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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>Bangladesh Initiative for Unified Voices on Global Digital Compact &</b></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bangladesh Initiative for Connecting, Empowering & Amplifying Unified Voices on Global Digital Compact & Summit of the Future
2024 is going to organize a day-long Bangladesh preparatory consultation on Global Digital Compact & Summit of the Future 2024 on 27 March in Dhaka.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Mr. Masud Bin Momen</b>, Foreign Secretary (Senior Secretary), Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh will be
participating as the Chief Guest and </span></p>
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</b>Resident Representative, UNDP Bangladesh will be participating as the Guest of Honor in the consultation.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bangladesh Initiative for Unified Voices on Global Digital Compact & Summit of the Future 2024, under the auspices of the
Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF) & Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC), has been actively engaging stakeholders since 2022. This engagement encompasses a wide array of actors, including Parliamentarians, Government officials,
the UN system, private sector representatives, technical communities, civil society organizations (CSOs), academia, and youth communities.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Building upon this initiative, and with active support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNDP, BIGF & BNNRC are set
to convene the National Consultation on the Global Digital Compact: "An Open, Free, and Secure Digital Future for All" alongside the UN Summit of the Future 2024: "Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow. </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> The event will bring together relevant government, civil society, youth, academia, and private sector stakeholders in consultation
with the objectives to sensitize and engage Government and multi-stakeholder about the Global Digital Compact and Summit of the Future 2024, to identify the role of Government & multi-stakeholder and create a shared vision of the challenges, priorities & way
forward for Bangladesh.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The consultation will be structured into three thematic panel sessions, mirroring the thematic priorities identified in the
Bangladesh Initiative modality. The thematic sessions included: panel one- UN SG’s Report on Our Common Agenda and Global Digital Compact, Panel Two - UN Summit of the Future 2024 and Panel Three Bangladesh Way Forward.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">With support from UNDP, a consultation on the Digital Compact was organized last year to solicit inputs from Parliamentarians.</span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>For More Information</b>: A H M Bazlur Rahman, Executive Coordinator, Executive Secretariat, Bangladesh Initiative for Connecting, Empowering & Amplifying Unified Voices at Global Digital Compact and Summit of the Future
2024, E-Mail: <a href="mailto:ceo@bnnrc.net" id="OWAadf144b6-8d52-e377-ffbd-8a1c400e16bb" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
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