WSIS Forum 2026
Rapport généré par l'IA

Data & Indicator Lab: Multistakeholder Workshop on WSIS Action Lines, Indicators, and Accountability

8 intervenants
Résumé

Résumé

La discussion a porté sur la manière d'améliorer la mesure des progrès accomplis sur les lignes d'action du SMSI et sur la façon dont une communauté multipartite pourrait contribuer à renforcer l'infrastructure de suivi et la responsabilisation autour des engagements du SMSI.

Nils Berglund a présenté cette question comme particulièrement opportune, car le résultat du SMSI+20 a mandaté un examen des méthodologies et des indicateurs, et il a noté que le SMSI, les ODD et le Pacte numérique mondial reflètent ensemble un large consensus normatif en faveur d'un développement numérique inclusif, respectueux des droits et durable.

Il a toutefois soutenu que la mise en œuvre reste fragmentée, car le SMSI ne dispose pas d'un cadre de mesure dédié. Le suivi existant est inégal : les données sur les infrastructures sont relativement matures, mais les données sur les droits, les médias, l'éthique et le genre sont beaucoup plus lacunaires.Berglund a également souligné qu'un vaste écosystème de données issues de la société civile, du monde académique et de la communauté technique pourrait compléter les indicateurs des Nations Unies, notamment les outils de résilience des réseaux, les enquêtes sur l'accès et l'accessibilité financière, les ensembles de données sur la liberté des médias et les indices des droits numériques.Il a averti que des chiffres positifs en matière de connectivité peuvent masquer des réalités qui se dégradent, citant la multiplication des coupures d'internet et les arrestations généralisées pour des expressions en ligne, malgré la progression de l'accès à internet.Il a indiqué que l'Internet Accountability Compass de l'EUI montre de même que les pays obtiennent souvent de meilleurs résultats en matière de connectivité qu'en matière de droits et de libertés, et que les réformes actuelles du SMSI+20 créent une ouverture pour une contribution plus large des parties prenantes à l'élaboration des indicateurs.

Esperanza Magpantay a expliqué que le Partenariat pour la mesure des TIC au service du développement, créé après le SMSI en 2004, coordonne 14 organisations autour d'indicateurs TIC comparables à l'échelle internationale et soutient les offices nationaux de statistique par le biais de normes, de rapports et de formations.Elle a indiqué que les 50 indicateurs du partenariat couvrent les infrastructures, les ménages, les entreprises, l'éducation, les administrations publiques et les déchets électroniques, et qu'un mandat de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies de 2025 a chargé le partenariat d'examiner systématiquement les indicateurs de suivi du SMSI, les méthodologies et la disponibilité des données en vue d'un rapport à la CSTD en 2027.Elle a invité les parties prenantes à contribuer via un formulaire et lors d'une session supplémentaire au cours de la semaine, afin que les lacunes identifiées puissent être prises en compte dans cet examen.Les intervenants de la société civile et de la communauté technique ont globalement convenu que les indicateurs actuels mettent trop l'accent sur la connectivité de base et ne rendent pas suffisamment compte de l'accès réel, du vécu des utilisateurs et des impacts sur les droits.

Anriette Esterhuysen et Priya Chetty ont soutenu que les simples mesures de pénétration d'internet occultent la différence entre une connectivité marginale et une connectivité réelle, tandis que Chetty a également plaidé pour des données plus qualitatives, sectorielles et localisées, des liens plus solides entre les offices statistiques, les régulateurs et les collectivités locales, ainsi qu'une analyse plus approfondie intégrant les dimensions de genre et d'espace.

Nandini Chami a souligné que le genre est absent du projet de feuille de route SMSI-Pacte numérique mondial, malgré l'existence d'ensembles de données liées au genre et la nécessité de nouveaux indicateurs sur l'autonomisation des femmes dans une économie façonnée par l'IA.Bridgette Ndlovu, Francesca et Desiree Miloshevic Evans ont ajouté que les droits, l'accessibilité financière, la cybersécurité, la responsabilité en matière d'IA et la résilience des réseaux nécessitent des indicateurs mesurant les préjudices, les recours et l'utilisation réelle, et elles ont signalé des outils techniques et de la société civile existants qui pourraient être intégrés dans les rapports officiels du SMSI.

En conclusion, Magpantay a accueilli favorablement les contributions et a demandé aux participants de les soumettre par écrit, tout en soulignant que la comparabilité internationale doit demeurer au cœur de l'examen mené par le partenariat.Dans l'ensemble, la session a permis de dégager une vision commune selon laquelle le suivi du SMSI devrait évoluer au-delà des simples indicateurs d'accès vers une mesure plus globale, multipartite et axée sur la responsabilisation.

