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IGF 2025 Call for Session Proposals
The IGF 2025 Call for Session Proposals is OPEN until 12 March 2025, 23:59 UTC. All are invited to submit under the banner theme, "Building Digital Governance Together" and four subthemes.
Calling Global South Journalists
Journalists from the Global South are invited to apply for travel support to attend the 20th IGF in Lillestrøm, Norway (23-27 June) until 7 March 2025. Details & eligibility criteria here.
IGF 2024 Outputs
IGF 2025
The 20th Annual Meeting of the IGF is hosted by the Government of Norway in Lillestrøm from 23 to 27 June 2025. The programme schedule is available. For participation logistics (venue, visas, accommodation, transportation etc.), please visit the IGF 2025 Host Country website.
IGF 2024
The 19th Annual Meeting of the IGF was hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 15 to 19 December 2024 in Riyadh at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center (KAICC). The meeting was held under the overarching theme of Building Our Multistakeholder Digital Future. The meeting outputs are available including the IGF 2024 Summary Report and Riyadh IGF Messages.
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Donors to Trust Fund
Government of the Netherlands
Microsoft Corporation
NIKKEI DigitalCORE
The Swiss Education & Research Network (SWITCH)
Coordination Center for TLD RU
Number Resource Organization (NRO)
Government of Switzerland
NIC-MEXICO
Tides Foundation
IGFSA
European Registry for Internet domains (EURid)
Amazon
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Government of the Republic of Korea
Ribose Inc
European Telecommunication Network Operators' Association
Government of Finland
The Walt Disney Company
auDA Australia's Domain Name Administrator
Government of Japan
Brazilian Internet Steering Committee
MCADE, LLC.
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft - Communications / Nokia Siemens Networks
Community DNS
Verisign
Politecnico di Torino
CISCO
Meta
UNINETT Norid
AT&T
Government of Sweden
Nominet UK
Summit Strategies International
European Commission
Government of Germany
Government of Portugal - Fundacao Para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) - Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS)
China Energy Fund Committee
Government of the United Kingdom
The Internet Society Foundation
Nic.at The Austrian Registry
Verizon
The Internet Society (ISOC)
Danish Internet Forum
Government of the United States
Government of Norway
Afilias Global Registry Services
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