This year, the IGF was held online, in two phases.
The IGF 2020 pre-events, newcomers sessions, thematic introductory sessions, as well as the Open Forums, NRIs and DC sessions were hosted from 2 to 6 November during the first meeting’s phase.
The meeting was officially opened on 9 November and closed on 17 November. During this 7-day phase, workshops, main sessions, the high-level leader’s track, parliamentarians roundtable and thematic concluding sessions were hosted.
For more than a decade, the Internet Society has supported multi-stakeholder Internet governance processes around the world by providing funding to the global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as well as a number of National and Regional Initiatives (NRIs), and Schools of Internet Governance (SIGs).
On Monday, 16 November, 15:40 – 17:10 UTC, Andrew Sullivan, our CEO and President, participated at High-Level Leaders Track: Social Development. This session looked into roles digital technologies and digital innovation could play for social development in various aspects.
Andrew Sullivan was talking about the fundamental properties of the Internet that allowed it to be a basis of the social development. Listen to his talk. You can also listen to Andrew’s replies to the questions asked during Q&A session.