Points clés

Objectif général de la discussion : La session visait à faire avancer un dialogue multipartite sur la manière de mieux mesurer les progrès accomplis sur les lignes d'action du SMSI, d'améliorer l'infrastructure de suivi et de renforcer la responsabilisation à l'égard des engagements pris dans le cadre du SMSI et des cadres connexes de gouvernance numérique. Elle a également été présentée comme une contribution opportune à l'examen mandaté des indicateurs et méthodologies TIC par le Partenariat pour la mesure des TIC au service du développement, en vue d'un rapport à la CSTD en 2027. - Le SMSI est porteur d'engagements normatifs larges et anciens, mais leur mise en œuvre est mal suivie et la responsabilisation est faible. Nils Berglund a soutenu qu'en deux décennies, le SMSI, les ODD et le Pacte numérique mondial ont produit une vision commune d'une société de l'information inclusive, respectueuse des droits, éthique et durable, mais qu'il n'existe toujours pas de cadre de mesure solide directement lié à la mise en œuvre du SMSI. Il a noté que cela rend difficile la comparaison des progrès dans le temps ou la mise en cause de la responsabilité des États et des parties prenantes, tandis que la plateforme de bilan du SMSI existante fonctionne davantage comme un répertoire de bonnes pratiques que comme une infrastructure de responsabilisation. - La mesure actuelle est inégale : les infrastructures et la connectivité sont relativement bien couvertes, tandis que les droits, les médias, l'éthique et d'autres questions de gouvernance plus complexes restent sous-mesurés. La discussion a mis en évidence que les ensembles de données des Nations Unies et de l'UIT fournissent des données substantielles du côté de l'offre sur l'accès, les infrastructures, l'administration en ligne et l'économie numérique, mais que ce tableau est incomplet et biaisé. Les données sur la connectivité sont plus matures, bien qu'encore imparfaites, tandis que les informations sur les droits, la liberté des médias, l'éthique et les résultats ventilés par genre sont beaucoup plus lacunaires. Les ensembles de données de la société civile et de la communauté technique ont été présentés comme des compléments essentiels permettant de révéler des réalités que les indicateurs mondiaux officiels ne saisissent pas. - Les participants ont souligné que les indicateurs de connectivité globaux peuvent être trompeurs et devraient évoluer vers des mesures plus significatives, axées sur la demande et qualitatives. Anriette Esterhuysen a critiqué l'indicateur de pénétration d'internet, qui comptabilise une personne comme connectée si elle s'est connectée ne serait-ce qu'une fois en trois mois, estimant que cela masque la différence entre les utilisateurs hyperconnectés et ceux qui le sont à peine, et peut être utilisé pour gonfler les affirmations de progrès. Priya Chetty a de même soutenu que la mesure doit aller au-delà des simples indicateurs d'accès et d'infrastructure pour saisir l'inclusion numérique, le vécu des utilisateurs, la sécurité, les résultats sectoriels et le contexte qualitatif qui rendent les indicateurs plus pertinents pour les politiques publiques. - Des appels répétés ont été lancés pour intégrer les droits, le genre, l'accessibilité financière et les réalités locales dans le suivi du SMSI. Les intervenants ont souligné que les chiffres sur les infrastructures seuls ne montrent pas si les personnes peuvent utiliser internet librement, en toute sécurité ou à un coût abordable. Bridgette Hanani Ndlovu a cité les coupures d'internet et la taxation des appareils comme des exemples où les indicateurs quantitatifs d'infrastructure peuvent dissimuler un accès réel médiocre. Nandini Chami a soutenu que le genre est négligé dans la feuille de route de mise en œuvre SMSI-Pacte numérique mondial et que les ensembles de données existants liés au genre provenant de l'OMPI, de l'OIT, d'ONU Femmes, de l'OMS et d'autres organisations devraient être intégrés dans le suivi des lignes d'action, notamment à la lumière des transformations structurelles induites par l'IA. - Le processus d'examen a été présenté comme une opportunité de contribution multipartite formelle, incluant les données de la société civile et de la communauté technique, mais dans le respect de la comparabilité internationale. Esperanza Magpantay a présenté le rôle du Partenariat pour la mesure des TIC au service du développement, son ensemble d'indicateurs de base et le mandat des Nations Unies visant à examiner les indicateurs de suivi du SMSI, les méthodologies et la disponibilité des données en vue d'un rapport à la CSTD en 2027. Tout au long de la discussion, les intervenants ont proposé de s'appuyer sur des outils et des ensembles de données existants issus de la société civile et de la communauté technique, notamment des systèmes de mesure ouverts et des tableaux de bord indépendants, tandis qu'Esperanza a conclu en encourageant les soumissions écrites et en rappelant aux participants que les propositions doivent également favoriser la comparabilité internationale. Ton général de la discussion : Le ton a été constructif, collaboratif et axé sur les politiques tout au long de la session, avec un accent marqué sur l'amélioration pratique plutôt que sur la confrontation. La session a débuté comme une réunion de cadrage et de consultation axée sur l'identification des lacunes dans le suivi actuel. Au fil de la discussion, le ton est devenu plus critique et plus urgent, notamment lorsque les participants ont soulevé des préoccupations concernant les indicateurs de connectivité trompeurs, les coupures d'internet, les dimensions de genre manquantes, les violations des droits, les cybermenaces et le risque de mauvaise utilisation des données. Malgré tout, l'état d'esprit général est resté orienté vers les solutions, avec des invitations répétées à contribuer des preuves, des outils et des recommandations écrites dans le cadre du processus d'examen formel.

Intervenants

- Nils Berglund - Modérateur/animateur de la session ; a ouvert et orienté la discussion sur la mesure des progrès accomplis sur les lignes d'action du SMSI. - Esperanza Magpantay - Statisticienne principale, Division des données et de l'analyse des TIC, UIT ; s'exprimant au nom du Partenariat pour la mesure des TIC au service du développement. - Anriette Esterhuysen - Originaire d'Afrique du Sud ; participant au nom de l'Association pour les communications progressistes ; contributrice de longue date aux discussions sur le SMSI et la gouvernance de l'internet [S1][S2]. - Pria Chetty - Directrice exécutive, Research ICT Africa ; impliquée dans les travaux de mesure sur l'inclusion numérique, les enquêtes auprès des ménages et des microentreprises, et la gouvernance des données [S6]. - Nandini Chami - De IT for Change ; s'exprimant dans le cadre de la Coalition Genre et Numérique. - Bridgette Hanani Ndlovu - De Paradigm Initiative ; basée au Zimbabwe [S12]. - Desiree Miloshevic Evans - S'exprimant au nom de RIPE NCC ; associée à la mesure de l'internet, à la collaboration au sein de la communauté technique et à l'expertise en matière de politiques publiques et d'affaires internationales [S18]. - Audience - Non identifiée dans la transcription ; a contribué des remarques sur la cybersécurité et la responsabilité en matière d'IA. Intervenants supplémentaires : - Francesca - Non répertoriée dans la liste des noms d'intervenants fournie ; participante du public qui s'est exprimée sur la cybersécurité, les cyberusages abusifs et la responsabilité en matière d'IA. - Denise - Collègue de l'UNDESA mentionnée par Esperanza Magpantay comme présente et en mesure de fournir des informations supplémentaires, mais ne s'exprimant pas directement dans la transcription.

Intervenants
NB
Nils Berglund
150 wpm · 13 min
EM
Esperanza Magpantay
146 wpm · 6 min
AE
Anriette Esterhuysen
148 wpm · 2 min
PC
Pria Chetty
153 wpm · 6 min
BH
Bridgette Hanani Ndlovu
130 wpm · 3 min
NC
Nandini Chami
156 wpm · 2 min
A
Audience
144 wpm · 5 min
DM
Desiree Miloshevic Evans
127 wpm · 3 min

La session a été convoquée en tant que discussion consultative sur la manière d'améliorer la mesure des progrès accomplis dans les lignes d'action du SMSI et sur la façon dont une communauté multipartite pourrait contribuer à renforcer l'infrastructure de suivi des engagements en matière de gouvernance numérique.Nils Berglund a précisé d'emblée que la session n'était pas conçue comme un panel : après de brèves remarques introductives et une présentation d'Esperanza Magpantay, la parole serait directement ouverte aux commentaires, y compris des participants en ligne invités à lever la main.Il a souligné que le calendrier était important, car le résultat du SMSI+20 avait mandaté un examen continu des méthodologies et des indicateurs ; l'objectif n'était donc pas seulement d'identifier les lacunes du suivi actuel, mais aussi d'alimenter un processus de révision en cours susceptible d'orienter les futurs rapports du SMSI.

