Building on the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals, and the mandate given at the Second Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005, the IGF (Internet Governance Forum) is a United Nations activity initiated in 2006 as a global platform for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue on prevailing and emerging issues on Internet governance so as to foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of Internet.
Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIG) is a regional event of the Asia Pacific which basically served as a platform for discussion, exchange and collaboration at a regional level. It is an open platform of dialogue for all stakeholders in discussing their technical and other issues in context of national and regional level .
The importance of APrIGF event are
- To provide broad platform for discussion at regional level
- Better communication of ICT issues and challenges
- Easy communication and networking
- Diversify internet issues and challenges
- Collaborative approach to the problem
- Standardization of internet policy and law
- Problem identification and collaboration
- Creating values and better opportunities
- Adopting dynamics of internet
- Promoting equality and diversity among stakeholders
- Discouraging internet fragmentation
- lessening digital divide
- Promoting net neutrality
