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WSIS 2022: Pantami Interacts with High Level Track Facilitators

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  WSIS 2022: Pantami Interacts with High Level Track Facilitators As part of official engagements of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2022 taking place in ITU Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, Chairman Designate of the Summit, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami interacted with the High Level Track Facilitators. The WSIS forum serves as a key assembly for discussing the role of ICTs as a means of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, with due regard to the global mechanism for follow-up and review of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UNGA Resolution A/70/1). The summit also provides a platform to track the achievements of WSIS Action Lines in collaboration with the UN Agencies involved and provides information and analysis of the implementation of WSIS Action Lines since 2005. Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim chairs the forum for 2022....

PANTAMI CHAIRS WSIS FORUM 2022, CALLS FOR HIGH LEVEL MULTISTAKEHOLDER ADVISORY COUNCIL

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PANTAMI CHAIRS WSIS FORUM 2022, CALLS FOR HIGH LEVEL MULTISTAKEHOLDER ADVISORY COUNCIL Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) today Tuesday 31st May 2022 chaired the on-going World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The Minister led global economies converging on the headquarters of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to declare the high level policy sessions open. Addressing participants from over one hundred countries, Professor Pantami leveraged on this year’s theme titled: ICTs for well-being, Inclusion and Resilience; WSIS Cooperation for Accelerating Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to call for more support for technological development through multi stakeholder engagements, partnerships and collaborations between institutions and global economies, as it is the enabling tool for global economic prosperity and development. “There is a need for this forum to constitute a high level multist...