MAY 2022 / THE IGF NEWSLETTER
IGF 2022 Call for Session Proposals: Deadline Extended
Applications Open for IGF Village Booths
Intersessional Activities & NRIs
Capacity Development: Workshops Coming near You…
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The Internet Governance Forum Secretariat is funded through donations from various stakeholder groups. While host countries bear the majority of the costs associated with holding the annual IGF meeting, the IGF Secretariat's…
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Stakeholders are invited to apply to organize different types of sessions at IGF 2022 within the deadline: 10 June 2022, 23:59 UTC. Proposals should focus on the five themes of the meeting, held under the overarching theme, Resilient…
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Organizations interested in arranging Pre-events or 'Day 0' Events are invited to submit requests for a session slot through the application e-form.
Pre-events will be held on the day before the official 17th IGF programme…
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All recognized DCs are invited to submit requests for a session slot through the application e-form.
Dynamic Coalitions use individual sessions to discuss issues related to their DC topic and any work they wish to…
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Networking sessions are interactive gatherings of stakeholders interested in the same or a similar issue on Internet governance. Their open (in the case of face-to-face events - open-seating) formats are spontaneous and can serve as…
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Lightning talks are brief, to-the-point, prepared presentation on a specific Internet governance issue.
Stakeholders with demonstrated interest in Internet governance and who can clearly outline the Internet governance-related objective to be…
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These types of sessions serve to present and discuss Internet governance academic and/or research initiatives or outputs such as research or think tank work, to launch Internet governance-related books and similar. Proposals should clearly …
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Town Halls are interactive sessions organized by entities dealing with Internet governance-related issues of international scope. Through town hall sessions, stakeholders exchange views on topical and even controversial Internet governance issues.…
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Open Forums are interactive sessions organized by government, treaty-based international organizations, and global organization with international scope and presence, with operations across regions, dealing with Internet governance issues. Open…
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All stakeholders are invited to submit proposals for workshops at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) through the workshop application e-form. The deadline is 10 June 2022, 23:59 UTC.
Five Themes…
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‘Gbenga Sesan is the Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative, a pan-African social enterprise working on digital inclusion and digital rights through its offices in Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Prior to starting…
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Lise is Director General of ETNO, the Association representing Europe’s leading telecom operators, which she joined in 2016. Lise is the Chairwoman of the Boards of Public Interest Registry (.org domain name registry) and the Public Technical…
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Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist | Google
Vinton G. Cerf co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet and is Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is a former member…
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