"The first WSIS process saw participating nations pledge "to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented information society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge." It also saw participating nations agree to the multi-stakeholder internet governance arrangements that persist to this day, and which sees organizations like the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet Society (ISOC), and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) each play a role."
"Under WSIS, governments, academics, civil society groups, and other stakeholders all have a voice on matters related to the digital world. WSIS also links internet governance to the UN's other goals around human rights, equitable development, and sustainability. WSIS also led to the creation of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a body to discuss public policy issues pertaining to the internet. In recent years, the IGF was the prime mover behind the first wave of international discussion on laws that govern AI."
UN General Assembly reached consensus preserving the multi-stakeholder internet governance model and approved WSIS+20. The 2003 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) originally pledged to build a people-centred, inclusive, and development-oriented information society where everyone can create, access, utilize, and share information and knowledge. WSIS established multi-stakeholder arrangements involving organizations like IETF, ICANN, ISOC, and W3C, and linked internet governance to human rights, equitable development, and sustainability. WSIS created the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which led international discussion on AI laws. WSIS was revisited in 2015 and culminated in making the IGF permanent and properly funded under WSIS+20.
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