WSIS-SDG Matrix: Linking WSIS Action Lines with Sustainable Development Goals

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WSIS-SDG MATRIXLINKING WSIS ACTION LINES WITH

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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Experts Group Meeting on Advancing a Sustainable Information Society for All

8-9 June 2015 / UN, New York

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Origins of the WSIS-SDG Matrix?

Identified challenges • Two communities (ICT4D and Post 2015)• Converging objectives (Sustainable Development)• Parallel review processes (WSIS and MDGs)• Gradual recognition of ICTs as enabler for sustainable development• Invite to support through relevant UN processes the creation creation of

synergies and institutional linkages between WSIS and Post 2015 Development Agenda to continue strengthening the impact of ICT for sustainable development (Res.140, PP-14)

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WSIS+10 High Level Event Outcome Documents

Preamble of the WSIS +10 Statement: We invite the UN system organizations and all stakeholders within their respective roles and responsibilities to take full advantage of ICTs in addressing the development challenges of the 21st century and to recognize them as cross-cutting enablers for achieving the three pillars of sustainable development.Preamble of Vision for WSIS beyond 2015ICTs will play a critical role in achieving the sustainable development goals. Taking into account the ongoing dialogue on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (MDG review process) and the WSIS implementation process, all stakeholders have indicated the necessity of increased interaction between both processes in order to ensure that efforts across the UN System are coherent and coordinated to achieve maximum and sustainable impact.


What is WSIS-SDG Matrix? • This mapping exercise draws direct linkages

of the WSIS Action Lines with the proposed SDGs to continue strengthening the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for sustainable development.

• Each UN Action Line Facilitator has analyzed the connections and relations of their respective Action Line with the proposed SDGs and their targets.

• The goal is to attempt at creating a clear and direct link and an explicit connection between the key aim of the WSIS, that of harnessing the potential of ICTs to promote and realize the development goals, and the post 2015 development agenda, so as to contribute to the realization of the latter.

• Please read the complete document at www.wsis.org/sdg

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS \ WSIS ACTION LINES LINKAGES


WSIS ACTION LINES ANDSDGs MATRIX


SDGs AND WSIS ACTION LINES MATRIX


Important to Note: Rational for LinkagesExample: WSIS Action Line C2

Link to the SDG Targets Rational1.4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance

Nowadays, access to the Internet is a new basic service necessary for all people. However, statistics show that there is a huge gap between the developed and developing world, which need to be addressed.

9.1: Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all 9.c: Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020.

As mentioned in the WSIS+10 Vision for WSIS Beyond 2015 document endorsed at the WSIS+10 High-Level Event, connection to the Internet through Broadband has been identified as the ICT infrastructure for the next decade.

(…) 1.4, 8.2, 9.1, 9.a, 9.c, 11.5, 11.b (…)


Important to Note: Rational for LinkagesExample: WSIS Action Line C6 Enabling Environment

Link to the SDG Targets Rational2.a: Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries

Both holistic and targeted ICT policies and regulations can contribute to reducing barriers to broadband deployment, actively facilitating build-out of national fibre-optic networks and international connectivity links, including across sectors. It is also essential to ensure the deployment of services in unserved and underserved areas, including emergency and accessibility-enhanced services. (GSR2012)

8.2: Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value-added and labour intensive sectors

Predictable and stable regulations are key to maintaining effective competition and driving the development of innovative ICT services as well as ICT-enabled innovation. (GSR2014)

(…) 2.a, 4.4, 5.b, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.c, 10.3, 11.3, 11.b, 16.3, 16.6, 16.7, 16.10, 16.b, 17.6, 17.14, 17.16

(…)


Important to Note: Rational for LinkagesExample: WSIS Action Line C7 e-business

Link to the SDG Targets Rational

5.b: enhance the use of enabling technologies, in particular ICT, to promote women’s empowerment

Empowering women's entrepreneurship through ICTs

8.9: By 2030 devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism which creates jobs, promotes local culture and products

Enhance the use of ICTs among enterprises in the tourism sector to enable e-commerce/e-tourism. Improve access to e commerce markets for products and services and address challenges facing SMEs in developing countries

8.10: Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all

Use of mobile and related ICT platforms can help to bring financial services to all

(…) 1.4, 2.3, 5.b, 8.3, 8.9, 8.10, 9.3, 17.11 (…)


WSIS-SDG Matrix: Way Forward• Launched at the WSIS Forum 2015 with overall theme

Innovating Together: Enabling ICTs for Sustainable Development

• Endorsed by UN Group on the Information Society • Discussed at

– High Level Dialogue on SDGs – World Café on SDGs– Ministerial Roundtable

• SDGs to be confirmed by September 2015• UNGA Overall Review started in June 2015• Matrix Remains Live Document: Call for Comments with

deadline of the 31st July 2015


WSIS Forum 2015: High-Level Policy Statements

• More than 130 High Level Policy Statements by Ministers, Deputies, Ambassadors, Heads of IOs, Leaders of Civil Society and Private Sector

• Many of them pledged for recognition of ICTs’ role as an enabler of sustainable development


Mr Ban Ki-MoonUN Secretary-General• … we still have to close the gap so

that everyone has access to information and communication technologies.

