News 22 November 2019

Messages from the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) France 2019

The 2019 edition of the French Internet Governance Forum (IGF), held on July 4th at Paris Descartes University, intended particularly to flesh out the orientations of the Paris messages decided during the IGF “The Internet of Trust” in November 2018 and to bring new messages to the table at both the European - for instance at Eurodig (June 2020) - and global level during the November 2019 edition of the IGF in Berlin. The 12 workshops at the IGF France resulted in 47 key messages to be delivered at the Internet Governance Forum 2019 in Berlin.

Established by the World Summit on the Information Society, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is an innovative space for dialogue, which brings together State representatives, actors from the technical community, the private sector and members of the Internet civil society from around the world.

The IGF aims to address, through collective and in-depth reflection, the governance issues of the Internet.

A global event, the IGF has been adapted to regional, subregional and national levels in order to address specific issues and sustain international reflection through the themes and conclusions of each meeting.

The IGF France 2019 was the opportunity to bring together more than 1,000 participants and to hold a multi-stakeholder debate with a strong European focus on digital rights and uses as well as on the future of the Internet, carried out through four tracks: “For a responsible digitization”, “Digitally divisive or digitally inclusive?”, “The Internet: between governance and regulation” and “Data at the core of digitization”.