Main Topic 1: Why the WSIS+20 Review Matters and How National and Regional IGFs Can Enhance Stakeholder Participation

This year’s 20 year review by the UN General Assembly of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society – the WSIS+20 Review – gets under way in July with the first preparatory meeting of Member States and the WSIS+20 High Level Event hosted by the ITU. EuroDIG will subsequently have the opportunity to submit an input into the WSIS+20 “non-paper”. The EuroDIG messages from its session on WSIS+20 in Vilnius in June 2024 recommended that the review a) should enhance the existing processes of Internet governance, global digital policy and cooperation, and b) renew the IGF’s mandate. The aims of the plenary session in Strasbourg are to agree on 1) new consensus-based messages concerning the modalities for stakeholders – assisted by the platforms of the national and regional IGFs – to engage in the WSIS+20 process; and 2) to consider what would be desirable outcomes from the WSIS+20 review.