IGF 2020 Dynamic Coalition on Schools of Internet Governance

Part of digital inclusion involves understanding how the Internet is run and how to affect the policies involved in maintaining and sustaining the Internet, which is a critical feature of modern life. The Internet contributes in one way or another in many of the efforts to achieve any of the SDG goals as well as surviving economically and culturally during a worldwide plague. Understanding it is part of digital literacy, allowing for inclusion, both in access and in policy creation.

In providing Schools on Internet Governance, the organizers of the schools are involved in widening the inclusion of people in the discussion and practice of Internet Governance. The schools provide training to many of the people who eventually become contributors and leaders of various IG organizations and policy efforts. Understanding Internet Goverance is a digital literacy requirements for anyone who would attempt to contribute to Internet governance.