ITU Contribution to the First Stocktaking Meeting of the UNGA Overall Review on the Implementation of the WSIS Outcomes held from 10-11 June 2015 in UN Headquarters, New York.

1. Final Outcomes and….
…the Way Forwards
Contribution by International Telecommunication Union
1st Meeting of the UN General Assembly Overall Review
10-11 June 2015 / UN HQ, New York

2. World Summit on Information Society
Geneva 2003 – Tunis 2005

3. WSIS Final Outcome Documents
• Implementation Mechanism
– 11 WSIS Action Lines
– Coordination Mechanism
transformed into WSIS Forum
– Regional Commissions
• Financing Mechanisms
• Monitoring Mechanism
– Partnership on Measuring
ICT for Development
– Connectivity Targets
– WSIS Stocktaking
• Enhanced Cooperation &
Internet Governance
– Internet Governance Forum
• Follow-up and UN Coordination
– UN Group on the Information Society
– CSTD: WSIS Follow-Up

6. WSIS Forum 2015
Innovating Together: Enabling ICTs for
Sustainable Development
25-29 May 2015, 26-27 High Level Track
Geneva, Switzerland
ITU Headquarters and WIPO Headquarters

7. ICT Revolution and
Remaining Gaps

8. 15 years of ICT growth:
What has been achieved?

9. Towards the Overall Review of
Implementation of the WSIS Outcomes
• 2003 – 2005 – World Summit on the Information Society
• 2013 February – WSIS+10 Multistakeholder Meeting on
Towards Knowledge Societies for Peace and Sustainable
Development (Paris, hosted by UNESCO)
• 2013 July – 2014 June – WSIS+10 Multistakeholder
Preparatory Platform
• 2014 June – WSIS+10 High Level Event (Geneva, coordinated
by ITU)
• 2015 May – 18th Session of the Commission on Science and
Technology for Development: 10 Year Review of
Implementation
• 2015 June – Kick off of the UNGA Overall Review
• 2015 December – High Level Meeting on the Overall Review

10. WSIS+10 High Level Event
• The WSIS+10 High Level Event
was held from the 10-13 June 2014
at the ITU Headquarters and CICG
in Geneva.
• Extended version of the WSIS Forum.
• Preceded by 11 months of preparatory
process by WSIS+10 Multistakeholder
Preparatory Platform.
• HLE was coordinated by ITU and coorganized
by UNESCO, UNDP, UNCTAD, UNDESA,
FAO, UNEP, WMO, ILO, WHO, UPU, ITC, WIPO
• A series of pre-event meetings were
held on 9 June 2014, on the eve of the
WSIS High-Level event, to take stock of achievements, brainstorm
on future outcomes and build a common vision beyond 2015.
• Outcome document endorsed on 11 June 2015.
• WSIS+10 HLE attracted more than 1600 WSIS Stakeholders from
more than 140 countries. More than 100 ministers and deputies,
several ambassadors, CEOs and Civil Society leaders contributing
passionately towards the programme of the Forum.

11. WSIS+10 HLE: Negotiated Outcomes
• Intergovernmental guidance:
Modalities by ITU Council Resolution 1334
– To establish an open and inclusive preparatory
process, Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform,
for developing drafts of the outcome documents
for consideration by the WSIS+10 High-Level
Event, by 1st March 2014, (for ITU under its
responsibilities and other interested UN
Agencies, under their responsibilities)
– Draft WSIS+10 Statement on
Implementation of WSIS Outcomes
– Draft WSIS+10 Vision for WSIS Beyond 2015
under mandates of the participating
agencies

12. WSIS+10 Multistakeholder
Preparatory Process
• What was the WSIS+10 MPP?
Efficient and effective multistakeholder mechanism for
elaboration the negotiated texts and reaching consensus
on strategic issues related to the information society
development
• Timing: July 2013 – May 2014
• Work Process: Six Phases, Five Physical Meetings
• Chairman and Vice-Chairs: Russian Federation, Egypt,
Switzerland, Saudi Arabia
• Secretariat: ITU, UNESCO, UNDP, UNCTAD, UNDESA, FAO,
UNEP, WMO, ILO, WHO, UPU, ITC, WIPO

