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WSIS-SDG MATRIX
LINKING WSIS ACTION LINES WITH
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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Experts Group Meeting on Advancing a
Sustainable Information Society for All
8-9 June 2015 / UN, New York

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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

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WSIS+10 High Level Event
Outcome Documents
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.

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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
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
WSIS ACTION LINES LINKAGES

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WSIS ACTION LINES AND
SDGs MATRIX

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SDGs AND
WSIS ACTION LINES MATRIX

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Important to Note: Rational for Linkages
Example: WSIS Action Line C2
Link to the SDG Targets Rational
1.4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the
poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic
resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and
control over land and other forms of property, inheritance,
natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial
services, including microfinance
Nowadays, access to the Internet is a
new basic service necessary for all
people. However, statistics show that
there is a huge gap between the
developed and developing world, which
need to be addressed.
9.1: Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient
infrastructure, including regional and transborder
infrastructure, to support economic development and
human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable
access for all
9.c: Significantly increase access to information and
communications technology and strive to provide universal
and affordable access to the Internet in least developed
countries by 2020.
As mentioned in the WSIS+10 Vision for
WSIS Beyond 2015 document endorsed
at the WSIS+10 High-Level Event,
connection to the Internet through
Broadband has been identified as the
ICT infrastructure for the next decade.
(…) 1.4, 8.2, 9.1, 9.a, 9.c, 11.5, 11.b (…)

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Important to Note: Rational for Linkages
Example: WSIS Action Line C6 Enabling Environment
Link to the SDG Targets Rational
2.a: Increase investment, including through
enhanced international cooperation, in rural
infrastructure, agricultural research and extension
services, technology development and plant and
livestock gene banks in order to enhance
agricultural productive capacity in developing
countries, in particular least developed countries
Both holistic and targeted ICT policies and
regulations can contribute to reducing barriers to
broadband deployment, actively facilitating build-
out of national fibre-optic networks and
international connectivity links, including across
sectors. It is also essential to ensure the
deployment of services in unserved and
underserved areas, including emergency and
accessibility-enhanced services. (GSR2012)
8.2: Achieve higher levels of economic productivity
through diversification, technological upgrading
and innovation, including through a focus on high-
value-added and labour intensive sectors
Predictable and stable regulations are key to
maintaining effective competition and driving the
development of innovative ICT services as well as
ICT-enabled innovation. (GSR2014)
(…) 2.a, 4.4, 5.b, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.c, 10.3, 11.3, 11.b,
16.3, 16.6, 16.7, 16.10, 16.b, 17.6, 17.14, 17.16
(…)

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Important to Note: Rational for Linkages
Example: WSIS Action Line C7 e-business
Link to the SDG Targets Rational
5.b: enhance the use of enabling technologies, in
particular ICT, to promote women’s
empowerment
Empowering women's entrepreneurship through
ICTs
8.9: By 2030 devise and implement policies to
promote sustainable tourism which creates jobs,
promotes local culture and products
Enhance the use of ICTs among enterprises in the
tourism sector to enable e-commerce/e-tourism.
Improve access to e commerce markets for
products and services and address challenges
facing SMEs in developing countries
8.10: Strengthen the capacity of domestic
financial institutions to encourage and expand
access to banking, insurance and financial
services for all
Use of mobile and related ICT platforms can help
to bring financial services to all
(…) 1.4, 2.3, 5.b, 8.3, 8.9, 8.10, 9.3, 17.11 (…)

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WSIS-SDG Matrix: Way Forward
• Launched at the WSIS Forum 2015 with overall
theme Innovating Together: Enabling ICTs for
Sustainable Development
• Endorsed by UN Group on the Information Society
• Discussed at
– High Level Dialogue on SDGs
– World Café on SDGs
– Ministerial Roundtable
• SDGs to be confirmed by September 2015
• UNGA Overall Review started in June 2015
• Matrix Remains Live Document: Call for Comments
with deadline of the 31st July 2015

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WSIS Forum 2015: High-Level Policy
Statements
• More than 130 High Level Policy
Statements by Ministers, Deputies,
Ambassadors, Heads of IOs,
Leaders of Civil Society and Private
Sector
• Many of them pledged for
recognition of ICTs’ role as an
enabler of sustainable
development

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Mr Ban Ki-Moon
UN Secretary-General
• … we still have to close the gap so
that everyone has access to
information and communication
technologies.
• This is especially important now as
the world rallies to forge a set of
sustainable development goals to
usher in a life of dignity for all.

