, accountability,…
19 Jan 2026
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Why the Next Decade Demands Evidence, Participation, and Innovation
As the dust settles on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 20-year Review, observers are once again asking what the final outcome document—adopted by consensus on 17 December 2025—really delivers. Much like the WSIS+10 review a decade…
18 Dec 2025
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WSIS+20: What the Final Outcome Delivers – and What It Leaves Unresolved
As the dust settles on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 20-year Review, attention is turning to what the final outcome document (adopted by consensus on 17 December) ultimately delivers. For much of the review, discussions were pragmatic and forward-looking, reflecting…
18 Dec 2025
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Global Partners Digital Statement to WSIS High Level Event
Delivered by Lea Kaspar 17 December 2025 Your Excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues, We would like to thank the co-facilitators, all delegations, and the wider stakeholder community for the seriousness and openness with which this review process has been…
20 Nov 2025
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GDRC-WSIS Statement on Revision 1 WSIS+20 Outcome Document
A Crucial Moment: Strengthening Human Rights and Multistakeholder Visions in the WSIS+20 Outcome Document We, the undersigned, take this opportunity to call upon all stakeholders to intensify their efforts to ensure that the WSIS+20 review consistently and progressively anchors the fundamental importance of human rights in the governance…
06 Nov 2025
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Bridging Perspectives at ICANN84: Multistakeholder Collaboration in the WSIS+20 Review
At ICANN84 in Dublin, which happened in the last week of October 2025, Global Partners Digital (GPD) and the Global Network Initiative (GNI) worked together to bridge perspectives across stakeholder communities. Through both closed-door and public sessions, we sought to deepen understanding of the WSIS+20 process,…
04 Nov 2025
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Joint Statement on WSIS & Human Rights: A Fundamental Relationship
The Global Digital Rights Coalition for WSIS (GDRC-WSIS), the Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) and ICANN’s Noncommercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) are pleased to publish this summary statement on the centrality…