Berglund a ensuite replacé la discussion dans le contexte de la longue histoire de la politique numérique internationale. Il a rappelé que le processus du SMSI de 2003 et 2005 avait produit 11 lignes d'action couvrant des questions telles que l'infrastructure, les médias et l'éthique ; qu'en 2015, les ODD avaient été mis en correspondance par l'UIT avec le cadre du SMSI ; que le Pacte numérique mondial avait ensuite condensé bon nombre de ces mêmes priorités en cinq objectifs ; et que, comme il l'a dit, « juste en décembre », il y avait eu un examen du SMSI qui avait réaffirmé ce cadre plus large dans le contexte du processus SMSI+20.De l'avis de Berglund, ces quelque deux décennies d'engagements convergents constituent un large consensus normatif sur la société de l'information : un consensus orienté vers l'inclusion, le comblement des fractures, la coopération internationale, l'alignement sur les ODD, le renforcement des capacités, les droits, l'innovation, le partage des connaissances, ainsi qu'une gouvernance éthique et durable.Dans le même temps, il a soutenu que la mise en œuvre reste fragmentée et incohérente malgré ce degré de convergence normative, car le SMSI n'a jamais disposé d'un cadre dédié de mesure et de responsabilisation directement lié à ces engagements.Berglund a indiqué que la plateforme de bilan du SMSI avait recueilli des milliers de soumissions volontaires et d'exemples de mise en œuvre, mais a soutenu qu'elle fonctionne principalement comme un répertoire de bonnes pratiques plutôt que comme une infrastructure de responsabilisation.Il a également relevé un déséquilibre dans ce qui est rapporté : les soumissions volontaires tendent à se concentrer sur des domaines plus faciles à mettre en valeur, tels que l'infrastructure, l'accès et le renforcement des capacités, tandis que les droits, les médias, l'éthique et d'autres lignes d'action où les questions de gouvernance sont plus délicates sont moins visibles.Cela a renforcé l'une de ses préoccupations fondamentales, à savoir que le suivi actuel privilégie souvent ce qui est le plus facile à quantifier plutôt que ce qui peut être le plus important à évaluer sur le plan politique ou social.Il a ensuite passé en revue le paysage de la mesure existant, en soulignant que le problème n'est pas une absence totale de données, mais leur inégalité. Au sein du système des Nations Unies, notamment par l'intermédiaire de l'UIT, il existe une longue tradition de données sur l'infrastructure et l'accès, y compris des mesures composites telles que l'Indice de développement des TIC, ainsi que des travaux pertinents du DAES sur l'e-gouvernement et la participation électronique, et de la CNUCED sur l'économie numérique.Berglund a toutefois soutenu que ce paysage reste incomplet et déséquilibré.Les données sur la connectivité et l'infrastructure sont relativement matures, bien qu'encore imparfaites, tandis que les données sur les droits, les médias, l'éthique et les domaines connexes sont beaucoup plus lacunaires.Il a également souligné que de nombreux pays ne fournissent toujours pas de données ventilées par sexe, ce qui rend plus difficile une évaluation solide de l'inclusion.Une part importante du cadrage proposé par Berglund consistait à élargir la base de données probantes au-delà des statistiques officielles des Nations Unies. Il a soutenu qu'il existe déjà un écosystème substantiel de mesures émanant de la société civile, du monde académique et de la communauté technique, qui devrait alimenter un suivi plus solide du SMSI.Il a mentionné des outils techniques tels qu'Internet Society Pulse, Cloudflare Radar et des sources connexes, capables de signaler en quasi temps réel les pannes, les blocages et les limitations de débit.Il a également cité des ensembles de données sur l'accessibilité financière, l'accès et les inégalités entre les sexes, notamment les enquêtes After Access de Research ICT Africa, ainsi que des indices sur la liberté de la presse, la sécurité des journalistes, les droits numériques et la gouvernance de l'IA provenant de sources telles que Reporters sans frontières, V-Dem et le Global Index on Responsible AI.Son argument était que ces sources révèlent des dimensions de la réalité numérique souvent absentes des indicateurs mondiaux officiels.

