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Welcome

The IGF Secretariat would like to welcome you to the IGF Web site. The design is aimed to make the site user-friendly and give it the ability to add on tools for better online collaboration. We welcome your comments and suggestions as we continuously try to improve our ability to foster dialogue on Internet governance.

 
The IGF 2010 Meeting

The fifth annual IGF Meeting will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 14-17 September 2010.

The Preparatory Process

Open consultation of 9 February 2010 to take stock of the Sharm El Sheikh meeting and discuss the agenda and the format of the Vilnius meeting.

[New] A first draft of the programme paper is available

The transcript of the open consultations are available.

The archive of the consultations are available here: http://media.lscube.org/IGF/2010/Feb_09

The consultations were followed by a meeting of the MAG on 10-11 February 2010. A summary record of the MAG meeting is available.

The following deadlines were set for the coming months:

Current Deadlines
30 March Deadline for submitting meeting/activity reports for Dynamic Coalitions.
15 April Deadline for providing proposals for workshops/best practice forums etc.
30 April Deadline for expressing interest in registering as a resource person.
30 May Deadline for completing programmes and providing speakers list.

 

[New] A synthesis paper reflecting all contributions that take stock of the Sharm El Sheikh meeting and provide suggestions for the agenda and format of the Vilnius meeting is available [pdf] [rtf].

The contributions are available here.

Written contributions are welcome and will be posted on an ongoing basis. Please send the contributions to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The next meeting will be held as a planning meeting open to all interested stakeholders and will take place on 10-11 May 2010.

A further planning meeting open to all interested stakeholders will take place on 28-29 June 2010 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

 
The IGF 2009 Meeting

The fourth annual IGF Meeting was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on 15-18 November 2009.

The completed Chairman's Summary is available here [doc].

The archive of the live webcast (main sessions and workshops) of the IGF Meeting can be found at: http://www.un.org/webcast/igf/ondemand.asp

The daily video news clips for the media can be found here.

Videos and pictures can be found in our social media section [Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube]

 

[Update] Workshop Reports  

  • Organizers of workshops and other events are kindly requested to file their reports by the new extended deadline of 18 January 2010. Submission of a report is a pre-condition for being granted a slot at the 2010 meeting.
  • Please use the Web based form for this purpose or locate your workshop in the list.
  • Submitted Workshop reports are available here.
     

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Publications

 

Internet for All

 

Download the book: 

Internet for All

The proceedings of the Third Internet Governance Forum, Hyderabad, India 3-6 December 2008

Edited by : Don Maclean in cooperation with the IGF Secretariat

(1.5MB PDF)

 

 

 Internet Governance Forum - The First Two Years

Download the book:

'Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - The First Two Years'

Edited by Avri Doria and Wolfgang Kleinwächter in cooperation with the IGF Secretariat

A UNESCO Publication for the World Summit of the Information Society - Special issue co-produced with the ITU and UNDESA(2.34MB) [pdf]