[isoc-ny] IGF2015 – 10 to 13 November 2015 – official invitation

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If you are heading down to Brazil, please let us know. We are considering
whether we might run a remote hub for some sessions. If you are interested
in hosting a remote hub, please also get in touch.


joly posted: "From 10 to 13 November 2015 the Internet Governance
Forum (IGF) will be holding its 10th annual meeting in João Pessoa, Brazil.
The theme of the meetings will be “Evolution of Internet governance:
Empowering sustainable development”, inspired by the Unite"

[image: IGF2015] <http://www.igf2015.br/>From *10 to 13 November 2015*
the *Internet
Governance Forum <https://www.intgovforum.org/>* (IGF) will be holding
its *10th
annual meeting* <http://www.igf2015.br/> in *João Pessoa, Brazil*. The
theme of the meetings will be “*Evolution of Internet governance:
Empowering sustainable development*”, inspired by the United Nations
General Assembly Summit 2015 on adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit> in
September. *Janis Karklins*, Chair of the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory
group has issued the following invitation:

On behalf of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory
Group (MAG) I would like to extend the official invitation from the United
Nations Secretary-General
<http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf2015-invitation> which cordially invites
and encourages all stakeholders to participate in the upcoming 10th annual
meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, being held this year in the
beautiful coastal city of João Pessoa, Brazil.

IGF 2015 takes place at a turning point in the history of Internet
governance.  The ten-year review of the WSIS is an opportunity to set a
forward-looking vision for the Information Society, but also to discuss the
renewal of the IGF’s mandate. Furthermore, with the Sustainable Development
Summit, this year offers a unique opportunity for the community to
articulate the value of ICTs and the Internet in supporting a
people-centric and development oriented Information Society. Many of these
issues will be at the heart of the IGF’s discussions.

*Towards IGF 2015 Outputs*
This year some innovative processes are under way, leading to tangible
outputs:

   - *‘Policy Options for Connecting the Next Billion’* exercise, which
   aims to create better synergies and create linkages between the IGF and
   National and Regional IGF initiatives that are mushrooming around the
   world. The process that has been put in place by the MAG strives to produce
   a community driven, bottom-up developed IGF output. It is direct response
   to the recommendation of the UN CSTD Working Group on improvements of IGF
   that called for more tangible outcomes from IGF. Information on how to
   contribute to this initiative in a variety of ways can be found here
   <https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion>
   .
   - *IGF Best Practice Forums* (BPFs) are working to produce diverse
   outputs intended to become robust resources, to serve as inputs into other
   pertinent forums, and to evolve and grow over time on the subjects
of: *I. Developing
   meaningful multistakeholder participation mechanisms, II. Regulation and
   mitigation of unsolicited communications (e.g. "spam"), III. Establishing
   and supporting Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) for
   Internet security, IV. Practice to counter abuse against women online,
   V. Creating an Enabling Environment for IPv6 Adoption, VI. Enabling
   Environments for Establishing successful IXPs.* All interested
   individuals and organizations are invited to join this community driven
   work. Information on how to join and participate in the BPFs can be
   found here. <https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/best-practice-forums>
   - *IGF Dynamic Coalitions*
   <https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/dynamiccoalitions>, some of which have
   been working since the first IGF in 2006, and others who have just began
   their work on important and emerging issues related to Internet Governance,
   are open to all interested stakeholders. This year some of the IGF Dynamic
   Coalitions will be presenting their work to the broader IGF community in a
   dedicated main session. This work will be available for public comment
   <http://review.intgovforum.org/igf-2015/dynamic-coalitions/> leading up
   to the IGF.

Presence of the UN General Assembly President (or his representative), as
well as review co-facilitators (ambassadors of Latvia and UAE to UN in NYC)
at the IGF, will provide significant relevance to this multistakeholder
engagement.

Registration is now open via the IGF website
<https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf2015-registration>. More than 1,000
representatives from Governments, private sector, civil society and the
technical community, have already registered. Thousands more are expected
to join both in person and through online participation. Newcomers and
first-time IGF participants are also encouraged to participate in the work
of IGF.

We look forward to working with all of you online and seeing many of you at
the IGF in November.

Janis Karklins,
Chair of the IGF MAG

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