WSIS+10 Series: Reflections on the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)

With the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) up for renewal in December this year, the 10th annual IGF taking place this week in João Pessoa, Brazil, is happening at an interesting time for the future of the Internet governance landscape. While ongoing deliberations seem to support the extension of the IGF’s mandate for another ten years, there will only be certainty about the IGF’s future at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+10 High Level Meeting in New York, a UN-led review of the progress made on internet governance issues in the decade since WSIS.