FAO at WSIS +20 High-Level Event 2024: ‘Process for Progress- Reflecting and Building on 20 years of digital journey’
The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event is scheduled to be held from 27 to 31 May 2024, co-organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and co-hosted by ITU and the Swiss Confederation, with the support of remote participation. It will serve as a platform for multi-stakeholder discussions with the objective of taking stock of the achievements and key trends, challenges and opportunities since the Geneva Plan of Action in 2003.
The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event will also be a unique occasion for the international community to assess opportunities for global digital cooperation and join forces towards a forward-looking and reinvigorated shared vision, informing the UN Summit of the Future.This year again, as facilitator of WSIS Action Line C7 on E agriculture, FAO is organizing a session on Thursday 30th May 2024, 11:00-11:45 CEST on ‘The Future of Digital Agriculture: Process for Progress- Reflecting and Building on WSIS 20 years’ journey’.
This event will highlight how FAO's major contributions to WSIS, strengthened through strategic partnerships, and including major digital initiatives, have helped raise awareness of the transformative potential of ICTs in agriculture over the last 20 years and catalyzed efforts to leverage digital innovation for food security, poverty reduction, and rural development worldwide.
With the participation of FAO leadership and management representatives, as well as some of the Organization's main partners, that will bring forward concrete examples of amplified use of digital tools, big data, artificial intelligence, through coherent action and enabling mechanisms for strengthening digital capabilities, FAO's session will build on the Vision for WSIS Beyond 2015, towards 2025 and mark progress towards also important UN led initiatives such as the Global Digital Compact and the Summit of the Future. It will showcase how the safe and ethical use of ICTs, including AI, is now more than ever a critical component for accelerating the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, leaving no one behind.
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Visit FAO's event webpage on WSIS website here
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1. All participants are required to register to Virtual Participation here.
2. Upon registration, you will be asked to validate you email address to continue the registration process. An email will be sent to you to validate your email address.
3. Following the validation, you will receive an email with your Virtual Participation Registration Confirmation, including the link that directs you to the personal join session portal, that will show all the sessions.
4. You need to select the session that you would like to attend and can join by clicking the ‘’join’’ button which gives you access to the virtual room. The link will be open 30 mn before the session starts.