You will find below a list with the titles of meetings held, some of which filled several
session slots, during the first WSIS+10 Review.
For more information on the event, including 25 pages of recommendations,
session reports provided by the session organizers, and also background papers
produced for the conference, please consult: www.unesco.org/wsis2013.
Academic Round Table: Stakeholder
Accountability in Sustainable Knowledge
Societies
Access
APC
7. Access: Achievements and new challenges
IFLA
11. What Exactly am I Buying? Ownership vs Licensing in
the Digital Age
12. Supporting Knowledge Societies through Public
Access to the Internet
UNDP
65. Mobile Technologies for Inclusive, Sustainable Human
Development
UNESCO
10. Open solutions for addressing global challenges
8. Towards WSIS +10 and Beyond: Inclusion of Persons
with Disabilities in Knowledge Societies
9. Towards WSIS +10 and Beyond: Literacy and
Required Competencies in Knowledge Societies
14. Open Access to Scientific Information and Research:
Myths and Truths
Culture
UNESCO
25. Indigenous Peoples - Innovative and Emerging uses
of ICTs
26. Linguistic Diversity : Review of National and
International Policies and Measures
World Summit Award
59. Money for content: Successful Business Conditions
for Quality Content
Cybersecurity
ISOC
52. Cybersecurity & Searching for a common
understanding
ITU
44. Identifying Emerging Trends and Vision Beyond
2015: Infrastructure, Cybersecurity and Enabling
envinronment
E-business
UNCTAD, ITC and UPU
63. Facilitating e-Business - lessons from the first 8 years
WITSA, UNCTAD, GIZ
15. Improving Access to Data on the Information
Technology Sector
E-learning
IFIP
17. The place of Education in Knowledge Societies:
Changing Paradigms, Managing sustainable
Education
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18. Adoption and teaching of Open/Libre technologies
in Higher Education curricula and Professional
recognition for FOSS engineers and practitioners
Microsoft
16. Technology and System Wide Change: Innovative
Schools and the ICT CFT Toolkit
UNESCO
19. The future of mobile learning: implications for
education
20. Mobile Learning for Social Inclusion of Women and
Girls
22. ICT enhanced learning environment (ICT imbedded
future school)
Ethics
International Social Science Council
34. Critical Social Sciences in the Digital Age
ISOC
37. Beyond the Code: are Human Rights part of the
Internet’s DNA?
3. The new PII : Privacy-impacting Information
UNESCO
36. Current and emerging ethical and societal challenges
of the information society
E-waste
UNESCO
33. Avoiding e-waste: Sustainable life-cycle management
of ICT equipment
Gender
UN Women/APC/UNESCO /US State Department
40. Reviewing gender equality and women’s
empowerment in the knowledge society: Setting an
agenda for WSIS+10
High Level Meeting
UNESCO
24. a) Using E-Science to Strengthen the Interface
between Science, Policy and Society: Technical
Working Group
High Level Round Table
UNESCO
24. b) Using E-Science to Strengthen the Interface
between Science, Policy and Society: High Level
Roundtable
High-level Debate
▪▪ Towards Knowledge Societies, for Sustainable
Development
Internet
ESCWA
61. Opportunities and Challenges of Domain Names
Industry in the Arab World and updates on the Arab
IGF (AIGF) process
Center for Internet Society
4. WGIG + 8: Stock-Taking, Mapping, and Going Forward
Global Partners for Best Bits
45. “The web we want”: What can WSIS plus 10 deliver -
a view from civil society
IAMCR
2. Contested Governance: Exploring the Evolving Policymaking
Environment and Considering Collaborative
Solutions from the Netroots
ICANN
62. International Domain Names - Present and Future
ICANN and Apnic
50. Enhanced cooperation and the Internet addressing
organizations
Internet Rights and Principles Dynamic Coalition
51. Rights-Based Principles and the Internet: Taking
Stock and Moving Forward
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ISOC
1. Public and industry regulatory initatives in the field of
intellectual property enforcement.
35. Internet Governance Principles: Towards a
Multistakeholder and Universal Framework of
Commitments
Media
African Media Initiative
55. Bridging the gap between the state and the media
community - Engaging in constructive dialogue in
Africa
FPU
57. Spring Dance
GFMD
58. Digital Cappuccino
Indiana State University
27. Developing World and Civil Society origins and
concerns as they relate to the WSIS agenda and its
future
UNESCO
28. Exploring the Evolving Mediascape: towards updating
strategies to face challenges and seize opportunities
29. Regional Session: Promoting Freedom of Expression
and Media Development in Arab States
30. Citizen Journalism
31. Community media: Enabling policies, legislative
environments and sustainable measures
WAN-IFRA
56. The role of traditional media in new media landscape
Parallel Session 2
▪▪ Gender-sensitivity in media self-regulatory bodies,
journalists associations/union and broadcasting
association/union
Plenary
▪▪ Plenary, recommendations, closing
Plenary Session 1
UNESCO
▪▪ Global status of women in media and technology
Special Event
IFAP (Information for All Programme)
UNESCO Future Forum “Exploring the Dynamics
of Knowledge Societies: Using the Future to
Shape Transformative Policies”
Special Event IFAP (Information for All Programme)
IFAP
Special Session
UNESCO
▪▪ High level government representatives reports on
actions taken to achieve Strategic Objective J.1.and
J.2. of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
- paragraphs 239 and 243 (selected cases from each
region)
Thematic Forum I
UNESCO
▪▪ From Digital to Knowledge Divide
Thematic Forum II
UNESCO
▪▪ Freedom Rights and Ethics
UNESCO Special Internet Event
UNESCO
47. Cultural and linguistic diversity: Exploring economic
and educational aspects of local content
5. Promoting Freedom of Expression and Privacy on the
Internet
53. Digital Safety of Journalists
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UNESCO Special Internet Event
UNESCO
6. Launch of EURid-UNESCO World Report on IDN
Deployment 2012
WSIS Initiative & Process
ICC BASIS
13. Multistakeholder Principles
ISOC
48. Enhanced Cooperation: from deadlock to dialogue.
Reflections on what needs to be done.
ITU
42. WSIS Prize and Stocktaking Process
46. WSIS Forum 2013: Identifying Emerging Trends and a
Vision Beyond 2015
The Partnership for Measuring ICT for Development
43. Measurement of the WSIS targets within UNESCO’s
fields of competence: The role of statistics in building
inclusive knowledge-based societies through ICT
Youth
UNESCO
39. The African Youth Charter: mobilization of young
women and men
WSYA
60. Youth 4 Action: Using Internet and mobile for peace
and development
IGF Secretariat
▪▪ IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) Meeting
▪▪ IGF Open Consultation
OTHERS
▪▪ Future debate: Broadband Education
▪▪ UNGIS High-Level meeting (8:45 - 9:30)
▪▪ World Summit Awards Gala & Reception
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