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20 October 2015UN Headquarters, New York Side Event at the 2nd Preparatory Meeting of the UNGA Overall Review of the Implementation of the WSIS Outcomes

Follow up to WSIS Outcomes: EvolutionFrom Cluster of WSIS Events to WSIS Forum• 109. The experience of, and the activities undertaken by,

UN agencies in the WSIS process—notably ITU, UNESCO and UNDP—should continue to be used to their fullest extent. These three agencies should play leading facilitating roles in the implementation of the Geneva Plan of Action and organize a meeting of moderators/facilitators of action lines, as mentioned in the Annex.

- Annual Meetings of the WSIS Action Line Facilitators - Ongoing coordination mechanism of the WSIS Action Line Facilitators - Cluster of WSIS Related Events transformed upon consultative process into the

WSIS Forum- WSIS+10 High Level Event (2014) as an Extended version of the WSIS Forum with the

Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform and two Outcome Documents

World Summit on Information Society WSIS Forum

• WSIS Forum has evolved into the largest annual get-together of the ‘ICT for development’ community.

• It is an efficient mechanism for coordination of multistakeholder implementation activities, information exchange, creation of knowledge, sharing of best practices

• It continues to provide assistance in developing multistakeholder and public/private partnerships to advance development goals.

Participation: Multistakeholder, Open and Inclusive

• WSIS Stakeholders : more than 1800 from more than 140 countries.

• Ministers and deputies, several ambassadors, CEOs and Civil Society leaders: more than 100

• UN Agencies: Coorganized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD, in close collaboration with all WSIS Action Line Facilitators/Co-Facilitators (UNDESA, FAO, UNEP, WHO, UN Women, WIPO, WFP, ILO, WMO, ITC, UPU, UNODC, UNICEF and UN Regional Commissions)

High-Level Track (Policy Statement)

• Opening Segment• Policy Statements: by

Ministers, CEOs, Heads of UN Agencies and Civil Society Leaders

• WSIS Prizes • Ministerial Round Table

WSIS Track of the WSIS Forum

• Exhibition• Ted Talks• Innovation/ Incubation

Track • World Cafés • Linking ICTs and the

Sustainable Development Agenda Track

• Partnerships Track• Thematic Workshops• Country Workshops

• UN Regional Commission meetings

• UNGIS (High-level and working level meetings)

• Interactive Sessions• Action Line Facilitation

meetings• Action like Facilitators’

meeting• Knowledge Exchange

WSIS-SDG Matrix Revealed

Identified challenges • Two communities (ICT4D and Post 2015)• Converging objectives (Sustainable Development)• Parallel review processes (WSIS and MDGs)• Gradual recognition of ICTs as enabler for

sustainable development• Invite to support through relevant UN processes the

creation creation of synergies and institutional linkages between WSIS and Post 2015 Development Agenda to continue strengthening the impact of ICT for sustainable development (Res.140, PP-14)

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WSIS ALs-SDG MatrixImpact of WSIS Action Lines on Sustainable Development

Goals

• Released during WSIS Forum 2015• Joint effort of all United Nations Action Line

Facilitators • Aims at drawing direct linkages between WSIS Action

Lines and proposed SDGs, to continue strengthening the impact of ICTs for sustainable development

• analysis by each Action Line Facilitator, of connections and relations between their respective Action Line with the proposed SDGs and their targets

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e-env e-agr e-sci C8 C9 C10 C11

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WSIS-SDG Matrix

WSIS Forum: Open Consultation Process• Ensures the participatory and inclusive spirit of the WSIS Forum

• Proactively engages governments, civil society, private sector, academia and intergovernmental organizations in the preparatory process, agenda and programme; and ensures broad ownership and a constant evolution of this Forum.

