Consultations

There were two rounds of consultations with regards to the convening of the first IGF:

[1] 16 – 17 of February 2006 – The first round of consultations was held in Geneva.  The transcripts for the consultations can be directly found in these links:

February 16, 2006  -  TABhttp://intgovforum.org/contributions/IGF-1-0216.txt
 TABTABTABhttp://intgovforum.org/contributions/IGF-1-021606pm.txt

February 17, 2006 -    http://intgovforum.org/contributions/UN-IGF-AM-2-17-06.txt
TABTABTABhttp://intgovforum.org/contributions/UN-IGF-PM-2-17-06.txt

[2]  19 May 2006 – The second round of consultations was open to all stakeholders and was coordinated for the preparations of the inaugural IGF meeting. The meeting chairman was Nitin Desai is the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Adviser for Internet Governance. A summary of contributions can be found in this direct link: http://intgovforum.org/Summary%20of%20discussions.htm 

The Second Meeting of the IGF 

Consultations held in Geneva last May 23, 2007 were open to all stakeholders. This consultation was part of a cluster of related events of the WSIS that took place last 15-25 of May 2007. **** http://www.itu.int/wsis/follow-up/index.html An advisory group was also facilitated for the IGF meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The IGF open Consultations held last 3 September 2007 was held in Geneva. Transcript can be found at http://www.intgovforum.org/IGF-03Sept07Consultation.txt