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Trends in the Information Society since WSIS David Souter ict - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Trends in the Information Society since WSIS David Souter ict - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Trends in the Information Society since WSIS David Souter ict Development Associates The WSIS outcomes The WSIS outcomes WSIS targets 10 targets on The overarching connectivity and other issues WSIS vision of: WSIS action lines
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The WSIS outcomes
WSIS targets – 10 targets on
connectivity and other issues
WSIS action lines – 18 issues and
interactive fora
Monitoring and measurement Internet governance – IGF and
enhanced cooperation
Financing mechanisms Follow-up activities through:
UN Regional Commissions and agencies Multilateral agengies Private sector businesses Civil society organisations
The overarching WSIS vision of: ‘a people- centred, inclusive and development-
- riented
Information Society’
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Reviewing WSIS after ten years: four questions
To what extent has a 'people-centred, inclusive and
development-oriented Information Society’ developed in the ten years since?
How far do you consider the implementation of WSIS
- utcomes to have been achieved?
What are the challenges to the implementation of WSIS
- utcomes and to the emergence of a 'people-centred,
inclusive and development-oriented Information Society?
What should be the priorities for stakeholders seeking to
achieve WSIS outcomes and progress towards the Information Society in the Post-2015 Development Agenda?
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Key themes in Information Society development include:
Infrastructure, access and inclusiveness Content, applications and capacity-
building
Technical, financial and related issues Governance and wider public policy issues Developmental activities and impacts New trends in technology and services
- Changes in the Internet and Internet
governance
The relationship between the Information
Society and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The processes for WSIS implementation
The overarching WSIS vision of: ‘a people- centred, inclusive and development-
- riented
Information Society’
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The context for WSIS implementation
- 1. The changing international environment:
a.
Economic recession and restructuring
b.
Demographic growth, migration, social and cultural change
c.
Environmental impacts
- 2. The transition from the Millennium Declaration
and MDGs to the Post-2015 Development Agenda and SDGs
- 3. The rapid pace of change in ICT technology
and markets
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‘New themes in changing times’ identified in the CSTD 5-year review
1.
the transition to mobility in access to basic telecommunications
2.
the transition to broadband at the core
- f network and future service provision
3.
the emergence of cloud computing
4.
the emergence of value-added mobile services, mobile transactions and mobile Internet
5.
the emergence of social networking and other user-generated content and services
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‘Emerging trends’ identified in the Issues Paper, CSTD intersessional
1.
the datafication of business and government organisation and practice
2.
big data analysis and related developments including social media analytics, open data, crowdsourcing and citizen science
3.
the rapid development of cloud computing and emergence of the cloud economy
4.
the development of the Internet of Things
5.
the development of smart systems
Trends in technology and markets – the development
- f ICTs
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Reviewing WSIS after ten years: four questions
To what extent has a 'people-centred, inclusive and
development-oriented Information Society’ developed in the ten years since?
How far do you consider the implementation of WSIS
- utcomes to have been achieved?
What are the challenges to the implementation of WSIS
- utcomes and to the emergence of a 'people-centred,
inclusive and development-oriented Information Society?
What should be the priorities for stakeholders seeking to
achieve WSIS outcomes and progress towards the Information Society in the Post-2015 Development Agenda?
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Regional implementation
The Tunis Agenda (article 101) called on: regional intergovernmental organisations in collaboration with
- ther stakeholders to:
carry out WSIS implementation activities, exchanging information and best practices, at the regional level, as well as facilitating policy debate on the use of ICT for development, with a focus on attaining the internationally agreed development goals and objectives, including the Millennium Development Goals UN Regional Commissions, when requested by Member States, to:
- rganise regional WSIS follow-up activities, in collaboration with regional and sub-
regional organisations, … as well as assisting Member States with technical and relevant information for the development of regional stategies and the implementation of the outcomes of regional conferences within a multistakeholder approach including private sector, civil
society and international organisations.
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Regional follow-up
How have stakeholders in the ESCAP region addressed
the implementation of WSIS outcomes?
What differences are there between these and other
regions – in context, in objectives, in approach, in
- utcomes?
What lessons can be learnt from the approaches taken
in the region, and from different national approaches?
What has been successful, and what has been less than
successful?
What are regional priorities for the future, post-2015