• Phase I: October 2015: Opening of the Open Consultations-

• Online dialogues on the WSIS Knowledge Communities at www.wsis-community.org • Official submissions to the WSIS Secretariat on the Thematic Aspects and Innovations on the Format

invited at www.wsis.org/forum

• Phase II: 20 January 2016, ITU: First Physical Meeting*

• Phase III: 30 January 2016: Deadline for Submissions of Official Contributions and Binding Requests for Workshops

• Phase IV: 22 February 2016, ITU: Final Review Meeting of the Open Consultation Process*

• Phase V: 1 April 2016: Final Brief on the WSIS Forum 2016* *Remote participation facilities will be available for all physical meetings*Please note that all the dates are tentative at this stage

Please note that the dates are still

tentative!!!

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WSIS STOCKTAKING PROCESS• 120. The sharing of information related to the implementation of WSIS outcomes is an

important element of evaluation. We note with appreciation theReport on the Stocktaking of WSIS-related activities, which will serve as one of the valuable tools for assisting with the follow-up, beyond the conclusion of the Tunis phase of the Summit, as well as the "Golden Book" of initiatives launched during the Tunis phase. We encourage all WSIS stakeholders to continue to contribute information on their activities to the public WSIS stocktaking database maintained by ITU. In this regard, we invite all countries to gather information at the national level with the involvement of all stakeholders, to contribute to the stocktaking.

• 112. We call for periodic evaluation, using an agreed methodology, such as described in paragraphs 113-120.

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) resolution 2015/26 4. Reiterates the importance of maintaining a process of coordinating the multi-stakeholder implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit through effective tools, with the goal of exchanging information among action line facilitators, identifying issues that need improvement and discussing the modalities of reporting on the overall implementation process, encourages all stakeholders to continue to contribute information to the stocktaking database maintained by the International Telecommunication Union on the implementation of the goals established by the World Summit, and invites United Nations entities to update information on their initiatives in the stocktaking database; 55. Takes note with appreciation of the report on the stocktaking of activities related to the World Summit, which serves as one of the valuable tools for assisting with the follow-up, beyond the conclusion of the Tunis phase of the World Summit;

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WSIS STOCKTAKING PROCESS• The call for update and new entries 2015-2016 was launched on 13

October 2015. All Stakeholders are invited to submit entries online. Entries submitted to the WSIS Stocktaking Database will be reflected in the WSIS Stocktaking Report 2016 which will be released at WSIS Forum 2016. We look forward to receiving your responses to this call by 1 March 2016.

• We encourage all WSIS stakeholders to continue to contribute information on their activities to the public WSIS stocktaking database maintained by ITU. In this regard, we invite all countries to gather information at the national level with the involvement of all stakeholders, to contribute to the stocktaking.

• Following the presentation of the WSIS Action Lines – SDGs Matrix at the WSIS Forum 2015, which has received large appreciation by all the WSIS community, proposing to better explain the potential of ICTs as enablers for sustainable development, by investing the third dimension of the issue: that of reporting ICT success stories to best showcase the possible achievement of Sustainable Development Goals, through the implementation of WSIS Action Lines related projects (www.wsis.org/sdg)

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WSIS STOCKTAKING PLATFORM

We are pleased to announce that the newly designed WSIS Stocktaking platform is under construction and will be launched in by the end of October 2015, bringing a more interactive interface with several innovative aspects that will be more appealing to the users. The new Stocktaking platform will also feature new questionnaire that will reflect the transition from MDG’s to Sustainable Development Goals, and what is the impact of freshly submitted ICT projects on SDGs.

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• Unique global platform, embraced by WSIS multistakeholder community in 2005 with the aim to provide an international register of ICT activities enabling development.

• Check out 7,000 entries on WSIS Stocktaking Platform

• WSIS Stocktaking process has so far involved close to 140,000 stakeholders worldwide.

