IGF News

 

During the December Open Consultations and MAG meeting, discussions were initiated on defining the IGF 2015 overarching theme and sub-themes. A number of proposals for both the overarching theme and sub-themes were made during the meeting and discussions now continue via a dedicated mailing list - igf2015_themes@intgovforum.org.
Stakeholders are invited to join this mailing list and to express their support for some of the already proposed themes, to suggest revisions to these themes or to propose new themes. The deadline for such contributions is 31 December 2014.

 

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The final outcome documents of the five Best Practice Forums held at the 2014 IGF meeting are now available, together with a general overview of the process. They reflect the rough consensus views of the lead experts and contributing stakeholders and make suggestions for future work.  
1. Best Practice Forums Overview
2. Developing meaningful multistakeholder participation mechanisms  
3. Regulation and mitigation of unsolicited communications (e.g. "spam")
4. Establishing and supporting Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) for Internet security
5. Creating an enabling environment for the development of local content
6. Online child protection

 

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The tenth meeting of the IGF is scheduled to take place in João Pessoa, Brazil, on 10-13 November 2015.

 

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The first Open Consultations and Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) Meeting in the IGF 2015 preparatory process took place on 1-3 December 2014, in Geneva, Switzerland. These consultations also took stock of the IGF 2014 meeting, looking at what worked well and what did not.

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