What are the IGF Best Practice Forums?
2016 IGF Community Activities: Modalities and Timeline(s)
IGF Best Practice Forums (BPFs): A Participants Guide
About
A report produced by the UN General Assembly Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Working Group on Improvements to the IGF called for the development of more tangible outputs to ‘enhance the impact of the IGF on global Internet governance and policy’. To enrich the potential for IGF outputs, the IGF has developed an intersessional programme of Best Practice Forums (BPFs) intended to complement other IGF community activities. The outputs from this programme are intended to become robust resources, to serve as inputs into other pertinent forums, and to evolve and grow over time.
BPFs offer substantive ways for the IGF community to produce more concrete outcomes. While BPF outcomes have already been useful in informing policy debates, they are also viewed as iterative materials that are not only flexible but also ‘living’ in the sense that they can be updated at any time to accommodate the pace of technological change faced by internet policymakers. BPFs have the freedom to define their own methodologies; tailored to each theme’s specific needs and requirements. The term ‘best’ in BPFs should be interpreted lightly because the topics of BPFs often relate to themes that need to be addressed in a flexible manner in order to accommodate the pace of technological change.
2016 THEMES
The MAG agreed on five themes for the 2016 Best Practices Forums, namely:
- IPv6 (continued from 2015)
- IXPs (continued from 2015)
- Gender and Access (Building on 2015 BPF on Countering Online Abuse Against Women Online)
- Cybersecurity (new for 2016)
- Anti-Corruption (new for 2016)
Summary Report: 2016 IGF BPF Coordination Meeting 11 August 2016
2016 Mailing Lists
2016 BPF on Gender and Access:
https://www.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_gender_intgovforum.org
2016 BPF on Cybersecurity:
https://www.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_cybersec_2016_intgovforum.org
BPF on IXPs (2015-2016):
http://mail.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_ixps_intgovforum.org
BPF on IPv6 (2015-2016):
http://mail.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_ipv6_intgovforum.org
2016 BPF on Anti-Corruption
http://www.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_anticorruption_intgovforum.org