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The WSIS+20 Secretariat compiled the table below on the basis of General Assembly resolution A/RES/80/173, adopted by consensus on 17 December 2025. The table is provided for guidance purposes only. For comments on the table or to provide updates to the Secretariat, please contact ungawsisreview@un.org.
The United Nations Secretary-General will submit a biennial report on WSIS implementation and follow-up through the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD), incorporating updates on the implementation of the resolution’s recommendations. This represents a change from the previous annual reporting practice. The report will be considered by the CSTD (serviced by UNCTAD) and by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), in line with the newly established biennial reporting cycle.
| Para # | Action Requested | Asked Entities |
| 23 | Promote accessibility and equal access to the Internet and digital resources for persons with disabilities, including through assistive technologies and accessibility-by-design. | - All stakeholders |
| 24 | Include the needs of vulnerable and underserved groups in digital connectivity strategies. | - All stakeholders |
| 26 | Develop financing mechanisms and incentives to connect the unconnected and improve affordability and quality of connectivity. | - Governments - Multilateral development international organizations - Private sector |
| 28 | Ensure multilingual, accessible and affordable Internet and digital services, including for Indigenous Peoples and minority language speakers. | - All stakeholders |
| 33 | Foster an inclusive digital environment that enables MSMEs to thrive, including through financial support, access to capital, skills, networks and markets. | - All stakeholders |
| 39 | Preserve cultural heritage (including digital content) and promote access to cultural resources. | - All stakeholders |
| 45 | Improve data collection and collaborate on safe and efficient e-waste management, including sharing technology and best practices. | - All stakeholders |
| 46 | Develop international standards for sustainable digital product design, reuse, repair and recycling. | - All stakeholders |
| 47 | Cooperate to leverage digital technologies for sustainability while minimizing environmental impacts across the full lifecycle of digital technologies. | - All stakeholders |
| 50 | Provide technical assistance to developing countries, upon request, to support implementation of national digital transformation policies and priorities. | - All stakeholders |
| 53 | Share experiences on enabling environments and jointly support the development and delivery of demand-driven policy guidance, technical assistance, and capacity-building to help countries realize enabling digital environments. | - UN Regional Commissions - CSTD - WSIS Action Line facilitators |
| 60 | Strengthening existing initiatives that build digital, policy, and technical capacity—particularly for innovation, digital governance, civil servants, and the judiciary. | - UN entities - Technical Community |
| 61 | Promote digital skills and digital literacy, including lifelong digital learning, to empower individuals to: (i) make informed decisions about personal data; (ii) identify reliable information; (iii) access work and skilling opportunities; and (iv) safeguard online security and privacy, taking into account social, cultural and linguistic contexts. | - All stakeholders |
| 63 | Promote enabling policy environments and foster public–private cooperation and partnerships to mobilize sustainable investment in ICT infrastructure, applications and services, content and digital skills to ensure meaningful connectivity for achieving the SDGs. | - All stakeholders |
| 66 | Mainstream ICTs into work programmes and concessional finance and support developing countries and countries with economies in transition in preparing and implementing national e-strategies, including through existing and new financing mechanisms for digital infrastructure, connectivity and ICT services. | - International financial institutions - Development partners |
| 67 | Establish an internal UNGIS task force to assess gaps and challenges in financial mechanisms for digital development, develop concrete recommendations to strengthen them, report outcomes to the CSTD in 2027, and monitor related financial commitments. | - ITU working with WSIS Action Line Facilitators and UNGIS members |
| 71 | Integrate respect for human rights throughout the full lifecycle of digital and emerging technologies, ensure access to redress and effective remedies for related human rights abuses, and apply the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. | - Private sector - Relevant stakeholders |
| 74 | Ensure surveillance technologies are used in accordance with international human rights law, including legality, necessity and proportionality, provide effective legal redress and remedies, and ensure that business enterprises respect human rights in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. | - Private sector (including surveillance technology companies) |
| 76 | Promote universal, open, safe and secure Internet access and use by respecting and protecting human rights, refrain from Internet shutdowns and measures targeting Internet access, and ensure that business enterprises respect human rights in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. | - All stakeholders - Private sector (including surveillance technology and social media companies) |
| 77 | Strengthen and protect independent and public media, safeguard journalists and media workers, and ensure conditions that allow journalism to operate freely, sustainably and in the public interest without harassment, surveillance or arbitrary detention. | - All stakeholders |
