IGF Nairobi proposal from Houda for DDHT approved

[Amali De Silva - Mitchell]

Houda

The extract is great! In keeping with the the IGF theme for 2026. 

Please proceed to develop. Rodrigo is available soon. Please connect with him privately and get it all written up. Also consult Jorn as a specialist expert. Joao if he has time can also join the proposal design group as a clinician. Consult Amado for his wisdom pf experience! 

Get this populated to the form by 23 July. I know you have worked for the African Union. Put this in. Put in your 5 names for starters with bios and then put tba so more persons can be added in later. Put my name in as well as it shows  my approval, bio just chair DDHT.  We tend to save 5 mins for any member to intervene if time permits at the end. 

This DC may have multiple proposals this year. One from Yao and June and another from our member Suzannne where we collaborate with DCAD. IGF may ask us to merge the proposals. As such keep this in mind when designing the format of the session so there can be inclusion. 

Let me know once you have populated it in to the form. 

Great start ! 

Amali

Chair IGF DC DDHT 

[Amali De Silva - Mitchell]

Internal control (wsis session type project management) is July 23..so 2 weeks to completion please . 

Houda if there is no feedback within 5 days please complete the full proposal in draft and Rodrigo and Joao review please. 

Thanks Amali

On Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 00:08 Houda CHIHI <houda...@supcom.tn> wrote:

Dear All, 

Hope that you are doing well, please following the shared started proposal i suggest that you add your input and post your update in the group for further steps, 

Best, 

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Objet : IGF Nairobi proposal from Houda for DDHT approved

 

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Hi. Which proposal am I working on? I lost here.

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Dear Amali and Houda,

I would love to help out with the IGF Nairobi proposal from Houda.

I humbly request to be roped in.

Thank you in advance.

Signed,

Henrietta.

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WSIS Forum 2026 — Highlights | Forum Closing, 10 July 2026

Amali De Silva - Mitchell <gphli...@gmail.com>: Jul 10 09:49PM -0700 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: WSIS Info, ITU <WSIS...@itu.int> Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 14:42 Subject: WSIS Forum 2026 — Highlights | Forum Closing, 10 July 2026 To: gphli...@gmail.com <gphli...@gmail.com>     [image: Crowds at ITU Headquarters for the WSIS Forum 2026] <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2026/>   *Daily Highlights* WSIS Forum 2026: From Dialogue to Delivery     Dear Ms. Amali DE SILVA-MITCHELL,   The WSIS Forum 2026, the first edition since the WSIS+20 Review, concluded today in Geneva after five days of high-level dialogue, action-line meetings, and landmark ceremonies. The Forum carried a single, unmistakable message: the time for commitments has passed, and the decade of implementation has begun. Egypt's Chair distilled the week into five priorities, and the Forum closed with a call to turn dialogue into delivery. WSIS Forum 2026: From Dialogue to Delivery   The first Forum since the WSIS+20 Review carried a single, unmistakable message: the time for commitments has passed, and the decade of implementation has begun.   Across the week, a few big ideas kept surfacing. Inclusion emerged as the true measure of progress. Connectivity alone is not enough; people need affordable access, digital skills, relevant content, and safe online spaces. Youth demanded genuine partnership rather than token seats, and speakers insisted women and girls belong in the rooms where AI and data standards are set.   Artificial intelligence dominated discussions, but with a development lens. Leaders pushed for interoperable systems rather than identical ones, warned of a widening AI divide as infrastructure funding concentrates in a few private firms, and championed local languages, regional data, and human-centered design. The financing challenge was made concrete: a $2.66 trillion investment gap, met by early pledges including Microsoft's $50 billion for AI in the Global South.   Above all, the Forum embraced a new metric of success: not technology deployed but lives improved.   Takeaways from the Chair's Summary   Egypt's Chair distilled the week into five priorities: digital inclusion as the central goal, AI in service of development, digital finance as a tool for opportunity, youth as partners, and closing the gender divide. He called for better measurement of real-world impact and pointed to the WSIS Prizes, 18 winners from 1,595 submissions across 122 countries, as proof the Action Lines deliver.   Carrying WSIS through the year   The Forum's worth will be proven between now and 2027. Road maps, indicators, pledges, and toolkits must become services, skills, and jobs. WSIS stays relevant because it brings people together; it stays powerful only if that togetherness turns into action. The year ahead is where dialogue becomes delivery. Photos   Browse the full photo gallery from today’s sessions on Flickr:   <https://www.flickr.com/photos/itupictures/albums/72177720334623073/>       *View Photo Gallery on Flickr* <https://www.flickr.com/photos/itupictures/albums/72177720334623073/> Video Highlights   Watch the video highlights and recorded sessions from day 5:   [image: Play Video] <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAZZu0E29gr8>       *Watch on YouTube* <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAZZu0E29gr8>   *WSIS & SDG Team*   World Summit on the Information Society Secretariat (ITU)   Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva <https://www.google.com/maps/search/Place+des+Nations,+1211+Geneva?entry=gmail&source=g> 20, Switzerland   Website: wsis.org   Email: wsis...@itu.int

