This year marks 20 years of the World Summit on the Information Society. The WSIS+20 review in Geneva in July 2025 is a critical convening to ensure that the future of global digital governance remains multi-stakeholder, inclusive and people-centric. 

Centre for Communication Governance, in partnership with Global Network Initiative & Global Partners Digital held a multistakeholder discussion on India’s priorities at the WSIS+20 review. It included stakeholders from various sectors, such as policymakers, industry, academia, technical community, and civil society. Here are some key insights from the discussion:

• Updating Action Lines to address today’s digital challenges.
• Balance between multi-stakeholder and multilateral approaches to ensure inclusive, representative and democratic digital governance.
• Strengthen IGF with permanent status and funding.
• Review modalities must ensure meaningful participation through improved structures and processes
• Rethink Action Lines to include new technologies like AI; address resource gaps, global power imbalances, and corporate monopolisation in development and innovation
• Protect information ecosystems from harm and exploitation.
• Alignment between GDC and WSIS to avoid fragmentation.

A detailed overview of the key messages from the deliberation can be found here.