For the October 2020 edition of the Youth Newsletter, learn more about the work of the following Youth IGFs and youth capacity development initiatives:
- Youth IGF Turkey
- Youth4IG
- German Youth IGF
- Brazil Youth IGF
- Youth IGF Movement
- Youth Ukraine IGF
- Ghana Youth IGF
| YOUTH IGF TURKEY |
Youth IGF Turkey is a national, annual forum where youth -mainly university and master’s students- engage in internet governance and digital policy topics and join discussions with subject experts and their peers. Key messages of Youth IGF Turkey have been presented at the UN global IGF since the first forum in 2015. The 3. Youth IGF Turkey in 2017, brought a strengthened stakeholder inclusiveness, bottom-up approach, and outreach efforts by creating a travel fund for students to attend from 13 cities -with ISOC’s funding. 2018 saw the in-kind support of local municipalities, the .tr domain name management and ISOC’s Turkey Chapter while co-launching the first Media Literacy Forum. In 2019, the forum was held in the capital Ankara for the first time hosted by the Middle East Technical University (METU), with academics from the best universities in Turkey and experts presenting under the theme ‘Future of Work, Emerging Technologies and Digital Skills’.
The 6. Youth IGF Turkey will once again bring together (entirely online for the first time) the leading experts with undergraduate and graduate students, with a main session dedicated to the 3. Media Literacy Forum, via online interactive sessions and discussions in December 2020.
Engage with Youth Turkey IGF.
| YOUTH4IG |
Born in the APAC region in April 2019, Youth4IG is a community of youth that nurtures future IG leaders who often lack necessary support to continue their IG engagement after initial fellowship experiences. Our 160-member strong community collectively engages in advocacy work (contributing to ICANN policies, IGF workshops, etc), capacity building (regular skill building webinars), running mentorship programmes for youth; thereby enhancing youth participation at local, regional and global IG forums. You can learn more about us at youth4ig.asia, and see our accomplishments via this report. Check out our social presence via LinkedIn, Twitter and FB.
| German Youth IGF |
The Youth Internet Governance Forum Germany is a regional youth-led initiative to drive policy in the field of internet governance and digitalization of national and international scope. Being active since 2013, our work aims at making the voices of young people heard through advocacy, hosting events, and meaningful participation in political formats. The Youth IGF Germany co-hosted the IGF 2019 Youth Summit in Berlin as well as the Youth and Sustainability Session at IGF 2020.
Learn more or join us at: https://yigf.de.
| Youth IGF Movement |
The Youth IGF is a global movement that operates as a multi-stakeholder network. It allows
the young (18-35 years old) to discuss and take a lead in issues related to Internet governance
in the format of local, national or regional debates. For more information, please visit: https://youthigf.com/
| Brazil Youth IGF |
In order to contribute to creating the next generation of Internet leaders, over the past few years Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) has fostered the Youth Brazil Program, through which it directs several young people to get in touch and become part of the Internet Governance debate. In this year of 2020, 30 youngsters were selected to participate in the Brazilian IGF, 10 for LACIGF and 10 for IGF. Due to the pandemic, the Program will exceptionally extend until 2021, when youngster will travel to participate in the planned face-to-face events. For more information, please visit: https://forumdainternet.cgi.br/youth/.
| Ukraine Youth IGF |
Youth IGF-UA was initiated in 2017, after NRIs Toolkit was translated into Russian and Youth IGF-UA Pro was organized (with the support of American House, iNGO European Media Platform, etc). In 2018 I Youth IGF-UA was organized as a pre-event of IX IGF-UA (27 September 2018, UBI Hall). This event included 6 various sessions. In 2019 II Youth IGF-UA was held in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as a consummation of Ukrainian Internet Week (after X IGF-UA and RIPE NCC Days). In November 2019 Valeriia Dubytska, as a moderator of Youth IGF-UA, participated in Youth IGF Summit in Berlin. This year III Youth IGF-UA will be held on-line on October 28 as a pre-event of XI IGF-UA (29-30 October). For more information, please visit: https://youth-igf-ua.org/
| Ghana Youth IGF |
The Ghana Youth Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is one of the many youths IGFs existing globally to facilitate the participation and inclusion of the youth voices in shaping the internet. The Global IGF allows for the discussion of public policy issues related to key elements of Internet governance in order to foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of the Internet.
Mission: We are a youth voice facilitating the participation and inclusion of the other youth voices in shaping the internet.
Vision: To be at the forefront of advocating youth rights online, building youth capacity, promoting access to the internet, and raising the next cadre of internet leaders
Achievements:
• Organized 3 local events in a space of 2 years | Collaborated on 1 international event with Youth IGF India | 112 Community members on Telegram | Produced many volunteers for the global IGF activities | Running of social media awareness creation 3 times in a week.
Website: https://ghanayouth.intgovforum.org/ ::: Twitter: https://twitter.com/GhanaYouthIGF ::: Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/GhanaYouthIGF/
Disclaimer: The content of the page are based on the inputs received from the referenced initiatives' focal points and does not imply any expression of opinion on the part of the United Nations. The United Nations does not hold any responsibility for the accuracy of the referenced content.