Revamping Decision-Making in Digital Governance and the WSIS Framework

This session aims to address the gaps and opportunities of the global digital governance ecosystem, especially when it comes to the governance architecture and cooperation, with a special focus on the WSIS framework.

In the last 20 years, the World Summit on The Information Society (WSIS) has been playing the role of being the standard framework for the digital society, for Internet governance and related technologies, as well as a platform to promote the multistakeholder approach and foster collaboration between stakeholders. In recent years, several processes have been launched inside and outside the UN system to advance discussions about global digital governance and especially to improve global digital cooperation. One important example is the Global Digital Compact (GDC), which gathered commitments, proposals and endorsement from a range of States and from multiple stakeholders worldwide. The GDC and other processes have the common objective of bridging gaps in digital ecosystems, strengthening their structures, and moving towards better cooperation and decision-making.