Pour illustrer ce décalage, Berglund a soutenu que les chiffres globaux de connectivité peuvent masquer une dégradation des conditions réelles.Il a indiqué qu'en 2025, on avait recensé 313 coupures d'internet dans 52 pays et que ce nombre augmentait d'année en année.Il a également noté que, bien que 5,5 milliards de personnes soient désormais connectées à internet, environ 81 % d'entre elles vivent dans des pays où des personnes ont été arrêtées ou emprisonnées pour avoir publié des contenus sur des questions politiques, sociales ou religieuses.Pour Berglund, cela montrait que les débats sur les indicateurs doivent rester centrés sur les résultats que le SMSI cherche réellement à atteindre, afin que les statistiques de connectivité ne donnent pas une image trompeusement positive.Il a établi un lien avec le « Internet Accountability Compass » de l'EUI, qui a cartographié des indicateurs secondaires et constaté que les pays tendent à obtenir de meilleurs résultats en matière de connectivité et d'infrastructure qu'en matière de droits et de libertés, tandis que les données sont également plus lacunaires dans ces derniers domaines.Berglund a indiqué que l'architecture de mise en œuvre du SMSI+20 avait désormais formalisé plusieurs ouvertures pour le travail de responsabilisation, notamment un FGI permanent, des rapports de mise en œuvre bisannuels, une matrice SMSI-GDC assortie d'une feuille de route en cours d'élaboration, et l'examen systématique des méthodologies de mesure des TIC.Il a soutenu que cela crée une opportunité concrète pour la communauté élargie de contribuer des données, de remettre en question les indicateurs existants et d'aider à les améliorer, d'autant plus qu'une grande partie des données pertinentes se trouve déjà en dehors du système statistique officiel des Nations Unies.Il a ensuite condensé la discussion en un ensemble de questions directrices : dans quelle mesure les données actuelles reflètent-elles les résultats que les lignes d'action du SMSI sont censées atteindre ; où les données existantes sont-elles les plus solides et pourraient-elles être mieux intégrées ; où les données sont-elles les plus faibles, manquantes ou biaisées ; quels engagements sont difficiles ou impossibles à mesurer ; et comment la communauté multipartite peut-elle contribuer à construire une meilleure infrastructure de suivi.Esperanza Magpantay a ensuite présenté la perspective institutionnelle, précisant qu'elle s'exprimait au nom du Partenariat pour la mesure des TIC au service du développement et que sa collègue Denise du DAES était également présente pour l'aider à répondre à ce qu'elle pourrait omettre.Elle a expliqué que le partenariat avait été créé en 2004 dans le cadre du processus du SMSI pour suivre le développement numérique et aider les pays à améliorer la disponibilité et la qualité des indicateurs de la société de l'information comparables à l'échelle internationale.Elle a indiqué que le partenariat comprend désormais 14 organisations et coordonne les travaux dans différents domaines statistiques par l'intermédiaire d'un comité directeur tournant dirigé par l'UIT, la CNUCED et le DAES.L'un de ses principaux outils est une liste commune d'indicateurs TIC de base, régulièrement soumise à la Commission de statistique des Nations Unies tous les deux ans.Magpantay a souligné que les offices nationaux de statistique sont la source officielle de ces données dans les pays, et que l'engagement du partenariat auprès de la Commission de statistique des Nations Unies contribue à les tenir informés des évolutions en matière d'indicateurs.Magpantay a précisé que la liste de base actuelle comprend 50 indicateurs couvrant l'infrastructure et l'accès aux TIC ; l'accès et l'utilisation par les ménages et les individus ; les indicateurs relatifs aux entreprises ; les statistiques du secteur des TIC et du commerce ; les TIC dans l'éducation ; les TIC dans l'administration ; et les déchets électroniques.La responsabilité de ces domaines est répartie entre les agences, l'UIT couvrant l'infrastructure et les indicateurs relatifs aux ménages, la CNUCED le commerce et les entreprises, l'UNESCO l'éducation, le DAES l'administration, et l'UNITAR et le PNUE les déchets électroniques.La partie centrale de l'intervention de Magpantay portait sur le nouveau mandat. Elle a indiqué que 2025 marquait une « étape historique », car l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies avait adopté une résolution sur le SMSI mandatant le partenariat pour examiner les indicateurs et garantir la couverture des lignes d'action du SMSI et des ODD.La tâche, a-t-elle expliqué, consiste à procéder à un examen systématique des indicateurs de suivi du SMSI, des méthodologies qui les sous-tendent et de la disponibilité des données d'appui, puis à soumettre les conclusions à la Commission de la science et de la technique au service du développement en 2027.Elle a immédiatement invité les parties prenantes à contribuer à cet examen, notamment par le biais d'un formulaire de retour d'information et de la session de suivi du partenariat, « Measuring What Matters, Revisiting ICT Core Indicators for the WSIS Vision », prévue le jeudi à 13 heures.La discussion entre parties prenantes qui a suivi a largement convergé vers l'idée que la mesure actuelle met trop l'accent sur la connectivité de base et ne rend pas suffisamment compte de l'inclusion significative, des droits et du vécu des personnes.Anriette Esterhuysen a ouvert les échanges par une critique du taux de pénétration d'internet en tant que principal indicateur officiel.Tout en reconnaissant la valeur et la continuité des travaux du partenariat, elle a soutenu qu'un indicateur comptabilisant une personne comme connectée si elle s'est connectée une seule fois au cours d'une période de trois mois n'est plus adapté à son objet.À son avis, cela masque la différence entre les hyperconnectés et les à peine connectés, et rend plus difficile l'établissement d'un lien significatif entre les réalités du côté de l'offre et celles du côté de la demande.Elle a également averti que les chiffres de connectivité peuvent être utilisés pour surestimer les progrès tout en occultant l'exclusion persistante, même si de bonnes données restent essentielles pour les personnes qui s'engagent auprès des gouvernements, notamment dans les contextes des pays en développement.Priya Chetty de Research ICT Africa a renforcé cette critique à travers le prisme des travaux « After Access » de son organisation.Elle a indiqué que ces travaux vont au-delà de la seule connectivité pour s'orienter vers l'inclusion numérique, tout en continuant à prêter attention aux facteurs du côté de l'offre et en intégrant les données probantes qui en résultent dans les processus d'élaboration des politiques et de prise de décision.Chetty a soutenu que les indicateurs doivent désormais évoluer vers des mesures plus significatives de l'expérience utilisateur, de la sécurité et des impacts dans des secteurs tels que la santé, l'éducation et l'agriculture, plutôt que de simplement enregistrer l'existence ou non d'une infrastructure.Elle a également plaidé pour des éléments qualitatifs rendant les indicateurs plus intelligibles et plus utiles pour les politiques.Au-delà de la méthodologie, elle a plaidé pour des liens institutionnels plus solides entre les offices nationaux de statistique, les régulateurs des communications, les ministères et les collectivités locales, afin que les données puissent être triangulées depuis le niveau local vers le haut.Elle a ajouté que la combinaison de données spatiales et de données ventilées par sexe peut révéler des obstacles liés aux compétences, à l'emploi, à l'inclusion numérique et à l'adoption de l'IA que les indicateurs standard manquent souvent.Nandini Chami d'IT for Change et de la Gender in Digital Coalition a introduit une critique plus tranchée sur le genre.Elle a indiqué que le projet de feuille de route de mise en œuvre SMSI-GDC soumis au CSTD en avril ne mentionne le terme « genre » à aucune reprise.Tout en reconnaissant que le SMSI ne dispose pas de ligne d'action dédiée au genre, elle a soutenu que l'intégration transversale ne doit pas devenir un moyen de faire disparaître la question du genre.Chami a également rejeté l'idée que le problème principal est simplement un manque de données, soutenant au contraire que de nombreux indicateurs pertinents pour le genre existent déjà et sont collectés par les facilitateurs des lignes d'action du SMSI et les institutions connexes.Ses exemples comprenaient les données de l'OMPI sur les brevets ventilées par sexe, le suivi des politiques du travail numérique de l'OIT, les données nationales sur l'utilisation du temps, les revenus et l'emploi, la base de données d'ONU Femmes sur la violence à l'égard des femmes, et le Moniteur mondial de la santé numérique de l'OMS, ainsi que d'autres ensembles de données existants pertinents pour les résultats liés au genre.Elle a ajouté que l'IA modifie encore davantage l'agenda, nécessitant des indicateurs capables de montrer où se situent les femmes au sein de transformations structurelles plus profondes, plutôt que de simplement indiquer si elles sont connectées.Bridgette Hanani Ndlovu a apporté une perspective axée sur les droits et l'accessibilité financière.Elle a fait spécifiquement référence au respect par les États de la Déclaration de la Commission africaine des droits de l'homme et des peuples sur les principes de la liberté d'expression et de l'accès à l'information en Afrique.Son argument était que des pays peuvent afficher de bons chiffres en matière d'infrastructure et d'accès tout en utilisant cette infrastructure de manière nuisible ou restrictive.Les coupures d'internet constituaient son principal exemple : l'infrastructure peut exister, mais des coupures répétées signifient que les indicateurs d'accès ne reflètent pas si les personnes peuvent réellement utiliser internet.Elle a également mis en lumière la question de l'accessibilité financière, citant le Malawi comme exemple où des politiques nominalement destinées à améliorer l'accès aux appareils ont été compromises par une fiscalité lourde qui a rendu les appareils moins abordables en pratique.Francesca a orienté la discussion vers la cybersécurité et la responsabilisation en matière d'IA.Elle a indiqué que la responsabilisation dans le cyberespace avait longtemps été traitée comme une sorte de « Graal » : quelque chose perçu comme important mais rarement opérationnalisé.Sur l'IA, elle a noté que le résultat du SMSI+20 avait chargé le groupe de travail interagences des Nations Unies sur l'IA de cartographier les initiatives existantes de renforcement des capacités, mais a soutenu que « cartographier les capacités ne revient pas à mesurer les risques ».Elle a donc suggéré que l'examen devrait envisager une piste de responsabilisation allant au-delà de la cartographie des capacités pour évaluer les préjudices et les mécanismes de recours.Elle a également soutenu que l'utilisation abusive des technologies numériques est structurellement absente des mesures et reste souvent « invisible par conception », car les acteurs malveillants ont intérêt à ne pas divulguer leurs actions.À son avis, tout système reposant uniquement sur l'auto-déclaration des États sous-estimera les préjudices les plus importants.S'appuyant sur des travaux antérieurs au Cyber Peace Institute et à Protect NGO, elle a décrit des outils permettant de documenter la manière dont les cyberattaques affectent les infrastructures civiles, la société civile et les organisations humanitaires.Elle a proposé des tableaux de bord publics, une évaluation indépendante et des obligations de déclaration pour tous les acteurs, et pas seulement les États, et a suggéré que le SMSI pourrait intégrer un ou deux outils existants comme cas de test pratiques.Desiree Miloshevic Evans du RIPE NCC a apporté la perspective de la communauté technique, axée sur la résilience et la mesure des réseaux en temps réel.Elle a convenu que les données quantitatives seules manquent souvent des dimensions qualitatives importantes.Elle a expliqué que le RIPE NCC et la communauté technique exploitent déjà des outils de mesure ouverts d'internet et des systèmes de données, notamment RIPE Atlas avec environ 12 000 sondes que les utilisateurs peuvent installer sur leurs réseaux.Ces outils peuvent aider à montrer la qualité d'internet, les chemins de routage et l'état des serveurs et des nœuds, notamment lors d'événements de résilience ou de coupures.Elle a indiqué qu'ils sont particulièrement utiles en période de stress de résilience et que le RIPE partage déjà ces données avec les régulateurs intéressés par la résilience des réseaux.En conclusion, Berglund a estimé que la discussion avait montré non seulement l'importance de la gouvernance multipartite, mais aussi l'importance d'élargir le cercle de ceux qui contribuent au suivi et à l'évaluation.Magpantay a dit accueillir favorablement les suggestions, mais a invité les participants à les soumettre par écrit afin qu'elles puissent être dûment prises en compte dans l'examen.Elle a également souligné la contrainte essentielle selon laquelle tout ensemble d'indicateurs révisé doit préserver la comparabilité internationale, celle-ci restant au cœur des travaux du partenariat.Berglund et Magpantay ont tous deux encouragé les participants à fournir des contributions écrites et à assister à la session de suivi du jeudi, « Measuring What Matters, Revisiting ICT Core Indicators for the WSIS Vision ».

