Following the success of the first yIGF in Hong Kong, NetMission Ambassadors want to replicate this model idea to other youth so we have partnered with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore to jointly host a yIGF Singapore from 16 – 18 June 2011.
We are a team of 9 NetMission Ambassadors together with the secretariat support from DotAsia, formed an organising committee to put this into action.
This was an awesome experience as taking the facilitator’s role is new to some of the Ambassadors, especially when the participants were very proactive and intelligent. Some of the delegates are even in their pursuit of postgraduate outstanding performance really exceed our expectation. The 3-day-2-night forum was highly commended among the Singapore participants.
One of the delegates Bernard Oi (PhD, NUS) said that after attended the yIGF and the subsequent ICANN meetings, he developed a much deeper appreciation the dynamics and politics behind global policy development. He also thought that the yIGF was a highly interactive and meaningful forum with the different stakeholder groups demonstrated how the issues were affecting their constituents with empirical evidences which presented a compelling case for their position and offered suggestions how all the stakeholders could work together This approach enabled the stakeholders to see correlations of these i broad consequences on all segments of today’s society.
Yet we do not just stop there. We would like to keep spreading our impact to other countries in Asia Pacific region. We hope a united youth force will arise in the future to make something great with the intercontinental collaboration.
