Agenda
IGF 2014 sub theme that this workshop fall under IGF & The Future of the Internet Ecosystem |
Description The African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF) was launched on 30 September 2011, at a workshop organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC) held during the 6th IGF in Nairobi, to act as a platform for an inclusive multilateral, multi-stakeholder and multilingual discussion on issues pertinent to the Internet in Africa in general and Internet Governance issues in particular. As stated in its terms of reference, the AfIGF shall meet every year at different venue in each region and at the IGF venue and wherever possible during Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) consultation which are held between two Internet Governance Forum. |
Name(s) and stakeholder and organizational affiliation(s) of institutional co-organizer(s) Moctar Yedaly, African Union Commission |
Has the proposer, or any of the co-organizers, organized an IGF workshop before? yes The link to the workshop report http://www.uneca.org/afigf |
Type of session Group Word |
Duration of proposed session 90 minutes |
Subject matter #tags that describe the workshop #AfIGF , #security, #DNS, #access, #diversity |
Names and affiliations (stakeholder group, organization) of speakers the proposer is planning to invite Moctar Yedaly, African Union Commission , Y |
Name of Moderator(s) Auguste Yankee, AUC |
Name of Remote Moderator(s) Mactar Seck, UNECA |
Description of how the proposer plan to facilitate discussion amongst speakers, audience members and remote participants A panel of discussants drawn from the UNECA, AUC, ICANN and AFRINIC will provide a short statement for ten-minutes each on the each issues to be followed by a fifty minutes open discussions and come up with possible recommendations on the way forward. ECA, AUC, Afrinic and partners will arrange for remote participation with prior announcement and sign-up to the session for participants who may not be able to physically present during IGF2014 and attend this meeting. |
Description of the proposer's plans for remote participation There will be live tweeting of the event from the @afrigf handle and participants will be welcome ton contribute either on the official webex platform or on Twitter. |
Background paper No background paper provided |