Four contributions WSIS 2026. One consistent purpose: bringing perspectives from practice, and from the Balkans, into global conversations shaping our digital future.
At WSIS Process 2026, my participation unfolded across four connected roles: as an independent session organizer and moderator, a Mentora+ exhibitor, a speaker contributing to the Women & Girls Digital Empowerment Plan, and a nominee for the WSIS Women & Girls Trendsetter recognition.
This carried particular meaning for me: our session was the only independently organized WSIS session from the Balkans, while Mentora+ was the only exhibitor representing the region.
On the opening day, I organized and moderated a session bringing together educational, psychological, legal and practice-based perspectives on inclusive digital education.
At its centre was a question that continues to guide my work:
What needs to be addressed first,before content, before features, for learning to become genuinely possible for children who face additional barriers to participation?
Through the WSIS exhibition, we presented Mentora+, a model developed through direct work with children, families and educators in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bringing it from Banja Luka to Geneva demonstrated that locally developed, practice-based solutions can contribute meaningfully to global conversations on inclusive technology.
I also contributed to the WSIS Women & Girls Trendsetters session, helping to shape the Women & Girls Digital Empowerment Plan. There, I shared a conviction that connects my work with both children and women:
Opportunity matters. But empowerment becomes sustainable when people no longer see themselves as guests in the spaces where decisions about their future are being made.
Being nominated for the WSIS Women & Girls Trendsetter recognition gave this experience additional significance, not only as a personal milestone, but also as greater visibility for women technology leaders and locally developed solutions from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider Balkan region.
The Samit also created valuable opportunities to connect with ITU leadership, representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and participants from around the world.
I am deeply grateful to panelist JFL - Dr John Francis Leader Milos Cizmovic Sanja Hunyadi Mikael Hermansson for bringing their expertise and perspectives to the session, and for helping us approach digital inclusion as the complex, multidisciplinary issue it truly is.
I returned from Geneva with new connections and possibilities for collaboration, but also with a strengthened belief:
Meaningful global participation does not require us to leave our local realities behind. It asks us to bring them to the table, and demonstrate why they matter.
