Sesan and others will be expected to attend the 17th edition of the IGF in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from November 28 to December 2.
By Jeffrey Agbo
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has named a Nigerian, Gbenga Sesan to his first Internet Governance Forum (IGF) leadership panel.
The panel is the first for Sesan, a social entrepreneur.
The UN chief also appointed nine other high-level and eminent persons to serve on the IGF Panel for a two-year term during the 2022 to 2023 IGF cycles.
Spokesman for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric announced this at a news conference on Tuesday at UN headquarters in New York.
Dujarric said Guterres established the Panel to support and strengthen the IGF, an annual meeting to discuss public policy issues pertaining to the Internet.
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Sesan and others were appointed following an open call for nominations, and in line with “an equitably distributed, multistakeholder configuration” of representatives from Government, the private sector, civil society and the technical community, as well as prominent persons in the field of digital policy.’’
Also appointed alongside Sesan are five ex-officio members: senior representatives of the current, immediately previous, and immediately upcoming IGF host countries; the Chair of the Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group, as well as the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, Amandeep Gill.
The Internet Governance Forum is an outcome of the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WISS) that took place in 2005.
The first phase was held in Geneva in December 2003.
Sesan and others will be expected to attend the 17th edition of the IGF in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from November 28 to December 2.