The Kenya YouthIGF is a youth-led structure to develop the capacity for coordinating, mobilizing, and advocating for meaningful Inclusion and Engagement of young people in the internet governance ecosystem, especial- ly at the Kenya Internet Governance Forum- Kenya’s Premier Policy Platform. Following the success of last year’s edition, this year’s Kenya YouthIGF aimed at serving as an interactive discussion platform for organized youth participation from all stakeholder groups to bring up their ideas and concerns. The Forum further created opportunities for networking, collaboration, and creating long-term partnerships between key stakeholders and the community.

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The 2022 theme was “Resilient Internet for a shared sustainable and common future”. The participants at this meeting consisted of 280 individuals in person and 220 attending virtually via Zoom Webinar, Facebook Live, and Livestreamed on KICTANet’s YouTube channel. The participants were drawn from various sectors including government, the private sector, civil society, the technical, academic community, and the general public.

KICTANet has continued to convene the KIGF over the years and in line with the tradition, it organized the 2020 annual forum. In collaboration with Communications Authority (CA), Facebook, Safaricom, KENIC, Association of Progressive Communications (APC), and Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), hosted the Kenya Internet Governance Forum (KIGF) on October 29th, 2020. The forum themed ‘Internet for Human Resilience and Solidarity’ was hosted virtually with CIO East Africa providing the online platform, and attracted over 300 participants from the region.

The 5th edition of Kenya School of Internet Governance (KeSIG) took place from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th October 2020. The programme comprised a three-day training where the KeSIG fellows were introduced to the basics of internet governance as well as topical and emerging issues in Kenya. Thereafter, fellows attended the Kenya Internet Governance Forum (KIGF) that also took place online on the fourth day.

2019 KIGF was held on August 1st 2019, at the Nairobi Sarova Panafric Hotel. It was a culmination of the activities of KIGF week that commenced on July 29th 2019 under a theme: One Kenya. One Net. One Vision. The Kenya Internet Governance Forum (KIGF) is an annual meeting held in line with the multi-stakeholder internet governance approach. It brings together various stakeholder groups to dialogue on internet governance and policy issues through an open and inclusive process. KIGF stakeholders are the government, the private sector, civil society, the technical and academic community, media and the public.

Kenya School of Internet Governance Social media report 2018

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Kenya Internet Governance Report 2017

Kenya School of Internet Governance report 2017