Dans l'ensemble, la session a permis de dégager une vision claire selon laquelle le suivi du SMSI devrait aller au-delà des indicateurs étroits de connectivité et d'infrastructure pour s'orienter vers un cadre de responsabilisation plus large qui reflète mieux l'accès significatif, les droits, le genre, l'accessibilité financière, la résilience, les cybermenaces et le vécu des personnes.

Dans le même temps, les participants ont globalement laissé entendre que les indicateurs officiels comparables à l'échelle internationale restent importants et devraient être complétés de manière plus systématique par des données probantes émanant de la société civile, du monde académique et de la communauté technique.

Le défi non résolu essentiel, reflété dans les remarques de clôture de Magpantay, est de savoir comment intégrer des données probantes plus riches et plus sensibles au contexte tout en préservant la comparabilité internationale qui reste au cœur des travaux du partenariat.

Nils Berglund
Recording in progress. And the purpose of this session is really to have, or at least start, continue a dialogue around how we can better measure the progress on the WSIS action lines and to what we can do as a multi -stakeholder community to kind of contribute towards building out a better monitoring infrastructure with a view to also creating a bit more accountability to the sort of commitments that states and stakeholders commit to in the context of the entire WSIS process. This is obviously particularly relevant now because, as you will hear from the partnership on measurement on ICT for development, there is this ongoing review of methodologies and indicators, which was mandated by the WSIS Plus 20 outcome. But before we start just on format, you might have seen from the session description, it's not a panel. I will do a bit of a scene setting, and then I will hand it over to my colleague here from the partnership on measuring ICT for development. And then we'll immediately open the floor for your comments and inputs. And I know some of you have already indicated that you would like to speak, but that even goes for colleagues online. If you just want to raise your hand once we open the floor, hopefully we can hear from some of you. So with that, let's jump in. Most of you will know, but back in 2003 and 2005, WSIS gave us these 11 action lines, which cover everything from infrastructure to media to the ethical dimension of the information society. Then in 2015, we got the sustainable development goals, and the ITU actually mapped the action lines straight onto that 2030 agenda. And then a couple of years ago, we got the Global Digital Compact, which kind of distilled a lot of the same ideas into five objectives. And then just in December, we had the WSIS Plus 2020 review, which reaffirmed this entire framework. So we've had 20 years of these converging commitments, which I think in a broad sense kind of represent a normative consensus around what we want the information society to look like. We want the technology and its benefits to be inclusive. We want to bridge the digital divide. We want international cooperation. alignment with SDGs, capacity building, of course, the protection and promotion of human rights in a technological context, foster innovation, knowledge sharing, and we also want to make sure that technology is used ethically, sustainably, and responsibly. These sort of seven consensus ideas were themes that emerged out of the WSIS -GDC matrix. And while it's great to have a degree of normative consensus, implementation remains fragmented and inconsistent, in part because we haven't had any real framework for measuring progress that's directly tied to this WSIS process. For many of these commitments, it's therefore been hard to say in the WSIS context, with any comparable data, whether any given country is doing better or worse than it is five years ago, which is a very important thing to remember. Which obviously means that it's also harder to keep each other accountable to the sort of commitments that we have made. which is not to say that there's no monitoring right there's the WSIS stock taking platform which some of you might be familiar with it's gathered thousands of voluntary submissions with examples of action lines being implemented but this is really more of a repository of best practices and not accountability infrastructure right and when you look at the entries they tend to cluster around the sort of easy to showcase action lines so infrastructure access and capacity have more submissions than things like media ethics and the science side of applications which is kind of a recurring theme that we'll come to here today I think so even though WSIS doesn't have this dedicated data and monitoring infrastructure within the UN system there is quite a lot right so what data do we have and what does it show going through the action lines we know that the UN and the ITU in particular have a lot of relevant data especially on the supply side If you look at access and infrastructure, for example, there's this long history of monitoring with composite indicators like the ITU's ICT Development Index, which looks at infrastructure, access and affordability. But we have other things like UNDESA's e -government and e -participation indices or UNCTAD, which covers the digital economy. So on paper, it's a fairly broad coverage, but I think everyone in the room knows that this is not a complete picture. It's uneven in the sense that the data on connectivity and infrastructure is mature, but also flawed. A lot of the data on rights, media and ethics and of the action lines is a lot more thin, which is where a lot of the more difficult governance questions sit. And obviously, many countries also still do not provide gender disaggregated data. But. In addition to this. UN ecosystem of data and indicators. There's also a massive ecosystem of civil society, academic and technical community measurement that is happening. And I think this is a good opportunity to talk about what the UN can learn from some of those. So this is obviously not a comprehensive list, just a snapshot in four categories. But on connectivity, you have indicators showing real -time data on health and resilience. Resilience, so Internet Society Pulse, Cloudflare Radar, UNI data, for example. These tell you what's actually happening on the network at any given moment, right? So outages, blocking, throttling, all of which are really relevant to access and connectivity measures. You also have a lot of CSO data on access, affordability, and the gender gap, which kind of fills some of the gap that maybe some of the global UN indicators can sometimes miss, right? And the Research ICT Africa's After Access Surveys, or GSM. Or the Network Readiness Index are some of the examples of those. You also have data on media freedom and journalist safety Sources like Reporters Without Borders And there's even a growing body of CSO data on digital rights and AI governance So indexes like VDEM or the Global Index on Responsible AI Which I think is launching their second edition this week Are some of those examples And these sorts of data are really important and revealing Because if you dig into the CSO data You see that for a lot of the indicators and data Where we have positive developments Looking at the WSIS Action Line 2 on infrastructure, for example You see that it doesn't always correspond to reality, right? So in 2025, we saw 313 shutdowns in 52 countries That figure is increasing year over year So we're actually seeing a negative trend on some of these connectivity figures Which maybe isn't always apparent in the global data sets Yeah Um And the same for other indicators. So even though we now have five point five billion people connected to the Internet, an estimated 81 percent of those people live in countries where individuals were arrested or imprisoned for posting content on political, social or religious issues. So when we talk about data and indicators, we have to think long and hard, not just about the specific indicators themselves, but also about what kind of outcomes we want to see so that we can make sure that the connectivity data doesn't give us the wrong picture. And we at the EUI have been trying to kind of dig into what data really exists, both at the official UN level, but also what sorts of data sets exist from the technical community and in civil society. And have built a tool that we've called the Internet Accountability Compass, which maps some of these secondary indicators. And I don't need to get into exactly what each category shows, but we see this pattern, right, that countries tend to do better on indicators related to connectivity and infrastructure and a lot worse on rights and freedoms. And what it also shows is that the data is also thinner for some of these policy areas, which kind of brings us to the moment that we're in now, right? The WSIS Plus 20 implementation architecture and timeline mandated some changes. We now have a permanent IGF. We have a biannual implementation reporting formalized. We have a WSIS GDC roadmap, a matrix that was produced, a roadmap that are in the works, and then this systematic review of ICD measurement methodologies. So. So. So with that, I think there's an opportunity here for everyone in this room, everyone online, but also the broader multistakeholder community to contribute to this conversation around data because there is so much data that civil society produces and consider what the indicators we do have and how we can strengthen them. But with that, I want to pass the floor to Ms. Esperanza Magpanate, who's a senior statistician at the ICT data and analytics division at the ITU
Esperanza Magpantay
for a little briefing on this indicator review. Thank you so much, Nils. Good morning, everyone. So I work at the ITU, but I'm here on behalf of the partnership. I'm here on behalf of the partnership on measuring ICT for development to share with you some of the recent work that we have, as well as plans for the upcoming. review. So let me just share my screen. Okay. So as I mentioned, I'm here on behalf of the partnership, but I'm also here with my colleague, Denise from UNDESA, who can provide us more information just in case I miss some of the points that I would like to make this morning. So as Nils mentioned, the partnership is one of, I would say, the initiatives that look at the work on indicators. He listed a number of indices and work that is ongoing in different international organizations. But the partnership has been in existence since 2004, just in case you're not familiar with the partnership. So we are an initiative that came out from WSIS. And the main idea is to monitor and at the same time, help countries improve the availability and quality of information. society indicators, and those indicators should be comparable at the international level. And our main goal as well is to make sure that the work of every organization, so we are now 14 organizations in the partnership, is coordinated with regards to the different areas of work that we have. We are led by a steering committee, so the steering committee is composed of the ITU, UNCTAD, and UNDESA, and we have a term that rotates every two years. The main objective is, of course, to have a common set of indicators, and that's why we have the core list of indicators, ICT indicators, and this list is regularly reported and endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission, so we are in the agenda of the Statistical Commission every two years. So here, the main objective is to make sure that national statistical offices, who are the official source in countries, are... aware of the recent developments with regards to the work of the partnership, particularly to the indicators that we collect. And, of course, we help countries by conducting workshops and trainings, and we do this together with the different members of the partnership. So you can see from the screen the international organizations and the regional organizations that take part in the work of the partnership. So the 50 indicators that we have are currently covering ICT infrastructure and access, as Neil mentioned, some of them. We have also access and use by households and individuals, and these are data that are collected by national statistical offices, and this is under the purview. These two sets of indicators are under the purview of the ITU, while the other indicators, such as those of businesses and enterprises, is by UNCTAD. As well as ICT sector and trade statistics. ICT in Education is with UNESCO, Institute of Statistics, ICT in Government is with UNDESA, e -waste is with UNITAR and UNEP. So we have a link there just in case you would like to see the list of indicators later on. But in 2025, we had a historic milestone where the UN General Assembly adopted the WSIS resolution with regards to the mandate for the partnership to work on reviewing the indicators and ensuring that it covers the many areas, including the WSIS action lines as well as those of the SDGs. And what it reaffirms is the importance of measurement for digital development and assigns the work to the partnership in coordination with other stakeholders. in reviewing the WSIS monitoring indicators as well as the methodologies and data availability that goes with those indicators. So the objective is for us to work with these stakeholders, have a systematic review, and report the findings in the 2027 session of the CSTD. And we are hoping that all of you will take part in this work. This is a start. We have a session that is going to happen on Thursday at 1 o 'clock in Pal Expo, where we will be reporting on the current work of the partnership with regards to the indicators, at the same time inviting all stakeholders to complete a form. So there's a form that... we are encouraging stakeholders to complete so that they can voice whatever areas they think are not covered by the partnership indicators. We want as comprehensive as possible with regards to the feedback, and we will be including that in the report to the CSTD in 2027. And so with that, I give back the floor to Nils, and we can start the discussion. Thank you.
Nils Berglund
Thank you so much, Esperanza. That's really helpful context and also an important reminder about the other opportunities that we have this week to give this feedback, because we have only 22 minutes left now to hear from all of you in the room. I'm going to put up some questions. Let's see here. There we go. which kind of tried to distill some of the things that we were wondering, but feel free to also ask questions to Esperanza directly and take this in any other direction. But thinking about all the indicators that we've already mentioned, the data that we do have, what that data actually shows, can we take this back to the WSIS action lines and think about what are they actually trying to achieve and how well matched is that data to measuring those outcomes that we actually want to see? But also thinking about where is the data strongest? Where can we integrate that strong data more into the WSIS process? Where is it weakest? Where is it missing or structurally biased? Which commitments are hard, contested, maybe impossible to even measure? And how do we deal with that? And then maybe most importantly, how can the multistakeholder community help build better data and monitoring infrastructure and feed into this process? But with that, I'd like to... To open the floor. A number of you in the room have indicated that you want to speak. We've been in touch already about you getting a chance to make some inputs. I saw Henriette raise her hand immediately, so perhaps Henriette will start with you to
Anriette Esterhuysen
Thanks very much, Niels.
Nils Berglund
Sorry, can you turn on your mic just for the online? It did go on properly.
Anriette Esterhuysen
Henriette Esserhausen, I'm from South Africa. I'm here this week for the Association for Progressive Communications. So I've been following the work of the partnership from the beginning, and Esperanza, I think the fact that you've been involved has provided so much continuity as well, which I think we shouldn't underestimate, and the work has been incredible. But there's one particular indicator that I, during the WSIS negotiations, I really think should be reconsidered, and that's Internet penetration. I think in today's context, an indicator which considers someone connected to the Internet, if they connect once in a three -month period. masks the vast difference between the hyper -connected and the barely connected. And with the ITU, through the Broadband Commission, this new recognition that meaningful connectivity is very important. I think that indicator really makes it difficult to get useful data. It also makes it difficult to connect demand -side data with supply -side data. It distorts the relationship between the two. And just, Niels, to say on your initiative, it's really good to see a more demand -side -oriented initiative collaborating with the partnership. We really need the data. For those of us working on the ground in developing countries, working with governments, this data is extremely important. But we just also have to remember that data can be abused as well. And I think certainly connectivity data at the moment is being used to inflate and disrupt. And hide, actually, the huge challenge that remains with connecting the unconnected.
Nils Berglund
Thank you so much, Henriette. Priya, do you want to introduce yourself?
Pria Chetty
Thank you very much, Niels, and thank you for the opportunity to be here, and thank you for the opening presentations. My name is Priya Chetty. I'm the Executive Director of Research, ICT Africa.
Nils Berglund
Priya, we can't hear you. Can you speak louder with the mic, please? I wonder if the mic is working. I hear you. That's right. Thank you.
Pria Chetty
Please let me know if I'm audible now. Okay, great. So Research, ICT Africa, my name is Priya Chetty, and for over 20 years now we've been doing measurement work. and I think it corresponds with some of the lessons that have already been raised. So we've done household surveys, microenterprise surveys, gender -focused studies, and we continue to do so. And we call it After Access because it steps away from the idea that we should just measure connectivity but also to measure digital inclusion as that has evolved over time. And we put particular focus on the supply -side factors, and so we feed that data into the relevant rooms and for various decision -making. And I think there's already been conversations about how indicators are evolving. But I think given the nature of the work that we do, we're also seeing how the indicators should have more meaning. And this is the lesson that we're also taking forward from the work that we do. So as Henriette mentioned, and others would have mentioned, that we have to step away from just understanding whether there's connectivity or access to connectivity and move away from those infrastructure discussions but to really understand the experience. and more recently this has focused on issues of safety and on just the experiences in various sectors as well. So there's an increasing call for, on the one hand, to build in qualitative elements that give meaning to the indicators so that it can be used, so that the understanding is more accessible to all and can inform the decision -making. And by this I mean how do the indicators evolve to give understanding and meaning to the strategic priorities in health, in education, in agriculture. And the work that we're doing now is to try and align some of the way that the indicators are structured to digital transformation objectives, to digital inclusion objectives. If there's a skilling strategy, what is the dependency on access and inclusion and how do we make sure that the indicators are structured? And how do we measure so that we can give those results directly to inform those kinds of strategies? And Esperanza has raised this, and it's a very consistent... a consistent barrier that comes up, which is how do we get the statistical offices more inclined to build the kind of data infrastructure that we need? And we have some new lessons about that as well, that the statistical offices need to build their relationships with information regulators because otherwise the research and the work coming out of the indicator work is not accessible where it needs to be accessible, and it's not translatable. So we can't create anything derived from the work at the national level or even parallel to the national level unless the statistical offices get involved and they work closely to create access to data mechanisms. And I think that's a lesson that's much broader at the regional levels and at the global levels. And in my engagement with how statistical offices need to evolve, I see that coming through but not necessarily at that level of detail of how they engage. The second is... The third is about how they engage with local government. So if we want the data to be meaningful, there are a lot of constraints at the local government level in getting access to citizens and getting access to baseline data that gives meaning to the indicator work. And so there needs to be a natural line between statistical officers and local government. And so the pressure on civil society to represent what is happening at the citizen level is an unnatural pressure. We can only go so far if we don't have cooperation from local government. And we believe that needs to be engineered at the national levels. So there's room for cooperation beyond, I think, some of the structures that we imagined, where there is the statistics officers and the communications regulators and the Ministry of Communications. to now take that to another level to work more closely with local government and to be able to triangulate the data that's coming across at that hyper -local level to what you're seeing from the indicators. And then only can you get a good enough extrapolation. And similarly, we've just released a round of gender -focused studies, and it becomes very interesting when you locate spatial data with gender data. And you start to see new traps and new barriers to skilling, to digital inclusion, to the trajectory of jobs, to how AI might be absorbed. And you start to get a much more informed picture. So those are some of the lessons that are emerging from the work we are doing, and I hope that is useful for taking this conversation forward and how we evolve our approaches. Thank you.
Nils Berglund
Thank you, Priya, for this very concrete feedback at Nandini. Hello. I'm going to let you introduce yourself.
Nandini Chami
