as of 3 March 2023
DRAFT AGENDA
Please note that the agenda is subject to change and will be updated regularly
09:00-09:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Innovate Stage, 2nd floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
09:00-10:30
Room E, 2nd floor, ITU Varembe
Building
(Time: Geneva time, CET, UTC+1)
Venue: The International Conference Center Geneva (CICG)
MONDAY, 13 MARCH 2023
FORUM TRACK
Cybersecurity special track: Can cyber tech be resilient and green? (EC MEDICI Framework)
Use of technologies to improve healthcare in underserved communities around the world (Open Health
Network)
ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming special track: ‘’Train-the-trainers” for raising awareness about gender
stereotypes in professional orientation with a focus on STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and
Maths (WOMENVAI)
ICTs and Clean Technologies for Climate Change special track: ICTs for smart and sustainable cities -
Sustainable energy in uncertain times (Partner360)
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
 Ambassadors Roundtable Discussions
(Ambassadors only)
09:15-10:15
Room B, Ground floor
Room F, 3rd floor
10:00-10:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
10:00-12:00
Room C, Ground floor
FORUM TRACK
Supporting the transition to a stronger, greener, and sustainable future through standards and best
practices (IEEE – Partner for Specific Activities)
Coffee served before the session
ICTs and Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities and Specific Needs special track: Strengthening the
collaboration of digital literacy for disabilities (Indonesia)
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FORUM TRACK
ICTs and Clean Technologies for Climate Change special track: Interactive, Immersive and Accessible
Storytelling: Raising environmental awareness in the classroom (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Responsible AI governance and the challenges of general purpose AI (EY)
Robotics and the internet of medical things (United Nations IGF Dynamic Coalition on Data Driven Health
Technologies)
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
Mayors’ High-Level statements and city cases presentations (WSIS/Geneva Cities Hub)
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10:45-11:00
Ground Floor
11:00-11:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
Room 14, 2nd floor
11:15-12:15
Room B, Ground floor
Room E, 3rd floor
Room F, 3rd floor
EXHIBITION INAUGURATION
Exhibition Inauguration
FORUM TRACK
Improve interactions in the metaverse / Indigenous people and virtual reality (World XR)
Intellectual property in a brave new virtual world (WIPO)
ICTs and Older Persons special track: How to take care of your elderly parents when you are living far
from them? Showcase of the best ICTs innovation (HiNounou)
Cybersecurity special track: Building Cyber resilience in the humanitarian and development sectors
(Cyberpeace Institute)
FORUM TRACK
UAE (United Arab Emirates – Platinum Partner)
Coffee served before the session
ALFM: WSIS Action Line C7: e-Employment: Towards decent work in the digital economy for forcibly
displaced youth (ILO)
Web3 and how it can further the SDGs (UNITAR/Berexia)
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 LUNCH BREAK
(12:30-13:45)
MAYOR’S HIGH-LEVEL NETWORKING LUNCH
* invitation only *
(12:30-13:45)

12:30-13:45
FORUM TRACK
Ground floor WSIS+20 Multistakeholder Consultation Process

light lunch will be served

Innovate Stage, 2nd floor Knowledge Café: Beyond Strong Sustainability - Catalyzing a Planet Positive Future for Generations to
Come (IEEE – Partner for Specific Activities)

light lunch will be served

SOCIAL EVENT
Level -1 Lunch for the Commonwealth ITU Group (open to all Commonwealth countries) (United Kingdom –
Contributing Partner)

