Events

The 2020 African Chapters Advocacy meeting will be a series of interactive online sessions on the Internet Society 2020 projects, development and sustainability of Chapters. It will be structured as follows: 22-23 Sep (3 hours per day) dedicated to 5 of the Internet Society 2020 projects. Featured projects will include: Community Networks, Encryption, Internet Way of Networking, Measuring the Internet, and Open

If you go to visit a neighbour, you don’t travel all the way across town and then back again to get there. Yet that’s what happens with Internet traffic in many parts of the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA). An email you send to your neighbour can travel through other countries and even continents,

If there were any doubts about how critical the Internet is, COVID-19 has put them to rest – people are relying on the Internet like never before. But what about those who don't have it? The Indigenous Connectivity Summit brings together community network managers and operators, Indigenous-owned Internet service providers, community members, researchers, policy makers

IGF 2020 Theme: Internet for human resilience and solidarity This year, the IGF will be held online, in two phases. ‎ Phase One, 23 October – 6 November 2020, will include Day Zero events, introductory sessions for the four thematic tracks (Data, ‎Environment, Inclusion and Trust) as well as Open Forums, National, Sub-regional, Regional and

Virtual and In-country day convenings across Africa. Registration closed

The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) is an annual, regional, multi-stakeholder ICT conference. It is the pinnacle educational and business ICT event in Africa where key players in the Internet industry can interact with the global Internet community. Launched in The Gambia in 2012, the Summit consists of seminars, workshops, tutorials, conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather (BOFs), and

RightsCon is the world's leading event on human rights in the digital age. Originally called the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, RightsCon rotated annually between San Francisco and another global city. Now, RightsCon visits new host cities each year that are power centers for technology and human rights. Register Here

Virtual Registration not open

Join the upcoming session of the Virtual Peering Series - Africa on 3 August 2021. The focus of this session will be on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the organisation of peering forums around the world. We would like to understand how activities such as peering bilaterals and socials, which are usually heavily