The IGF Secretariat in cooperation with the next year's IGF Host Country, Government of Poland and Polish Research and Academic Computer Network - NASK , UN DESA (through its Division for Inclusive Social Development and youth programmes, e.g. youth envoys), Internet Society, Youth Coalition on Internet governance (YCIG) in consultations with Youth IGF initiatives, Youth Observatory, Youth IGF Movement, its intersessional workstreams and interested schools on Internet governance, is committed to engaging youth in the IGF 2020 processes.
The overall engagement structure, as explained in this strategy document, will develop around:
IGF 2020 public open consultations with youth
Throughout 2020, there will be several open online consultations with youth and those interested in supporting and working with youth. The consultations will focus on the youth advising how the above-referenced engagement structure could be implemented. The consultations will be run through the NRIs mailing list and open webinars.
The webinars, in preparations for the 15th annual IGF meeting, are planned to be hosted on:
Provisional agenda for the upcoming webinars is annexed to the full strategy description.
*The first open consultations with youth were conducted on 11 May through an open webinar. The Polish Ministry for Digital Affairs, NASK and the IGF Secretariat engaged in a vivid dialogue with over 165 youth and those interested in youth engagement in the IGF. The discussion focused on an exchange of good practices and challenges various countries and regions face while aiming to engage youth in digital policy matters. The Host particularly took note of the topics that are of interest to participants and effective forms of activities.
Preparing the IGF 2020 Youth Summit and networking sessions
The IGF 2020 Youth Summit will be hosted at the IGF 2020. Its agenda will be prepared in a bottom-up manner by consulting youth from all parts of the world on the Internet governance topics of their interest through public survey that was open by 15 September.
See HERE the results of the survey open consultations with youth.
IGF 2020 Newsletter for Youth
Good practices on youth engagement will be reflected in the monthly newsletter and presented in the public database! Those interested to be reflected in the database and possibly in the newsletter, are encouraged to inform the IGF Secretariat if they comply with the following criteria:
Share your ideas and stay in touch
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Interested stakeholders are invited to share ideas with:
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