The 13th annual African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG) will take place from 23 to 28 May in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania immediately prior to the African IGF 2025 from 29 to 31 May.
AfriSIG 2025 is convened by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), the Information Society Division of the African Union Commission (AUC) and Research ICT Africa (RIA) in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the UN Internet Governance Forum Parliamentary Track.
In addition to providing an overview of internet and digital policy, in Africa and globally, AfriSIG 2025 will continue having a strong focus on data governance. It will include a special focus on the 20-year review of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS+20).
For more information on #AfriSIG25, contact the AfriSIG organisers, Anriette Esterhuysen and Peace Oliver Amuge, at afrisig@apc.org
About AfriSIG25
AfriSIG25 will take place over the course of five days as an intensive residential, interactive learning and knowledge-sharing event that will cover:
- Digitalization, sustainable development and digital inequality/inclusion.
- The internet governance ecosystem from a multilateral and multistakeholder perspective.
- The African institutional context at national, regional and continental level. This will include looking at the AU and its digital transformation strategy, Regional Economic Communities, and regional bodies such as the African regional internet registry (AfriNIC) and the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights.
- Roles of government, parliaments, intergovernmental forums, UN agencies (e.g. UNESCO, and the ITU), regulators,, civil society, business, academia and the technical community.
- Open internet architecture, infrastructure, standards and protocols and management of internet names and numbers.
Internet governance and social issues: gender diversity and equality, human rights, political participation and access to information.
- Data governance: Data protection, privacy, the African Union Data Policy Framework, data flows, data and digital trade, data sovereignty and data sharing.
- Cybersecurity, trust and safety.
- Content regulation: self-regulation, oversight boards, national regulation,
- Misinformation and disinformation, and cross-border content regulation and jurisdiction.
- Emerging issues: Artificial Intelligence, climate change, digital sovereignty and the geopolitics of internet governance.
- Current processes and debates, e.g. WSIS +20, the Global Digital Compact and the Summit of the Future, the Open Ended Working Group on international cybersecurity, and more.