• Year-around ongoing Call for Updates and New Entries – Continue Sharing

WSIS STOCKTAKING 2015 PUBLICATIONSWSIS Stocktaking Report Series:

2005 2008 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 …7,000 entries have been registered in the WSIS Stocktaking Database reflecting innovative activities of stakeholders working on the implementation of WSIS outcomes, and knowledge and experience sharing of projects by replicating successful models

ICT projects and initiatives reflected on this platform also highlight progress made towards achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Coming up in WSIS Stocktaking Report 2016: WSIS Action Lines Projects advancing Sustainable Development Goals

The reporting is based on the contributions of the stakeholders responding to the WSIS regular calls for update and new entries. New Call coming up in Fall 2015!

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WSIS STOCKTAKING 2015 PUBLICATIONS

• WSIS Stocktaking: Success Stories 2015

• WSIS Stocktaking Report 2015• Advancing Sustainable

Development Through Information and Communication Technologies: WSIS Action Lines Enabling SDG

WSIS Stocktaking 2015 Publications are available online for download from the ITU Bookshop www.itu.int/publications

SUBMIT Your Projectsby 5 December 2015www.wsis.org/prizes

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Resolution 2015/26 "Assessment of the progress made in the implementation of - and follow up to the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society", reiterates the importance of sharing best practices at the global level, and, while recognizing excellence in the implementation of the projects and initiatives that further the goals of the World Summit, encourages all stakeholders to nominate their projects for the annual World Summit project prizes as an integral part of the World Summit stocktaking process, while taking note of the report on the World Summit success stories.

The WSIS Prizes 2016 contest is organized into five phases: 1. The first phase: Submission phase

13 October – 5 December 2015 (Deadline for last submission: 23:00 Geneva time)

2. The second phase: Nomination Phase. Revision of submitted projects by Expert Group that will result with a list of nominated projects

6 December – 11 December 20153. The third phase: Public Online Voting (identification of

three projects per category with the highest number of votes)

11 December 2015 – 10 March 2016 (Deadline for casting last vote: 23:00 Geneva time)

4. The fourth phase: Selection of winning projects by the Expert Group that will result with a list of winning projects

14 March – 18 March 20165. The fifth phase: Announcement of winners to the public

during WSIS Prize 2016 Ceremony at WSIS Forum 2016

WSIS Prizes 2016

Previous WSIS PRIZES Contests: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, measured how ICT projects were linked to MDGs.

WSIS Prizes 2016 and SDGs

While continuing to highlight progress made towards achieving the WSIS goals, WSIS Prizes 2016 will start reflecting to which of the newly proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the submitted projects mostly linked to. ICTs are enablers for sustainable development, and reporting on ICT success stories to best showcase the possible achievement of SDGs, through the implementation of WSIS Action Lines related projects, is the new objective of WSIS Stocktaking process, including WSIS Prizes.

All stakeholders are invited to submit entries online at:

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

WSIS ACTION LINES

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WSIS-SDG MATRIXLINKING WSIS ACTION LINES

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WSIS Fund in Trust of ITU: Categories for WSIS Forum 2016 Partnership

Four Categories:

• Strategic Partner:Platinum

• Strategic Partner (Government): Gold

• Strategic Partner (Private Sector): Gold

• Partner for Specific Activities

• Contributing Partners

IMPORTANT TO NOTEConsider contribution to the WSIS Fund in

Trust in order to further strengthen

self-sustainability of WSIS Forum

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Call for Actions• Mark the dates on your calendar (2-6 May 2016)• Be part of the WSIS Forum 2016 Agenda and Programme by participating in

the Open Consultation Process.• Follow WSIS Flash to remain updated on WSIS implementation• Communicate on WSIS Forum at National and Regional Level • Mark the dates on your High-level Representative’s calendar

– Government : Ministers, Head of State– International Organizations: Head of Agency– Private Sector: CEOs– Civil Society Leaders

• Participate in the WSIS Project Prizes: Submit Project: 5 December 2015 (Nomination during WSIS+10 High Level Meeting)

• Report on the ICT related activities through WSIS Stocktaking• Contribute to the WSIS Fund in Trust WSIS Forum 2016 Partnership

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