A new WSIS Forum phase started on 2nd May, with its 2016 event. After the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the overall WSIS+10 Review by the United Nations General Assembly in 2016, UNESCO will -as a co-organizer- innovate in content and format at the world’s largest annual gathering of the ICT for development community.

• WSIS Forum 2016 (ITU website)

• Final Statement - Information and Knowledge for All: An Expanded Vision and a Renewed Commitment
  This statement was developed and adopted at the first WSIS+10 Review Event in a multistakeholder setting, and later endorsed by UNESCO’s Member States at the 37th session of its General Conference.

• Outcomes - First WSIS+10 Review Event, Towards Knowledge Societies for Peace and Sustainable Development providing more information on the outcomes of this conference, attended by 1500 participants.

• Outcome document of the CONNECTing the Dots Conference – Member States Requested UNESCO’s Director-General at the 196th session of the  Executive Board (decision 196 EX/SR.6) “to forward the outcome document of the “CONNECTing The Dots: Options for Future Action” Conference as a non-binding input to the post-2015 development agenda, the United Nations General Assembly World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) overall review process, and the high-level meeting of the General Assembly established by its resolution 68/302.”

• UNGIS’ Joint Statement: A collective contribution by 30 UN Agencies (UNGIS Members) to the dialogue on ICTs and the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
  
  
• Building inclusive knowledge societies: a review of UNESCO's action in implementing the WSIS outcomes

• UNESCO’s Internet Study on access, freedom of expression, privacy and ethics, requested by Member States.

The second WSIS+10 Review event, hosted by ITU in 2014, and its Outcome Documents - WSIS+10, Geneva 2014 is also a key input, to which UNESCO contributed.

2015 is a turning point year. Members States are about to adopt a new Sustainable Development Agenda that will guide development work over the next 15 years. The implementation of WSIS Action Lines can contribute substantially to achieving the future Sustainable Development Goals. Ideas on how UNESCO’s Action Line could contribute are outlined in the attached document.

The United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS’) Joint Statement is a collective contribution of 30 Intergovernmental Organizations to the dialogue on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

Joint Statement: English ǀ French ǀ Arabic