The 3rd in Columbia's Global Digital Governance webinar series. REAL TIME TEXT: https://bit.ly/3HftpSz [image: ISOC L] <https://isoc.live/16233>On *Thursday January 19 2023* at *11:00-12:30 EST* (16:00-17:30 UTC) the *Columbia Institute for Tele-Information <https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/>* presents a webinar '*Whither the Internet Governance Forum? <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-digital-governance-seminar-whither-the-internet-governance-forum-tickets-473445968637>*'. There’s been much debate both within the IGF ecosystem and among governments (including EU heads of state), and in UN SG Guterres’ *Global Digital Compact <https://www.un.org/techenvoy/global-digital-compact>* process, about the future of the IGF and whether and how it could be institutionally reformed to enhance its outputs and make them more politically salient. In 2025 the UN GA will decide on whether to renew the IGF’s mandate as part of its *WSIS+20 review proces <https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/wsis>*s. An expert panel will explore the options and prognosis. *PANEL* *Raúl Echeberría*, Executive Director of ALAI, the Latin American Internet Association (Uruguay) *Anriette Esterhuysen*, Senior Advisor for Internet Governance, the Association for Progressive Communications (South Africa) *Adam Peake*, Senior Manager for Civil Society Engagement, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (the Netherlands) *Flávio Rech Wagner*, Emeritus Professor in the Institute of Informatics, the University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre (Brazil) *MODERATOR* *William J. Drake*, Director of International Studies at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information *LIVESTREAM* http://livestream.com/internetsociety/citi-igf *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM* https://bit.ly/3QIm7u1 REAL TIME TEXT (see *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/16233>*) *TWITTER #igf @Columbia_Biz <https://bit.ly/3IZyOOT> @raulecheberria Anriette Esterhuysen @peakeaj @ICANN @flavio_wagner @ISOCBrasil @wjdrake @intgovforum #netgov* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/* <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/> *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive* <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive> *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/* <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/citi-igf <https://archive.org/details/citi-igf>* *Photo*: CC BY-SA SílviaSS Permalink https://isoc.live/16233 -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -