Post-Summit of the Future Updates and Upcoming Opportunities (November 2024)

GFMD Policy and Advocacy Meeting on November 7, 2024

Date: November 7, 2024

Time: 3 pm - 4 pm CET

Location: Zoom

Registration: Please register here to attend.

Objective

With this policy meeting, we aim to provide a platform to debrief on the Summit of the Future, which took place on September 21 and 22, 2024, as well as to identify key upcoming opportunities to influence key global policies. Among these opportunities, we have identified the WSIS+20 Review, but we would also like to zoom in on different regional initiatives and key developments on the regional and national fora.

You will find the meeting agenda here:

Meeting agenda

You will find a relevant literature review here:

Literature review

Why is GFMD organising this policy meeting?

This session aims to equip GFMD members and partners with actionable insights on how to navigate these opportunities to advance advocacy efforts on media freedom, public interest journalism and digital governance. This policy meeting is part of GFMD’s approach to enhancing strategic collaboration among its members and partners. GFMD aims to create a shared space to support and ensure meaningful participation of organisations in shaping media and digital policies by:

  • Sharing resources and knowledge

  • Enhancing capacity and effectiveness of organisations working on policy and advocacy

  • Inclusion of local perspectives in decision-making processes

  • Coordinating and supporting joint policy and advocacy initiatives.

  • Bringing a multistakeholder approach and strategic partnerships to solving media and digital policy challenges

Questions for discussion

  1. Why is this process important for the media and journalism community?

  2. What are the needs or requests of the media and journalism community in respect of this process?

  3. How should the community engage for this process, and what is needed to include local perspectives and enhance the capacity and effectiveness of our policy work around this process?

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