#ICANN84 Geopolitical Forum: #WSIS+20 focus: UNDESA, secretariat to WSIS+20, highlights 2 spreadsheets summarising submissions to the Zero Draft, separated into Member States:

publicadministration.desa.un.org/sites/defaul...

Other stakeholders:

publicadministration.desa.un.org/sites/defaul...

#ICANN84 Geopolitical Forum: #WSIS+20 focus: Amb Lokaale notes that compiling all the submissions on the Zero Draft into a single document has increased the doc length from 10,000 words to around 35,000 words.

#ICANN84 Geopolitical Forum: #WSIS+20 focus: after opening remarks from Amb Lokaale (WSIS+20 cofac), the 1st speaker in mic queue is Sulyna Abdullah, ITU - a bit of a surprise at an ICANN meeting. But ITU has been working hard to engage more widely, given ODET's encroachment on their territory.

It works for anything that uses the Streamtext tool. The only caveat is that it only works back to the point that the stenographers have created the current session. If they close it and start a new session, you can't access that previous session this way.

And the US TikTok precedent has been locked-in & now being raised elsewhere:

"Dr Dana McKay, associate dean in interaction, technology and information at RMIT University, said the best move from a data and security perspective would be for Australia to have its own local version of TikTok."

It's also dismaying that ICANN, which (cl)aims to be globally inclusive, admits it's catering to the US admin's anti-DEI stance. This, despite many calls over the years that it move from USA to a jurisdiction like Switzerland, with a legal framework specifically supporting independent int'l orgs.

That's not to say that digital governance discussions *don't* happen in Australia. Just that it tends to be limited to a small pool of active participants and doesn't leak much into wider national awareness or debates.