Asia Pacific Youth IGF 2022 Recruitment

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What is yIGF?

Organized and facilitated by NetMission.Asia, the Youth IGF occurs in conjunction with the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) annually, to raise awareness and build the capacity for youth to join the Internet governance discussions. Based on the mandate of IGF to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, YIGF provides an open platform for the young generation to express and interchange their ideas and own thoughts on internet governance freely.

This year, yIGF will be held as a 2-day meeting with a hybrid format and co-locate physically along with APrIGF 2022 in Singapore. Participants will be engaged in discussing hot issues related to Internet governance with other young talents from the region and experienced speakers from the IG community. More information about past youth IGF could be found at https://nma.asia/yigf.

Objectives

  • Build the capacity of young adults to participate in internet governance discussions.
  • Encourage youth to attend and bring contribution to actual internet governance discussion.
  • Provide a platform for cultivating ideas to drive social change and further actualizing the initiative for a healthy and harmonious internet.
  • Develop a youth network on internet governance.
Date: 10 Sep (01:00-08:00 UTC time) & 11 Sep (01:00-04:00 UTC Time)
Location: National Library Board (in-person) & ZOOM (online)
Theme: Youth@Crossroads: Trusting in a Common Future With No One Left Behind 

Eligibility: 
1) Undergraduate or Graduate students in tertiary education in the Asia Pacific; or
2) Young professionals who are based or come from the Asia Pacific region;
3) Internet Governance events’ alumni or fellows in the Asia Pacific region.
*Remote participants & applicants from Singapore should be aged between 18 and 30.
*Regional participants who travel outside Singapore but from the Asia Pacific Region must be aged between 21 and 30. Selected regional participants will be provided with accommodation from 9th to 14th September 2022.

Application Deadline: 26 June 2022 (Sunday) 23:59 UTC
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Program Agenda

Day 1 
01:00-01:20 UTCIntroduction of yIGF 2021
01:20-01:30 UTCIce-breaking 
01:30-01:45 UTCBasics of Internet governance & multi-stakeholder participation
01:45-01:55 UTCCoffee break
01:55-03:25 UTCMeetup with industry experts:
Internet Governance ABCs: Algorithm Bias – Big Data – Cyber Crime
03:25-03:55 UTCWorkshop: idea wall
03:55-04:05 UTCSummary – morning session
04:05-05:05 UTCLunch break
05:05-05:20 UTCMeetup with our supporting organizations – DotAsia
05:20-06:50 UTCPanel discussion: Emerging Technology Virtual Reality: Growing up with Metaverse and NFT
06:50-07:00 UTCCoffee break
07:15-07:45 UTCPreparation of youth policy statement 
07:45-08:00 UTCWrap up
Day 2
01:00-01:10 UTCIce-breaking
01:10-01:30 UTCIntroduction of APrIGF 2022 and Synthesis document
01:30-02:50 UTCAPAC Youth Leaders Dialogue
02:50-03:00 UTCCoffee break
03:00-03:30 UTCYouth policy statement presentation & program summary
03:30-04:00 UTCTakeaway & way-forward
04:00-05:00 UTCLunch break
05:00-07:00 UTCAPrIGF Day 0

Key Features

The yIGF is a platform for youth across the Asia-Pacific region to voice their opinions on Internet Governance. All youth participants will be given the opportunity to explore hot topics, such as sustainability through trust and digital inclusion. To empower youth with relevant knowledge and capacity to participate in Internet governance discourse, we feature the following elements at our event this year:

Meetup with industry experts
The policymaking process of the Internet governance world heavily depends on the multistakeholder participation model. To get our participants to better understand the ecosystem in our IG community, participants will be given the opportunity to meet with industry experts from different stakeholder groups, including government, civil society, technical community, academia, etc. This session aims to help participants to get a better idea of what and how different stakeholders deal with a particular issue during the policy-making process.
APAC youth leaders dialogue
In this session, youth leaders and representatives of different youth initiatives or Youth Internet Governance Forum (YIGF) from the Asia Pacific region will be gathered. It aims to facilitate a consistent conversation among the youth community in the region and keep the younger generation in the community informed about the Internet governance discourse that is going on in the region.
Youth policy statement & presentation
Participants will form groups to do their group presentations to bring out their opinions and policy suggestions on the overarching theme of yIGF. The ideas, examples, policies, or solutions suggested will be recorded to establish a Youth Policy Statement in the Report of yIGF, which will be submitted to and published on the official site of the Internet Governance Forum by the United Nations. The output will also be referred to as the input for the Synthesis Document of APrIGF.

*Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to send your message to info@netmission.asia.