About EAIGF

The East African Internet Governance Forum is a multi-stakeholder event and is supported by East African Community Secretariat. The East African IGF, which first convened in 2008, aims at creating a community of practice that will, in the long term, become a sustaining foundation for meaningful participation of East African stakeholders in internet public policy debates at the national, regional and international level.
The EAIGF regroups East African stakeholders to build a common understanding of East Africa Internet governance issues to enable meaningful participation in global Internet policy, governance and development. The participating nations are Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi
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The EAIGF aims at creating awareness, instituting a consensus building process to develop a common understanding of East Africa Internet governance issues as well as building policy capacity in order to enable meaningful participation in global Internet policy, governance and development.
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EAIGF Objectives

Create awareness and build policy and technical capacity in order to enable meaningful participation in global internet governance and ICT Policy processes
Institute a consensus building process and develop a common understanding among East African internet stakeholders on the nature and character of IG
Provide a forum provide that engages industry, government, parliament, media, academia and civil society in debate on Internet Governance issues.
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