Hi, I'm Nandini from IT4Change. I hope you can all hear me. I'm here today representing us as part of the Gender in Digital Coalition. One thing we are concerned about at the coalition is that the draft implementation roadmap of the WSIS and GDC is submitted to the CSCD in April. It mentions the word gender zero times. This is not a surprise given that there is not a dedicated action line on gender. But mainstreaming gender cannot mean streaming gender away as the feminist movement in India has long recognized. I want to make a second point that it's not as if there are absolutely no indicators that we cannot use. In fact, we have gender indicators already collected by the WSIS action line facilitating agencies beyond the floor of gender divide in access. So statistics like the WIPO patent scope analysis. This is the gender disaggregated data on patent. inventions, the ILO digital labor policy tracker, national statistics available across countries on time use surveys, income and employment, the UN Women Global Database on Violence Against Women, WHO Global Digital Health Monitor Indicator, FORD, AJ and the considerations. There are many such things which are already available which can be directly put into action line tracking. The last point is that the AI context changes many things. So we must also have the political will to invest in creating the set of indicators that will enable us to measure where women are in the structural transformation to the economies and societies that AI is doing. But it's not just about connecting women to the ICT market. It's about ensuring meaningful pathways to empowerment. Thank you.
Nils Berglund
Thank you so much, Nandini. I see we have a hand raised online. So for inclusivity's sake, let's move there. If you can unmute yourself and introduce yourself, Bridget.
Bridgette Hanani Ndlovu
Thanks Nils. Hello everyone my name is Bridget Ndlovu and I work with an organisation called Paradigm Initiative. I'm based in Zimbabwe. So thanks a lot for those insights that you shared and my reflection would be that I'm really curious to know how issues around rights will be integrated into the assessments because looking at it from an African perspective at least there is really a need to consider interlinkages with specific human rights mechanisms. I'll give an example. Through our research that we conduct we assess state's compliance with the African Commission on Human and People's Rights Declaration on Principles of Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa. And through our findings we've seen that many of the countries do have the infrastructure which would really present a lot of quantitative data but then when we then look at Whether or not that infrastructure is being used appropriately, there are some real challenges. We see a lot of states implementing Internet shutdowns despite the fact that they do have the infrastructure on ground. So an assessment of whether or not countries have the infrastructure does not really bring out a clear picture of the usage and access to people within different communities. Some countries implement Internet shutdowns on a regular basis. Some countries implement Internet shutdowns for a longer period. And this really presents a real challenge. Another aspect I wanted to mention is around access to devices, for example. In some countries, I'll give an example of, say, Malawi. In Malawi, for example, they have a policy around. Improving access to. to digital devices. But then on ground, there is heavy taxation for these kind of devices. And when we then look at indicators around access to devices, this may present a very high number. But in terms of affordability, access... actual access on the ground, not so many people can afford digital technology devices, which I think should also be a consideration in conversations around specific indicators to measure. I'll stop here for now. Over to you.
Nils Berglund
Thank you, Bridgette. Sure, I'll go to Francesca.
Audience
Thank you so much. Thank you, Niels. I want to bring another angle, I would say, to the excellent remarks made by the intervenants before me, which is cybersecurity and AI accountability. The areas this session on background notes, the name as places where data is limited and or methodologically contested or structurally absent, and so I thought about, let's say, bringing some perspective here. I would say that in the cyber accountability domain, I mean, the cyber field of accountability has long been kind of like called something as a sort of like a holy grail, meaning aspirational, that everyone agrees it matters, but rarely operationalize. And I want to offer a couple of concrete ways to potentially improve. The first point is that the WISIS Plus 20 outcome tasked the UN Interagency Working Group on AI with mapping existing capacity building initiatives and reporting to the global dialogue on AI governance. It's useful groundwork, but capacity mapped is not risk measured, meaning that knowing which countries have AI training program tells us nothing, basically, about whether the systems being deployed are safe, contestable, or subject to redress when they fail, for example. So a sort of like concrete ask, as the partnership on measuring ICT for development carries out indicators, review. one of the suggestions is also to sort of consider a specific accountability track input from the working group in itself and not just what capacity exists, but also what harm and redress mechanism exists. And I think it might also be let's say in terms of timeline, follow the I mean, prepare for the CSDD 2027 deadline. The second point that I want to make is that when it comes to cyber misuse, I really think we need to move from aspiration to operationalized accountability. The misuse of digital technologies has structurally been absent basically from measurement and I would sharpen that, that it's in a way invisible by design, meaning that obviously malicious cyber actors, states and non -states alike, have every incentive to stay undisclosed, so indicators built. only on state self -reporting will always undercount the harms that matter most. In my previous work at the Cyber Peace Institute and Now Protect NGO, we built several platforms to basically show publicly how attacks impact and harm civilian infrastructure like hospital and local governments in peace and in conflict time, and also how attacks are impacting civil society and humanitarian organization. And I would like to – we also learned that the counting incident is not enough, because a breach is not just a technical event, but we have to develop a methodology that measures the human harm behind it. And that's the kind of dimension that unfortunately currently WISIS indicators are not capturing. I think the field has already a sort of proposed fix, and I would like to build on what Priya was mentioning, meaning that public dashboard tracking commitments against the actual outcomes in real time, paired with independent evaluator by civil society, for example, or third -party expert, and clear timelines and reporting obligation attached to every actor, not just states. So I do believe that this can move. accountability from aspiration to operational practice and as we have was mentioning there is room for cooperation and i just finished with one comment which is i think i mean i really i really appreciated the effort also to to try to understand how the different let's say processes um are kind of like a feeding into each other um i guess it will be a sort of like recurring theme throughout the week but i think that um examples like for example the internet accountability compass is a great one because it is already trying to build on what is existent and and improving it similarly i think that um we don't need to start building ai and cyber accountability metrics from a blank page but integrate for example one or two existing tools that directly into the review for example and this can give a sort of like a working test case to always improve and specifically pulling the multi -stakeholder monitoring into more formal WISIS reporting. Thank you.
Nils Berglund
Thank you so much, Francesca. Desiree, please.
Desiree Miloshevic Evans
Thank you, Niels, and thank you all for a really good discussion about whether today's Internet measurements are equivalent to what we need to build this road implementation map. I'm speaking on behalf of RIPE NCC, which is a regional organization with over 76 countries and 20 ,000 members of network operators and providers. Am I audible? yeah so i i do believe um uh that some of the qualitative data is missing because sometimes quantitative data is not uh painting the broader picture and it doesn't provide enough of an angle in all these areas previous intervenants have mentioned and what i wanted to bring to the table is this multi -stakeholder community and technical community help to build better data for example um the ripe ncc and i can together organize internet measurements days and we run a lot of open data like ripe atlas we have about 12 000 probes and anyone can install it on their network and that is especially important during the time of resilience because you can measure actually the quality of the internet um um pathway and traffic either throughout some shutdowns if some servers or nodes are up and running. We have a lot of these services. There's also IP stat so that you can ping and find out from which part of the network the announcement and the pathways are still running and alive. The RIPE Atlas is open for the community to use this data. So we really organize these internet measurement days in our service region. We'd be happy to share it with all stakeholders as we do with regulators as well because they're interested in the resiliency of the network. So I just want to open it up for anyone for the collaboration. And lastly, maybe tomorrow we will have also a live event on the RIPE Atlas. We will have a session at 11 a .m. at Tower Building Room. A, where we're going to specifically looking at C1 to C6 with these action lines and how we can advance the work that's already happening so we'd be happy if you join us there as well. Thank you.
Nils Berglund
Thank you so much, Desiree. Okay, we are officially at time. I really appreciate all of these contributions. I think you talk a lot about multi -stakeholder governance but I also think it's important to talk about multi -stakeholder monitoring, data and evaluation and what we as the stakeholder community can contribute to that which is quite a lot. I don't know if Esperanza or if you and Dessa want to react to anything just in the last minute, otherwise.
Esperanza Magpantay
Yeah, just very quickly I think I fully agree with everything that was said. They are really good inputs. I invite you also to put them in writing so that we can take them into consideration in our review. We just have to consider international comparability just in case that's one of the main objectives of the partnership. So whenever you make those points also in your contributions make sure that you take that into account. But thank you so much for all your input.
Nils Berglund
Thank you very much, Esperanza. And again, that's Thursday at 1 p .m., the Partnership's own session, Measuring What Matters, Revisiting ICT Core Indicators for the WSIS Division. So thank you, everybody.
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WSIS Forum 2017: Résumé of Day 2
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The knowledge base confirms that WSIS was held in two phases in 2003 in Geneva and 2005 in Tunis, and that follow-up was organised around the WSIS Action Lines [S24], [S57].

