<div dir="auto">Fyi</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Ben Wallis (CELA) via Igfmaglist</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:igfmaglist@intgovforum.org">igfmaglist@intgovforum.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 1:12 AM<br>Subject: [IGFmaglist] Launch of Roadmap 11th June 14:00 UTC<br>To: MAG-public <<a href="mailto:Igfmaglist@intgovforum.org">Igfmaglist@intgovforum.org</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear MAG colleagues <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap on Digital Cooperation - a follow-up to last year’s HLPDC recommendations - will be launched in a series of events beginning this Thursday 11<sup>th</sup> June.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Roadmap will be announced tomorrow (Thursday) at a High-level Thematic Debate of the UN General Assembly. The session is at 14:00-17:00 UTC. This will be followed by four other launch events (in addition to the Q&A session during the
MAG Open Consultations on 16<sup>th</sup> June).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have provided summary details of all five launch events below. Detailed info can be found in the two attached pdfs, one with the agendas, one with confirmed speakers for events 2, 3 and 4 as of yesterday. Events 3 and 4 focus on different
areas of the Roadmaps and the third column in the table below indicates when various policy teams might want to particularly be tuned in.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The events are all virtual, open to the public and will be broadcast on UN Web TV at
<a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwebtv.un.org%2Flive%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cbewallis%40microsoft.com%7C60f89578d51841ace82408d80ccc8b98%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637273419957813852&sdata=An0eNfFVFePZYxul4JCGS4KOToADsSRMAoIWrJfKECg%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
http://webtv.un.org/live/</a>. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ben<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="m_8793625386880109603Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1)
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thursday 11<sup>th</sup>, 14:00-17:00 UTC: UN General Assembly High-level Thematic Debate on Impact of technological change on SDGs<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Speakers include President of the General Assembly; President of the Economic and Social Council; UN Secretary General.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2) Thursday 11<sup>th</sup>, 17:30-19:30 UTC: “State of the Digital World” – Virtual Side Event<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Secretary General expected to provide further remarks on how his Roadmap should be carried forward by the international community<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Speakers include UN Sec-Gen, Presidents of Switzerland and Sierra Leone, Sir Tim Berners Lee<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3) Friday 12<sup>th</sup>, 13:00-16:00 UTC: Dialogue on Implementation of the Roadmap part 1<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Covering <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Connectivity (13:30)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Digital Public Goods (13:50)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Digital Inclusion (14:20)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Digital Capacity-Building (14:50)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Digital Human Rights (15:10)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Speakers include UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, heads of ITU and UNICEF, Ministers from Norway and Sierra Leone<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">4) Monday 15<sup>th</sup>, 13:00-16:00 UTC, Dialogue on Implementation of the Roadmap part 2<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Covering<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- AI (13:30)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Digital Cooperation (14:00)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Trust & Security (14:40)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Speakers include Ministers from France, Singapore and Finland, heads of UN Office of Disarmament and UNEP<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">5) Weds 17<sup>th</sup>, 14:00-15:00 UTC: Fireside chat: Our digital future – UN Vision With Under-Secretary General Fabrizio Hochschild, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General<u></u><u></u></p>
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