#WSIS
Attending today and tomorrow special events by the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) — 20 year review by the UN Internet Governance Forum

Will report on it right away
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Bridging the Digital Generational Divide: Insights from Today’s UN IGF Session at WSIS+20

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Bridging the Digital Generational Divide: Insights from Today’s UN IGF Session at WSIS+20
Today’s WSIS+20 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) session at UN Headquarters brought forward a rare, candid conversation about one of the most urgent but least acknowledged digital challenges of our tim...
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December 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Business at the Digital Helm: IGF Panel Calls for Trust, Cooperation, and Action Toward WSIS Goals

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December 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Business at the Digital Helm: IGF Panel Calls for Trust, Cooperation, and Action Toward WSIS Goals

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Business at the Digital Helm: IGF Panel Calls for Trust, Cooperation, and Action Toward WSIS Goals
IGF 2025 panelists examine AI progress, cybersecurity risks, digital fragmentation, and child online protection—calling for global cooperation to advance WSIS goals and rebuild digital trust.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
ALA Past President Loida Garcia-Febo (2nd from left) with colleagues at today’s UN WSIS+20 forum in NYC.
In town? Join an in-person event tomorrow on digital access, information equity, and why it matters for libraries.
CUNY Graduate Center
Dec. 16 | 1:20–2:40pm
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December 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Digitale Teilhabe, Meinungsfreiheit und Menschenrechte sind der Fokus des UN-Weltgipfels für die Informationsgesellschaft (WSIS). Eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren. #Missing Link
Missing Link: 20 Jahre WSIS – und (k)ein bisschen Multi-Stakeholder?
Digitale Teilhabe, Meinungsfreiheit und Menschenrechte sind der Fokus des UN-Weltgipfels für die Informationsgesellschaft (WSIS). Eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren.
www.heise.de
July 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Such a "pinch me am I dreaming" moment today. That's me, at the podium of the UN General Assembly, speaking on behalf of IFLA and the world's libraries. What an honor to contribute to the WSIS+20 Plenary and to represent!
December 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
NYC Friends: Join the ALA IRC United Nations SDG Subcommittee for an in-person program with UNESCO and IFLA during WSIS+20. Learn why this global review of digital access, information equity & ICT policy matters for libraries.
Dec. 16 | 1:20–2:40pm
CUNY Graduate Center
www.ifla.org/events/doing...
December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
20 years ago, the WSIS captured lightning in a bottle. Now, with the WSIS+20 review on the horizon, the stakes for global digital governance are higher than ever.

DTI’s @kkomaitis.bsky.social calls this a pivotal moment for the internet’s future: bit.ly/4lTlvQL
'The multistakeholder model is the engine that powers the internet' —Konstantinos Komaitis on WSIS+20
A statement from Konstantinos Komaitis on the WSIS+20 process and the future of digital governance.
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August 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
GNI, alongside 101 civil society organizations and 46 experts, endorses the Five Point Plan to help operationalize the WSIS+20 review modalities to ensure transparency, inclusivity, and meaningful stakeholder engagement. Learn more: www.gp-digital.org/five-point-p...
Five-Point Plan for an Inclusive WSIS+20 Review  – Global Partners Digital
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March 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Great consultations today under Estonia's chairship of
Freedom Online Coalition on WSIS+20!

Multistakeholder input is crucial to foster inclusive information societies. We encourage everyone to work with us to enhance it.

Thank you Canada and The Netherlands for co-hosting!
March 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
eSIMs for Gaza, a charity that provides sims for Gazans and a huge reason we know what's going on has been shortlisted for a prize, please vote to support here tinyurl.com/2ttm376j
Vote — WSIS Prizes 2025
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April 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Global Digital Rights Coalition for #WSIS published a joint submission on the #WSIS20 review process outcome document.

We make practical recommendations to lock in the progress made, strengthen commitments to human rights, gender, financing and capacity building.

