The Global Digital Justice Forum submitted its text proposals on the Zero Draft of the WSIS+20 Outcome document. We cautioned against an overly optimistic reading of the progress towards WSIS Commitments and urged an honest acknowledgement that a profit-centric technological revolution has failed to open up pathways for a people-led, inclusive, and development-oriented information society. Our submission calls for:

(i) Fiscal justice in the digital economy, particularly digital taxation regimes that enable developing countries to raise revenues for infrastructural and human development

(ii) Mutuality, solidarity, and the sovereign equality of all states as the foundational norms for international data governance

(iii) Protection of human rights throughout the lifecycle of digital and emerging technologies, including the rights of all those who are implicated/affected in the digital value chain and not just user rights.