The longest running annual IGF is underway. Introductions are just about done and the first multistakeholder panel will examine the tricky topic 'Imperatives and Contemporary Approaches for Effective Management or Regulation of Social Media' [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/cigf2019>Today* Thursday 2nd May* to tomorrow *Friday 3rd May 2019* the *15th annual Caribbean Internet Governance Forum <https://www.ctu.int/event/15th-caribbean-internet-governance-forum/>* (CIGF2019) organized by the* Caribbean Telecommunications Union <https://www.ctu.int/> *(CTU) is taking place in *Trinidad and Tobago.* The longest running IGF in the world, as a part of the CTU’s wider *30th Anniversary Week <https://www.ctu.int/event/30th-anniversary-celebration/>*, CIGF 2019 has the theme '*Planning and sustaining the future development of Caribbean Internet Governance*' and will address contemporary topics such as data protection, network and service resilience and appropriate policies for navigating this age of social media. However, consistent with the headlined theme, there will be a special focus on enabling sustainability of the CIGF in its roles as the Caribbean’s primary multistakeholder consensus-building forum on IG matters, in fostering the development of national IGFs and in strengthening liaisons with wider regional, extra regional and global IGFs. The event will be webcast live via the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/>*. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/cigf2019 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/cigf2019>* *VIEW ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCtunion/videos <https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCtunion/videos>* *VIEW ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/pg/CaribbeanTelecommunicationsUnion/videos/ <https://www.facebook.com/pg/CaribbeanTelecommunicationsUnion/videos/>* *PROVISIONAL AGENDA: http://bit.ly/2Wkm6iA <http://bit.ly/2Wkm6iA>* *TWITTER #CIGF2019 https://bit.ly/cigf2019 <https://bit.ly/cigf2019> | #15CIGF http://bit.ly/2Wi6zjl <http://bit.ly/2Wi6zjl>* Comment <https://isoc.live/11042/#respond> See all comments <https://isoc.live/11042/#comments> *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11042/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -