AfIGF SecreteriatJune 8, 2022

African IGF 2022 Workshop Selection List

The following is the result of the workshop evaluation and selection process conducted by the Africa IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) for the 2022 Africa IGF annual meeting.

With a view to creating session issue area tracks, and reducing overall redundancy, the number of selected workshops was limited per the issue area.

The selected 47 workshops of evaluated 93 are listed below. All proposers – those approved, approved conditionally, and not approved – will receive individual emails on their status, as well as further instructions if applicable.

Affordable and meaningful access

#WS1 Internet Access and Digital inclusion in Africa: Reaching underserved communities

#WS6 Bridging the Digital Divide to Build Inclusion and Trust through Multistakeholder Processes

#WS11 Digital Rights and Inclusion

#WS16 Meaningful Access to the Internet in local languages with Universal Acceptance (UA)

#WS21 Towards an enabling policy and regulatory environment for Community Networks in Africa

#WS23 5G and African Youth

#WS31 Role of Policymakers in advancing affordable and meaningful access

#36 Digital Transformation: Inclusive, Responsible and Sustainable

#WS37 Community Networks Landscape: A Discussion on the Comparison Between the Technical and Regulatory Framework of Community Networks in Kenya and Nigeria.

Cybersecurity, privacy and personal data protection

#WS2 Digital Sovereignty In Africa : How to reach it?

#WS7 Africa Cyber Capacity Priority Needs, Future Challenges and Opportunities

#WS12 Creating Greater Digital Trust and Security Through More Effective Deployment of Internet Standards and Adoption of Best Practices

#WS17 Digital Trust Roundtable

#WS22 Empowering African Women for Cyber Security

#WS25 Protecting Tennagers on social Networks

#WS26 Exploring challenges and opportunities for building an inclusive, secure, safe and resilient cyberspace in Africa

#WS27 Privacy Policies and Practice for Children in the Digital Era

#WS32 Domain Name Registrant Rights and Responsibilities

Digital infrastructure

#WS3 Anansi and the African Content Delivery Dilemma

#WS8 Africa Health Data – Making a case for Responsible Data Sharing Agency

#WS14 Leveraging digital power innovation to scale digital infrastructure in Africa

#WS18 Africa’s Digital Dilemma : Our position on the global internet

#WS29 Emerging Institutions for Bottom-up Data Governance in sub-Saharan Africa.

#WS33 Securing the Internet of Things: Standardisation and Regulation

High-Level Session on the AU Data Policy Framework

Implementing the AU Data Policy Framework: Next Steps

Digital skills & human capacity development

#WS4 Using innovative ways to enhance digital rights advocacy at the UPR

#WS9 Digital inclusion for migrants

#WS13 Empowering Community Leaders to combat Online Child Sexual Exploitation through digital skills- Mauritius IGF Recommendations.

#WS19 Internet governance : Strategies for raising awareness and building the capacities of civil society actors in countries

#WS24 Technology innovations for Gender Equality

#WS28 Harnessing Africa’s Youth Populace for the Global Cyber Workforce

#WS34 private sector engagement

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

#WS5 Internet Developement in Africa, thinking locally acting globally

#WS10 Politicization of the Internet, implications for Africa

#WS15 EDU- ICT; Embracing ICT as a tool for Global Economic Prosperity

#WS20 Intellectual property for Agriculture

#WS30 Innovation and Entrepreneur

#WS35 Building An Innovative Ecosystem that Create opportunities for our Youth