The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on July 12, 2018 constituted a High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation.
The panel will be co-chaired by Melinda Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Jack Ma, Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group. The Panel has a total of 20 members, representing a cross-section of expertise from Government, private industry, civil society, academia and the technical community.
The Panel will hold its first in-person meeting in September 2018 and is expected to submit its final report to the Secretary-General within nine months.
Terms of Reference of the panel
• The Panel has been mandated to contribute to the broader public debate on the importance of cooperative and interdisciplinary approaches to ensure a safe and inclusive digital future.
• The Panel will map trends in digital technologies, identify gaps and opportunities, and outline proposals for strengthening international cooperation.
• The Panel will identify policy, research and information gaps, and make proposals to strengthen international cooperation in the digital space.
• The Panel will undertake public consultations, including at least two public events and an open process inviting global inputs through online engagement activities beginning from September 2018.
• All the Panel members shall serve in their personal capacity, not as representatives of their respective institutions or countries.
• The panel will be supported by a small Secretariat funded by donor resources, and will be based in New York and Geneva.
• The panel will meet twice; first in New York in September 2018 during the UN General Assembly, and then in Geneva, Switzerland in January 2019.
Members of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation
| Members | Country | Post |
| Melinda Gates (Co-Chair)
| United States | Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Jack Ma (Co-Chair) | China | Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group |
| Mohammed Al Gergawi | United Arab Emirates | Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, UAE |
| Yuichiro Anzai | Japan | President of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
| Nikolai Astrup | Norway | Minister of International Development, Norway |
| Vinton Cerf | United States | Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google |
| Fadi Chehade | United States | Partner at ABRY Partners |
| Isabel Guerrero Pulgar | Chile | Director, IMAGO Global Grassroots and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School |
| Marina Kaljurand | Estonia | Chair of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace |
| Bogolo Kenewendo | Botswana | Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry, Botswana |
| Akaliza Keza Ntwari | Rwanda | Advocate And Entrepreneur, ICT |
| Marina Kolesnik | Russian Federation | WEF Young Global Leader |
| Doris Leuthard | Switzerland | Head of the Federal Department of the Environment and Communications, Switzerland |
| Cathy Mulligan | United Kingdom | Visiting Research Fellow, Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency |
| Edson Prestes | Brazil | Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul |
| Kira Radinsky | Israel | Director of Data Science, eBay |
| Nanjira Sambuli | Kenya | Digital Equality Advocacy Manager, WWW Foundation |
| Sophie Soowon Eom | Republic of Korea | Founder of Adriel AI and Solidware |
| Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | Australia | Secretary General, CIVICUS |
| Jean Tirole | France | Chairman of the Toulouse School of Economics and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse |
| Amandeep Singh Gill (Ex Officio) | India | Executive Director, Secretariat of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation |
| Jovan Kurbalija (Ex Officio) | Serbia | Executive Director, Secretariat of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation |
| Note |
| The constitution of this panel comes approximately after a year of consultations involving a team of more than 120 Member States, industry and civil society. The group noted that amid the increasing influence of digital technologies in everyday life from cyber-attacks to fears of election-tampering, there is an urgent need to address the potential effects on people’s social, economic and human rights. |
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