Asia Pacific Youth IGF 2024 Taipei

Connecting Generations: Forging a Responsible Digital Future through Collaboration and Policy Innovation

Asia Pacific Youth IGF 2024

Asia Pacific Youth Internet Governance Forum (yIGF.Asia) is an annual meeting and open platform, recognized by the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), to empower young leaders aged between 18 and 35 to participate in Internet governance discussions. The forum was first initiated by NetMission.Asia in 2010 and continues to be held annually in conjunction with the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF).

This year, the yIGF.Asia will be held as a one-day meeting on August 20, 2024 (Tuesday) in a hybrid format and co-locate physically along with APrIGF 2024 in Taipei. Participants will be engaged in discussion on hot topics with young leaders and experts from the region, and team up with other participants to create a youth statement by the APrIGF week.

Program Details

Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Location: Room 402B of NTUH International Convention Center, Taipei (in-person) & ZOOM (online)
Theme: Connecting Generations: Forging a Responsible Digital Future through Collaboration and Policy Innovation
Format: Hybrid *Livestream will also be available on https://nma.asia/yigf.
Registration Deadline:
- Registration for yIGF Accommodation Support applicants: May 31, 2024 (23:59 UTC)
- Registration for local participants (Taipei), self-financing on-site participants, and local hub participants: June 30, 2024 (23:59 UTC)
- Registration for remote participants: August 15 (23:59 UTC)

Key Features

Meetup with industry experts

The policymaking process of the Internet governance world heavily depends on the multi-stakeholder 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 

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

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.

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