The Global Network Initiative has provided detailed input to the WSIS+20 Elements Paper, calling for the Zero Draft to embed international human rights law across all thematic areas, reaffirm the multistakeholder model as defined in the Tunis Agenda, renew and resource the IGF, and address systemic challenges ranging from biometric surveillance to shrinking civic space. The submission also emphasises the importance of linking WSIS with the Global Digital Compact and elevating regional perspectives, drawing on GNI’s work with partners across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Tech Global Institute has endorsed two major civil-society submissions to the WSIS+20 Elements Paper, calling for a digital governance framework rooted in human rights, gender equality, and structural reform. The contributions, developed through the Global Digital Justice Forum and the Global Digital Rights Coalition for WSIS, argue that the next phase of WSIS must confront Big Tech concentration, data extractivism, and global disparities in connectivity, AI, and financing.

In its submission to the WSIS+20 Elements Paper, ICANN highlights progress made since the original World Summit on the Information Society, warns against renewed fragmentation risks and calls for a Zero Draft that strengthens the multistakeholder model, the Internet Governance Forum and global coordination on emerging digital issues.