Nepal Internet Governance Forum is an initiative of the Internet Governance Forum with the overall concept of multistakeholderism and Internet for development and growth. The Nepal IGF declaration was signed on 21 February 2017 where a multistakeholder steering committee (MSG) has been formed for the commencement of the Nepal IGF in June 2017.

Signatories of Nepal IGF

Name Stakeholder Affiliation Birendra Kumar Mishra Government Department of Information Technology Ananda Raj Khanal Government Nepal Telecommunication Authority Babu Ram Aryal Civil Society FDE Suman Lal Pradhan Private Sector ISP Association of Nepal Subhash Dhakal Government Department of Information Technology Hempal Shrestha Civil Society FOSS Nepal Dr. Sanjeev Prasad Pandey Academia Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University Indiver Badal Technical Community npIX Samit Jana Technical Community npNOG Kishor Panth Private Sector Cloud Security Alliance Binay Bihara Private Sector Vianet Communications Private Limited Sunaina Ghimire Pandey Private Sector TechOne Global Nepal Binod Dhakal Civil Society FCAN Bikram Shrestha Civil Society ISOC Nepal Ujjwal Acharya Media Center for Media Research - Nepal Prabesh Subedi Media Online Journalists AssociationShreedeep Rayamajhi Civil Society RayZnews Dikshya Raut End User Community

Nepal IGF Date Location Website 2 Nepal IGF 2–3 November 2018 Hotel Himalaya, Kupandol Kathmandu http://2018.igf.org.np/ 1 Nepal IGF 18–19 August 2017 Hotel Yellow Pagoda, Kantipath Kathmandu http://igf.org.np/nepal-igf-2017-2/venue

Nepal IGF 2019 Program Committee Hempal Shrestha Eswari Sharma Jyotsana Maskey Sahajman Shrestha Shreedeep Rayamajhi Amrita Khakurel Ramkrishna Pariyar Prabesh Subedi

Nepal IGf 2018 Program Committee Hempal Shrestha (Coordinator) Indivar Badal Jyotsana Maskey Sahajman Shrestha Shehnaj Banu Shiwa Karmacharya Shiva Kumar Pokhrel Shreedeep Rayamajhi

Nepal IGF 2017 Program Committee Babu Ram Aryal Bikram Shrestha Binod Dhakal Dr. Sanjeev Pandey Kishor Panth Sarita Bhushal Sahajman Shrestha Shreedeep Rayamajhi Subhash Dhakal

References

External links Official website Shreedeep Rayamajhi speaking at one of the session of Nepal IGF2017 Proposal of Nepal IGF Internet Governance issues in Nepal – discussion hosted by Internet Society Nepal