Description: The session will strive to share perspectives, policy approaches, and best practices to advance digital solidarity – a willingness to work together on shared goals, provide mutual support, and help partners build capacity through the use of emerging technologies in rights-respecting ways. The session aims to answer the question of how digital solidarity is central to multistakeholder Internet governance and policy-shaping processes, and to the IGF theme of “Advancing human rights and inclusion in the digital age”. The session will strive to advance an affirmative, rights-respecting agenda for a more secure, resilient, and prosperous digital future, including through expediting progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through innovation, skills building, and digital literacy. It will include discussion of improving stakeholder collaboration, as well as the use of existing and development of new practical tools to operationalize digital solidarity. It will build on the General Assembly’s historic adoption-by consensus in March of resolution A/RES/78/265, which defined a global consensus on artificial intelligence (AI) to support sustainable development. It will also build on the momentum of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI and its implementation. The session will take into account important recent developments relevant to digital solidarity, including the Global Digital Compact, the NETMundial+10 Multistakeholder Statement on Strengthening Internet Governance and Digital Policy Processes, and the Interim Report of the multistakeholder effort on Digital Public Infrastructure Safeguards Initiative, jointly led by the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology and the United Nations Development Programme. The session will aim to advance best practices and tools for the practical implementation of commitments by stakeholders to advance digital solidarity in the design and implementation of sustainable development-related infrastructure and capacity building efforts that incorporate or involve emerging technologies, including AI, and data collection. Background document: United States International Cyberspace & Digital Policy Strategy
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