Screenshot of WSIS web site on a phone. Heading “Gold Plus Partner”. Under that is the Saudi flag.

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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 23:36:49 JST Aral Balkan

   A friend asked if I’d join their session at the World Summit on the Information Society Forum (“building back better and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs”).

   I already had grave reservations about the UN after hearing a talk on the SDGs where they said “we should stand aside and let the tech companies solve big problems” but I thought, “let’s give it the benefit of the doubt.”

   Guess who their main sponsor is? Yep, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

   Nope!

   #WSIS #UN #whitewashing #SaudiArabia