About the Meeting
This year’s Broadband Commission Annual Spring Meeting 2022 is entitled, “Driving Inclusive Digital Transformation.” With 2.9 billion unconnected people worldwide and billions struggling with the connectivity they do have, high-capacity networks based on reliable broadband is a social and economic imperative, a must. The pandemic has amplified the importance of cooperation and partnerships to address the many divides and drive an inclusive whole of society approach to digital transformation.
Held alongside the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC), the Annual Spring Meeting will bring together Broadband Commission Chairs, Commissioners and Special Guests to discuss the most pertinent issues affecting broadband connectivity today.
Related Events
- The Generation Connect Global Youth Summit will be held in a hybrid format on 2 – 4 June 2022, at the Intare Conference Arena, in Kigali, Rwanda. Bringing together young leaders, entrepreneurs, social change-makers, engineers, policy specialists, students, and others, the Summit will address the digital divide and related topics, including digital skills, gender, climate change, online safety, the future of work, entrepreneurship, digital dependencies, and more.
- The World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) will be held in Kigali, Rwanda, from 6 to 16 June 2022 under the theme “Connecting the unconnected to achieve sustainable development.” The ITU, through its Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT), organizes WTDC every four years in the period between two Plenipotentiary Conferences to consider topics, projects and programs relevant to telecommunication development. WTDC is a unique opportunity to develop innovative approaches and new models of collaboration for connectivity and digital solutions in this final Decade of Action to achieve the SDGs.
- The Partner2Connect (P2C) Digital Development Roundtable is a part of WTDC and will be an open global event held in a hybrid format from 7 to 9 June 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda. Through the Digital Development Roundtable, participants will be informed about the needs, commitments, and resources available from each stakeholder to bridge the digital divide and be able to forge new partnerships for universal meaningful connectivity.
- HealthTech Summit will take place in the Norrsken East Africa House in Kigali, on Saturday June 4, 2022. The third day of the summit will be dedicated to launching The Future of Virtual Health and Care - driving access and equity through inclusive policies, which is the latest report from the Broadband Commission Working Group on Virtual Health and Care, co-chaired by the World Health Organization and the Novartis Foundation.
