2017 - National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
NRIs: Role, impact and inclusiveness
Organization
National and Regional Initiatives (NRIs) have become an important part of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) family in recent years. They are frequently cited among the IGF’s success stories – giving the global IGF more influence, allowing more dynamic interchange between global and national contexts, extending the reach of multistakeholder approaches to the internet in countries where that approach might not otherwise take hold.
Themes
Preface
Organization
National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent East African IGF, to prepare for and discuss common concerns in anticipation of the global forum held later that year in Hyderabad.
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Overview
Organization
The IGF and NRIs: A high-impact outcome of an unintended consequence
Introduction
Themes
Credits
Global Information Society Watch 2017
National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
Coordinating committee
Karen Banks (APC)
Valeria Betancourt (APC)
Deborah Brown (APC)
Anriette Esterhuysen (APC)
Flavia Fascendini (APC)
Emilar Gandhi (Facebook)
Jac sm Kee (APC)
Project coordinator
Roxana Bassi (APC)
Editor
Alan Finlay
Assistant editor, publication production
Lori Nordstrom (APC)
Proofreading
Lori Nordstrom
Valerie Dee