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The knowledge base supports this timeline and framing by stating that the Global Digital Compact was adopted in 2024 to guide cooperation on digital governance and now runs in parallel with WSIS implementation and review [S77].

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The knowledge base indicates that the WSIS+20 review process will culminate in a high-level meeting at the UN General Assembly in December 2025, while a key milestone before that was the April 2025 CSTD session [S77]. It does not support a completed WSIS+20 review already having taken place 'just in December'.

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The knowledge base partly contextualises this by showing that WSIS follow-up does include implementation and reporting arrangements through ECOSOC, CSTD, UN agencies and regular assessment of ICT accessibility, but it also stresses coordination, information exchange and best-practice sharing more than a strict accountability regime [S57], [S80].

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The knowledge base supports the broader characterisation of WSIS follow-up as centred on multistakeholder implementation, information exchange, knowledge creation and sharing of best practices, which aligns with the description of stocktaking as a best-practice repository rather than a hard accountability mechanism [S57].

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This is confirmed by the knowledge base, which states that ITU maintains the World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database with more than 180 indicators covering over 200 economies and has long published measurement resources on digital development [S80].

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The knowledge base adds nuance by showing that existing measurement work is indeed stronger in areas such as connectivity and infrastructure, while more complex governance and rights-related areas rely on other frameworks such as UNESCO's Internet Universality Indicators, which include rights, openness, accessibility and multistakeholder participation [S80].

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The knowledge base confirms that WSIS+20 is an ongoing review process with consultations and milestones ahead of the December 2025 General Assembly outcome, making it plausible that stakeholder discussions are intended to inform future reporting and review [S77], [S78], [S83].

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