13. WSIS+10 Outcome Documents
WSIS+10 Statement on the Implementation of WSIS Outcomes
• A. Preamble
• B. Overview of the implementation of Action Lines
• C. Challenges during implementation of Action Lines and new challenges that
have emerged
WSIS+10 Vision for WSIS Beyond 2015
• A. Preamble
• B. Priority areas to be addressed in the implementation of
WSIS Beyond 2015
• C. Action Lines
– Introduction
– Further enhancing Action Lines
– Action Lines beyond 2015: Looking to the Future

14. WSIS Action Lines beyond 2015:
Looking to the Future
• We reaffirm that effective cooperation among governments, private sector, civil society and the
United Nations and other international organizations, according to their different roles and
responsibilities and leveraging on their expertise, is essential, taking into account the multifaceted
nature of building the Information Society.
• We emphasize great importance of continuation of the multistakeholder implementation at the
international level, following the themes and action lines in the Geneva Plan of Action, and
moderated/facilitated by UN agencies. The coordination of multistakeholder implementation
activities would help to avoid duplication of activities. This should include, inter alia, information
exchange, creation of knowledge, sharing of best practices, and assistance in developing multi-
stakeholder and public-private partnerships.
• `We reaffirm importance of the United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS)
created by the UN-Chief Executives Board (CEB) upon guidance by Tunis Agenda (Para 103), as an
efficient and effective inter-agency mechanism with the main objective to coordinate substantive
and policy issues facing the United Nations’ implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit
on the Information Society (WSIS).
• We welcome holding of the annual WSIS Forum, which has become a key forum for
multistakeholder debate on pertinent issues related to the Geneva Plan of Action and note that
the Forum’s inclusiveness, openness, and thematic focus have strengthened responsiveness to
stakeholders and contributed to increased physical and remote participation.

15. • We encourage all stakeholders to contribute to and closely collaborate with the Partnership on
Measuring ICT for Development as an international, multi-stakeholder initiative to improve the
availability and quality of ICT data and indicators, particularly in developing countries.
• We emphasize/ recognize that the commitments to advance gender equality perspectives and undertake
the necessary actions throughout the WSIS outcomes, as called for in Para 3 of Preamble under this
document, should also be implemented, reviewed and monitored, consistent with other Action Lines, by
UN Women in cooperation with other Action Line Facilitators.
• 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.
• We also welcome continuation of the WSIS Project Prizes initiative that has been launched by ITU with
involvement of all Action line facilitators as a competition that recognizes excellence in the
implementation of projects and initiatives which further the WSIS goals of improving connectivity to
ICTs), particularly within underserved communities, and provide a high-profile, international platform for
recognizing and showcasing success stories and models that could be easily replicated. In this regard, the
WSIS Stocktaking Database is of utmost importance in sharing best practices amongst WSIS Stakeholders.
• We emphasize on the importance of 17 May as World Information Society Day to help to raise
awareness, on an annual basis, of the importance of this global facility, on the issues dealt with in the
WSIS especially the possibilities that the use of ICTs can bring for societies and economies, as well as of
ways to bridge the digital divide.
WSIS Action Lines beyond 2015:
Looking to the Future

16. WSIS+10 High Level Event
Outcome Documents and Post 2015 Agenda
Preamble of the WSIS +10 Statement:
We invite the UN system organizations and all stakeholders
within their respective roles and responsibilities to take
full advantage of ICTs in addressing the development
challenges of the 21st century and to recognize them as
cross-cutting enablers for achieving the three pillars of
sustainable development.
Preamble of Vision for WSIS beyond 2015
ICTs will play a critical role in achieving the sustainable development goals.
Taking into account the ongoing dialogue on the Post-2015 Development
Agenda (MDG review process) and the WSIS implementation process, all
stakeholders have indicated the necessity of increased interaction between
both processes in order to ensure that efforts across the UN System are
coherent and coordinated to achieve maximum and sustainable impact.