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14:00-14:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
Room 14, 2nd floor
14:00-15:30
Room C, Ground floor
14:15-15:15
Room B, Ground floor
Room E, 3rd floor
Room F, 3rd floor
FORUM TRACK
Waste management (XWorks)
Cybersecurity special track: A sustainable capacity building strategy for least developing countries
(LDCs) & developing countries to address cyber & digital risks (Welchman Keen)
How to connect the unconnected with broadband (Global Plan Incorporated)
Digital payments: empowering communities and knowledge economy-UPI applications promote digital
financial inclusion in India (ADA Lovelace Software Private Limited)
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
Mayors High-Level Dialogue: Building resilient cities for better climate change adaptation and
achieving the SDGs (WSIS/Geneva Cities Hub)
FORUM TRACK
Leveraging new technologies and innovation to accelerate the progress towards achieving the SDGs
(Saudi Arabia – Gold Plus Partner)
Coffee served before the session
ICTs and Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities and Specific Needs special track: Accessibility for
persons with disabilities and persons with specific needs (JCA-AHF)
Captioning
ALFM WSIS Action Line C7: e-Business: “Enabling women in eBusiness” (UPU/ITC/UNCTAD)
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14:30-16:15
15:00-15:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Innovate Stage, 2nd floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
Room 14, 2nd floor
15:30-16:30
Room B, Ground floor
Room C, Ground floor
Room E, 3rd floor
Room F, 3rd floor
CLOSED SESSION
Global Digital Compact roundtable discussions
14:30-15:15 Session 1: Civil Society
15:30-16:15 Session 2: Private Sector/Technical Community
FORUM TRACK
ICTs and Clean Technologies for Climate Change special track: The international standard Common
Alerting Protocol (CAP) and the UN action plan on early warnings for all (Alert-Hub Org CIC (Community
Interest Company))
Accelerating digital tourism to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (ITU/WTO)
GovTech 4 Impact: Executive experience sharing on digital public service development in Europe (ITU)
Cybersecurity special track: Exploiting layer8 - evolution of social engineering & phishing (Swiss-
CyberSecurity)
ICTs for Emerging Technologies and Industry 4.0 special track: Critical elements of successful industry
4.0 policy (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)
FORUM TRACK
Technology for Democracy (T4D) project: Strengthening technology that enhances democracy and human rights
and supports the achievement of Agenda 2030 Presentation of Study Findings and Fireside Chat on Ways
Forward (part 1) (UNDP)
The future of education: building a digital resilience (Délégation générale Wallonie-Bruxelles à Genève
- Mission permanente de Belgique – Supporting Partner)
ALFM: WSIS Action Line C3: Access to information: The policy guidelines for the development and
promotion of the right to information (UNESCO)
Bahrain (Bahrain – Contributing Partner)
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16:00-16:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
Room 14, 2nd floor
16:30-17:15
Room B, Ground floor
16:45-17:45
Room C, Ground floor
16:45-17:45
Room E, 3rd floor
Room F, 3rd floor
FORUM TRACK
ICTs and Clean Technologies for Climate Change special track: Climate change and how to promote
disaster risk reduction (UNDRR)
Creative workshop with kids (Baobabooks)
Data ethics and the ethics of digital and emerging technologies (Globethics)
Hack the digital divide (World Summit Award)
FORUM TRACK
Lessons learned from the Technology for Democracy (T4D) project: Multi-stakeholder panel discussion
on technology and inclusive governance (part 2) (UNDP)
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
High-Level Dialogue: Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) & Citizen centric digital service design
WSIS Digital Service Design Prize (ITU)
FORUM TRACK
ALFM: WSIS Action Lines ALFM C2: Infrastructure and WSIS Action Line C5: Cybersecurity: The Next
Frontier: Let's talk Digital Resilience - Cyber and Space (ITU)
Women in Parliament (Parliament of Tanzania)
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19:00
SOCIAL EVENT
Polish Mission Reception by Poland (invitation only)

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 TUESDAY, 14 MARCH 2023

08:00-09:00
UNGIS
Room 9, 2nd floor UNGIS Leaders High-Level Breakfast Meeting

(UNGIS only)

HIGH-LEVEL NETWORKING
(08:30-09:00)
VIP Lounge

09:00-10:00
OPENING SEGMENT
Room D, 1st floor Opening Ceremony

English/French/Passive Arabic
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10:00-10:15
OPENING SEGMENT
Room D, 1st floor Appointment of Chairperson

English/French/Passive Arabic
Captioning

10:15-11:15
OPENING SEGMENT
Room D, 1st floor Digital cooperation and partnerships for inclusive sustainable development

English/French/Passive Arabic
Captioning

11:15-12:15
OPENING SEGMENT
Room D, 1st floor High-Level Strategic Dialogue: WSIS+20 and the future of WSIS beyond 2025

