As a Specific Activity sponsor to the WSIS Forum, IEEE SA participated in many sessions, including making a High-Level Policy Statement, acting as a High-Level Track Facilitator, and hosting a Thematic workshop on How to Make Tech Development Work for Sustainable Development. This workshop explored various dimensions of the challenges and opportunities in identifying innovative approaches to promote and use technologies for sustainable development. It also addressed how the shared goal of sustainable development can be realized by harnessing technologies, while at the same time minimizing their disruptive and adverse effects.
IEEE contributed to the following sessions:
IEEE's WSIS 2020 contributions are accessible in the WSIS Highlights and Outcomes documents.
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The annual World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum brings together the largest gathering of the Information and Communications Technologies community that focuses on making the information society accessible to all. The WSIS Forum provides an opportunity for multi-stakeholder cooperation in providing meaningful connections to the information society. Importantly, the WSIS Forum 2020 incorporates the recently adopted United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as an important factor in the discussions.
The WSIS Forum 2020 was held entirely online starting on 22 June onwards, featuring a weekly programme, including a series of thematic/country workshops, high-level policy sessions, special tracks on various thematic areas, knowledge café, a Hackathon, and exhibition addressing issues that are critical to WSIS implementation and follow-up in a multistakeholder setting. The final week of the Virtual WSIS Forum 2020 took place on 7-10 September 2020, and consisted of policy statements, interactive high-level dialogues, a WSIS Prize ceremony, a ministerial round table as well as a series of WSIS Action Line facilitation meetings.