IGF 2025

1. Session Concept

For the past two years, the continuous multistakeholder public debate on meaningful access is taking into account the Global Digital Compact, the deliberations from NETMundial+10, and the WSIS+20 and IGF+20 processes. In parallel to positioning the policy network in these discussions, the PNMA aims to assist and advocate with partner institutions/organisations for the implementation of the policy solutions previously identified, while monitoring ongoing experiences and welcoming new practices.

During the 2025 process, the expansion of advocacy and consolidation of the policy network continues, with close assistance of the Leadership Panel and IGF Secretariat, so the impact of good practices is amplified. The PNMA offers itself as a benchmark for the implementation of the GDC’s meaningful access objectives. Moreover, its output report will be a public portfolio of knowledge and activities that the PNMA can engage on and contribute to the WSIS+20 process and onwards to GDC implementation. The setting up of said report will start at the Plenary Session, observing the following action points:

Develop the PNMA’s unique value proposition (UVP) within the WSIS+20 process: define the benefits of the policy network in a clear manner, explaining to the audience its benefits in different technical/layman formats, why it is different from the rest, and why the internet governance ecosystem needs it.
IGF 2025 Norway, as a halfway milestone to the WSIS+20 High Level Meeting, will work as a consultation phase to our work. We shall use the PNMA Plenary session to tackle the defined goals for the year, showcasing both the UVP knowledge and community practices that could become “proof of concepts” for Meaningful Access policies.
Outputs of the IGF 2025 PNMA Plenary session:
List of possible proof of concepts raised by the community prior to the event;
List of suggestions/collaborations/challenges/concerns raised by the community during the event;
Publication of a PNMA Roadmap towards the 2025 Output Report and the WSIS+20 High Level Meeting.
With the close assistance of the IGF Secretariat and the Leadership Panel, debut a permanent dialogue between the PNMA community and regional and global actors (such as the EU, the AU, the OAS or others) to encourage projects’ replication and scaling - activities shall continue throughout the year until the publication of the output report scheduled for December 2025.
IGF 2025 sub-theme: [Building] Universal Access and Digital Rights



2. Line-Up

PNMA Chairs: Hon Alhagie Mbow (MAG) and Mr. Giacomo Mazzone (Independent)
Onsite Moderation: Ms. Margaret Nyambura Ndung’u (Independent) and Ms. Judith Hellerstein (DCAD)
Online Moderation: Ms. Dikchya Raut (IGF Youth Nepal) and Mr. Roberto Zambrana (ISOC Foundation)
​​​​​PNMA Focal Point and Rapporteur: Ms. Daphnee Prates Iglesias (UN IGF Consultant for Meaningful Access)

Special Guest: [remote] Mr. Vint Cerf – Chair, IGF Leadership Panel

Speakers:

[Pacific / Government - remote] Ms. Shiva Burgos - Special Envoy for Papua New Guinea on Art, Office of the Prime Minister, The Mariwai Project
[International Organizations] Mr. Guilherme Canela de Souza Godoi - Director, Division for Digital Inclusion and Policies and Digital Transformation, and Secretary of the Information For All Programme (IFAP), UNESCO
[WEOG / Global CSOs] Ms. Joyce Dogniez - Vice President of Empowerment and Outreach, Internet Society Foundation (ISOC Foundation)
[WEOG / Technical Community] Mr. Børre Gaup - Senior Engineer, Divvun / UiT The Arctic University of Norway
[Africa / NRIs] Mr. Poncelet Ileleji - Focal Point, Gambia NRI / Jokkolabs Banjul
[Africa / Global CSOs] Ms. Onica N. Makwakwa - Executive Director, Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (GDIP)
[Africa / Global CSOs] Ms. Josephine Miliza - Policy and Regulation Lead, Local Networks Initiative, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
[Latin America / CSOs] Mr. Fabio Senne - Coordinator, Regional Center of Studies for the Development of the Information Society, (Cetic.br) / Nic.br