[Commlist] UN WSIS2025 Geneva: Information Society in Times of Risk - Call for Interest in Session Submission

WSIS2025
UN World Summit of the Information Society
Geneva (Switzerland), July 7-11, 2025
https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2025/

Call for Interest in Session Submission on
"Information Society in Times of Risk"

This session is devoted to the special demands that Information Society
faces in times of Risk, comprising local, regional, national, 
cross-border and global situations of Crises as well as Natural, 
Technical and
Humanitarian Disasters, with special attention on highlighting demands,
deficits and potentials of actors and organizations.

Organized by RIMMA CoE in Cooperation with CAST-CCIT
Int. Community of Experts on Risk Information Management, Risk Models 
and Applications in Cooperation with CAST-CCIT

Submit abstracts until Feb. 15, 2025
Abstracts can be submitted by email to (info /at/ RIMMA.org) until Feb. 15, 
2025 of max. 2 pages A4 (including selected references)
download template at https://tinyurl.com/20250215-Abstract-Template

More Details and Downloads:
https://RIMMA.org/RIMMA-CoE-WSIS2025

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Call for Interest in Session Submission
Information Society in Times of Risk

This session is devoted to the special demands that Information Society 
faces in times of Risk, comprising local, regional, national, 
cross-border and global situations of Crises as well as Natural, 
Technical and Humanitarian Disasters, with special attention on 
highlighting demands, deficits and potentials, of actors and organizations.
The UN “all-of-society” principle has a background from the AGENDA21 
(1992)1 on the Data Revolution activities that started in 20142 3 and 
from that time became a general principle
The UN Sendai Framework 2015-20304 specifies the expectations to 
cooperate broadly with “stakeholders, including women, children and 
youth, persons with disabilities, poor people, migrants, indigenous 
peoples, volunteers, the community of practitioners and older persons in 
the design and implementation of policies, plans and standards. There is 
a need for the public and private sectors and civil society 
organizations, as well as academia and scientific and research 
institutions, to work more closely together and to create opportunities 
for collaboration, and for businesses to integrate disaster risk into 
their management practices”.
Contributions taking into account the special circumstances of 
Information Management in times of Risk and the consequences for Risk 
Management (policies, anticipation, preparation, decision, action) in 
all phases of crises and all types of disasters5 are welcome to cover 
(but are not limited to):

1	Complexity of Stakeholders and professions (local, regional, national, 
cross-border, global)6
2	Caregivers’ Perspectives
3	Children at Risk
4	Existing and permanently operable Pillars of Societal Resilience7
5	Disaster induced community disruptions8
6	Civil-Military cooperation
7	Foresighting
8	The Role of Media, Broadcasting and Journalists9
9	Information Technology in times of Risk10
10	Expectations and Challenges of implementing “just-in-time” 
information availability
11	Impact of climate change on human health
12	“all-of-Society” Platforms, Strategies, Action Plans, and Implementations
13	FAIR Principles11
14	Participation Best Practices
15	Processes and Standards
16	Indigenous people Information, including aspects of Ownership
17	Safeguarding personal and societal, economic and political human rights
18	Social justice and social cohesion in knowledge society
19	Humanitarian Aid and Supply Chain disruption 20 Saving lives and 
protecting people on the move12 21 Societal Safety13
22	Reports and Documentations, reflecting on inter- ventions 
/investigations, highlighting demands, deficits and potentials, of 
actors and organizations
23	other

Website:  https://rimma.org/rimma-coe-wsis2025

Abstracts can be submitted by email to (info /at/ RIMMA.org) until Feb. 15, 
2025 of max. 2 pages A4 (including selected references)
download template https://tinyurl.com/20250215-Abstract-Template

Acceptance for oral presentation at WSIS2025 in Geneva (max. 6 
presentations of max. 10 min. / 6 slides each) will be according to UN 
requirements of considering authors region, diversity, age, vulnerable 
group as far as possible.

Priority of acceptance for oral presentation is given to those authors 
that attend WSIS2025 physically (a virtual presentation will be 
exceptional).

Abstracts can be submitted to be included in a book of abstracts to be 
compiled and published until WSIS2025.

The rapidly growing importance of the main topic of this call to society 
at large also may lead towards considering a post-WSIS2025 compilation 
of a book titled “Information Society in Times of Risk”.

For all questions contact the convener, Horst Kremers, Chair, RIMMA CoE 
(https://RIMMA.org), at (office /at/ Horst-Kremers.de)





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