IGF 2025 Newcomers Orientation Session
For those participating for the first time at the IGF, this newcomers track session will provide an overview of the IGF's structure and process modalities. It will also focus on the IGF 2025 and ways to participate meaningfully.
IGF 2025 Global Youth Summit: Too Young to Scroll? Age verification and social media regulation
As digital platforms become integral to daily life, especially for young people, ensuring safe and age-appropriate online experiences has emerged as a global priority. Governments around the world are exploring developing regulatory frameworks aimed at protecting youth from harmful content, while striving to balance safety, security, and the protection of human rights and freedoms. Recent legislative efforts increasingly focus on age verification requirements for social media and adult content platforms.
Multistakeholder digital governance beyond 2025
The multistakeholder approach has long been central to Internet governance, particularly within the United Nations context.
The below listed sessions are organized in a bottom-up manner by a network of national, regional, sub-regional and youth IGF initiatives at IGF 2025, as per Guidelines for the NRIs sessions.
PNMA Meeting V
The fifth meeting of the Policy Network on Meaningful Access will be hosted online on 04 June 2025 at 16:00 Universal Time UTC.
This call is open to anyone interested to join as an observer.
Preliminary Agenda:
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PNMA Plenary Session: updates on logistics, concept note, identification of the speakers and cases/studies (proof of concept)
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PNMA Roadmap towards WSIS+20 High Level Meeting
- Defining MVP (Minimum Viable Product) or MVB (Minimum Viable Brand)
- Key Messages from the Plenary to the High Level Meeting
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AOB
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PNMA Meeting IV
The fourth meeting of the Policy Network on Meaningful Access will be hosted online on 26 May 2025 at 17:00 Universal Time UTC.
This call is open to anyone interested to join as an observer.
Preliminary Agenda:
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PNMA Plenary Session: updates on logistics, concept note, identification of the speakers and cases/studies (proof of concept)
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PNMA Roadmap towards WSIS+20 High Level Meeting
- Defining MVP (Minimum Viable Product) or MVB (Minimum Viable Brand)
- Key Messages from the Plenary to the High Level Meeting
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AOB
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The General Assembly resolution 70/125 on the “Outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society” (WSIS) calls for the convening of a General Assembly high-level meeting in 2025 to conduct a comprehensive