Make your voice heard!
We are introducing a new feature in our Main Topic sessions this year. Interested individuals who would like to contribute a short statement to one or several of these sessions can already sign up here.
The Main Topics are:
- 01 – Why the UN WSIS+20 Review is important and how the national and regional IGFs can help stakeholders engage in the review process.
- 02 – Neurotechnology and privacy: Navigating human rights and regulatory challenges in the age of neural data
- 03 – Europe at the Crossroads: Digital and Cyber Strategy 2030 (NIS 2)
- 04 – Transatlantic rift on Freedom of Expression
- 05 – AI and Sustainable Development: Balancing Regulation and Innovation
Each statement should be no longer than two minutes and registrations to give a statement have to be submitted by April 30th.
Introducing Main Topic 01
Over the course of the next five weeks, we will give you a closer look into each of the Main Topic sessions at EuroDIG 2025 in each newsletter, as well as on our social media channels. Starting with Main Topic 01: “Why the UN WSIS+20 Review is important and how the national and regional IGFs can help stakeholders engage in the review process.” which is going to take place 13 May 2025 at 09:00 – 10:30 CEST.
- What is the session about?
This year’s 20 year review by the UN General Assembly of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society – the WSIS+20 Review – gets under way in July with the first preparatory meeting of Member States and the WSIS+20 High Level Event hosted by the ITU. EuroDIG will subsequently have the opportunity to submit an input into the WSIS+20 “non-paper”. The EuroDIG messages from its session on WSIS+20 in Vilnius in June 2024 recommended that the review a) should enhance the existing processes of Internet governance, global digital policy and cooperation, and b) renew the IGF’s mandate. The aims of the plenary session in Strasbourg are to agree on 1) new consensus-based messages concerning the modalities for stakeholders – assisted by the platforms of the national and regional IGFs – to engage in the WSIS+20 process; and 2) to consider what would be desirable outcomes from the WSIS+20 review.
- How to get involved?
You can join the Org Team here and/or sign up to make a statement in the session (see above).
EuroDIG 2025 takes place May 12-14 in Strasbourg, France, hosted by the Council of Europe in cooperation with the Luxembourg Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. You can register to participate on the EuroDIG website.
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