| 86 | Map UN system-wide AI capacity-building initiatives, identify and address gaps (including through an AI capacity-building fellowship and research programmes), with a focus on developing countries, and report to the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in 2026. | - UN Inter-Agency Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (IAWG-AI), in consultation with WSIS Action Line Facilitators |
| 98 | Continue improvements to IGF working modalities, participation, inter-forum cooperation and substantive outcomes, and report annually on progress to the Commission on Science and Technology for Development. | - IGF |
| 100 | Report IGF annual and intersessional outcomes to relevant UN entities and processes, and ensure that IGF outcomes are taken into account in UN system and WSIS-related work and proceedings. | - IGF - UNGIS - UN agencies - WSIS Action Line Facilitators - CSTD - WSIS Forum |
| 101 | Enhance IGF working modalities to broaden participation from developing countries and underrepresented communities, including by establishing and facilitating dialogue among governments with the participation of all stakeholders. | - IGF |
| 102 | Reinforce intersessional work, support national and regional initiatives, apply innovative and inclusive collaboration methods, and strengthen engagement of governments and stakeholders from developing countries in discussions on Internet governance and emerging technologies. | - IGF |
| 103 | Strengthen the IGF Secretariat to support continued development, NRIs and intersessional work, and submit a proposal to the General Assembly during its eightieth session to ensure sustainable funding for the Forum. | - UN Secretary-General (with support from UN DESA) |
| 107 | Contribute information and good practices to the WSIS Stocktaking database to support the implementation and visibility of WSIS outcomes. | - All stakeholders |
| 108 | Continue serving as regional mechanisms for WSIS implementation and follow-up and scale up technical assistance, capacity-building and partnerships to support implementation of WSIS outcomes at the regional level. | - UN Regional Commissions |
| 110 | Continue convening the World Summit on the Information Society Forum on an annual basis as a platform for information-sharing, multistakeholder dialogue and coordination of WSIS implementation initiatives. | - ITU - UNESCO - UNDP - UNCTAD |
| 111 | Ensure that new work to implement WSIS outcomes is closely aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in accordance with existing mandates and resources. | - WSIS Action Line Facilitators |
| 112 | Integrate human rights across all Action Lines and address gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls as a core theme in Action Line work, with the full involvement of UN Women and relevant stakeholders. | - WSIS Action Line Facilitators (with involvement of OHCHR and UN Women) |
| 113 | Develop targeted, results-oriented implementation roadmaps linking WSIS Action Lines with relevant SDG targets and Global Digital Compact commitments, including targets, indicators and metrics, and report outcomes to the CSTD in 2027. | - WSIS Action Line Facilitators, in coordination with UNGIS |
| 116 | Periodically review ICT indicator methodologies for meaningful and affordable connectivity and digital development, taking into account different levels of development and national circumstances, and share information on country case studies. | - UN entities |
| 117 | Undertake a systematic review of existing ICT indicators and methodologies and report findings to the 30th session of the CSTD in 2027. | - Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development, in cooperation with WSIS Action Line Facilitators and with support of the UN Statistical Commission |
| 118 | Provide additional resources, share best practices and support capacity development for national statistical systems, particularly in developing countries, and encourage the private sector to make appropriate data available to support statistical evidence, research and policy development on the Information Society. | - Private sector |
| 121 | Continue and strengthen UNGIS as the UN system’s inter-agency mechanism for digital policy coherence and programme coordination, enhance its agility and effectiveness, and expand its membership to foster multistakeholder dialogue, partnerships and review of progress on digital cooperation. | - UNGIS |
| 122 | Prepare, within existing mandates and resources, a joint implementation roadmap to strengthen coherence between WSIS and the Global Digital Compact, building on existing mapping work, and present it to the CSTD at its twenty-ninth session in 2026. | - UNGIS |
| 124 | Submit a biennial report on WSIS implementation and follow-up through the CSTD, incorporating updates on resolution recommendations, and ensure consideration of the report by the CSTD and ECOSOC in line with the biennial cycle. | - UN Secretary-General - ECOSOC - CSTD |
| 125 | Consider progress made in fostering coherence between WSIS outcomes and implementation of the Global Digital Compact, drawing on inputs from relevant stakeholders and WSIS-related bodies. | - UN General Assembly (High-Level Meeting on the Global Digital Compact - 2027) |
| 126 | Take into account the outcomes of the joint WSIS–Global Digital Compact implementation roadmap when considering the WSIS+20 resolution as an input to the 2030 high-level review of the 2030 Agenda. | - UN General Assembly |
| 127 | Convene a high-level meeting in 2035 to conduct the overall review of WSIS implementation, with inclusive stakeholder participation including in the preparatory process, to assess progress and challenges and identify areas of continued focus. | - UN General Assembly |