IGF Community Site

The IGF Community Site at igf-online.net has been the only independent, community-developed website for IGF participants since 2007, operated without any funding or support from the IGF Secretariat.
This year, we bring you another new feature. All event pages for which an event-specific hashtag is available now tell you what hashtag to use, and give …

About 90% of the accounts on this site, and a similar number on our associated wiki, have just been deleted as they were presumed to have been registered by spammers. This did not include any of the accounts that had shown signs of legitimate activity, such as posting a comment, blog entry or profile information.
Nonetheless, …

I have just added the means for you to connect to the IGF community chat room using Jabber.  Jabber is supported by many common chat programs, including iChat, Google Talk, Adium, Pidgin, Psi, Trillian and others.
This means there are now three ways to connect to exactly the same chat:

Using Jabber, join a group chat at …

Here is a quick walkthrough highlighting the features of this site, which was originally posted to the Internet Governance Caucus mailing list:

Begin at https://igf-online.net/.  The menu bar that runs across the top links you to all the official and community resources you need for this year’s IGF.  If it’s not in your preferred language, try …

One of the objects of igf-online.net is to bring together all useful Internet resources on the IGF, whether they come from the community, or from the Secretariat or host country, and whether or not they are hosted on this domain. One way in which this is done is through the technology of RSS (Rich …

Since last year’s IGF Community Site was lost, we faced the prospect of requiring everyone to register again. To minimise this pain, both the blog section of igf-online.net (that you are reading now) and also the wiki section, allow you to log on with an OpenID.
What is an OpenID? It is a system which …

Although it is not the most accessible technology for group interaction, the virtual world Second Life has proven to be a popular meeting place for many Internet users. Some of them will be meeting in Second Life during the IGF, at the Internet governance courtyard of Diplo Foundation’s Diplomacy Island. For this year …

Each day during the Rio IGF meeting, a new tip will be posted here on ways of participating remotely through the resources that have been provided by the IGF community.
Today’s tip tells you how you can subscribe to a live calendar of IGF events in your desktop calendar program, such as Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, …

Welcome to the IGF Community Site; an unofficial resource for the use of all IGF stakeholders. Use the menu at the top of the page to see all the available resources, or sign in here (using an OpenID if you have one) to post a blog entry or comment.
If you know of another resource …