• IFIP took part in a record seven events at the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) Forum in Geneva, Switzerland in late May. IFIP President (and former ACS President) Anthony Wong welcomed Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary General of the UN's International Telecommunication Union, and other dignitaries to the IFIP booth. IFIP was involved in sessions about uses for generative AI, as well as UNESCO panel discussions on the evolution of access to information in the past 20 years, the future of AI in judiciary systems, e-science and internet universality indicators.
  • IFIP congratulated WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and its leader Daren Tang on its first treaty to address "the interface between intellectual property, genetic resources and traditional knowledge with provisions specifically for Indigenous Peoples and communities". The treaty will require patent applications based on traditional knowledge around genetic resources to disclose the Indigenous Peoples or community which provided that knowledge. The treaty was described "a great breakthrough after a journey of 25 years" which "will mean a great deal to the Indigenous Peoples and communities of Sarawak, Borneo, Australia, the Amazon and the Americas, Africa and around the world".
  • IFIP President Anthony Wong congratulated Muhammadou M.O. Kah, Ambassador of Gambia to Switzerland and to the UN Organisations at Geneva, on his appointment as the Chair of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) at the body’s 27th Session.