English/French/Passive Arabic
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 LUNCH BREAK
(12:30-14:00)
HIGH-LEVEL LUNCH
*invitation only*
*sponsored by United Arab Emirates (Platinum partner)*
(12:30-13:45)
Innovate Stage, 2nd floor

13:45-14:00

Room A, Ground floor WSIS Forum 2023 Special Prizes announcement

• WSIS Forum 2023 Healthy Ageing Innovation Prize
• WSIS Forum 2023 Hackathon
• WSIS Forum 2023 Photo Contest

14:00-15:00
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
Room A, Ground floor High-Level Policy Sessions (HLPS)

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Room D, 1st floor High-Level Policy Sessions (HLPS)

English/French/Passive Arabic
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15:00-16:00
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
Room A, Ground floor High-Level Policy Sessions (HLPS)

Captioning
Room D, 1st floor High-Level Policy Sessions (HLPS)

English/French/Passive Arabic
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COFFEE BREAK
*sponsored by Japan (Partner for Specific Activities)*
(15:30-15:45)

Café, Ground floor

16:00-17:00
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
Room A, Ground floor High-Level Policy Sessions (HLPS)

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Room D, 1st floor High-Level Policy Sessions (HLPS)

English/French/Passive Arabic
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17:15-18:30
WSIS PRIZES
Room A, Ground floor WSIS Prizes 2023 Ceremony: Winners + Champions

18:30-20:30
SOCIAL EVENT
Espace Violeta Parra, 1st floor Official Reception (sponsored by Switzerland) / Certificates for the WSIS Forum 2023 Partners

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 WEDNESDAY, 15 MARCH 2023

09:00-10:00
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
Room A, Ground floor High-Level Policy Sessions (HLPS)

English/French/Passive Arabic
Captioning
Room D, 1st floor High-Level Policy Sessions (HLPS)

English/French
Captioning

09:00-13:45
CLOSED SESSION
Room B, Ground floor Cyberdrill (ITU/National Cybersecurity Authority Saudi Arabia)

09:30-11:00
WSIS PRIZES
Innovate Stage, 2nd floor WSIS Prize Champion Ceremony

(Champions only)

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10:00-11:00
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
Room A, Ground floor High-Level Policy Sessions (HLPS)

English/French/Passive Arabic
Captioning
Room D, 1st floor High-Level Policy Sessions (HLPS)

English/French
Captioning

BREAK
(10:45-11:00)

11:00-12:00
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
Room A, Ground floor High-Level Policy Sessions (HLPS)

English/French/Passive Arabic
Captioning
Room D, 1st floor High-Level Dialogue: Digital Governance (UNESCO)

English/French
Captioning

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 LUNCH BREAK
(12:00-13:30)
HIGH-LEVEL LUNCH
* invitation only*
*sponsored by Saudi Arabia (Gold Plus partner)*
(12:00-13:30)
Innovate Stage, 2nd floor

13:30-15:30
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
Ministerial Roundtable (closed session)
CCV
English/French/Passive Arabic
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CLOSED SESSION
Room D, 1st floor Inter-Agency Working Group on AI- Bringing together the UN System expertise on AI (ITU/UNESCO)

14:00-15:30
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
High-Level Dialogue: How new technologies can foster digital inclusion Multistakeholders’ input to the
Global Digital Compact (Germany/Office of Tech Envoy and partners in Kenya, Mexico and India)
Room B, Ground floor
Captioning

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15:00-16:30
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
High-Level Dialogue on the Implementation of the UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER)
Recommendation (UNESCO)
Room A, Ground floor
English/French
Captioning

15:45-17:00
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
High level Dialogue: Accelerating Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Digital Development
(ITU/South Africa Mission)
Room B, Ground floor
Captioning

COFFEE BREAK (TBC)

*sponsored by Slovenia*
(16:30-17:00)

Café, Ground floor

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17:00-18:00
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
Room A, Ground floor Closing of High-Level Policy Sessions

English/French
Captioning

19:00-22:00
SOCIAL EVENT
Intercontinental Hotel Gala Dinner (invitation only)

