IT for Change, as part of the Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) invites you to endorse its Call to Action for WSIS+20 and Beyond.
Twenty years after the conclusion of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS), we find ourselves in a now-or-never moment. The vision of a people-centered, inclusive, and development-oriented digital order has never seemed more elusive, yet so urgent, to claim. The new digital order dictated by corporate greed and state control is, unfortunately, a far cry from the ideals of the WSIS consensus (See the GDJF’s Johannesburg Communique for our analysis of what is wrong with the status quo). The weaponization of data and AI has already seen widespread job precarity, misinformation, war crimes, the climate catastrophe, and more. Our autonomy, agency, shared humanity, and planetary well-being are under siege.
We need Digital Justice, Now!
Our Call to Action outlines the imperative for WSIS +20 review and other global digital cooperation processes to deliver on the following agendas:.
- Agenda 1. Human rights adequate to the digital paradigm
- Agenda 2. The internet as a global communications commons
- Agenda 3. A just international economic order based on the principle of digital non-alignment
- Agenda 4. A sustainable digital transition that safeguards the human rights of future generations
