Below is the list of members of the IGF Leadership Panel, each appointed by the UN Secretary-General to a two-year term, as well as the Panel's ex-officio members. More information on the configuration of the panel is available in the Terms of Reference. 

DC-Environment

The second planning meeting of the Dynamic Coalition on Environment will be hosted on 4 May 2022 at 13:00 UTC. The meeting is open to everyone to participate.

Draft agenda:

  1. Welcome and introductions
  2. DCE structure – three co-chairs 
  3. IGF 2022 DCE Action Plan
    • Main topics and objectives/activities and timeline as per inputs from the google doc
  4. DCE session at IGF 2022 in Ethiopia (deadline to submit a proposal is 3 June 2022)
  5. AoB

Join Zoom Meeting https://intgovforum.zoom.us/j/96034656611

 

Capacity Development Workshops in 2022

IGF at West African IGF in Accra, Ghana
Towards an inclusive IGF 2022‎

 26 May 2022, 10:00-11:00 UTC
Accra, Ghana
Airport View Hotel, room 2 and online

IGF at WSIS in Geneva, Switzerland
Road to the 17th IGF in Addis Ababa

IGF 2022 workshop at EuroDIG

EuroDIG 2022

Internet governance within the system of United Nations: is IGF on a good path to adapt, innovate and reform?
 

20 June 2022, 16:30-18:00 CEST
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
SISSA Main Auditorium, Zoom link TBC


Much on digital policy and related processes is happening across the United Nations system. The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is actively working on ‘adapting, innovating and reforming’. It recently concluded its second retreat, the Expert Group Meeting, from which a number of action points are subject to implementation and expected to trigger a change. In addition, as a concrete action point from the Roadmap for Digital Cooperation, the IGF has reformed its structure by introducing the Leadership Panel. What to expect from the Panel?

The Secretary-General went steps further the Roadmap by issuing its Our Common Agenda Report. Can this vision for ‘’reinvigorating multilateralism’’ trigger re-energization of multistakeholderism? What are the Global Digital Compact and Summit of the Future about and how can all stakeholders be part of them including those gathered around various intersessional processes of the IGF?

Format
This will be an open, interactive, roundtable exchange between those working directly on the above-mentioned UN processes and those contributing or wishing to contribute to it. It will be an opportunity to challenge the status quo and provide creative ideas to strengthen the existing processes.

The proposed draft agenda of the session is:

  • WSIS+20 – where do we stand today? How much has Internet governance changed? How much has IGF changed? Will the IGF 2022 in Addis Ababa be the change we want to see? How can the IGF feed into the WSIS+20 review process?
  • IGF in the context of the implementation of the Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation – what’s been done so far and where people can contribute? ‎
  • Can we hope for better days if the Our Common Agenda is implemented? What is the concrete plan for the Global Digital Compact and a vision for the Summit of the Future? ‎What role could the IGF play?

Further reading

IGF 2022 Workshop at WSIS

Updates on IGF 2022 processes will be shared and discussed during the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2022 on Friday 3 June 2022 at 11:00-12:45 CEST.

This session will bring together the hosts of the IGF and other participating stakeholders to discuss expectations from the IGF. It will also describe how people can follow and join IGF discussions. Particular aspects to be addressed relate to: ‎

  • Why does IGF matter to all stakeholders from all countries and regions: governments, businesses, ‎civil society and technical communities? ‎
  • Digital policy challenges and how IGF can add to a more safe, secure and prosperous digital ‎environment 
  • IGF on its way to Ethiopia and Japan 

Book your calendars now https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2022/Agenda/Session/352