Conference primer: Innovation and Technology / Guide de conférence : innovation et technologie: Innovation and Technology 2023

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24-27 January 2023

The WSIS Forum 2023 is scheduled to be held from 13–17 March 2023 at the ITU Headquarters in Geneva, with the support of remote participation. Virtual workshops will continue in April & May. The theme of the WSIS Forum 2023 is WSIS Action Lines for building back better and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs. The annual World Summit on the Information Society Forum is a global multistakeholder platform facilitating the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines for advancing sustainable development, organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD, in close collaboration with all WSIS Action Line co-/facilitators and other UN organizations. It provides an opportunity for information exchange, knowledge creation and sharing of best practices, while identifying emerging trends and fostering partnerships, taking into account the evolving Information and Knowledge Societies.

World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRC) are held every three to four years to review, and, if necessary, revise the Radio Regulations, the international treaty governing the use of the radio-frequency spectrum and the geostationary-satellite and non-geostationary-satellite orbits. Revisions are made on the basis of an agenda determined by the ITU Council, which takes into account recommendations made by previous world radiocommunication conferences.

The annual UN forum on Internet governance is under way this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, aiming to deliver bold solutions for an open, free, inclusive and secure digital future for all, in particular for the 2.7 billion people with no Internet access.
UN News, 29 November 2022

Bogdan-Martin, the current director of the Telecommunications Development Office at ITU, was elected by member states in a secret ballot held at the agency’s Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, Romania, beating Russian candidate Rashid Ismailov.
She will take the helm on 1 January 2023, succeeding the organisation’s current boss, the Chinese Houlin Zhao, and becoming the first female chief of the ITU.
Geneva Solutions, 3 October 2022

The ITU is about to elect a new Secretary-General, who will come from either the United States or Russia.
Swissinfo, 20 September 2022

The 17th IGF, under the overarching theme Resilient Internet for a Shared Sustainable and Common Future, will be held at the UN-ECA Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 28 November to 2 December 2022. The meeting programme is guided by five themes drawn from the IGF'S PUBLIC CALL FOR INPUTS and aligned with the Global Digital Compact in the UN Secretary-General's Our Common Agenda Report.

The United Nations Secretary-General has appointed 10 high-level and eminent persons to serve on his inaugural Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel.
In line with the mandate of the IGF and as recommended in the Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation, the Secretary-General has established the Panel as a strategic, empowered, and multistakeholder body to support and strengthen the IGF. The Panel will thus address strategic and urgent issues and highlight Forum discussions and possible follow-up actions, in order to promote greater impact and dissemination of IGF discussions according to its Terms of Reference.
Secretary-General Statement, 16 August 2022

The 17th edition of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be held under the overarching theme 'Resilient Internet for a Shared Sustainable and Common

The Digital Watch observatory is a comprehensive digital policy observatory, which provides a neutral one-stop shop for the latest developments, overviews, events, actors, instruments, and other resources. The observatory is part of the Geneva Internet Platform, an initiative of the Swiss authorities, operated by DiploFoundation.

​The Geneva Digital Atlas represents the most comprehensive mapping of digital policy actors and Internet governance scene in Geneva.
Launched 8 November 2022

developed in cooperation between the Geneva branch of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the United Nations Library Geneva

by the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs’ Innovation Cell and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library