The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) serves to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals in discussions on issues pertaining to the Internet.
At the annual IGF event, participants discuss, exchange information and share good practices. The IGF helps to facilitate a common understanding of how to maximize Internet opportunities, and address existent and foreseeable challenges, through a bottom-up, multistakeholder, open, transparent and inclusive manner.


The SS-IGF is a multi-stakeholder forum for public policy dialogue on issues of Internet Governance in South Sudan. It brings together all stakeholders in the Internet governance debate, those representing the government, the private sector, the civil society, the technical community, and the academic community, on an equal basis and through an open and inclusive process.

It is mandated to be a discussion forum for facilitating dialogue between the Forum’s participants. The SSIGF may identify existing and emerging Internet-related public policy issues, bring them to the attention of the relevant authorities and the general public, and, where appropriate, make recommendations to the relevant authorities. The SS-IGF does not have any direct decision-making authority.

The SS-IGF is part of the hierarchy of Internet Governance Forums (IGF) where at an International level there is the global IGF that was established by the United Nations in July 2006. At a continental level there is the African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF), and at a regional level, the SS-IGF falls under the East Africa Internet Governance Forum (EAIGF).