The WSIS+10 lessons for digital development

The United Nations Commission for Science Technology and Development (CSTD) is meeting for its eighteenth session in Geneva, 4-8 May 2015 on two themes – strategic foresight for the post-2015 development agenda and Digital Development. Its review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) outcomes is summarized in the Ten-Year Review Report. Here, adapted from a speech she gave at the meeting, LSE’s Professor Robin Mansell reflects on questions such as: to what extent have the WSIS ambitions been achieved since the summit? What has been learned? Why do new digital divides keep emerging?