[WG-Strategy] CSTD WSIS Resolution adopted by Ecosoc

[parminder]

On 30/07/25 10:58, Wolfgang Kleinwächter wrote:
> By consensus?
> W

Yes, Wolfgang, cant be adopted without consensus, but yes, even I am 
surprised :) ...

West is good with pre-emptive wordsmithry, this time towards WSIS+20... 
The South simply hasnt the resources and attention span for all this.

The effort of course is to take away all political content from any +20 
possibility, and stick everything to nonpolitical rhetoric like in the 
digital  compact... All this notwithstanding that the world faces in 
digital and AI, historical moments that need high level political 
decisions and directions. Even the so-called father of AI, Dr Hinton 
warned about it, again, only yesterday.. But we can all keep claiming 
everything is hunky dory, and the most important thing in the digital 
world today is to 'avoid duplication' !!! What does that even mean 
(other than do not get carried away by WSIS +20, and just let the 'Big 
Tech -- Digital-Superpower Complex' rule).

  regards, parminder


>> Jorge Cancio via WG-Strategy <wg-strategy at intgovforum.org> hat am 
>> 29.07.2025 22:41 CEST geschrieben:
>> fyi: today Ecosoc adopted the CSTD Resolution on WSIS, which includes 
>> some useful language for wsis+20, e.g.:
>> 132. Highlights the role of the United Nations Group on the 
>> Information Society in coordinating the implementation of the 
>> outcomes of the World Summit, and recommends, as an outcome of the 
>> World Summit 20-year review, strengthening its functioning by 
>> including further United Nations offices with responsibilities in
>> matters of digital cooperation, as well as multi-stakeholder advice 
>> on its work, as appropriate;
>> 133. Recommends further that, as an outcome of the World Summit 20-year
>> review, the United Nations Group on the Information Society be tasked 
>> with
>> developing a joint implementation road map, to be presented to the 
>> Commission on
>> Science and Technology for Development at its twenty-ninth session, 
>> to integrate the
>> Global Digital Compact commitments into the World Summit 
>> architecture, ensuring
>> a unified approach to digital cooperation that avoids duplication and 
>> maximizes
>> resource efficiency;
>> 134. Highlights, in this regard, the well-established role of the 
>> Commission on
>> Science and Technology for Development as an intergovernmental 
>> platform for discussions on the impact and opportunities of 
>> technologies for the achievement of
>> the Sustainable Development Goals, and calls for a strengthening of 
>> the Commission
>> as an outcome of the World Summit 20-year review;
>> 135. Emphasizes the role of the Commission on Science and Technology for
>> Development in the follow-up and review process of the Global Digital 
>> Compact and
>> the need for ensuring the strongest possible convergence between the 
>> implementation
>> of the World Summit outcomes and the Compact to avoid duplication and 
>> enhance
>> synergies, efficiencies and thereby impact;
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