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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 […]
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The Seventh Annual IGF Meeting was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 6-9 November 2012. The main theme for the meeting was: ‘Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development’. The schedule for the 7th IGF annual meeting is available at http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/2012-igfbaku
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The event was hosted and organised by AFRINIC, the Regional Internet Registry for Africa. On an average, AFRINIC-21 was attended by 227 participants. The majority of the attendees were from the Telecommunications sector. Over 170 participants attended (4) days of technical training that included RPKI, DNSSEC, IPv6 Internet Number Resource Management, IXP, Anycast and Cybersecurity. […]
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The AIS is a regional multistakeholder ICT conference that brings together participants to share their Internet-related knowledge specific to the African region. Over 500 participants from 63 economies attended over the two weeks. The program included a mix of seminars, workshops, tutorials and conference sessions, including a session on the resilience and stability of the […]
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U-FE+ResCom Two day workshop sessions with nine staff members of AFRINIC senior management, DECI-2 Africa mentors; guidelines drafted for mentoring provision, agreement on the tools and methodologies to provide the mentoring, as well as building capacity at AFRINIC on both U-FE and ResCom. Assessment of Readiness shared, identification of Primary Intended Uses with their corresponding […]
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LACNIC together with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), the NUPEF Institute, the Information Society, AHCIET, ECOMLAC, the Electronic Government and Computers National Office of Peru, the Telecommunications Ministry of the Republic of Colombia and the Internet Society (ISOC) organized the Fifth Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Internet Governance Forum which will be held in […]
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The third edition of the Africa Internet Summit (AIS), was held in the beautiful city of Tunis, Tunisia, from 24 May to 05 June 2015. The theme for the AIS’ 15 was “Beyond connection: Internetworking for African Development”. The AIS is a platform where key Internet-related development issues faced by Africa are discussed. The event […]
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The Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development 2015 (ICTD2015) maintained the commitment to a multidisciplinary, research-focused conference. Over four days, from May 15 to May 18, 2015 hosted by the Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, the conference programme included 22 papers, 49 Notes, 31 Open Sessions and 24 Demonstrations […]
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Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) is an international forum for in-depth dialogue and discussions on how a free, open and secure internet promotes human rights and development worldwide. The Forum aims to bring together policymakers, civil society representatives, activists, business representatives and technical community representatives. SIF has a standing tradition of focusing on the global south […]
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This first Africa Innovation Summit (AIS) was a catalyst event. It was an integral part of a much broader effort to build a platform for promoting innovation in Africa. The Summit laid the foundation for an ongoing multi stakeholder dialogue on innovation in Africa. All stakeholders, including policy makers, entrepreneurs, innovators, researchers, academics, and investors […]
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