Internet Governance Meeting Datasets

Packet Clearing House maintains the global Internet Governance Calendar.

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Meetings

URL and parameters

This API lists all Internet Governance Meetings for a given year:

https://www.pch.net/api/internet_governance_meetings_list
https://www.pch.net/api/internet_governance_meetings_list(?year=2026)

Such that:

?year=2026 - this query string can optionally be added on. The default year is the current year, but passing this query string will result in JSON data for that specific year.

Response (Toggle)

JSON objects will be returned with the following fields:

id - Internal PCH ID for this record. Example: "1"
start - Start date of the event.
mo - Month of the event.
end - End date of the event.
name - Name of the event.
atts - Number of attendees in the event.
host - Host of the event.
ctry - Country of this event. Example: "Argentina"
rgn - Region of this event. Example: "Latin America"
contact - Contact information for this event
city - City of this event. Example: "Buenos Aires"
status - Current status of the event. Example: Active, Cancelled, Rescheduled
mode - Mode of the event. Example: Face2Face, Teleconference, Hybrid
lat - Latitude of event location.
lon - Longitude of event location.
url - Event URL

Example (Toggle)

A call to this API:

https://www.pch.net/api/internet_governance_meetings_list?year=2016

Would return number of rows, the first bit of which would be:

[
  {
    "id":"3098",
    "start":"2016-01-12",
    "mo":"Jan",
    "end":"2016-01-12",
    "name":"WAIA AGM 2016",
    "atts":"0",
    "host":"West Australia Network",
    "contact":"",
    "ctry":"Australia",
    "rgn":"Asia-Pacific",
    "city":"",
    "status":"",
    "reid":"",
    "mode":"",
    "type":"",
    "lat":"",
    "lon":"",
    "url":"",
    "pch":"no",
    "pdays":0,
    "dates":"12",
    "days":1,
    "starte":1452556800,
    "rename":""
  }
]