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WSIS+20 Five-Point Plan Follow-up: Eight Practical Recommendations
29 May 2025
Add your signature to the letter here. Accepting endorsements until 31 July 2025. This document builds on the Five-Point Plan for an Inclusive WSIS+20 Review –endorsed by 114 organisations and 57 individual experts– to offer practical recommendations to ensure transparency, inclusivity, and meaningful stakeholder engagement in the…
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09 Jul 2025
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GPD and partners make statement at the 11th and Final Substantive Session of the OWEG on security of and in the use of ICT
This week, GPD has been at the 11th and Final Substantive Session of the Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) on security of and in the use of ICT with negotiations on the final Annual Progress Report well underway. This document will be instrumental in creating a permanent mechanism on cybersecurity…
19 Jun 2025
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GPD @ IGF 2025
Next week, we’ll be in Lillestrøm, Norway, for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2025. With WSIS+20 decisions looming, this year’s IGF is a pivotal moment—and we’ll be taking every opportunity to engage, strategise, and support rights-respecting outcomes. Here’s where to find us: Monday, 23 June – Day 0 09:00–10:00 CEST,…
17 Jun 2025
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Final Stretch, High Stakes: Getting UN AI Governance Back on Track
Negotiations are advancing rapidly on the terms of reference (ToR) and modalities for two key initiatives established under the Global Digital Compact—the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence and the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance. However, serious concerns have emerged about whether these mechanisms will live up to…
16 Jun 2025
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WSIS+20 Will Decide the IGF’s Fate—Are We Ready?
As the global Internet governance community prepares to meet in Lillestrøm, Norway, next week, the setting has a certain symmetry. Nearly two decades after the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) gave rise to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the UN-mandated platform for multistakeholder dialogue is again under review—its…
16 Jun 2025
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Open letter on the draft Rules of Procedure of the Conference of States Parties to the UN Cybercrime Convention
GPD, alongside Access Now, Fundacion Karisma, and Tanja Fachathaler (an independent expert), published an open letter expressing our shared concerns regarding the state of the draft Rules of Procedure of the Conference of State Parties which is intended to be the mechanism for oversight and monitoring of the UN Cybercrime…
09 Jun 2025
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Shaping WSIS+20: GNI, GPD, and Partners Promote Multistakeholder Internet Governance with ICANN Support
The Global Network Initiative (GNI) and Global Partners Digital (GPD) announce a new year-long project which aims to shape the outcomes of a major United Nations (UN) digital governance process, the 20-year review of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), through research and multistakeholder dialogues in collaboration with ten…
29 May 2025
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Global Digital Rights Coalition for WSIS Website
The Global Digital Rights Coalition for WSIS (GDRC-WSIS) promotes a human rights-based, people-centric and multistakeholder approach to the WSIS+20 review process. Find out more here.
29 May 2025
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WSIS+20 Five-Point Plan Follow-up: Eight Practical Recommendations
Add your signature to the letter here. Accepting endorsements until 31 July 2025. This document builds on the Five-Point Plan for an Inclusive WSIS+20 Review –endorsed by 114 organisations and 57 individual experts– to offer practical recommendations to ensure transparency, inclusivity, and meaningful stakeholder engagement in the…