Funding
Overview

The Internet Governance Forum is funded through donations from the various stakeholder groups. The host countries bear the majority of the costs of holding the annual IGF meeting in their country. While the IGF  Secretariat's activities are funded through extra-budgetary contributions paid into a multi-donor Trust Fund administered by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). All contributions are administered and accounted for in accordance with the United Nations Financial Regulations and Rules and other applicable directives, procedures and practices. The project expenditure is contained in the biennial Financial Report and audited Financial Statements of the United Nations. Contributions from all stakeholders are welcome.  Various stakeholders also make inkind donations. Please contact the IGF Secretariat for further information on ways to contribute, igf(at)unog(dot)ch.

 

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Host countries

Host countries bear most of the expenses of the annual meetings:

Greece, Athens: 30 October - 2 November, 2006
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: 12 - 15 November. 2007
India, Hyderabat: 3 - 6 December, 2008
Egypt, Sharm El Sheikh: 15 - 18 November, 2009
Lithuania, Vilnius: 14 - 17 September, 2010

Kenya, Nairobi: 27 - 30 September, 2011

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Donors to the Trust Fund

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)


Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Ministry of Economic Affairs of The Netherlands Ministry of Economics Netherlands
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication of the Government of Japan Logo for Japan Ministry of Internal Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway Logo of Ministry of foreign affairs Norway
European Union (EU) EU Logo
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) ICANN logo
Nominet UK Nominet Logo
Number Resource Organization (NRO) NRO logo
Verizon Foundation Verizon Logo
The Swiss Education & Research Network (SWITCH) Switch Logo
Afilias Global Registry Services Afilias Logo
UNINETT Norid UNINETT
The Internet Society (ISOC) ISOC Logo

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft - Communications
Siemens

AT&T
att logo

auDA Australia's Domain Name Administrator

auDA Australia's Domain Name Administrator Logo

Verisign

CISCO

Coordination Center for TLD RU [In Russian] Coordination Center for TLD RU Logo

 

Nic.at The Austrian Registry

 

Austrian Registry Logo

CommunityDNS

NIKKEI DigitalCORE
MCADE, LLC.

 

Summit Strategies International

ITU
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In Kind Contributions
The United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG)United Nations Geneva Logo 
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)ICANN logo
Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie- Institut Francophone des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la Formation (INTIF) [In French]IFN Logo
nic.br The Brazilian Network Information Center [In Portuguese]Brizillian Network Information Center Logo
Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology at the Luleå University of TechnologyCDT Logo
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