Virtual and augmented reality speech @Wsis forum 2018 high level track outcomes and executive brief

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WSIS Forum 2018: High-Level Track Outcomes and Executive Brief
World Summit on Information Society
Table of Contents
1. Introduction..........................................................................................................................................2
2. WSIS Forum 2018: Chairman ...............................................................................................................2
3. Moderation: High-level Track Facilitators (HLTFs)..............................................................................3
Official Opening Segment: Opening Ceremony ..........................................................................................7
High-level Strategic Dialogue - Multistakeholder Partnership for WSIS Implementation......................33
High-Level Strategic Dialogue – ICTs Advancing the Implementation of SDGs Celebrating 15 Years of
Geneva Plan of Implementation.............................................................................................................50
High level Policy Sessions...........................................................................................................................67
Session One: WSIS Action Lines in 2030 Agenda........................................................................................67
Session Two: Bridging Digital Divides .........................................................................................................79
Session Three: Bridging Digital Divides.......................................................................................................98
Session Four: Enabling Environment ........................................................................................................116
Session Five: WSIS Action Lines and the 2030 Agenda / Financing for development and role of ICT......130
Session Six: Bridging Digital Divides..........................................................................................................149
Session Seven: Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs.........................................................163
Session Eight: Inclusiveness – access to information and knowledge for all............................................178
Session Nine: ICT applications and services..............................................................................................193
Session Ten: Inclusiveness – access to information and knowledge for all..............................................208
Session Eleven: ICT applications and services...........................................................................................217
Session Twelve: Gender mainstreaming...................................................................................................232
Session Thirteen: Digital Economy and Trade ..........................................................................................247
Session Fourteen: Knowledge societies, capacity building and e-learning / Media.................................272

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1. Introduction
High-Level Policy Sessions
At the WSIS Forum 2018, moderated High-Level Policy Sessions of the High-level Track (HLT) took place
on the 20 and 21 of March. During these sessions, moderated Policy Sessions with high-ranking officials
of the WSIS Stakeholder community, representing the Government, Private Sector, Civil Society,
Academia and International Organizations were held.
2. WSIS Forum 2018: Chairman
H.E Eng. Majed Sultan Al Mesmar
Deputy Director General
Telecommunication Sector, Telecommunications
Regulatory Authority (TRA)
United Arab Emirates

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3. Moderation: High-level Track Facilitators (HLTFs)
All the High-level policy sessions were moderated by High-level Track Facilitators nominated by the
different stakeholder types, i.e Civil Society, Academia, Private Sector and Technical Community.
Session No. Photo Name Title Organization Type of
Stakeholder
One
WSIS Action
Lines and the
2030 Agenda
Mr. Anthony
Giannoumis
Assistant
Professor of
Universal
Design of
Information
and
Communicatio
n Technology
Oslo and
Akershus
University
College of
Applied
Sciences
Academia
Two
Bridging Digital
Divides
Ms. Renata
Avila
Technology
and Human
Rights Lawyer
Web
Foundation
Technical
Community
Three
Bridging Digital
Divides
Ms. Crystal
Rugege
Director of
Strategy and
Operations
Carnegie
Mellon
University
Africa
Academia

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Four
Enabling
Environment
Mr. Deepak
Maheshwari
Head of
Government
Affairs – India,
South Asia and
Southeast Asia
Symantec Private Sector
Five
WSIS Action
Lines and the
2030 Agenda /
Financing for
development
and role of ICT
Dr. Michael
Nelson
Public Policy Cloudflare Private Sector
Six
Bridging Digital
Divides
Dr. Anuradha
Rao
Professor,
Department of
Communicatio
ns & New
Media
National
University of
Singapore
Academia
Seven
Building
confidence and
security in the
use of ICTs
Mr. Pavan
Duggal
Founder and
Chairman
International
Commission
on Cyber
Security Law
Civil Society

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Eight
Inclusiveness –
access to
information and
knowledge for
all
Ms. Moira S.
Patterson
Global Affairs
Program
Director
IEEE
Standards
Association
Technical
Community
Nine
ICT applications
and services
Mr. Pierre
Mirlesse,
Vice President
Public Sector,
Healthcare
and Pharma
Hewlett
Packard
Enterprise,
EMEA
Private Sector
Ten
Inclusiveness –
access to
information and
knowledge for
all
Ms. Cristina
Valdés
Argüelles
Public
Relations
Director
Geneva
International
Model of
United
Nations
Civil Society
Eleven
ICT applications
and services
Ms. Moira de
Roche
IFIP IP3
Chairman,
Global
Industry
Council
Director
IFIP Technical
Community
Twelve
Gender
mainstreaming
Ms. Ayanna
T. Samuels
Aerospace
Engineer &
International
Development
Professional
specializing in
ICTs for Socio-
Economic
Development,
Technology
She Leads It Civil Society

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Policy and
Gender-
Equality.
Consultant
Thirteen
Digital Economy
and Trade
Ms. Natalia
Vicente
Head of Public
Affairs
ESOA Civil Society
Fourteen
Knowledge
societies,
capacity
building and e-
learning /
Media
Mr. Alfredo
M. Ronchi
Secretary
General
EC MEDICI
Framework of
Cooperation
Technical
Community

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Session Eleven: ICT applications and services
Webcast: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2018/RP/Webcast/326#intro
High level Track Facilitator: Ms. Moira de Roche, IFIP IP3 Chairman, Global Industry Council Director
High level Speakers:
1. Chairman of WSIS Forum
2. WSIS Action Line Facilitator ITU – Mr. Kemal Huseinovic, Chief, Department of Infrastructure,
Enabling Environment and E-Applications (IEE)
3. Iran (Islamic Republic of) – H.E. Mr. Nasrollah Jahangard, Vice Minister for Technology and
Innovation, Ministry of Information & Communication Technology
4. Poland – H.E. Mr. Karol Okonski, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Digital Affairs
5. India –Mr. Prabhash Singh, Member (Technology and Services) Telecom Commission,
Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications
6. SSVAR - Swiss Society of Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality – Mr. Jean-Philippe Mohamed
Sangare, Founder and CEO

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1. Introduction
The panelists in this session were primarily from Government but included the WSIS Action
Line facilitator who is from ITU, as well as an NGO. This diversity provided a diversity of views.
2. Vision
Virtual, Augmented and Mixed reality must be used for more than games. There are many opportunities
for business and the information society.
Provide access to ICTs in a fair and equitable manner.
Governments can work with public sector to provide services to underserved areas.
3. Fresh priorities
 Green computing
 Using ICTs for Disaster management and relief
 Cybersecurity, ICT applications, accessibility, connectivity.
 Using VAR for education
 Emerging trends
 Projects in Iran are aligned with ALs, and have been in the national development plan for 15 years
 Green initiatives to reduce carbon footprint
4. Opportunities
 In Iran, more than 50% of the population have access to the internet, and there are more than 50
million mobile phones, and there is a good opportunity for investment in the country because of
the huge growth potential especially in the telecommunications sector.
 Work with all UN agencies to achieve ALs and SDG’s – cooperation is essential.
 Data sharing (public data with citizens and businesses) – it become public information.
 From an economic point of view, augmented reality already has attracted significant investment,
and this is set to grow exponentially.
5. Key challenges
• Important to have resilient strong infrastructure
• Thinking “green” in all aspects of ICT e.g. reducing waste, emissions and more
• Safety and security and trust in use of digital products is essential
• Managing disasters using a portal to distribute information
• Opening public data for transparency, but still keep it reliable and secure. This is to share the public
data with everyone.
• Sustainable development and auditing progress
• User friendly portal.

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• Encourage business to re-user public open data, but training and education is key. Public data can
also benefit start-ups.
• Sufficient and robust ICT infrastructure
• Localisation is important in providing access
6. Link with WSIS Action Lines & SDGs
Action Line C7 ICT Applications: E-government; E-learning; E-health; E-environment
SDG 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 17
7. Case Examples
• ITU working with ILO to produce a toolkit for Digital Skills
• SSVAR – 3D augmented reality used in the Health sector to teach doctors in underserved areas.
Common exchange programme for technologies and ideas
• Localised internet content (Iran)
• Digital financial inclusion projects (with Gates Foundation)
8. Road ahead
• Governments should work to make ICT application safe and secure. This should be done at in-
country, regionally, and with global cooperation to ensure cross-border security.
• Mobile learning event in Paris next week with UNESCO, in support of e-education
• E-Health, e-banking, e-payment, e-learning and any other aspect of services to push the country
toward the mobile Government services.
• ICT people must continually interact with other sectors
• Improved Connectivity and accessibility monitoring
• Trans-border digital identity recognition for improved safety

