The Kenya Internet Governance Forum (KeIGF) will be held this Thursday 1st Aug 2024 in Nairobi.
First held sixteen years ago, the KeIGF forum aims to bring together different stakeholders that include but are not limited to academia, government, regulators, media, civil society, private sector, and youth to discuss contemporary issues related to the internet.
This year’s KeIGF 2024 Agenda is expected to be exciting and insightful. It will be graced by high-level speakers, panellists and participants drawn from across the above stakeholder communities to unpack various thematic domains such as:
- Building Kenya’s Multi-Stakeholder Digital Future
- Digital Public Infrastructure for Economic Development and Sustainability.
- Fostering a secure and resilient digital economy
- Fostering international cooperation for a secure and open Internet
- Technology facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) and Child Exploitation
- Fireside Chat: Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies
Regional and Global linkages
Just like past KeIGFs, the deliberations and resolutions from the forum are expected to feed into the EA Africa IGF, and the Africa IGF and subsequently be presented in December 2024, at the global IGF to be held in Riyadh, Arabia.
As is the norm, the Kenya IGF was preceded by various activities, such as the Kenya School of Internet Governance (KeSIG). Now in its eighth year, KeSIG is the premier academy for cultivating future Internet governance professionals who can engage meaningfully at local, regional and global levels to ensure the Internet is governed for the good of all stakeholders.
Many graduates of KeSIG continue to be leading catalysts for meaningful change as far as digital rights, online and other freedoms are concerned.
Youth IGF
Similarly, the Youth IGF, now in its 4th edition, aims to ensure a healthy pipeline of future talent in the internet governance space. Quite in line, but ahead of the current GenZ movement, the Kenya Youth IGF is a timely, youth-led movement aiming to develop the capacity for coordinating, mobilizing and advocating for meaningful inclusion and engagement of young people in Internet governance.
The time for the Youth is now, and the KeIGF realized this several years ago.
Make sure you diarize August 1st 2024 and propose to attend, an action-packed, Kenya’s premier, Internet Governance Forum that will be delivered both online and in-person.
John Walubengo is an ICT Lecturer and Consultant. @jwalu.
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