About Kenya IGF
Kenya IGF is the national IGF initiative (NRI) and Kenya’s premier internet policy forum. Since 2008, it has successfully held 14 annual national meetings, hosted the Global IGF Forum in 2011, and continues to open up space for new voices in internet governance.
In 2016, Kenya IGF launched the Kenya School of Internet Governance — a capacity-building programme whose beneficiaries, majority of them youth from diverse stakeholder groups, have gone on to participate meaningfully in subsequent national and regional IGF forums.
Kenya Youth IGF
Young people are the majority in Kenya, across Africa, and globally, making them key stakeholders in internet governance. Recognising this, the IGF Secretariat actively promotes youth IGF initiatives as spaces for young people to engage in substantive discussions on internet policy.
Kenya IGF is the national IGF initiative (NRI) for Kenya and has been at the forefront of open, multi-stakeholder internet governance since 2008.
Kenya Youth IGF is a youth-led initiative that coordinates, mobilises, and advocates for the meaningful inclusion of young people in the Kenya IGF process. Working in partnership with industry and other stakeholders, it addresses the internet issues that matter most to young people.
Building on the success of last year’s edition, this year’s Kenya Youth IGF will serve as an interactive platform where organised youth from all stakeholder groups can share ideas, raise concerns, and build long-term partnerships with key players across the internet governance ecosystem.
The forum upholds core IGF principles: open, inclusive, non-commercial, multi-stakeholder, and driven by a bottom-up process from the preparatory phase through to the event itself.