Description:
[Outline of the session]
“Designing Inclusion Policies” is not just the title of the session. It is the intention of create a narrative for the design of inclusion policies in the Internet Governance. At this session we will analyse different aspects of Inclusion:
1- Gender matters in Internet Governance
2- Connect the unconnected communities
3- Inclusion of people with disabilities
4-Economic inequalities
5-Governments and Human Rights: the role in Internet Governance
Structure:
The session will start with the short introduction of the speakers (20 minutes) where they will speak on key points of their countries’ region in terms of inclusion; followed by a group discussion in blocks regarding the 5 topics.
The discussion will include
1-. Gender perspectives impact on Internet matters related to policy drafting
2- Techniques to include people from rural, indigenous and remote areas into digital literacy.
3- Policy making processes centred around people with disabilities
4- Markets and Economic inequalities: when prices & taxes prevent people from being connected
5- Governments & human rights: guaranteeing our digital rights to include more voices connected.
After the presentation of each speaker, we will share a document where we will introduce 3 blocks with 2 topics (40 minutes).
- Firstly, we will address the topic of “Gender perspectives in Internet Governance matters” and “Economic inequalities” where we will make 4 policy questions for each sub-theme;
- then the second block we will discuss “the role of governments and human rights” and “digital literacy for marginalised communities”;
- and the final block will be “analysing policies in disabilities matters” and a generally summary on “policy making processes in general”
Once we finish the second segment of the session, we will continue with the collective design of the online campaign, using a mind map the last 20 minutes of the session.This mind map will help us to design the campaign and therefore produce the outcome some weeks after the IGF2020 . The online campaign will be extremely important to raise awareness on young people towards inclusion in Internet Governance
Methodology
The session will use an active engagement of attendees as they will be the main component of the session. The 20 minutes introduction will be the starting point to boost attendees to share experiences and ideas on the 5 topics that will be addressed in the common discussion using a shared document we will provide the link after the presentation of the speakers.
At this shared document using Etherpad application, we will discuss the policy questions in 3 different blocks. The speakers who have relevant experience on Gender, Rural and Indigenous Communities, Disabilities & Policies, Economic Inequalities; and Human Rights will bring up to a common group discussion the policy questions to the participants, in order to brainstorm collectively on their experiences and the challenges we are facing towards achieving a real social inclusion.
At the shared document the online moderator will read the policy questions and help the speakers to check the inputs of the participants at the Zoom chat and YouTube live chat: one online moderator at the Zoom platform will make sure that each discussion in blocks addresses the policy questions in an equitable way at the Etherpad; and second online moderator will be assisting the first online moderator with the comments made at the Etherpad platform, as long as help reading the comments made at the YouTube chat by the YouTube viewers of the session.
The 5 speakers will be leading at their assigned block (1-2-3) with the exception of the third block, when all speakers will give inputs alongside with the participants on the “policy making processes”. As above said, the speakers will boost the discussion at the assigned blocks by using 3-4 policy questions per topic, and asking attendees policy questions related to the topic under analysis.
In this way they could obtain a general picture for each area and get valuable feedback from attendees on their experiences related to the specific topic of inclusion. This discussion will take 40 minutes, while one of the online moderator will start designing the mind map we will use for the third segment of the session.
Following the discussion at the shared document , we will focus this part of the session on the online campaign. At this stage, the last 20 minutes will start to draft the main points taken from the collective discussion, besides opening the floor to online attendees to suggest ideas related to the content of the online campaign using a mind map. This online campaign, will be a joint effort of Young people and other stakeholders, will be shared on social media and the general report of the session along with the content of the session at Youth Observatory’s website, under Creative Commons License.
Policy Discussions:
The policy discussion that will take place at the session will count on the participation of various stakeholders, as well as mixing Young people and non-youth experts in order to ensure a better diversity also in terms of age and gender. The selection of the policy questions will count with these 5 topics within Digital Inclusion, that have been part of the topics addressed by youth initiatives around the world when it comes to policy making.