The ICANN85 Community Forum will be held from 7 to 12 March 2026 in Mumbai, India, with both in-person and online participation available. The meeting website is now live, and registration is open for all attendees. Participants planning to join on-site must register by 6 March 2026. As the final ICANN Public Meeting before the [...]
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will host two events in Accra, Ghana, on 9 and 10 December 2025 under the titles Africa Engagement Forum and the Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum. These events bring African stakeholders into dialogue on internet governance, technical innovation, and the future of the DNS. The Africa Engagement Forum [...]
The AU-EU Civil Society and Youth Forum will take place from 20 to 21 November 2025 in Luanda, Angola. The event will be held in English. This Forum brings together 100 representatives of civil society and youth from Africa and Europe. Its purpose is to encourage dialogue, share perspectives on key regional issues, and develop [...]
The United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) will convene its 2025–2026 inter-sessional panel on 17 November 2025 in Room XVI at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The gathering will bring together government delegations, international organisations, technical experts, and other stakeholders to examine this year’s priority theme: how science, technology, and [...]
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs will hold a virtual stakeholder consultation on the revised draft outcome document (Rev1) for the WSIS+20 review on 14 November 2025 at 8:00 a.m. EST. The meeting follows General Assembly resolution A/RES/79/277 and provides an opportunity for governments, international organisations, the technical community, private sector actors, [...]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will hold the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2025 (WTDC-25) in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 17 to 28, 2025. Hosted by the Government of Azerbaijan, the event will bring together representatives from governments, regulators, industry, academia, and civil society to discuss priorities for advancing global telecommunications and digital development. WTDC-25 will [...]
Bread&Net, SMEX’s annual digital rights unconference for West Asia & North Africa, returns in person to Beirut from Wednesday 29 to Friday 31 October 2025. The three-day programme features hands-on workshops, panels, and community sessions across tracks including digital rights 101, privacy and data governance, freedom of expression and information controls, surveillance and transnational repression, [...]
The 18th edition of the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Governance Forum (LACIGF) will take place on 5–6 November 2025 in Córdoba, Argentina. The event is organised by the Multistakeholder Committee (MSC) of LACIGF, in coordination with the Technical Secretariat led by Colnodo, and hosted by Civic House, whose proposal was selected through an open [...]
The 124th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will take place from Saturday, November 1, to Friday, November 7, 2025, at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in Montreal, Canada. The event will bring together global experts from academia, industry, and the technical community to advance open standards and protocols that make the internet [...]
In the lead-up to the IV CELAC–EU Summit (9–10 November 2025), the LAC–EU Civil Society Forum will bring together civil society organisations from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the European Union to exchange perspectives on shared global challenges and bi-regional cooperation. Building on the 2023 EU–Latin America & the Caribbean Forum: Partners in Change, this [...]
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