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Global Digital Rights Coalition for WSIS Input to the Zero Draft of the WSIS+20 Outcome Document
The Global Digital Rights Coalition for WSIS (GDRC-WSIS) published a joint submission to the zero draft of the WSIS twenty-year review process (WSIS+20) outcome document.
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October 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
📣 ICNL joined 23 orgs in the Global Digital Rights Coalition for WSIS to submit recommendations on the #WSIS+20 Zero Draft. We’re calling for:
🔹 Human rights at the core of digital governance
🔹 Commitments to gender equality
🔹 Sustainable financing & capacity-building

www.icnl.org/post/in-the-...
Global Digital Rights Coalition Submits Recommendations to WSIS+20 Zero Draft
The Global Digital Rights Coalition, including ICNL, submitted recommendations to the WSIS+20 Zero Draft. Our joint submission calls for stronger human rights protections, gender equality, multistakeh...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
USA hat als einziger Staat gegen eine UN Resolution zu WSIS + 20 (UNCSTD) gestimmt weil sie keine Hinweise auf SDGs, Gender und climate akzeptieren können….
April 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Earlier this month, CDT joined more than 100 organizations in a letter presenting a five point plan for the implementation of the WSIS +20 review process.The plan provides 5 critical recommendations: cdt.org/insights/cdt...
CDT Joins More Than 100 Civil Society Organizations In Recommendations to Operationalize the WSIS +20 Review Process
On March 25, 2025, CDT joined more than 100 organizations in a letter presenting a five point plan for the implementation of the WSIS +20 review process. WSIS +20 is the 20 year review of the World Summit on the Information Society, an ongoing process to discuss global governance of digital technologies and their impact […]
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April 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
@sophiatawonga.bsky.social klärt in "Who runs the www? WSIS+20 and the future of Internet governance" die Architektur der Internet Governance auf und zeigt, welche Akteure dorz Einfluss haben: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-who-r...
Who runs the www? WSIS+20 and the future of Internet governance
Abbreviations such as WSIS+20, IGF, IETF, DIEM, ICANN, PDP, ITU or W3C regularly appear in discussions about the Internet, yet often rema...
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January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
No dia 06/07, Fernanda Campagnucci, diretora executiva do InternetLab, participou do painel Beyond State vs. Corporate: Community Data Governance Models from the Global Majority, no WSIS 2026, ao lado de Shumaila Shahani (Tech Global Institute) e Bridgette Ndlovu (Paradigm Initiative).
July 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
So when Farage said his phone was hacked by Foreign Agents did he really mean SSIS (Scotland Secret Intelligence Service) and not the FSB after all ?
Wait until the WSIS (Wales Secret Intelligence Service) get their hooks into him.
May 31, 2026 at 10:54 AM
And tool number 33,000 in bio.tools is... RatioPath, Python library for large-scale processing, analysis, and transformation of whole-slide pathology images (WSIs)!
May 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM
APC's statement presentation during the High-Level Meeting on the review of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (#WSIS+20). "WSIS is about harnessing digital tools for people-centred development, not about developing digital tools and processes".
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APC statement to the UN General Assembly WSIS+20 High-Level Meeting
"If economic and social development are not placed at the heart of the next phase of WSIS, we risk perpetuating a new, quality-based digital divide and missing the opportunity to harness connectivity ...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Novel AI Tool “Sees” Gene Expression in Tumor Biopsy Images

"SEQUOIA, a linearized transformer model that predicts cancer transcriptomic profiles from whole slide images."

Open access
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

News
www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/oncol...
Digital profiling of gene expression from histology images with linearized attention - Nature Communications
Predicting gene alterations and expression from whole-slide images (WSIs) can be a cost-efficient solution for cancer profiling. Here, the authors develop SEQUOIA, a transformer model with linearised ...
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December 16, 2024 at 9:29 AM
If someone had told me around this time last year that I’d be giving a talk at the CCC, I honestly wouldn’t have believed it. And yet, here we are.

If you’re at #39c3, I’d love to see you on Day 4 (Tuesday, 30th) at 12:50 in the Room Ground.

🔗More details: fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
[39c3] Who runs the www? WSIS+20 and the future of Internet governance
The starting point is the UN’s WSIS+20 review process, which negotiated the future of the Internet Governance Forum and the roles of stakeholders within it. Against this backdrop, the talk traces the ...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM