Internet Governance Forum

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was established on the basis of a decision by the World Information Summit, held from 16 to 18 November 2005 in Tunis, in 2006, to create a platform for discussion on the issues of Internet governance.

Background

Issues related to Internet Governance heat for several years tempers. After a process with two consecutive world summits of the United Nations on the subject of the information society and the months-long work of an expert group (Working Group on Internet Governance - WGIG ) did not yield any agreement on the concrete future design of Internet governance, agreement was reached on the World Information Summit in Tunis to call on the compromise, the Internet Governance Forum in life.

Delegates from 174 countries agreed not to touch the responsibility of the DNS in the conflict between the U.S. and other countries on the management of the Internet, currently by the American non-profit organization ICANN ( Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ) under supervision by the U.S. Department of Commerce is performed. In contrast to, as part of a multi-stakeholder approach, as a platform for discussion on these and other issues in an international public interest - eg serve the IGF - fight spam and cybercrime or a revision of the system of interconnection charges.

Schedule

Convening of the IGF

The Secretary-General of the United Nations was on 18 July 2006 announced the convening of the IGF.

Meeting of IGF

The Greek government was the host of the first meeting of the IGF in the period from October 30 to November 2, 2006 in Athens.

  • 2007: Rio de Janeiro

The meeting was held in November 2007 at the invitation of the Brazilian government in Rio de Janeiro.

  • 2008: Hyderabad

The Indian government had invited for the year 2008, the IGF hold between 3 and 6 December in Hyderabad.

  • 2009: Sharm El Sheikh

The IGF 2009 took place at the invitation of the Egyptian Government from 15 to 18 November, 2009 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

  • 2010: Vilnius

The IGF 2010 took place from 14 to 17 September in Vilnius, Lithuania.

  • 2011: Nairobi

The IGF 2011 was held from 27 to 30 September in Nairobi, Kenya instead.

  • 2012: Baku

The IGF was held in 2012 to 9 November 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan on 6.

  • 2013: Bali

The IGF 2013 took place from 22 to 25 October in Bali, Indonesia instead.

  • 2014: Istanbul

The IGF 2014 will be held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Tasks and mandate

The Internet Governance Forum is to have only an advisory role and provide opportunities for exchange between stakeholders from countries, international organizations, private sector and civil society, but have no binding powers. Details of the tasks contained in the final document Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, paragraphs 29-82, (in particular paragraphs 72-82 ). Paragraph 72 describes the mandate of the forum. This is:

  • Discuss issues in the public interest with respect to key elements of Internet governance to assist with the aim of the persistence, robustness, security, stability and the further development of the Internet;
  • The exchange of views between the institutions promote that deal with various cross international public rules relating to the Internet, as well as the discussion of topics that do not fall within the remit of existing facilities;
  • Accommodate connections with the relevant intergovernmental organizations and other institutions on the issues with which they are entrusted;
  • Promote exchanges of information and experience, taking full advantage of expertise of academic, scientific and technical communities;
  • All stakeholders to advise with suggestions for ways and means to accelerated provision and affordability of the Internet in developing countries;
  • Strengthen the commitment of stakeholders in existing and future Internet governance mechanisms and improve, especially for representatives of developing countries;
  • Identify new issues, raise awareness of the relevant institutions and the public and, if appropriate, to make appropriate recommendations;
  • Contribute to the improvement of knowledge and skills on Internet governance in developing countries, making full use of local sources of knowledge and expertise;
  • Promote a continuous manner the embodiment of WSIS principles in Internet governance processes and evaluate;
  • Inter alia, the issues of critical Internet resources discuss;
  • Help to find solutions to the issues that arise, result from the use and misuse of the Internet, especially for the users; and
  • Publish its history logs.

Topics

The IGF (2012 ) focused on the theme: ". Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development "

Program for Athens

The program of the first Internet Governance Forum foresaw that initially four main topics should be covered:

  • Openness (Openness ) - Freedom of expression, free information and knowledge dissemination, and access to information and knowledge
  • Security ( Security ) - Protection against viruses, spam and phishing, in compliance with data security and privacy
  • Diversity (diversity ) - Lots of language capability of the Internet, international domain names, local content
  • Access (Access) - costs for Internet connectivity, interoperability and open standards

All priorities should be doing the cross-cutting capacity building combine to allow certain actors - for example, developing countries - at all can only meaningful part in the discussion.

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