This year, the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste will make a call for public and non-state actors to prioritize actions and redouble efforts to use innovation to reduce food loss and waste, restoring and building back better more efficient, inclusive, sustainable and resilient agri-food systems.

As part of the global celebrations of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, the Permanent Mission of Andorra to the United Nations, the Permanent Mission of San Marino to the United Nations, UNEP, FAO and ITU are partnering to bring together Member States, UN entities and non-state actors at a New York-based virtual event that will highlight innovative initiatives to fight food loss and waste along the value chain, including through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

This event will be held as part of the WSIS TalkX to highlight stakeholders’ efforts on ICTs for development and will take place on Thursday 30 September 2021, 15:00–16:30 CEST. Stakeholders are invited to register to participate.

On October 1^st, the United Nations International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) will be celebrated with the theme, “Digital Equity for All Ages”. The topic aims to address the rapid growth in digital technologies and the transformational effects they are having across all sectors of society. To ensure inclusivity and access and realize the goals of the UN and World Health Organization’s Decade of Healthy Ageing, the adoption of digital technologies must occur across all age groups, with a focus on the older persons to ensure that they are not excluded from the opportunities and benefits brought by ICTs.

This WSIS TalkX is being organized on the occasion of UN IDOP to spur the dialogue on the use of digital technologies to improve the lives of older people and will: bring multiple stakeholder’s voices together on the topic of “digital inclusion and health equity for all ages”; showcase the innovation in digital technology in improving care for older persons; launch the WSIS Forum 2022 Healthy Ageing Innovation Prize; and highlight the celebrations of the World Telecommunication & Information Society Day, 17 May 2022: Digital technologies for Healthy Ageing.

This webinar will take place on Thursday 30 September 2021, 16:00–17:00 CEST. Stakeholders are invited to register to participate.

WSIS Forum 2022 is scheduled to be held starting on 15 March with the final week that will be held on 30th May – 3rd June 2022. The Agenda and Programme of the Forum will be built on the basis of the submissions received during the Open Consultation Process (OCP). The Open Consultation process aims at ensuring a participatory and inclusive spirit of the Forum. This process actively engages multistakeholders in the preparatory process to ensure broad ownership and further improvements of the Forum. The Open Consultation Process will include a collection of inputs from regional and national WSIS related events.

WSIS stakeholders who would like to support WSIS Forum 2022 are invited to make voluntary contributions to the special trust fund to support activities relating to the implementation of the WSIS outcomes. WSIS Forum is an extrabudgetary, inclusive, crowdsourced, free-of-charge platform where stakeholders from all regions and all levels of representation, from grassroot, to governments, corporations, non-governmental organizations and academia, are having a unique opportunity to collaborate, share ideas, discuss and shape the information society, making social, economic, and environmental impact on local, national, regional, and global levels. Be a part of this effort by partnering with us.

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