#digicoop5a: We recommend that, as a matter of urgency, the UN Secretary-General facilitate an agile and open consultation process to develop updated mechanisms for global digital cooperation, with the options discussed in Chapter 4 as a starting point.

We suggest an initial goal of marking the UN's 75th anniversary in 2020 with a “Global Commitment for Digital Cooperation” to enshrine shared values, principles, understandings and objectives for an improved global digital cooperation architecture.

As part of this process, we understand that the UN Secretary-General may appoint a Technology Envoy.


A recommendation on Global Digital Cooperation, affecting the global society (macro).


Source: The Age of Digital Interdependence, Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, June 2019, url (Available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian) (Twitter: @UNSGdigicoop)