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SSVAR - Swiss Society of Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality
Mr. Jean-Philippe Mohamed Sangare
Founder and CEO
1. Context
Interactive technologies such as Augmented (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are set to transform the ways
in which people communicate, interact and share information on the internet and beyond. This will
directly impact a larger number of worldwide industries ranging from the cultural and creative
industries, manufacturing, robotic and healthcare to education, entertainment and media, enabling
new business opportunities. The challenge is to forge a competitive and sustainable ecosystem of
providers in interactive technologies.
2. Building networks: SSVAR
What is SSVAR - The Swiss society of virtual and augmented reality?
Two years ago I had the opportunity to try a virtual reality headset. I was so thrilled by this
discovery that I wanted to meet other people who like me want to share their experience.
I started to meet amateurs, entrepreneurs and researchers. The more I met, the more I realized
the need to bring them together so that they could exchange and work on their shared passion.
I was certain that these innovations brought with them the ability to change the way we learn,
work and play.
It was then that I had the idea to create the SSVAR.
And thanks to the incredibly stimulating environment put in place by the Swiss Confederation to
support Innovation, I was able to start and realize my project:

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"Building a community platform that aims to create a network of professionals and amateurs with
a common interest in virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies."
We currently have about 200 registered members with a team of about twenty people from
diverse backgrounds: professionals of these technologies, researchers but also physicists, doctors,
financiers and even an opera singer.
We are connected to other actors on the international scene as well as to international
organizations. We have received support from Google, Microsoft, Samsung, from the Economic
Office of Zurich and many others like HP.
From a purely economic point of view two figures:
In 2016, the market size worldwide was around $ 5 billion.
In 2020 it would be around 162 billion dollars!
It is the financial value that augmented reality and virtual reality should represent, according to
research firm IDC.
I want through the SSVAR to contribute to make known small businesses, startups who are
struggling to find funding for their projects. That is why on April 20, 2017 in Zurich we created the
first Virtual Reality Investment Forum.
Our modus operandi is to create thematic and targeted events. We are not interested in overly
general festivals that have flourished around the world for two years and do not add much to
understanding the issues.
What interests us is to meet professionals from all sectors of industry, doctors, teachers etc ... to
make them discover the possibilities but also the limits of these technologies so that they see how
to use them in their practice.
Virtual or augmented reality is not just 360 videos or gaming there are uses in all areas!
Medicine
Virtual reality has been used for years to treat victims of post-traumatic stress or phobias. But this
is probably only the beginning of a revolution. Two years ago, Professor Ahmed Shafi, a British
surgeon, filmed a 360-degree operation of colon cancer: thousands of medical students wearing

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VR helmets were able to analyze his actions very closely. The medical applications of VR or AR are
very promising.
Education
After questioning teachers who have used virtual reality headsets as part of a pedagogical
experiment on possible applications in their professional practice, the answers of course differ
according to their teaching discipline.
In literary subjects, these teachers / students imagine a possible use to film oral presentations of
students, or rehearsals theatrical, which could then be viewed with students to improve their
performance.
On the subject of science, they mention possible applications in geometry in space to put students
"in the heart of volumes" and manipulate them.
Beyond strictly disciplinary applications, these young teachers imagine using VR to organize virtual
tours of places that are difficult to access for reasons of resources, time, security or remoteness.
3. Key applications
All the sectors are concerned and can have benefits from these technologies.
ARVR technologies will impact many fields of activity
Infotainment: VR games, augmented television, interactive cinema
Education: basic education (e.g. sciences, history, art), professional training, serious games
Healthcare: virtual training, augmented medicine, telemedicine, rehabilitation
Cultural Heritage: virtual and augmented travel, museums
Industry: open design and innovation, virtual prototyping, augmented factory, on-site maintenance
with remote expertise
Building and urban : architecture, mediation, construction, assisted sales, maintenance
Transportation: design, assisted sales, maintenance, simulation, infotainment, logistics
Merchandising: virtual and augmented stores, communication and marketing
Human Resources: assessment and training of competencies
Social media: social presence, augmented experience
Defense & security: virtual telepresence e.g. for search & rescue operations

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1) Emerging Trends related to WSIS Action Lines identified during the meeting
1) The Coordination and Support Action for an "Interactive network and community building",
2) The Research and Innovation Action named “Future interaction"
Research and industrial capacities specifically in two domains:
a) Multi-user interactions
b) Higher quality experiences
SSVAR is willing to growth by connecting to other universities, associations or startups in Switzerland and
all around the world so it could be able to share, best practices and effective solutions through ITU and
various multilateral platforms through collaborative approach towards meeting SDGs envisaged in WSIS.

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