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Sessions Deadline Extended!
Stakeholders now have beyond 19 May and can apply for IGF 2023 sessions, including competitively evaluated workshops, on eight subthemes, until 24 May 2023, 23:59 UTC.
Booths & Remote Hubs: Calls Open
Interested stakeholders and organizations can apply for IGF 2023 exhibition booths or remote hubs until 20 July. Read the call pages for more details!
Next MAG Meeting in Geneva
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!
IGF 2023
The IGF 2023 intersessional work and the 18th annual IGF meeting are being planned. During the First IGF 2023 Open Consultations and MAG Meeting, it was decided that the IGF 2023 overarching theme is ''The Internet We Want - Empowering All People''. The programme is developing around eight sub-themes: AI & Emerging Technologies; Avoiding Internet Fragmentation; Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Online Safety; Data Governance and Trust; Digital Divides and Inclusion; Global Digital Governance and Cooperation; Human Rights and Freedoms; and Sustainability & Environment. The Second IGF 2023 Open Consultations and MAG Meeting will take place on 10-12 July at the UN Office at Geneva (UNOG), Switzerland.
Please visit IGF 2022 Outputs for this year's Addis Ababa IGF Messages, Summary Report, individual session reports, session transcripts, reports from the intersessional work, youth and parliamentary tracks, outputs from NRIs, annual meeting photos, videos, and more.
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International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) - Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS)
Government of the United States
Government of Finland
Ribose Inc
Coordination Center for TLD RU
Brazilian Internet Steering Committee
European Registry for Internet domains (EURid)
Government of Portugal - Fundacao Para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia
MCADE, LLC.
NIKKEI DigitalCORE
Summit Strategies International
The Swiss Education & Research Network (SWITCH)
Government of the Republic of Korea
Verisign
Community DNS
Government of Switzerland
Government of the Netherlands
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Government of Norway
CISCO
Number Resource Organization (NRO)
The Internet Society (ISOC)
China Energy Fund Committee
UNINETT Norid
Danish Internet Forum
Microsoft Corporation
The Internet Society Foundation
AT&T
Afilias Global Registry Services
Tides Foundation
Nominet UK
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft - Communications / Nokia Siemens Networks
The Walt Disney Company
Nic.at The Austrian Registry
Government of Sweden
European Telecommunication Network Operators' Association
Government of Japan
IGFSA
Government of Germany
Amazon
NIC-MEXICO
European Commission
auDA Australia's Domain Name Administrator
Government of the United Kingdom
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