Virtual Consultation on the Global Digital Compact

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Permanent Mission of Sweden to the UN and Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zambia to the UN

Merrin Muhammed Ashraf participated in a virtual consultation convened by the co-facilitators of the Global Digital Compact (GDC) on 22 August 2024 and delivered a statement on Rev 3.0 GDC on behalf of IT for Change and the Global Digital Justice Forum.

The statement flagged some critical gaps in the text of the GDC which must be addressed to achieve its ambitious vision of transformative global digital cooperation:

1. Silence on development financing stimulus
2. Short changing sustainable digital transition
3. A status-quoist vision of data governance
4. Sidestepping the WSIS mandate
5. Absence of a robust human rights scaffolding

Read the complete statement here.