Attendance   The overall attendance with 1280 participants from 94 countries, of which 133 were media representatives, was close to that at the second annual meeting. The breakdown of participants underscored the broad support the IGF has among…

Chennai, India - Executive Vice President of Sify Technologies Limited Mr. Appasamy is the executive vice president of Sify Technologies Limited, India, and an active member of the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) eBusiness IT &…

Background   Information and participation are central to multistakeholder involvement in internet governance.  In 2008, the Council of Europe, UNECE and APC began a project to review the information and participation arrangements of different…

Council of Europe code of good practise on Internet governance, Draft agenda [pdf]Summary of on the second phase on Internet governance by the council of Europe   

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Salle XVIII  : 14:15 - 15:00The question of "security" remains a priority theme of the Internet Governance Forum. Since Athens 2006, considerable progress was made towards the implementation of a globally harmonized legal framework against…

INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM Open Consultations Geneva, 13 May 2009    Draft Agenda    1.         Adoption of the Agenda    2.         Programme and agenda of the Sharm El Sheikh meeting  3.         Workshops and other events  4.         The IGF…

The Commonwealth Secretariat has organised informal consultations on the merits of a Commonwealth IGF in room XXII from 1300 -1500 on Wednesday13 May. Former UK Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Nick Thorne, will moderate.Alice Munyua will share the…

‘An Interpol for the Internet?’[ doc ]

 The establishment of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was one of the key outputs of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), where world leaders asked the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, in an open and inclusive process,…

Workshop report: Challenges facing network operators in developing countries [pdf]. 

71. UK Best Practice session: “Partnership in Action”    Introduction   The workshop showcased real examples of how different stakeholders have addressed issues relevant to the IGF main themes.  In particular the discussion focussed on…

  The following text is excerpted from an ongoing discussion on the IGF Advisory Group mailing list. The only changes made relate to an effort to anonymize the comments in respect of the Chatham House rule and separate issues related to logistics…

Paragraph 76 of the Tunis Agenda requests the Unted Nations Secretary-General “to examine the desirability of the continuation of the Forum, in formal consultation with Forum participants, within five years of its creation, and to make…

ICANN Open Forum  [pdf]