The IGF 2023 Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity is holding its kickoff call Tuesday May 2, 7:00-8:00am UTC. The coordinating team will share the proposed work plan, discuss next steps, and explain how community members and stakeholders…

The Youth Coalition on Internet Governance (YCIG) is producing a biweekly round-up of all the updates and opportunities in the youth NRIs community! Read the 26 April edition here, and stay up to speed with future editions posted on ycigweb: …

Internet Standards, Security & Safety Coalition (IS3C), an IGF dynamic coalition, is organising a webinar on Education and Skills on cyber security education, Wednesday 24 May at 14.30 UTC. What are the challenges faced? How to align the demand…

This year the Moldova Internet Governance Forum will be held as a hybrid meeting (in-person and online) on April 27 and 28. Digital resilience is identified as the headline theme for MIGF 2023.  Anyone interested in discussing current…

The Bangladesh Youth IGF are excited to announce the 3rd Youth Internet Governance Forum (Youth IGF) in Bangladesh. The event will take place on May 25-27, 2023, and will bring together young people, policymakers, academics, civil society…

The Internet Standards, Security & Safety Coalition (IS3C) has started an Advisory Panel on the creation of an advisory list with must-deploy Internet standards and ICT best practices to use when procuring ICTs. The coalition is searching for…

The IGF Policy Network on Internet Fragmentation is holding its Kick-off call for the 2023 cycle on 26 April at 14:00-15:00 UTC. All are invited! To join: https://intgovforum.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpdOivrDkpE9WU9gjJAmlkKtVrrO-5E5u2 To…

The Second IGF 2023 Open Consultations and Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) Meeting will take place on 10-12 July at the UN Office at Geneva (UNOG). Save the date!

Asia Pacific yIGF and Netmission.Asia-initiated Asia Pacific Policy Observatory has recently published a report about rights, privacy, and freedom in the digital age, with an overview of online safety regulations in Australia, Nepal, and Myanmar…

Safer Internet Day has been celebrated worldwide on February since 2004, with around 180 countries and endorsing the event. This year, to mark the occasion, Youth IGF Nepal and members of the Digital Freedom Coalition organized a High-level Panel on…

The 12th African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF-2023) will be held in a hybrid mode and continue discussions begun in 2022. A special emphasis will be placed on UN Digital Initiatives and their relevance to the AU Focus on 2063. The Multi-…

See the video address to the First IGF 2023 Open Consultations and MAG Meeting from UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Junhua Li. 

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) convenes yearly on Day 0 of the IGF to bring scholars together to present and discuss research on Internet Governance topics. GigaNet have opened their call for extended abstracts and look…

Join the Secretariat: We're hosting a briefing session on IGF Japan at the 2023 WSIS Forum in Geneva. The session takes place Friday 17 March, 10-10:45 CET. More details below. 

The IGF 2023 overarching theme is "The Internet We Want - Empowering All People". Eight sub-themes accompany the theme. Read more below!