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H.E. Mrs Magdalena Gaj
President, Office of Electronic Communications, Republic of Poland
Chairman of the WSIS Forum 2015
• The potential of ICTs for achieving
sustainable development is endless.
• We, the stakeholders of the WSIS
process, need to uncover new
opportunities that technology offers,
spark innovation and see where it
gets us.

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Mr Günther H. Oettinger
Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, European Commission
• ICT needs to play its role as a horizontal
tool in reaching those goals and targets.
We have to make a better case of how
technology and information can reduce
poverty, assure quality education,
improve health, help farmers and those in
rural areas, and manage our limited
resources in a sustainable way.
• The European Commission would like to
see linking the Sustainable Development
Goals to ICT tools to attain them; (…)

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H.E. Mr Julian Brathwaite
Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in
Geneva, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• First, we want to make sure that WSIS is focused
on development and on identifying practical
steps to support developing countries and to
enable people around the globe to harness the
huge potential of ICTs for development.
• The WSIS Action Lines set out a comprehensive
roadmap towards building the Information
Society and we need to make sure we are on
track. In particular, we want to consider how the
WSIS Action Lines can align with the post-2015
Sustainable Agenda.

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Mr Sunil Bahadur Malla
Secretary of State, Ministry of Information and Communications,
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
• The devastation caused by the earthquake of April/May
has not only created immense challenges for
rehabilitation but also has opened up an opportunity to
build back better-taking into account the need to bring
synergies between the WSIS targets beyond 2015 and Post
2015 sustainable development goals.
• The experiences have shown that ICTs when integrated
into development agenda backed by political process and
leadership will greatly facilitate the achievement of
targets set for WSIS beyond 2015 as well as Post 2015
sustainable development agenda. I therefore urge ITU to
develop a comprehensive framework for brining synergies
between WSIS and Post 2015 Development Agenda.

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H.E. Ms Anusha Rahman Ahmad Khan,
Minister of State for Information Technology, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
• The report of the event (ITU Council) marks
development on nearly all Action lines of the WSIS
which is very encouraging and indicate
commitment of States in implementing WSIS
outcomes. I am optimistic that United Nation
General Assembly will take a very positive note of it.
• Carrying forward our previous commitment to the
cause, Pakistan renews its commitment to the
fellow states for joint strategies to benefit all
through focus on enabling ICTs as a source for
sustainable development in coming years.

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Mrs Genevieve Clavel
Governing Board Member, International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA)
• We want to see the ten-year review once
again prioritise the potential of ICTs for
development as we go forward together,
including our joint actions to reach the
Sustainable Development Goals.

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Final WSIS Targets Review:
Achievements, Challenges and the Way Forwards
The Report provides 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

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Measuring ICTs in context of SDGs
Joint proposal of ICT indicators for the Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) indicator framework.
• Expert Group Meeting on the Indicator
Framework for the Post-2015 Development
Agenda New York, 25-26 February 2015
• The Partnership, through a consultations process
with its members and in coordination with the
various Technical Support Team (TST) clusters, has
prepared the attached joint proposal of ICT
indicators to help track the Sustainable
Development Goals and targets. It represents a
concerted effort to include ICTs in the post 2015
development agenda and to harmonize their
inclusion in the framework.

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ICT Facts and Figures 2015
2000-2015
• The ITU ICT Facts and Figures – The world in 2015
features end-2015 estimates for key telecommunication/
ICT indicators, including on mobile-cellular subscriptions,
Internet use, fixed and mobile broadband services, home
ICT access, and more.
• 2015 is the deadline for
achievements of the UN
Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), which
global leaders agreed
upon in the year 2000,
and the new data show ICT progress and highlight
remaining gaps.
• www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/pages/facts/

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Measuring the Information Society
Report 2014
• The Measuring the Information Society Report,
which has been published annually since 2009,
features key ICT data and benchmarking tools to
measure the information society, including the ICT
Development Index (IDI). The IDI captures the
level of ICT developments in 166 economies
worldwide and compares progress made during
the last year. The Measuring the Information Society Report
2014 highlights the relationship between ICT development
(as measured by the IDI) and the MDGs, a contribution to
the ongoing discussions on the potential of ICTs as
development enablers. The report includes the results of
the ICT Price Basket (IPB) and new mobile-broadband price
data for over 140 economies.