Global Digital Compact

Guiding questions:

• Over the last twenty years the share of world’s population connected to the internet has more than quadrupled. New internet-based tools – from the smartphone to social media – have emerged and we are moving into an Internet of Things. How can we continue to ensure the unfragmented safe, global, secure, and inclusive internet?
• The 2005 Tunis Agenda endorsed a multi-stakeholder approach to the governance of the internet. How have we succeeded in realizing vision? How do the roles and functions of various multi-stakeholder forums such as ICANN, IETF and the IGF come together to support internet governance? And how can they be strengthened?
• How can governments, technical standard bodies, civil society, industry and all stakeholders work together for an open, indivisible, free, interoperable, global, secure, inclusive Internet?

Guiding questions:

1. How can governments, international organizations, private companies, and civil society work together to close the digital divide and improve access, skills, and meaningful connectivity for all?
2. What actions should be taken to enable digital inclusion for all?
3. What policies, frameworks and programs have proven to be most successful and should be scaled up and adapted to other contexts to foster digital inclusion?

See the recording of the consultations.

The Permanent representatives of Rwanda and Sweden announce the roadmap for the process of developing the Global Digital Compact.

The Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology has launched a public consultation inviting interested stakeholders to share input for consideration for the GDC.
See submitted input.