STAY TUNED READ OUR NEWS
Apply for a Booth
The IGF 2024 Call for Village Booths - an opportunity for organizations to showcase their work with an exhibition booth inside the IGF Village - is open until 30 June.
IGF 2024 Themes
IGF 2024, "Building our Multistakeholder Digital Future", will focus on four themes related to digital innovations & risks; digital contributions to peace; human rights; and digital governance.
IGF24 Open Consultations & MAG Meeting
The First IGF 2024 Open Consultations & Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) Meeting took place 27-29 February in Riyadh. See all details and catch the meeting summary.
IGF 2024
IGF 2023 Outputs
IGF 2024
The 19th Annual Meeting of the IGF was hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 15 to 19 December 2024 in Riyadh at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center (KAICC). The meeting was held under the overarching theme of Building Our Multistakeholder Digital Future. The draft agenda is available. For participation logistics (visas, accommodation, transportation etc.), please visit the IGF 2024 Host Country website.
IGF 2023 Outputs
The 18th Annual Meeting of the IGF was held under the overarching theme, ''The Internet We Want - Empowering All People'', in Kyoto, Japan from 8 to 12 October 2023. The Summary Report, including the Kyoto IGF Messages, as well as all meeting outputs, are available.
Featured
IGF Community Updates
Donors to Trust Fund
Politecnico di Torino
Government of the United Kingdom
Community DNS
Government of Sweden
Government of Switzerland
Verisign
Brazilian Internet Steering Committee
Verizon
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) - Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS)
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
European Telecommunication Network Operators' Association
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft - Communications / Nokia Siemens Networks
Tides Foundation
AT&T
MCADE, LLC.
UNINETT Norid
Government of Finland
Government of the Republic of Korea
European Registry for Internet domains (EURid)
NIKKEI DigitalCORE
IGFSA
NIC-MEXICO
Number Resource Organization (NRO)
Ribose Inc
The Internet Society Foundation
auDA Australia's Domain Name Administrator
The Internet Society (ISOC)
Summit Strategies International
Afilias Global Registry Services
The Walt Disney Company
Nic.at The Austrian Registry
The Swiss Education & Research Network (SWITCH)
Microsoft Corporation
Government of Germany
Government of Norway
European Commission
China Energy Fund Committee
Government of the United States
CISCO
Amazon
Coordination Center for TLD RU
Government of Japan
Nominet UK
Government of Portugal - Fundacao Para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia
Government of the Netherlands
Danish Internet Forum
Quick Links
Proceedings for each of the annual IGF meetings held since 2006
BPFs provide a platform to exchange experiences in addressing Internet policy issue.
Explore dynamic coalitions. These are open, multistakeholder groups dedicated to an Internet governance issue...
The mandate of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) calls for discussing digital public policy issues in order to foster ...
The IGF Secretariat, supported by generous contributions from its donors, supports community-centred processes ...
IGF organizes National and Regional IGF initiatives (NRIs) to address more specifically the issues arising from...
The IGF is a global multistakeholder
platform that facilitates the discussion
of public policy issues pertaining
the Internet
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) serves to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, in discussions on public policy issues relating to the Internet. While there is no negotiated outcome, the IGF informs and inspires those with policy-making power in both the public and private sectors. At their annual meeting delegates discuss, exchange information and share good practices with each other. The IGF facilitates a common understanding of how to maximize Internet opportunities and address risks and challenges that arise.