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Next steps for DDHT

Amali De Silva - Mitchell <gphli...@gmail.com>: Jul 10 01:34PM -0700 Federated AI meaning   https://www.google.com/search?q=federated+ai+meaning&client=tablet-android-samsung-rvo1&hs=Evt&sca_esv=386b99a158a63933&sxsrf=APpeQnts_raUOL2Ya9JHGORZXva_-llA0g%3A1783713312201&ei=IE5RasDXC6Go0PEPqvGSmAk&biw=0&bih=601&oq=federated+ai+meaning&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIhRmZWRlcmF0ZWQgYWkgbWVhbmluZzIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGBYYHjILEAAYgAQYhgM YigUyCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFMgUQIRigATIFEAAY7wUyBRAAGO8FMgUQABjvBUieI1CRDVjoIHABeAGQAQCYAaUBoAH2B6oBAzAuOLgBA8gBAPgBAZgCCaAC9QnCAgoQABiwAxjWBBhHwgIXEC4YsAMYuAYY2AIYyAMY2gYY3AbYAQHCAgsQABiABBiRAhiKBcICCBAAGIAEGKIEmAMAiAYBkAYLugYECAEYGZIHAzEuOKAHoiiyBwMwLji4B7cJwgcFNC04LjHIB_MBgAgA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#lfId=ChxjMe       Dear DDHT members   I will request IGF Secretariat to archive DDHT v.0 in April of 2027. The AR for 2026 would have been posted by that time. I will remain Chair until said time.   I will request that a new active version of DDHT v1 to be then applied to the website under the new name proposed by Amado. This new name is relevant to the current times as we see the evolution of AI. Ref federated AI plus noted above.   Members have requested that the existing book be carried over. Think of a new name for 2027? Let Amado know. You can vote on this.   Interim Co Chairs Amado and Jorn and VC Joao will then have a new web canvas page to work with. You can go with the recommended leadership or re-organize as you wish with new TOR. You can populate the webpage, a new one and update the DC mandate as you see fit for a new vision.   We will archive the Google Groups list as it is based out of Toronto Canada. Use the already newly created IGF list and move all existing members over. Old stakeholders may want to be more active in the new. Old members don't have to sign up again. Members seem to have group private lists that are not under the domain of the main list. Your choosing.   Think about the above and have your say in 2027.   We have come along way. I remember signing the pattern based methodology statement organized by Robert Guerra of then CPSR, that founded the joint agreement on the methodology for AI pattern development. Now we move to Federated AI an evolution. I think of my old tutor Roger Baily at Imperial College UK who pioneered and advocated distributed systems, which is only now coming of age in AI. The UK AI was already part of government systems in the early 90s and my professor for AI already working on these projects and including all of us.   It has been an amazing 30 years of development. I was an active contributor to Pew and Elon University social responsibulty research projects through the years. Those predictions for the future are manifesting!   Now we commence a much deeper level with an extensive ecosystem of systems and a variety of connected technologies....quality and relevance still key outcomes to preserve.   Leave no one behind...   The individual patient needs an advocate in these complex times.   This is where we started with the pledge to the parient and citizen, and where ever you may go don't forget where we started and remember the patients issues....   Thank you for all your hard work. Ir has been an amazing journey.. We were a collective!   Thank you.   Amali De Silva-Mitchell Chair IGF DC DDHT   Still here ...

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IGF Nairobi proposal from Houda for DDHT approved

Amali De Silva - Mitchell <gphli...@gmail.com>: Jul 10 11:32AM -0700

Houda   The extract is great! In keeping with the the IGF theme for 2026.   Please proceed to develop. Rodrigo is available soon. Please connect with him privately and get it all written up. Also consult Jorn as a specialist expert. Joao if he has time can also join the proposal design group as a clinician. Consult Amado for his wisdom pf experience!   Get this populated to the form by 23 July. I know you have worked for the African Union. Put this in. Put in your 5 names for starters with bios and then put tba so more persons can be added in later. Put my name in as well as it shows my approval, bio just chair DDHT. We tend to save 5 mins for any member to intervene if time permits at the end.   This DC may have multiple proposals this year. One from Yao and June and another from our member Suzannne where we collaborate with DCAD. IGF may ask us to merge the proposals. As such keep this in mind when designing the format of the session so there can be inclusion.   Let me know once you have populated it in to the form.   Great start !   Amali Chair IGF DC DDHT

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