Mission and objectives.
Open, inclusive and transparent dialogue on internet governance among every stakeholder in Liberia.
Mission
The Liberia IGF is a national Internet Governance Forum initiative devoted to open, inclusive and transparent dialogue on internet governance among all stakeholders in Liberia. It aims to put Liberia on the global internet governance agenda.
The Liberia IGF grew from the need to gather the country’s stakeholders in one place to discuss the current state, the needs and the emerging internet issues in Liberia. Many stakeholder groups have long been active in their own fields, but there was little collaboration between them and no bottom‑up process. The Liberia IGF learns from the best practice of the global IGF and encourages every actor to take an active part.
When selecting panels for the programme, the Liberia Multistakeholder Advisory Group (LMAG) takes a participatory approach that includes civil society, academia, and the private and public sectors, and ensures gender and generational balance.
The LMAG proposes the agenda and publishes it on this website. Before that, it meets monthly to reach consensus on the agenda and the topics.
Objectives
- Engage the community in discussing internet governance issues.
- Facilitate a multistakeholder dialogue between the different bodies dealing with the internet, to share expertise and best practice and to identify common ground.
- Highlight the importance of the internet in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).