The African Union Commission (AUC) is organizing the Seventh African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF 2018) in Khartoum, Sudan, with the generous support and hosting by the Government of Sudan. Theme: “Development of the Digital Economy and Emerging Technology in Africa”. For more Information Visit: https://www.afigf.africa/
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 conference on human rights in the digital age, brought to you by Access Now. It bring together business leaders, policy makers, general counsels, government representatives, technologists, and human rights defenders to tackle pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and digital technology. Read more
Join the Internet Society for a virtual conversation about fostering Infrastructure and Technical Communities.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes to make the Internet work better. The IETF is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. The Internet Engineering
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names And Numbers (ICANN) holds periodic public meetings three times a year and these meetings are rotated between continents for the purpose of encouraging global participation in its processes. These meetings have been central to ICANN since its formation in 1998. The ICANN public meetings provide an opportunity to solve
The first exchange in the Virtual Peering Series – Africa looks at the Effects of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) on the African Internet space. COVID-19 took the world by surprise and has significantly impacted almost every aspect of our society. From working from home, remote learning to everything we have accepted in the past few months as new life
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
