Session
Roundtable
Duration (minutes): 60
Format description: The adoption of the roundtable format and the setting of a one-hour meeting duration are conducive to the creation of an atmosphere of equality and openness of exchange, while also helping to ensure the efficient and fruitful output of the meeting.
The rapid global advancement of artificial intelligence technologies has exerted profound impacts on economic and social development as well as human civilization, bringing tremendous opportunities to the world. However, with the explosive growth of the new generation of AI technologies, emerging issues such as ethical controversies, security risks, and privacy breaches have posed significant risks to economic development and social operations. Closely aligned with the theme of the 20th United Nations Internet Governance Forum, the theme of this open forum is Building an International AI Cooperation Ecosystem Based on Extensive Consultation, Joint Contribution, and Shared Benefits, which addresses two critical dimensions: fostering a sound policy environment for AI and building an innovative cooperative ecosystem for AI. It aims to provide valuable insights and solutions for promoting international AI cooperation and nurturing a thriving AI development ecosystem. By jointly constructing a community of shared future in cyberspace, this initiative seeks to contribute to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
1) The Session has an onsite moderator and online moderator, each is responsible for moderating the onsite and online speakers and attendees. And both moderators will ensure all speakers and attendees no matter online and onsite will have the equal opportunity to speak, raise questions and engage in each session of the workshop. 2)The session will be moderated by the online and onsite moderators. The moderators will invite each speaker to express their views on a set of questions and guide the debate amongst speakers and the audience, moderators will invite questions from the onsite audience and online participants, the question time will last about 20 minutes in order to provide sufficient interactions amongst speakers, audience and online participants. 3)The social media platforms including WeChat, Youtube, X, Facebook and Weibo etc., will be used to increase the participation and to carry out online streaming of the session.
- Cyberspace Administration of China, Bureau of International Cooperation
- Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
- Office of Information and Communication Technology Policy, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- China Academy of Information and Communications Technology
- Internet Society of China
- Beijing Normal University
- telecommunications operators
- Internet companies
I. Time and Venue
16:00-17:00, 24 June, 2025 (Norway time)
Workshop Room 5 Hall C, NOVA Spektrum, Lillestrøm
II. Host:
Bureau of International Cooperation, Cyberspace Administration of China
III. Theme
Building an International AI Cooperation Ecosystem Based on Extensive Consultation, Joint Contribution and Shared Benefits
IV. Agenda
Moderators:
Xu Peixi, Professor & Director, Global Internet Studies Center, Communication University of China(offline)
Li Weiwei, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (online)
1. Opening Remarks(5 minutes)
Qi Xiaoxia, Director-General, Bureau of International Cooperation, Cyberspace Administration of China
2. Keynote Speeches (5 minutes per speaker)
Session 1: Fostering a favorable policy environment for AI development
Jovan Kurbalija, Executive Director of the UN Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, Founding Director of the Swiss Foreign Foundation, and Head of the Geneva Internet Platform
Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Professor Emeritus, the University of Aarhus
Luigi Gambardella, President of ChinaEU
Dai Wei, Deputy Secretary-General of Internet Society of China & Deputy Director of China IGF
Session 2: Building an AI Innovation and Cooperation Ecosystem
Sajid Rahman，Board Member of ICANN
Ricardo Israel Robles Pelayo, Professor of the Banking and Commercial School of Mexico
Dai Lina, Deputy Director and Researcher of the Institute of Journalism, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Wu Shuyan, Deputy Director of User and Market Research Department, China Mobile Research Institute, Member of the First International Governance Promotion Plan/Industry Promotion Plan of the Artificial Intelligence Committee, World Internet Conference
3. Wrap-up (5 minutes)
Xu Peixi, Professor & Director, Global Internet Studies Center, Communication University of China
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17. Partnerships for the Goals
Targets: Closely aligned with the theme of the 20th United Nations Internet Governance Forum, this open forum addresses two critical dimensions: fostering a sound policy environment for AI and building an innovative cooperative ecosystem for AI. It aims to provide valuable insights and solutions for promoting international AI cooperation and nurturing a thriving AI development ecosystem. By jointly constructing a community of shared future in cyberspace, this initiative seeks to contribute to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Report
The Open Forum “Building an International Al Cooperation Ecosystem”, hosted by the International Cooperation Bureau of the Cyberspace Administration of China, was held on June 24, 2025 in Lillestrøm, Norway. Nine speakers shared their insights regarding two topics: “Fostering a Favorable Policy Environment for AI Development” and “Building an AI Innovation and Cooperation Ecosystem”.
The following are the main viewpoints put forward by the panelists：
- It is important for us to stay focused on sustainable development and ensuring technology for good, to make proactive responses to risks and challenges and ensuring AI safety and controllability, and to foster consensus on AI governance and deepening collaborative governance.
- Tackling new challenges brought by AI requires joint efforts of governments, international organizations, enterprises and scientific institutions to develop open, fair, and efficient AI governing mechanisms, so as to minimize possible negative impacts while fully amplifying and accelerating the positive effects of AI.
- AI should be used for achieving SDGs, but we should also use SDGs to govern AI. We need bottom‑up AI. It is proposed to insist on the shared weights, and to insist that the UN develops opensource AI models for the UN activities.
- If AI is a global problem, we need all countries on the table, and only the United Nations offers this opportunity.
- The full potential of AI can only be unlocked if we create a framework that fosters innovation while promoting cooperation across borders, sectors, and disciplines.
- We believe that only by uniting all stakeholders, government, industry, universities, and civil society can we harness the potential of AI while managing these risks.
- It's not whether we should cooperate. It's if we do it wisely enough to steer toward the greatest aspiration rather than the greater fears.
- Building a strong ecosystem involves three key pillars, including regulatory development, digital infrastructure and international cooperation.
- There are five key pathways to build an innovative ecosystem, including strengthening top‑level design, improving the AI industrial change and the innovation collaboration ecosystem, deepening industry-academia-research integration, driving AI innovation through industrial integration ecosystem development, deepening international cooperation.
- Al is driving a new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation. Looking to the future, we need to uphold the principles of joint consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits.
