Internet Governance Forum 2024
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will host the 19th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Riyadh on 15-19 December 2024.
The conference will be held under the overarching theme of ‘Building our multistakeholder digital future‘ and organised around four main themes:
- Harnessing innovation and balancing risks in the digital space. This theme seeks to encourage dialogue and the sharing of success stories and best practices for maximising the benefits of digital innovation for everyone. It also highlights the collective efforts of all stakeholders in addressing the risks associated with rapid digital transformation.
- Enhancing the digital contribution to peace, development, and sustainability. This theme will investigate how digitalisation can be a catalyst for socioeconomic change and development, impacting both present and future generations.
- Advancing human rights and inclusion in the digital age. This theme will focus on innovative solutions, frameworks, and initiatives that ensure universal meaningful connectivity and safeguard human rights in the digital world.
- Improving digital governance for the Internet We Want. This theme is dedicated to finding ways to reinforce and support an open, transparent, inclusive, and bottom-up governance process for the Internet in pursuit of the vision of the Internet We Want.
The conference will be held in a hybrid format. Registration is now open.
About the IGF
The IGF is an annual UN conference that brings together stakeholders from the fields of politics, business, science and research as well as civil society to discuss current issues and topics relating to the joint shaping of the internet and the digital environment.