IGF 2023 received Open Forum proposals

ITU, UNESCO, UNDP, UNCTAD

🔒UNGIS
ITU UNDP UNESCO UNCTAD UN ESCAP

🔒Argentina National Cybersecurity Direction
Olga Cavalli - Argentina National Cybersecurity Director - Government - Argentina - Latin America and the Caribbean

Osvaldo Marianetti - University of Mendoza, Argentina - Academy - Argentina - Latin America and the Caribbean

Oscar Messano - CCAT LAT - Centro de Capacitación en Alta Tecnología para Latinoamérica y el Caribe - Uruguay - Latin America and the Caribbean

Africa Union Commission
Dr. Margaret Nyambura Ndung'u, AUC-PRIDA Mr. Adil Sulieman, African Union Commission, Intergovernmental Dr. Kamugisha Kazaura, African Union Commission, Intergovernmental, Dr. Mactar Seck, UN Economic Commission for Africa, Ms. Lillian Nalwoga, Chair Africa MAG NRI Mr. Joshua Joshua, NRI

🔒UNICEF China
Organizer 1: Rui Li, UNICEF China, Intergovernmental Organization Organizer 2: Shenrui Li, UNICEF China, Intergovernmental Organization Organizer 3: Xiuyun Ding, China Federation of Internet Societies, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group Organizer 4: Yiran Xing, China Federation of Internet Societies, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group Organizer 5: Ming Yan, Communication University of China, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group Organizer 6: Rui Xiong, Communication University of China, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group (Online) Organizer 7: Zhe Li, Osaka University, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group

ICRC
Felix Linker, Researcher, ETH Zurich (online) Dr. Antonio DeSimone, Chief Scientist, Johns Hopkins APL, (onsite) Francesca Bosco, Senior Advisor, CyberPeace Institute (onsite) Koichiro Komiyama, Director of the Global Coordination Division, JPCERT / APCERT Michael Karimian, Director Digital Diplomacy, Asia and the Pacific, Microsoft Mauro Vignati, Advisor Digital Technologies of Warfare, ICRC

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Yu Ping Chan, Head, Rising Nations Initiative Secretariat (International Organization/Civil Society), Asia-Pacific
Tenanoia Simona – General Manager, Tuvalu Telecommunication Corporation (Government and Private Sector, TTC is government-owned telco), Asia-Pacific
David Lonnberg, Senior Advisor on Partnerships, Global Center for Climate Mobility (International Organization/Civil Society), WEOG
Representative of the Government of Kiribati (Government), Asia-Pacific

🔒Council of Europe
Rodica Ciochina, Council of Europe

Bureau of International Cooperation, Cyberspace Administration of China
Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies

🔒United Kingdom Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Rosalind KennyBirch (UK DSIT - Government; WEOG); Mehwish Ansari (Article 19 - Civil Society; North America)

🔒Bureau of Information Technology Development, Cyberspace Administration of China

Co-organizers

Institute of Intelligent Society Governance, Tsinghua University

Mirja Kühlewind, IAB Chair, technical community/Ericsson, Industry, WEOG

Lars Eggert, IETF Chair, technical community/NetApp, Industry, WEOG

Colin Perkins, IRTF Chair/University of Glasgow, Academia, WEOG

Suresh Krishnan, Cisco, Industry, WEOG

Dhruv Dhody (they/them), Huawei, Industry, AP (remote)

Andrew Alston, Liquid, Industry, Africa (remote)

Mallory Knodel, CDT, civil society, WEOG (remote)

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

🔒Ministry of Justice, Office of the Deputy General (International Law), Israel

European Commission
Esteve Sanz: European Commission (DG CNECT, Unit E3), Intergovernmental Organisation, WEOG Hubert Romaniec: European Commission (DG CNECT, Unit E3), Intergovernmental Organisation, EEG [online moderator and rapporteur]

Caribbean Telecommunications Union
Nia Nanan, Caribbean Telecommunications Union, Caribbean Region Rodney Taylor, Caribbean Telecommunications Union, Caribbean Region Nigel Cassimire, Caribbean Telecommunications Union, Caribbean Region Gary Kalloo, Caribbean Telecommunications Union, Caribbean Region Bevil Wooding, CaribNOG, Caribbean Region Michelle Marius, ICT Pulse, Caribbean Region