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 THURSDAY, 16 MARCH 2023

09:00-09:45
FORUM TRACK
ICTs for Emerging Technologies and Industry 4.0 special track: Ethics and AI for and with Society: Ethical Design
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
(PROMIS@Service)
ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming special track: Combatting Non Consensual Intimate Image Abuse
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
(NCII) (SWGfL)
ICTs and Youth special track: Sustaining relevant digital inclusive education for young people (5-18
Innovate Stage, 2nd floor
years of age) (IFIP)
International conference on digital transformation of education: road towards SDG 4 (CMAI Association
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
of India)
Localising digital transformation in Ukraine: bridging the urban-rural digital divide (Ukrainian-Swiss
Room 14, 2nd floor
eGovernance for Accountability and Participation Program)

09:00-10:00
FORUM TRACK
Room Geneva, CCV ALFM: WSIS Action Line C7: e-Learning: Implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open
Educational Resources (OER) (UNESCO)

English/French

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09:15-10:15
Room C, Ground floor
Room E, 3rd floor
Room F, 3rd floor
10:00-10:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
10:00-12:00
Room Geneva, CCV
FORUM TRACK
ALFM: WSIS Action Line C8: Cultural diversity (UNESCO)
ALFM: WSIS Action Lines C1: Public governance, C7: e-Government, C11: International cooperation (UN
DESA)
Capacity Building and Enabling Environments for Meaningful Access in Indigenous and Rural
Communities (Rhizomatica Communications)
FORUM TRACK
Driving corporate action on digital inclusion: Ranking 200 most influential tech companies (World
Benchmarking Alliance)
New, open, neutral, global, inter-governmental infrastructure for digital mobile communications
(Trustless Computing Association)
How data and AI methods can be used to measure the SDGs (Slovenia)
FORUM TRACK
Enhancing capacity of Internet Universality ROAM-X for inclusive digital transformation and achieving
SDGs (UNESCO)
English/French
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10:30-11:30
Room C, Ground floor
Room B, Ground floor
Room E, 3rd floor
Room F, 3rd floor
11:00-11:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
Room 14, 2nd floor
HIGH-LEVEL TRACK
High-Level Dialogue: Setting Standards for Sustainable Development: Adopting a rights-based
approach to technical standard setting (ITU)
Captioning
FORUM TRACK
Partner2Connect Digital Coalition: Advancing universal meaningful connectivity for sustainable
development (ITU)
GovStack CIO Digital Leaders Forum (Germany, Estonia, ITU and the Digital Impact Alliance)
The UK support to digital development in developing and emerging countries (United Kingdom –
Contributing Partner)
Coffee will be served before the session
FORUM TRACK
Evolution of digital literacy and future of EdTech for employers and employees (AIS)
Universities have a vital role in shaping the future of the society (University of Oslo)
Making the most of quantum computers, inclusively and openly, to reach the SDGs (Geneva Science
and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA)
The use of digital tools that facilitate effective intergenerational relationships (CSEND)
(11:00-12:00)
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12:00-14:00
Ground floor
14:00-14:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Innovate Stage, 2nd floor
Room 14, 2nd floor
14:00-15:00
Room B, Ground floor
Room C, Ground floor
Room E, 3rd floor
Room F, 3rd floor
FORUM TRACK
Interactive Dialogue: Intergenerational and WSIS Generation Connect Prize
LUNCH BREAK
(12:00-14:00)
FORUM TRACK
Hackathon (The Digital Government Authority Saudi Arabia)
Enabling digitization for people, planet and prosperity - a business perspective (International Chamber
of Commerce)
Design thinking session on how nation states can create a national day of code (Skills Hustle)
ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming special track: Qatar woman in digital Goverment (Qatar)
FORUM TRACK
Generative AI and the information society: How IT professionals can ensure that generative AI supports
the information society (IFIP – Supporting Partner)
ICT indicators for monitoring international goals and targets (Partnership on Measuring ICT for
Development)
ALFM: WSIS Action Line C6: Enabling environment (ITU)
ALFM: WSIS Action Line C7: e-Agriculture (FAO)
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15:00-15:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
Room 14, 2nd floor
15:15-16:15
Room B, Ground floor
Room C, Ground floor
Room E, 3rd floor
Room F, 3rd floor
16:00-16:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Room 14, 2nd floor
FORUM TRACK
Gender Mainstreaming Knowledge Café: the improtance of role models (WSIS)
Multistakeholder digital literacy initiative to strengthen the netizen's critical thinking for combating
the outbreak of disinformation (ICT WATCH / SIBERKREASI)
Accelerating digital development in Europe and Central Asia: On our way to Agenda 2030 (ITU)
The importance of meaningful access to information (IFLA)
FORUM TRACK
Bridging digital divide: small countries – big impact (Lithuania)
Leveraging the power of sports for children’s online safety: A high-level dialogue (ITU)
ALFM: WSIS Action Line C10: Ethics: Moving from Principles to Practice in Governing AI Using The
UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI (UNESCO)
AI for Good (ITU)
FORUM TRACK
ICTs and Clean Technologies for Climate Change special track: Artificial intelligence for Climate Change
in Africa (Digital Coalition)
WSIS Stocktaking review: Launch of publications (WSIS)
Benefits and risks of implementing advancing digital technologies in education (part 1) (Oxford Internet
Institute/EDDS)
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16:30-17:30
Room B, Ground floor
Room C, Ground floor
Room F, 3rd floor
17:00-17:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
Room 14, 2nd floor
18:00-20:00
Innovate Stage, 2nd floor
FORUM TRACK
Harnessing emerging technologies for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals: Role of
Governments (Rwanda - Contributing Partner)
Closing the digital divide—how capacity building can help communities build sustainable Internet
Infrastructure (ISOC – Contributing Partner)
GIGA (ITU)
FORUM TRACK
ICTs and Clean Technologies for Climate Change special track: Frontier technologies and disaster risk
reduction (ITU)
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alliance for Digital Development (ITU)
Governing the digital transformation of education (part 2) (Oxford Internet Institute/EDDS)
SOCIAL EVENT
Reception by Lithuania (TBC)
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 FRIDAY, 17 MARCH 2023

