IGF and NRIs
2025 | Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy Hong Kong
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IGF
Internet Governance Forum
Encouraged development of multistakeholder processes at national, regional and international levels to discuss and collaborate … (Para. 80)
We ask the UN Secretary-General, in an open and inclusive process, to convene, by the second quarter of 2006, a meeting of the new forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue—called the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
Tunis Agenda (Para. 72)
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2000
WGIG
2004
2003
Geneva Declaration of Principles
2005
Tunis Agenda
2010 now
2015
2030
2006 now
UN SG’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation
2020
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2021
Global Digital Compact
2024
2025
2014
Open and Transparent
Inclusive
Non-Commercial
Bottom-up
Multistakeholder participation on an equal footing
NRI: National and Regional Initiatives
2011: 31 total
2015: 37 total
2016: 79 total
2025: 176+
Organic
Independent
No hierarchy
NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL
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