This presentation was delivered at the Side Event of the Second Preparatory Meeting of the UN General Assembly Overall Review of the Implementation of the WSIS Outcomes (20-22 July 2015), held in UN Headquarters, New York.

1. WSIS Forum 2016
WSIS Stocktaking
WSIS Prizes
WSIS Fund in Trust
www.wsis.org
www.wsis.org/forum
www.wsis.org/stocktaking
www.wsis.org/prizes
20 October 2015
UN Headquarters, New York
Side Event at the 2nd Preparatory
Meeting of the UNGA Overall
Review of the Implementation of
the WSIS Outcomes

2. Follow up to WSIS Outcomes: Evolution
From Cluster of WSIS Events to WSIS Forum
• 109. The experience of, and the activities undertaken by,
UN agencies in the WSIS process—notably ITU, UNESCO
and UNDP—should continue to be used to their fullest
extent. These three agencies should play leading
facilitating roles in the implementation of the Geneva
Plan of Action and organize a meeting of
moderators/facilitators of action lines, as mentioned in
the Annex.
- Annual Meetings of the WSIS Action Line Facilitators
- Ongoing coordination mechanism of the WSIS Action Line Facilitators
- Cluster of WSIS Related Events transformed upon consultative process into the
WSIS Forum
- WSIS+10 High Level Event (2014) as an Extended version of the WSIS Forum with the
Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform and two Outcome Documents

3. World Summit on Information Society
WSIS Forum
• WSIS Forum has evolved into the largest annual get-together of the ‘ICT for development’
community.
• It is an efficient mechanism for coordination of multistakeholder implementation activities,
information exchange, creation of knowledge, sharing of best practices
• It continues to provide assistance in developing multistakeholder and public/private
partnerships to advance development goals.

4. Participation: Multistakeholder, Open
and Inclusive
• WSIS Stakeholders : more than 1800
from more than 140 countries.
• Ministers and deputies, several
ambassadors, CEOs and Civil Society
leaders: more than 100
• UN Agencies: Coorganized by ITU,
UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD, in close
collaboration with all WSIS Action Line
Facilitators/Co-Facilitators (UNDESA,
FAO, UNEP, WHO, UN Women, WIPO,
WFP, ILO, WMO, ITC, UPU, UNODC,
UNICEF and UN Regional Commissions)

5. High-Level Track (Policy Statement)
• Opening Segment
• Policy Statements: by
Ministers, CEOs, Heads of
UN Agencies and Civil
Society Leaders
• WSIS Prizes
• Ministerial Round Table

6. WSIS Track of the WSIS Forum
• Exhibition
• Ted Talks
• Innovation/ Incubation
Track
• World Cafés
• Linking ICTs and the
Sustainable Development
Agenda Track
• Partnerships Track
• Thematic Workshops
• Country Workshops
• UN Regional Commission
meetings
• UNGIS (High-level and
working level meetings)
• Interactive Sessions
• Action Line Facilitation
meetings
• Action like Facilitators’
meeting
• Knowledge Exchange

8. WSIS-SDG Matrix Revealed
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

9. WSIS ALs-SDG Matrix
Impact of WSIS Action Lines on Sustainable Development Goals
• Released during WSIS Forum 2015
• Joint effort of all United Nations Action Line
Facilitators
• Aims at drawing direct linkages between WSIS
Action Lines and proposed SDGs, to continue
strengthening the impact of ICTs for sustainable
development
• analysis by each Action Line Facilitator, of
connections and relations between their respective
Action Line with the proposed SDGs and their
targets www.wsis.org/sdg

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SDG 9
SDG 10
SDG 11
SDG 12
SDG 13
SDG 14
SDG 15
SDG 16
SDG 17
WSIS-SDG Matrix

11. WSIS Forum: Open Consultation Process
• Ensures the participatory and inclusive spirit of the WSIS Forum
• Proactively engages governments, civil society, private sector, academia and
intergovernmental organizations in the preparatory process, agenda and
programme; and ensures broad ownership and a constant evolution of this Forum.
• Phase I: October 2015: Opening of the Open Consultations-
• Online dialogues on the WSIS Knowledge Communities at www.wsis-community.org
• Official submissions to the WSIS Secretariat on the Thematic Aspects and Innovations on
the Format invited at www.wsis.org/forum
• Phase II: 20 January 2016, ITU: First Physical Meeting*
• Phase III: 30 January 2016: Deadline for Submissions of Official Contributions and
Binding Requests for Workshops
• Phase IV: 22 February 2016, ITU: Final Review Meeting of the Open Consultation
Process*
• Phase V: 1 April 2016: Final Brief on the WSIS Forum 2016*
*Remote participation facilities will be available for all physical meetings
*Please note that all the dates are tentative at this stage
Please note that
the dates are still
tentative!!!