• This is especially important now as the world rallies to forge a set of sustainable development goals to usher in a life of dignity for all.


H.E. Mrs Magdalena GajPresident, Office of Electronic Communications, Republic of Poland

Chairman of the WSIS Forum 2015

• The potential of ICTs for achieving sustainable development is endless.

• We, the stakeholders of the WSIS process, need to uncover new opportunities that technology offers, spark innovation and see where it gets us.


Mr Günther H. OettingerCommissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, European Commission

• ICT needs to play its role as a horizontal tool in reaching those goals and targets. We have to make a better case of how technology and information can reduce poverty, assure quality education, improve health, help farmers and those in rural areas, and manage our limited resources in a sustainable way.

• The European Commission would like to see linking the Sustainable Development Goals to ICT tools to attain them; (…)


H.E. Mr Julian BrathwaiteAmbassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, United

Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

• First, we want to make sure that WSIS is focused on development and on identifying practical steps to support developing countries and to enable people around the globe to harness the huge potential of ICTs for development.

• The WSIS Action Lines set out a comprehensive roadmap towards building the Information Society and we need to make sure we are on track. In particular, we want to consider how the WSIS Action Lines can align with the post-2015 Sustainable Agenda.


Mr Sunil Bahadur MallaSecretary of State, Ministry of Information and Communications,

Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal

• The devastation caused by the earthquake of April/May has not only created immense challenges for rehabilitation but also has opened up an opportunity to build back better-taking into account the need to bring synergies between the WSIS targets beyond 2015 and Post 2015 sustainable development goals.

• The experiences have shown that ICTs when integrated into development agenda backed by political process and leadership will greatly facilitate the achievement of targets set for WSIS beyond 2015 as well as Post 2015 sustainable development agenda. I therefore urge ITU to develop a comprehensive framework for brining synergies between WSIS and Post 2015 Development Agenda.


H.E. Ms Anusha Rahman Ahmad Khan, Minister of State for Information Technology, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

• The report of the event (ITU Council) marks development on nearly all Action lines of the WSIS which is very encouraging and indicate commitment of States in implementing WSIS outcomes. I am optimistic that United Nation General Assembly will take a very positive note of it.

• Carrying forward our previous commitment to the cause, Pakistan renews its commitment to the fellow states for joint strategies to benefit all through focus on enabling ICTs as a source for sustainable development in coming years.


Mrs Genevieve ClavelGoverning Board Member, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

(IFLA)

• We want to see the ten-year review once again prioritise the potential of ICTs for development as we go forward together, including our joint actions to reach the Sustainable Development Goals.


Final WSIS Targets Review:Achievements, Challenges and the Way Forwards

The Report provides a comprehensive evaluation of the achievements made towards the WSIS Targets that governments agreed upon at the World Summit on the Information Society, and:• Reviews progress made on each one of the WSIS Targets, which range from

connecting villages, schools and health centres to developing content and providing people with ICT access

• Draws attention to the availability (and lack) of data to track progress today, and over time

• Makes recommendations on policies that are most relevant in impacting the WSIS Targets

• Reviews the relevance of targets and indicators to track the information society

• Highlights lessons learnt and makes recommendations on a possible future (post-2015) ICT measurement framework

• Links a possible post-2015 ICT monitoring framework to the post-2015 Development Agenda


Measuring ICTs in context of SDGsJoint proposal of ICT indicators for the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)

indicator framework.

• Expert Group Meeting on the Indicator Framework for the Post-2015 Development Agenda New York, 25-26 February 2015

• The Partnership, through a consultations process with its members and in coordination with the various Technical Support Team (TST) clusters, has prepared the attached joint proposal of ICT indicators to help track the Sustainable Development Goals and targets. It represents a concerted effort to include ICTs in the post 2015 development agenda and to harmonize their inclusion in the framework.


ICT Facts and Figures 20152000-2015

• The ITU ICT Facts and Figures – The world in 2015 features end-2015 estimates for key telecommunication/ICT indicators, including on mobile-cellular subscriptions, Internet use, fixed and mobile broadband services, home ICT access, and more.

• 2015 is the deadline forachievements of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which global leaders agreed upon in the year 2000, and the new data show ICT progress and highlight remaining gaps.

• www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/pages/facts/


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Measuring the Information Society Report 2014

• The Measuring the Information Society Report, which has been published annually since 2009, features key ICT data and benchmarking tools to measure the information society, including the ICT Development Index (IDI). The IDI captures the level of ICT developments in 166 economies worldwide and compares progress made during the last year. The Measuring the Information Society Report 2014 highlights the relationship between ICT development (as measured by the IDI) and the MDGs, a contribution to the ongoing discussions on the potential of ICTs as development enablers. The report includes the results of the ICT Price Basket (IPB) and new mobile-broadband price data for over 140 economies.