UNGIS

Wednesday, 11 October, 13:30-15:00 (JST/UTC+9) / 06:30-08:00 (CEST/UTC+2) 
IGF 2023, Workshop Room 9 (Room C-2), Kyoto International Conference Centre, Kyoto, Japan

UNGIS continues to work collectively to implement more coordinated actions, greater coherence, and effectiveness in the UN’s overall support to the advancement of SDGs. This roundtable, co-organized by WSIS and UNGIS, will focus on how the ICTs and the WSIS cooperation can help accelerate the SDGs, learning from multistakeholder experience to build an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable societies and economies. The session will feature panel discussions and presentations from experts in the fields of digital innovation and sustainable development, showcasing innovative solutions and multistakeholder efforts on digital cooperation. The session aims to provide a platform for sharing knowledge and experiences, highlighting the need for cross-sectoral collaboration and partnerships to leverage the full potential of digital innovation for a sustainable post-COVID-19 world. The session will explore ways to ensure that digital transformation is inclusive and benefits everyone, leaving no one behind. It is important to strengthen partnerships and digital cooperation towards achieving goals and targets across the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. ICTs are rapidly transforming societies and economies, with potential to address complex and interconnected development challenges and build a sustainable future for all as envisioned in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. More needs to be done to leverage the development potential of digital technologies. This session will focus on the strategic ways governments and partners leverage ICTs, raising key challenges and gaps, identifying digital capacities to prioritize based on needs on the ground, and the synergies necessary to support those. The discussions will be addressing the two major challenges of advancing the world's digital transformation: achieving universal connectivity and enabling meaningful connectivity.