Bureau of Internet Laws and Regulations, Cyberspace Administration of China
1.Li Changxi, Director of Bureau of Internet Laws and Regulations, Cyberspace Administration of China 2.Liang Yingxiu, Dean of Law School, Beijing Normal University 3.Yang Chunyan(female), Secretary-General of the China Internet Development Foundation 4.Neil Walsh, Head of Mission and Regional Representative of UNODC for Eastern Africa 5.Wu Shenkuo, Associate Professor of Law School, Beijing Normal University 6.Ai Huizi(female), Assistant Professor of Law School, Beijing Normal University

Josianne Galea Baron, UNICEF, International Organization; Adam Ingle, the LEGO Group, Private Sector

Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD)
Tainá Flor - ANPD - Government - GRULAC (proposer) Thiago Moraes - ANPD - Government - GRULAC (Onsite Moderator) José Renato - LAPIN - Civil Society - GRULAC (Online Moderator) Cynthia Piccolo - LAPIN - Civil Society - GRULAC (Rapporteur)

🔒Netherlands Standardisation Forum
Mallory Knodel, Center for Democracy & Technology and Internet Architecture Board (IETF), U.S. Steven Tan, Cyber Security Centre of Singapore, government, Asia (still to be confirmed) Larissa Zegveld, Kennisnet and Netherlands Standardisation Forum, government, Europe Wout de Natris, Coordinator IS3C, Europe Participant from Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) (still to be confirmed) Gerben Klein Baltink, Dutch Internet Standards Platform (Internet.nl), Europe Marjolijn Bonthuis, ECP, Europe

UNICEF
Afrooz Kaviani Johnson, UNICEF, HQ (New York) Josianne Galea Baron, UNICEF, HQ (Geneva)

Session Organizer: African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)

Moderation: Dr Towela Nyirenda-Jere, Principal Programme Officer, Economic Integration Division, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)

Charline d’Oultremont, UNESCO Consultant Digital Capacity Building, Prateek Sibal, UNESCO Programme specialist Digital Innovation and Transformation, Nadine Dammaschk, GIZ, Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and digital public goods, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Gaurav Sharma, Advisor on AI, FAIR Forward: AI for All”, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

UN
Amandeep Singh Gill, UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology

Moritz Carl Fromageot, Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology

Lea Gimpel, DPGA 

Jon Lloyd, DPGA

National Information Technology Development Agency
Nigeria Internet Governance Forum MAG Nigerian Communications Commission National Information Technology Development Agency Nigeria Internet Registration Association Nigeria Data Protection Bureau

GFCE
Tereza Horejsova, GFCE, civil society, EEG Albert Antwi-Boasiako, Ghana, government, AG David van Duren, GFCE, civil society, WEOG

African Union
African Union Commission
Souhila Amazouz, Senior ICT Policy Officer, Information Society Division, African Union Commission (AUC)
Paul Kithinji, Policy Advisor, DataCipation, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

United Nations
Azin Tadjdini, OHCHR, Intergovernmental Organization Group Doaa Abu Elyounes, UNESCO, Intergovernmental Organization Group

Israeli National Cyber Directorate (INCD)
INCD - the government of Israel. WEOG

🔒Office of Competition and Consumer Protection
Martyna Derszniak-Noirjean, Director of International Cooperation Office, Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), Government, Eastern European States Piotr Adamczewski, Director of Bydgoszcz Branch Office, Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), Government, Eastern European States Ewa Sikorska, Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKIK), Government, Eastern European States Aleksandra Mrozowska-Sroka, Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKIK), Government, Eastern European States

🔒Global Affairs Canada
David Fairchild, Global Affairs Canada, WEOG Sheetal Kumar, Global Partners Digital, WEOG Ellie McDonald, Global Partners Digital, WEOG Raman Jit Singh Chima, Access Now, Asia-Pacific David Hevey, Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Asia-Pacific

GIZ
German Federal Foreign Office and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

🔒ITU
Office The Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth Office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence Against Children

🔒ICANN
Veni Markovski, ICANN, Technical Community, WEOG Vera Major, ICANN, Technical Community, WEOG Rebecca McGilley, ICANN, Technical Community, WEOG

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Global Forum for Cybersecurity Expertise, Microsoft Corporation

European Commission (DG INTPA) and consortium of Civil Society Organisations

🔒NIC.br / CGI.br
Hartmut Glaser, NIC.br / CGI.br (Moderator), technical community, GRULAC Jean Carlos Ferreira dos Santos, NIC.br / CGI.br (Speaker), technical community, GRULAC Amanda Franco, NIC.br / CGI.br (Rapporteur), technical community, GRULAC Luiza Affonso Ferreira Mesquita, NIC.br / CGI.br (Remote Moderator), technical community, GRULAC

