A key component of contemporary socioeconomic development is data-based management. Initiatives and projects are being established with the goal of creating the technological, cadre, regulatory, and other elements of the ecosystem needed to deal with data. Thanks to this, a high-tech innovative environment is being formed aimed at the digital transformation of economic sectors, the creation of advanced solutions, and international cooperation is developing. For the effective implementation of these strategies, there is a need of mechanisms for coordination of stakeholders, and during the session it is proposed to discuss the experience of development institutions in this area.

The key issue of the panel discussion is the role of development institutions in shaping the data economy at the national and international levels.

Many countries, including Russia, China, India, Brazil, South Africa and others, are discussing national strategies in the field of AI. The G20 has already adopted the principles of AI in 2021. The G7 began the AI-Hiroshima process in 2023. The US president has issued an executive order on artificial intelligence. The EU is developing a bill on artificial intelligence. The Council of Europe is working on a legally binding Convention on AI. UNESCO has adopted the recommendation "Ethics and AI". The UN has established an Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. A group of government experts has been discussing the very sensitive issue of lethal autonomous weapons systems for ten years. All these trends are of great interest to the Russian Internet community.

Information security is an area that is constantly evolving and adapting to new threats and challenges. During this session, we would like to discuss the main trends that will be relevant in 2024 and the near future.

The panelists will discuss the following topics:

• Innovations in information security – the use of AI as a defense tool and an attack tool
• New cyber wars – who and how are they attacking?
• Modern attack – what is it?
• Satellite Internet – new threats to information security
• Security issues for iOS devices. Should there be specifics in ensuring the safety of wearable devices, including medical devices?
• Biometrics as a tool for ensuring security and creating new threats
• Personal data protection and anti-leakage

With the rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the global proliferation of digital technologies, today's information society is very different from what experts imagined almost twenty years ago in 2005, when the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was established.

Increasingly unpredictable technological changes require greater flexibility of stakeholders for the sustainable development of not only international formats such as the IGF, but also the “rules of the game” themselves. In this context, the initiative of the UN Secretary General is especially noteworthy - the Global Digital Compact (GDC), which should become a comprehensive soft law document that determines the development of the digital industry for decades to come.

In addition to the GDC, panelists are invited to discuss the upcoming twenty-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society “WSIS+20”, which, according to UN General Assembly resolution A/70/125, will be held in 2025 and will analyze the results of WSIS activities, and will also consider extending the IGF's mandate.

Section participants will discuss the following issues:

• How the understanding of what an inclusive and development-oriented information society should look like has changed over the past 20 years. What does an “inclusive” information society mean in 2024?
• What does the adoption of the GDC mean for the international community? Are there risks of minimizing the role of the technical community in managing digital development?
• What current trends and new technologies may help or hinder the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? What is the role of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) achieving the SDGs?
• What are perspectives of the IGF as a platform for international cooperation and stakeholder dialogue? - What steps (if any) are required to reform the IGF?

An inclusive approach makes digital products and resources accessible to all users, including people with disabilities and disabilities.

At the section, experts will discuss:

• How and when did interest in the topic of accessibility of digital products in Russia arise
• How do teams implement an inclusive approach in their products
• By what metrics and is it even possible to measure the success of the implementation of an inclusive approach in digital products
• How an inclusive approach allows you to expand business opportunities
• Why an inclusive approach has become a new reality in the digital world and how it can change the domestic IT market.

Experts will also talk about their experience in implementing an inclusive approach and share real cases.

Environmental impacts occur at all stages of the digital technology lifecycle. Digital technologies can help reduce environmental damage, but at the same time they can have significant negative consequences for the environment.

Digital technologies can be used to assess the impact of actions already taken, monitor emissions and pollution levels, and develop new approaches across all sectors of the economy, helping them to be more sustainable.

During the section, we will try to draw attention to the problems of sustainable development and environmental protection, as well as talk about finding solutions to these problems and projects that contribute to this. Particular attention will be paid to building the potential for a more circular digital economy, including measures to improve energy efficiency, extend the life of digital devices, help optimize production and consumption, encourage reuse and recycling, and recover scarce resources.

In the process of forming approaches to regulating information technologies when private, public and economic interests collide, there are many participants whose interests need to be balanced. Sometimes even one participant (for example, a person as a consumer) may develop conflicting interests: on the one hand, they want privacy, on the other, they want the development of technology.

During the section, participants will try to analyze the following situations:

• when the interests of various groups of participants are not sufficiently balanced by the current legislation;
• when regulation takes into account the interests of all parties;
• when it is not entirely clear how to optimally balance the interests of all participants when developing approaches to regulating information technologies.