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IGF 2022 Themes
IGF 2022 will focus on the overarching theme "Resilient Internet for a shared sustainable and common future". Five constituent themes have also been selected.
IGF Newsletter: February 2022
Explore developments from the last month - including on IGF 2022 planning - and read up on what's to come. Everything is gathered in one place with the IGF newsletter.
IGF 2022 NRIs Call for Grants
All eligible national, regional, sub-regional and youth IGFs are invited to consider applying for financial grants to support implementation of their IGF processes. Deadline: 20 March.
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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
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