12. Social media@ WSIS Forum 2016
Follow us on Twitter with the #wsis hasthag
Report for #wsis on Twitter & get at the Top of our
iwrite4wsisforum campaign page
Share content and ideas on our Facebook page:
facebook.com/WSISprocess
Participate to discussions on the Linkedin group:
World Summit on Information Society
Interact with other participants using our online
community : imeetyouatWSISForum

13. WSIS STOCKTAKING PROCESS
• 120. The sharing of information related to the implementation of WSIS outcomes is an
important element of evaluation. We note with appreciation theReport on the
Stocktaking of WSIS-related activities, which will serve as one of the valuable tools for
assisting with the follow-up, beyond the conclusion of the Tunis phase of the Summit, as
well as the "Golden Book" of initiatives launched during the Tunis
phase. 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.
• 112. We call for periodic evaluation, using an agreed methodology, such as described in
paragraphs 113-120.
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) resolution 2015/26
4. Reiterates the importance of maintaining a process of coordinating the multi-stakeholder implementation
of the outcomes of the World Summit through effective tools, with the goal of exchanging information
among action line facilitators, identifying issues that need improvement and discussing the modalities of
reporting on the overall implementation process, encourages all stakeholders to continue to contribute
information to the stocktaking database maintained by the International Telecommunication Union on the
implementation of the goals established by the World Summit, and invites United Nations entities to update
information on their initiatives in the stocktaking database;
55. Takes note with appreciation of the report on the stocktaking of activities related to the World Summit,
which serves as one of the valuable tools for assisting with the follow-up, beyond the conclusion of the Tunis
phase of the World Summit;
www.wsis.org/stocktaking

14. WSIS STOCKTAKING PROCESS
• The call for update and new entries 2015-2016 was launched on 13
October 2015. All Stakeholders are invited to submit entries online.
Entries submitted to the WSIS Stocktaking Database will be reflected in
the WSIS Stocktaking Report 2016 which will be released at WSIS Forum
2016. We look forward to receiving your responses to this call by 1
March 2016.
• 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.
• Following the presentation of the WSIS Action Lines – SDGs Matrix at
the WSIS Forum 2015, which has received large appreciation by all the
WSIS community, proposing to better explain the potential of ICTs as
enablers for sustainable development, by investing the third dimension
of the issue: that of reporting ICT success stories to best showcase the
possible achievement of Sustainable Development Goals, through the
implementation of WSIS Action Lines related projects
(www.wsis.org/sdg)
www.wsis.org/stocktaking

15. WSIS STOCKTAKING PLATFORM
We are pleased to announce that the newly designed WSIS Stocktaking platform is under construction and will be
launched in by the end of October 2015, bringing a more interactive interface with several innovative aspects that will
be more appealing to the users. The new Stocktaking platform will also feature new questionnaire that will reflect the
transition from MDG’s to Sustainable Development Goals, and what is the impact of freshly submitted ICT projects on
SDGs.
www.wsis.org/sdg
• Unique global platform,
embraced by WSIS
multistakeholder
community in 2005 with
the aim to provide an
international register of
ICT activities enabling
development.
• Check out 7,000 entries on
WSIS Stocktaking Platform
• WSIS Stocktaking process
has so far involved close
to 140,000 stakeholders
worldwide.
• Year-around ongoing Call
for Updates and New
Entries – Continue Sharing

