In order to build a long-term engagement between various communities and Internet Governance Forum (IGF), as well as to build and strengthen the overall capacity on Internet governance processes at the local and with that the global levels, the capacity development workshops are organized in close collaboration with the community, which can include the NRIs or schools on Internet governance, among others.
Overall, the objectives to achieve through the workshops relate to:
- Long-term engagement of the traditionally un(der)represented communities at the IGF in its intersessional work streams and annual meeting
- Strengthening of the multistakeholder multiregional participation in IGF’s processes
- Providing more visibility to the intersessional workstreams of the IGF
The workshops are usually hosted on the margins of the national or regional NRIs meetings. The planning for IGF 2024 is underway and a regular update is provided below. The past workshops archives are also available.
IGF 2024 CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS |
January-March 2024 |
IGF 2024 Parliamentary Track Workshop I organized by the IPU in collaboration with UNESCO and IGF Secretariat Parliaments and AI: Going beyond the buzz: A changing landscape: an overview of recent advances in artificial intelligence 22 January 2024 at 14:00 UTC Hosted online |
IGF 2024 Parliamentary Track Workshop II organized by the IPU in collaboration with UNESCO and IGF Secretariat Parliaments and AI: Going beyond the buzz: The emerging impacts of artificial intelligence on society 15 February 2024 at 09:00 UTC Hosted online |
IGF 2024 Parliamentary Track Workshop III organized by the IPU in collaboration with UNESCO and IGF Secretariat Parliaments and AI: Going beyond the buzz: Global responses to emerging advanced artificial intelligence technology 6 March 2024 at 14:00 UTC Hosted online |
IGF 2024 Parliamentary Track Workshop IV organized by the IPU in collaboration with UNESCO, the ITU and IGF Secretariat Artificial Intelligence 25 March 2024 at 15:30 UTC Hosted at IPU Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland |
April-June 2024 |
Workshop co-organized by MAG WG-Youth and IGF Secretariat |
IGF 2024 Youth Track Workshop I hosted at EuroDIG and European Youth IGF (YOUthDIG) AI and Threats: new strategies to detect AI-generated political deepfakes 17 June 2024 | 14:15-15:30 CET | WS Room 2 Vilnius, Lithuania & online Register to participate |
July-September 2024 |
IGF 2024 Youth Track Workshop II hosted at Youth Asia Pacific regional IGF (APrIGF) AI and Education: ChatGPT use in schools and AI capacity development 21 August 2024, time to be confirmed Hosted onsite at APrIGF and online |
October-December 2024 |
IGF 2024 Youth Track Workshop III hosted at Youth Latin America and the Caribbean IGF (LACIGF) AI and Digital Literacy Place to be confirmed & online Time to be confirmed |
IGF 2024 Youth Track Workshop IV hosted at the African IGF |
IGF 2024 Global Youth Summit |
IGF 2024 Newcomers Track Orientation Session for the first time participants Hosted at the 19th annual IGF meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 16 December 2024, time and room to be confirmed |
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