<font color="#ffffff">Your invite to UK IGF's "Perspectives on WSIS+20" online event</font>

Subject:	Last chance: your invite to UK IGF's "Perspectives on WSIS+20" online event
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:07:28 +0100
From:	UK Internet Governance Forum <info@events.nominet.uk>
Reply-To:	ukigf@ukigf.org.uk
To:	ocl@gih.com

Dear all,

This year marks the 20 year-review of the UN’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which aimed to achieve a common vision and commitment to build a "people-centered, inclusive, and development-oriented Information Society". As well as setting a vision for digital development through its Action Lines, the WSIS process formalised the framework for Internet governance and led to the creation of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

The WSIS+20 Review is a key moment to take stock of what the WSIS process has delivered over the last 20 years, where there is further to go, and how the process might evolve in the future.

The UK IGF is therefore convening an online session - “Perspectives on WSIS+20” - this Wednesday 30 April from 09:30-11:30 (BST/UTC). This will provide a chance to hear from various speakers including:

David Souter, Independent Expert on Digital Society and lead consultant for the UN Commission on Science, Tech for Development's report looking at the implementation of WSIS outcomes over the last 20 years

Paul Blaker, Head of ITU and Internet Governance at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Alessandra Lustrati, Head of the Digital Development Cluster at the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office

Jennifer Bisset, Principal Consultant for International Projects at the British Standards Institution

Ellie McDonald, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Global Partners Digital

Nick Wenban-Smith, General Counsel and Head of Stakeholder Relations at Nominet

Dr Erica Moret, Director, United Nations & International Organisations at Microsoft

Register to attend

Once we have heard from our speakers, we will open the floor to all participants to share their perspectives and priorities for the WSIS+20 process, and provide an opportunity for Q&A with our speakers.

If you would like to participate in the session, please sign up using this registration link. In signing up, you agree to follow the UN IGF Code of Conduct. Once you have completed the registration form, a Zoom Link will be sent to you automatically.

If you have any questions, please contact ukigf@ukigf.org.uk.

Thanks,
UK IGF Secretariat

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