WPF participating in T20 Indonesia inception conference: Realizing inclusive recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic

The T-20 is a formal multi-stakeholder organization that feeds into the G20 each year. This year, Indonesia is the host for the G20 and the T20.

WPF has been invited to participate in this year’s T20 inception conference as a research group. The conference will be held over two days on 9 and 10 February. in Indonesia and virtually.

More about T20:

The Think20 (T20) is the official engagement group of G20 bringing together leading think tanks and research centers worldwide. It serves as the ‘ideas bank’ of the G20 and aims to provide research-based policy recommendations to the G20 leaders. At the current affairs where we witnessed uneven economic recovery, the rise in inequality, and global frictions that call for global coordinated actions, the 2022 T20 has become ever more important.

Last year, the World Privacy Forum participated in the C20, or Civil 20 regarding issues of data governance, privacy, and digitalization. WPF co-hosted a C20 webinar on digitalization and gender with ADC, based in Argentina.

The T20 Inception Conference is by invitation only. For more information about T20, see http://www.t20indonesia.org/about/.

WPF will be posting updates about the discussions during the conference.

Posted February 8, 2022 in COVID-19, Future of Privacy, T20

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