17. Coordinated by Elaborated by www.wsis.org/sdg
Origins of the WSIS-SDG Matrix?
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)
WSIS AL

18. Coordinated by Elaborated by www.wsis.org/sdg
What is WSIS-SDG Matrix?
• This mapping exercise draws direct linkages
of the WSIS Action Lines with the proposed
SDGs to continue strengthening the impact
of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) for sustainable
development.
• Each UN Action Line Facilitator has analyzed the connections and relations
of their respective Action Line with the proposed SDGs and their targets.
• The goal is to attempt at creating a clear and direct link and an explicit
connection between the key aim of the WSIS, that of harnessing the
potential of ICTs to promote and realize the development goals, and the post
2015 development agenda, so as to contribute to the realization of the
latter.
• Please read the complete document at www.wsis.org/sdg
www.wsis.org/sdg

19. Coordinated by Elaborated by www.wsis.org/sdg
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
WSIS ACTION LINES LINKAGES
www.wsis.org/sdg

20. WSIS+10 HLE: Other Outcomes
• WSIS+10 High Level Policy Statements
• Forum Track Outcome Document
• Final WSIS Targets Review
Achievements, Challenges and the Way Forwards
• WSIS Stocktaking Report
• WSIS Success Stories
• WSIS Action Lines Executive Summaries
(Achievements, Challenges and Recommendations)

21. Towards Effective Measurement
Accountability
Towards efficient and
effective measurement to
ensure accountability of the
WSIS process beyond 2015

22. Final WSIS Targets Review: Achievements,
Challenges and the Way Forward
The report was produced by the Partnership on Measuring ICT for
Development, under the coordination of ITU. The lead agencies
contributing to the report were ITU, the UNESCO UIS, ECLAC, WHO,
UNDESA, UNCTAD, UNU. Many other organisations and
representatives of civil society also contributed.
A comprehensive evaluation of the achievements made towards the
WSIS Targets that governments agreed upon at the World Summit on
the Information Society, and:
• Reviews progress made on each one of the WSIS Targets, which
range from connecting villages, schools and health centres to
developing content and providing people with ICT access
• Draws attention to the availability (and lack) of data to track
progress today, and over time
• Makes recommendations on policies that are most relevant in
impacting the WSIS Targets
• Reviews the relevance of targets and indicators to track the
information society
• Highlights lessons learnt and makes recommendations on a
possible future (post-2015) ICT measurement framework
• Links a possible post-2015 ICT monitoring framework to the
post-2015 Development Agenda
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-
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23. ITU Contribution to the
WSIS Implementation
ITU’s Ten Year Contribution to the WSIS Implementation and Follow-up is
a comprehensive report on the ITU activities in context of WSIS carried
out by the Union from 2005 – 2014, covering all assigned mandates with
reference to the WSIS Process, in particular:
– In its capacity as leading facilitator in coordinating the multi-stakeholder
implementation of the Geneva Plan of Action. (para 109 of TAIS) and primary
organizer and host of the annual event in May, i.e. the WSIS Forum
– Facilitator of Action Lines C2 (Information and communication infrastructure)
and C5 (Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs); as well as C6
(Enabling Environment).
– Co-facilitator of Action Lines C1, C3, C4, C7, and C11
– Partner in Action Lines C8 and C9
– Rotating Chair and Vice Chair of the United Nations Group on Information
Society (UNGIS) (Para 103 of TAIS)
– Lead of Partnership on the Measuring the ICT for Development (Para 114 of
TAIS)
– Facilitator of the WSIS Stocktaking Process (Para 120 of TAIS)
– Organizer of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (Para 121
of TAIS)
– Lead of the Connect the World Initiative (Para 98 of TAIS)
– Others www.itu.int/en/itu-wsis/Pages/Contribution.aspx
Submission to the
UNGA Overall Review
per request of
ITU Membership (2015)

24. www.wsis.org
www.wsis.org/sdg
www.wsis.org/review
www.wsis.org/prizes
www.wsis.org/stocktaking
wsis-info@itu.int
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