Credits

Global Information Society Watch 2017

National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)

Coordinating committee

Karen Banks (APC)

Valeria Betancourt (APC)

Deborah Brown (APC)

Anriette Esterhuysen (APC)
Flavia Fascendini (APC)

Emilar Gandhi (Facebook)

Jac sm Kee (APC)

Project coordinator

Roxana Bassi (APC)

Editor

Alan Finlay

Assistant editor, publication production

Lori Nordstrom (APC)

Proofreading

Lori Nordstrom

Valerie Dee

2017 Special Issue - Internet governance from the edges: National and regional IGFs in their own words

National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs) emerged in response to the success of the first two global Internet Governance Forums (IGFs). The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, the outcome document of the final phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), alongside the call for the creation of the IGF, served as the foundations for the model of bottom-up, multistakeholder internet governance.