Save the date: Roundtable on Digital Cooperation on 19 September

Image: Screenshot of UN's promotional video calling to co-create the Global Digital Compact [https://videos.apc.org/u/apc/m/gdc/]

The Office of the United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, APC and World Wide Web Foundation are co-organising the event "Roundtable on Digital Cooperation", set to take place on 19 September 2022, from 14:00 to 16:00 UTC (10:00 - 12:00 New York time).

The roundtable is an opportunity to interact with recently appointed UN Tech Envoy Amandeep Singh Gill, on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 77), about the Global Digital Compact process and other priorities on the global digital cooperation agenda. 

The event will be conducted in a hybrid format.

For in-person attendance:

Please RSVP using this link.

Venue: Permanent Mission of the Republic of Singapore, United Nations, 318 E 48th St, New York, NY 10017, United States.

For remote participation:

Please join with this link.

Agenda

10:00 - Arrival and peer-to-peer introductions

10:15 - Opening words (by host country and co-conveners)

10:30 - Expectations and objectives

10:35 - Presentation of the three pillars of Digital Cooperation (by Amandeep Singh Gill)

10:50 - Questions and discussion

11:00 - Global Digital Compact: Way forward 

11:20 - Diversity and sustainability of civil society engagement in Digital Cooperation

11:40 - Scoping engagement on Summit for the Future and WSIS+20

11:58 - Wrap-up

 

You can also follow the conversation on Twitter with the hashtags #DigitalCooperation and #GlobalDigitalCompact.



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