16. WSIS STOCKTAKING 2015 PUBLICATIONS
WSIS Stocktaking Report Series:
2005 2008 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 …
7,000 entries have been registered in the WSIS Stocktaking Database reflecting innovative activities of
stakeholders working on the implementation of WSIS outcomes, and knowledge and experience sharing
of projects by replicating successful models
ICT projects and initiatives reflected on this platform also highlight progress made towards achieving
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Coming up in WSIS Stocktaking Report 2016:
WSIS Action Lines Projects advancing Sustainable Development Goals
The reporting is based on the contributions of the stakeholders responding to the
WSIS regular calls for update and new entries.
New Call coming up in Fall 2015!
www.wsis.org/stocktaking

17. WSIS STOCKTAKING 2015 PUBLICATIONS
• WSIS Stocktaking: Success
Stories 2015
• WSIS Stocktaking Report 2015
• Advancing Sustainable
Development Through
Information and
Communication Technologies:
WSIS Action Lines Enabling
SDG
WSIS Stocktaking 2015
Publications are available online
for download from the ITU
Bookshop
www.itu.int/publications

18. SUBMIT Your Projects
by 5 December 2015
www.wsis.org/prizes
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Resolution 2015/26
"Assessment of the progress made in the implementation of - and follow up to the outcomes of the World Summit on
the Information Society", reiterates the importance of sharing best practices at the global level, and, while recognizing
excellence in the implementation of the projects and initiatives that further the goals of the World Summit,
encourages all stakeholders to nominate their projects for the annual World Summit project prizes as an integral
part of the World Summit stocktaking process, while taking note of the report on the World Summit success stories.

19. The WSIS Prizes 2016 contest is organized into five phases:
1. The first phase: Submission phase
13 October – 5 December 2015
(Deadline for last submission: 23:00 Geneva time)
2. The second phase: Nomination Phase. Revision of
submitted projects by Expert Group that will result with a
list of nominated projects
6 December – 11 December 2015
3. The third phase: Public Online Voting (identification of
three projects per category with the highest number of
votes)
11 December 2015 – 10 March 2016
(Deadline for casting last vote: 23:00 Geneva time)
4. The fourth phase: Selection of winning projects by the
Expert Group that will result with a list of winning projects
14 March – 18 March 2016
5. The fifth phase: Announcement of winners to the public
during
WSIS Prize 2016 Ceremony at WSIS Forum 2016
WSIS Prizes 2016

20. Previous WSIS PRIZES Contests: 2012, 2013,
2014, 2015, measured how ICT projects were
linked to MDGs.
WSIS Prizes 2016 and SDGs
While continuing to highlight progress made towards
achieving the WSIS goals, WSIS Prizes 2016 will start
reflecting to which of the newly proposed Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) are the submitted projects
mostly linked to. ICTs are enablers for sustainable
development, and reporting on ICT success stories to best
showcase the possible achievement of SDGs, through the
implementation of WSIS Action Lines related projects, is
the new objective of WSIS Stocktaking process, including
WSIS Prizes.
All stakeholders are invited to submit entries online at:
www.wsis.org/prizes

21. Coordinated by Elaborated by www.wsis.org/sdg
www.wsis.org/sdg
WSIS-SDG MATRIX
LINKING WSIS ACTION LINES
WITH SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS

22. WSIS Fund in Trust of ITU: Categories for WSIS
Forum 2016 Partnership
Four Categories:
• Strategic Partner:
Platinum
• Strategic Partner
(Government): Gold
• Strategic Partner
(Private Sector): Gold
• Partner for Specific Activities
• Contributing Partners

23. Coordinated by Elaborated by www.wsis.org/sdg
Call for Actions
• Mark the dates on your calendar (2-6 May 2016)
• Be part of the WSIS Forum 2016 Agenda and Programme by
participating in the Open Consultation Process.
• Follow WSIS Flash to remain updated on WSIS implementation
• Communicate on WSIS Forum at National and Regional Level
• Mark the dates on your High-level Representative’s calendar
– Government : Ministers, Head of State
– International Organizations: Head of Agency
– Private Sector: CEOs
– Civil Society Leaders
• Participate in the WSIS Project Prizes: Submit Project: 5 December
2015 (Nomination during WSIS+10 High Level Meeting)
• Report on the ICT related activities through WSIS Stocktaking
• Contribute to the WSIS Fund in Trust WSIS Forum 2016 Partnership

24. Coordinated by Elaborated by www.wsis.org/sdg
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