The Chair of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021-2025 (OEWG), Ambassador Burhan Gafoor of Singapore, prepared the Zero-Draft of the first annual progress report. The Zero-draft should serve as a starting point for discussions, with an intent for the OEWG to adopt its first annual progress report by consensus at the end of the third substantive session of the OEWG, 25-29 July 2022 in New York.

According to the Chair, the Zero Draft is intended to be a balanced text that captures the range of concrete ideas and proposals raised during the first and second substantive sessions, and to provide a framework for more focused and in-depth discussions on the topics under the OEWG mandate, thus serving as a roadmap for future work in 2023.