The 11th Internet Governance Forum(IGF) Comes to an end  which was held from 6 to 9 of December 2016 in Zapopan, Jalisco, México. The meeting marked the first gathering of the global multistakeholder IGF community since the renewal of the IGF’s mandate for 10 years by the United Nations General Assembly at the WSIS+10 High Level Event last year. With the overall meeting theme of ‘Enabling Inclusive and Sustainable Growth’, the IGF provided a substantive platform for engaged and informed discussions about, among many other things, how the Internet can support and help to enable sustainable growth as envisaged by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
In the course of four days, more than 2000 delegates from 83 countries participated in approximately
200 sessions at the IGF, with thousands more stakeholders actively engaging online.
Marking the official ending of the IGF 2016, the Chair’s Summary has been published, stating ” The IGF is unique in the sense that it is convened by the United Nations Secretary-General to be an open,
multistakeholder forum bringing all stakeholders together as equals. Its UN mandate gives it convening power and the authority to serve as a neutral space for all stakeholders. As the community embarked on the second decade of the IGF, exchanges throughout the week recognized the important contribution the Internet makes in promoting social inclusion and economic growth. The importance of the Internet and its governance as a powerful tool to promote social inclusion and economic growth using transparent and inclusive multistakeholder approaches is clear. To promote extensive stakeholder inclusion, transcripts and webcasts from all of the sessions were made instantly available throughout the meeting. In the coming days, workshop reports and summaries of all the sessions will also be published on the IGF’s website. To complement these outputs, the Geneva Internet Platform, in cooperation with the IGF Secretariat, the Internet Society (ISOC), and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), delivered detailed and immensely useful reporting from all sessions. These summaries were published online as well as in daily printed newspapers distributed at the venue for delegates onsite. Providing even further opportunity to participate and enhance institutional memory of the dialogue that took place, all sessions were also live streamed, and session videos were instantly uploaded for online viewing. IGF social media channels such as Twitter #IGF2016 and Facebook were also particularly active during the busy week, and facilitated additional platforms for dialogue. Daily video highlight films and UN press releases were furthermore produced and made instantly available to the global media to extend the IGF’s outreach.”
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