UNCTAD (CSTD Secretariat), ITU, UNESCO and UNDP

Freedom Online Coalition; United States Government (FOC Chair 2023)

🔒UNECA
UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA (UNECA)

Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India
Yoichi Iida, Government of Japan, Deputy Director General for G7/G20 Relations - Japan Inma Martinez, Chair of the Multi-Stakeholder Expert Group Plenary at the Global Partnership on AI - Spain Alan Paic, Head of the GPAI Secretariat, OECD - France

UN ECA - United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
UNU EGOV - United Nation University - Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance 

Digital Trust and Safety Partnership
David Sullivan, Digital Trust & Safety Partnership, Private Sector, WEOG No co-organizers for this session. DTSP ED David Sullivan will be the moderator and rapporteur, supported by DTSP head of outreach and engagement Farzaneh Badiei.

UNDP:

• Robert Opp, UNDP Chief Digital Officer (International Organization, HQ/North America)
• Yasmine Hamdar, UNDP Chief Digital Office (International Organization, Middle East Region)

🔒OSCE
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Alisa Heaver, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, Government, WEOG Marjolijn Bonthuis, NLIGF, Civil Society, WEOG Hannah Boute, Electronic Commerce Platform Netherlands (ECP), Civil Society, WEOG Dorijn Boogaard, NLIGF, Civil Society, WEOG

• World Bank (Moderator)

United Nations University - CRIS and United Nations University - EGOV

• Delfina Soares, UNU-EGOV, IGO, WEOG
• Jamal Shahin, UNU-CRIS, IGO, WEOG
• Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen, UNU-EGOV, IGO, WEOG
• Nadia Tjahja, UNU-CRIS, IGO, WEOG

🔒Inter-American Commision on Human Rights
Pedro Vaca, Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression of the IACHR (OAS), Intergovernmental Organization/ treaty-based international organizations, Americas/Latin America Anna Karin Eneström, permanent representative of Sweden in the United Nations and co-facilitator of the Global Digital Compact, Intergovernmental Organization/ treaty-based international organizations, Europe María Elósegui, judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Europe. Jonathan Bock Ruíz, Director of the Foundation for the Freedom of the Press (FLIP), Civil Society, Latin America Agustina del Campo, Director at the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) at Universidad de Palermo, Civil society, Latin America. Juliana Fonteles da Silveira, Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression of the IACHR (OAS), Intergovernmental Organization/ treaty-based international organizations, Americas/Latin America

🔒U.S. Department of State
Kathryn Fitrell, U.S. Department of State (organizer, moderator); WEOG Linda Maizels, U.S. Department of State (rapporteur) Liesyl Franz, U.S. Department of State, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Cyberspace Security

🔒Youth IGF

European Parliament Delegation to the IGF 

UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
Alexandra Robinson, UNFPA, Global; Stephanie Mikkelson, UNFPA, Global; Sujata Tuladhar, UNFPA, Asia Pacific Region

German Federal Foreign Office
German Federal Foreign Office AccessNow Cyber Peace Institute Co-hosting Governments: ISR, ArG, KOR

The session is co-organized by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and IDRC (Canada’s International Development Research Center), co-Chairs of the FOC’s Funding Coordination Group, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, under the FOC Chairship of the U.S. Government in 2023.

G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance
This session will be in collaboration with Tokyo University and Infosys, two partners of the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance.

🔒Universal Postal Union
Juan Moroni, Digital Inclusion and Policy Expert, Universal Postal Union, Intergovernmental Organisation, United Nations (Moderator) Tracy Hackshaw, Chef d'Entreprise, .POST, Universal Postal Union, Intergovernmental Organisation, United Nations (co-Moderator)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze (OECD), Clarisse Girot (OECD)

UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR)

European External Action Service – European Union

Office of the Secretary-General UN Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology

African Union
African Union African Union Commission Souhila Amazouz, Senior ICT Policy Officer, Information Society Division, African Union Commission (AUC) Paul Kithinji, Policy Advisor, DataCipation, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Global Centre for Climate Mobility
David Lonnberg, Senior Advisor on Partnerships, Global Cente for Climate Mobility (International Organization/Civil Society), WEOG Yu Ping Chan, Head, Rising Nations Initiative Secretariat (International Organization/Civil Society), Asia-Pacific Hyun Kim, Senior Advisor on Programmes, Global Cente for Climate Mobility (International Organization/Civil Society), Asia-Pacific

🔒Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport
1. Heiko Wildner, BMDV, Government 2. Aishwarya Salvi, GIZ, Government 3. Tina Schams, GIZ, Government 4. Philipp Schulte, BMDV

United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs