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Asia Pacific yIGF 2025 Report: Now Available

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Asia Pacific yIGF 2025 Report: Now Available

The Asia Pacific Youth IGF 2025 report is now available! It features session summaries, the Declaration on Meaningful Youth Participation, and the Organizing Committee’s Call to Action. As the WSIS+20 Review unfolds, these outcomes highlight the vital role of youth as co-creators of an inclusive and sustainable digital future.

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Asia Pacific yIGF 2025 Releases Declaration on Meaningful Youth Participation

The Asia Pacific Youth IGF 2025 has released its Declaration on Meaningful Youth Participation, calling for digital governance where youth are equal partners. This statement reflects months of regional collaboration and a shared vision for a more inclusive, equitable, and accountable digital future.

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About Asia Pacific yIGF

The Asia Pacific Youth Internet Governance Forum (yIGF.Asia) is one of the pioneering youth IGFs initiated in the Internet governance community. It was first initiated by a group of NetMission Ambassadors  (www.netmission.asia) in 2010 in parallel with the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF), and has been recognized by the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) since then. 

Inspired by the multi-stakeholder model adopted by the IGF, the Asia Pacific yIGF also established the forum with the same approach, aiming to encourage more engagement in policy discussion and the decision-making process from the younger generation.

The Asia Pacific yIGF is usually a 3-day annual meeting held in parallel with the APrIGF. It provides an open platform for the youth to express and interchange their ideas and own thoughts on Internet governance freely. It also serves as a preparation camp for newcomers to understand various Internet issues and open their doors to international policy discussion.

Our vision

Capacity Building

Build the capacity of young adults to participate in internet governance discussion

Make changes

Provide a platform for cultivating ideas to drive social change and actualising the initiative for a healthy and harmonious Internet.

Youth Network

Develop a youth network to bring contributions to actual internet governance discussion

About the organizer

NetMission.Asia is a network of passionate youth from Asia dedicated to engage and empower youth on Internet governance discourse with the aim to enhance youth mobility and create impact in Asia. Students from top tertiary institutes or universities are recruited every year and will be provided with a series of training workshops. We are endeavouring to empower young minds and to constructively contribute to the local, regional and global Internet governance discourse through organising the Hong Kong Youth Internet Governance Forum (HKyIGF), international conferences, and community projects.

NetMission Ambassadors are actively participating in various international Internet conferences, including ICANN meetings, IGF, APrIGF, Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy (APIGA), and the Asia Pacific Next Generation Camp (APNG Camp).

To support and encourage youth participation in Internet governance, the ambassadors have been organising the yIGF in the Asia-Pacific region, including Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Delhi, Macao, Taipei, Bangkok, and Port Vila since 2010.

The NetY Program (www.nety.asia) was also initiated for further outreach to secondary school students from 2012 to 2014 by partnering with the Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong. In 2016, it was first marked as HKyIGF (hk.yigf.asia) followed by a 3-day-2-night camp and an Internet Summit with the same approach used in the yIGF model.

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We are looking for support and partners to help us scale the event, enhance our impact and discussions. If you share the same vision of empowering youth participation on Internet development policy, feel free to contact us at [email protected].

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