Gbenga Sesan, a Nigerian, has been appointed to the inaugural leadership panel of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
For social entrepreneur Sesan, the panel is his first.
The head of the UN also named nine additional high-level and distinguished individuals to the IGF Panel for a two-year term during the IGF cycles from 2022 to 2023.
Stéphane Dujarric, the Secretary-spokesperson, General’s made this announcement on Tuesday at a press conference held at the UN’s New York headquarters.
According to Dujarric, Guterres formed the Panel to assist and strengthen the IGF, an annual conference for discussing Internet-related public policy concerns.
Sesan and others were chosen after an open request for nominations and in accordance with “an equitably distributed, multistakeholder configuration” that included leaders in the fields of government, business, civil society, and technology.
Along with Sesan, five ex-officio members were also appointed: Amandeep Gill, the Secretary-Envoy General’s on Technology, the Chair of the Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group, and senior officials from the current, recent, and forthcoming IGF host nations.
The World Summit on the Information Society (WISSTunis )’s phase, which took place in 2005, produced the Internet Governance Forum.
Geneva hosted the first phase in December 2003.
From November 28 to December 2, Sesan and others are anticipated in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, for the 17th IGF.