09:00-09:45
FORUM TRACK
Making digital public goods a more viable option for digital public infrastructure (The Digital Impact
Room 14, 2nd floor
Alliance and DPGA)

09:15-10:15
UNGIS
Room E, 3rd floor UNGIS working-level meeting (UNGIS) (UNGIS members only)

FORUM TRACK
Room B, Ground floor EQUALS – EU (ITU)
Room C, Ground floor ALFM: WSIS Action Line C9: Media: Digital platform regulation (UNESCO)

10:00-10:45
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
Room 14, 2nd floor
FORUM TRACK
Internet Governance Forum 2023 (United Nations Internet Governance Forum Secretariat)
Digital inclusion and social security services: Key challenges and lessons learned (UNU-EGOV/ISSA)
ICTs and Clean Technologies for Climate Change special track: Reimagining the interface between
digital tech and the physical environment (DESC/UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Royal Holloway, University of
London)

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10:30-11:30
Room C, Ground floor
Room E, 3rd floor
11:00-11:45
Collaborate Stage, Ground floor
Inspire Stage, Ground floor
Room 11+12, 2nd floor
Room 14, 2nd floor
14:00-15:00
Room A, Ground floor
FORUM TRACK
ALFM: WSIS Action Line C7: e-Health (WHO/ITU)
ALFM: WSIS Action Line C7: e-Science: Post truth on Open Data, Disinformation and Climate Change:
Can Technology help? (UNESCO)
FORUM TRACK
Strengthening Africa’s voices in global digital processes (DiploFoundation)
Qatar's potential to host large scale events in preparation for hosting ITU PP 2026 and highlight its ICT
potential (Qatar)
ICTs and Clean Technologies for Climate Change special track: Enabling the net zero transition –
harnessing ICT solutions to reduce GHG emissions (ITU)
What migrants want: digital tech, inequality and migration (Royal Holloway, University of London)
LUNCH BREAK
(12:00-13:30)
FORUM TRACK
WSIS Action Lines Facilitators Meeting: UN digital cooperation for achieving SDGs
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15:15-16:15
FORUM TRACK
Closing Ceremony
Room A, Ground floor
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