IGF - Internet Governance Forum

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest — IGF Policy Network on Cybersecurity and Resilience (PNCR)

The PNCR is a community-driven, open process — and we're inviting stakeholders to help advance its work ahead of the IGF 2026 annual meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.

Our 2026 thematic focus: Securing Civilian Internet Access and Protection of Core Internet Resources in Contexts of Conflict and Crisis.

The PN has identified four work areas where your expertise can make a difference:

1️⃣ A multistakeholder emergency response mechanism to secure civilian Internet access in conflict and crisis

2️⃣ Normative frameworks — mapping synergies and gaps across UN norms, IHL, IHRL and Internet-community norms

3️⃣ A holistic multistakeholder approach spanning preparedness, protection and recovery

4️⃣ IGF input to the UN 1st Committee Global Mechanism on ICTs in the context of international security

Anyone can join and participate. Express your interest in one or more work areas via the form 👇.

🔗 https://form.jotform.com/262642440857057

Please share this with anyone in your networks who might be interested in the work of the PNCR.

Coming up TODAY in the SDG Media Zone!

Join Joseph Gordon-Levitt, United Nations Global Advocate for Human-centric Digital Governance, for a dialogue on how AI can be designed and governed with children’s best interests at its core.

⏰ 1 PM EDT
📺 https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1m/k1mmbf1u54

The IGF 2026 programme is taking shape. 🌍

We're pleased to announce that 80 workshops have been selected for the 21st Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Nairobi, Kenya (14–18 December 2026).

Workshops are the heart of the IGF's substantive programme — sessions where experts and participants dig into a specific Internet governance topic and open it up for genuine, multistakeholder discussion. Every submission was evaluated competitively by the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), whose members bring perspectives from all stakeholder groups and regions.

The selected workshops span five thematic areas:
🔹 Economy, Innovation & Sustainability
🔹 Governance, Cooperation & Institutions
🔹 Infrastructure, Access & Technical Foundations
🔹 Rights, Inclusion & Human Development
🔹 Trust, Safety & Information Integrity

Our thanks to the MAG for their careful work, and to everyone who submitted a proposal. View all selected workshops in detail here: https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2026-selected-workshops

👏 The IGF MAG Chair Office Hours continues!

Join the fifth session of the MAG Chair’s Open Office Hours to ask questions about IGF 2026, the programme, preparations, or ways to get involved in the IGF ecosystem.

📅 Tomorrow, 16 September, 21:00 UTC

🌍 Everyone, from everywhere, is welcome to join!

Register for tomorrow's session here: https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/mag-chair-office-hours-v

View and register for upcoming sessions here:https://www.intgovforum.org/sites/default/files/2026-09/MAG%20Chair%20Office%20Hours.pdf

🌍 IGF 2026 Second Open Consultations & MAG Meeting | Day 3 wrap-up

📍 Geneva, Switzerland & online | 9 September 2026

On the final day, the MAG brought the programme into focus.

A few highlights from the day:

🔹 Members turned to planning the IGF 2026 main sessions — agreeing on topics, objectives and their linkages across the programme, including government dialogue with stakeholders and high-level sessions.

🔹 A key discussion focused on integrating the wider IGF ecosystem into the annual meeting, followed by updates from Policy Networks, Dynamic Coalitions and NRIs, and on specialized stakeholder engagement across youth, parliamentary, judiciary, business and newcomer communities.

🔹 The meeting closed with a review of decisions and action items, next steps, and closing remarks from the Host Country and the MAG Chair.

Huge thanks to everyone who engaged and contributed, onsite and online, over three highly productive days as we advance towards the 21st Annual IGF in Nairobi.

📄 Access the agenda, documents, and records here: https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2026-second-open-consultations-and-mag-meeting