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July Newsletter
In the latest IGF Newsletter: information on open calls, intersessional news, & a new section on UN digital stories - among much more! Read below.
African Parliamentary Takeaways
Read the Key Takeaways from African parliamentarians' Digital Policy Symposium, on Internet fragmentation legislation to strengthening Africa's digital economies.
MAG Nominations 2023
The Secretariat has now opened the call for nominations to appoint members to the 2023 IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), until 5 September 2022.
IGF 2022
Preparations
The 17th annual IGF meeting will be hosted by the Government of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa from 28 November to 2 December 2022 on Resilient Internet for a Shared Sustainable and Common Future. The IGF 2022 Call for Session Proposals, focused on the programme's five themes, was open until 10 June. All session proposals received have been published. IGF 2022 intersessional work is also underway.
Preparations for IGF 2022 are ongoing. The First Open Consultations and MAG Meeting was held online from 23 to 25 February. It discussed the calls for feedback & improvements, as well as the call for thematic inputs. The Second IGF 2022 Open Consultations and MAG Meeting was hosted at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 6 to 8 July 2022.
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IGF 2021 Outputs
The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was hosted by the Government of Poland under the overarching theme: ‘’Internet United’’
IGF 2021 Summary Report: Internet United
The IGF 2021 Summary report outlines key highlights of the IGF 2021 process and 16th annual IGF meeting. It also contains the thematic messages.
Messages from Katowice IGF and other IGF 2021 outputs
- IGF 2021 Summary Report and Katowice IGF Messages
- Parliamentary Track output document (also available in French and Spanish)
- Summary of the IGF 2021 High-Level Exchange Panels and of Global Youth Summit
- Session reports and transcripts
- IGF 2021 statistics, photos and videos
Click here to see more including the high-level addresses, press releases and other outputs
Donors to the Trust Fund
Community DNS
Microsoft Corporation
Government of Sweden
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
China Energy Fund Committee
Amazon
The Internet Society Foundation
Government of the United Kingdom
UNINETT Norid
AT&T
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft - Communications / Nokia Siemens Networks
Nominet UK
CISCO
NIKKEI DigitalCORE
Tides Foundation
Nic.at The Austrian Registry
European Telecommunication Network Operators' Association
European Commission
The Walt Disney Company
Verisign
Verizon
Afilias Global Registry Services
NIC-MEXICO
Government of Germany
The Internet Society (ISOC)
MCADE, LLC.
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) - Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS)
Ribose Inc
Coordination Center for TLD RU
Number Resource Organization (NRO)
Summit Strategies International
European Registry for Internet domains (EURid)
Government of Switzerland
IGFSA
Brazilian Internet Steering Committee
Government of Japan
Politecnico di Torino
Government of the Republic of Korea
Danish Internet Forum
The Swiss Education & Research Network (SWITCH)
Government of the United States
Government of Norway
Government of Finland
Government of the Netherlands
auDA Australia's Domain Name Administrator
Government of Portugal - Fundacao Para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia
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