Asia Pacific yIGF 2017
Bangkok

We visited Chulalongkorn University, a reputable University in Asia, to organise Youth Internet Governance Forum, Bangkok 2017. First of all, thanks to all supporting organisations, staff and Participants for supporting NetMission Ambassadors in hosting a youth engagement program in APrIGF. We have engaged 58 participants who came from 14 economies of the Asia Pacific region. Encouragingly, we have achieved more gender balance for better inclusion of different voices.

We visited Chulalongkorn University, a reputable University in Asia, to organise Youth Internet Governance Forum, Bangkok 2017. First of all, thanks to all supporting organisations, staff, and Participants for supporting NetMission Ambassadors in hosting a youth engagement program in APrIGF. We have engaged 58 participants who came from 14 economies of the Asia Pacific region. Encouragingly, we have achieved more gender balance for better inclusion of different voices.

We highlighted the theme “How does social media shape our minds?” in response to what is happening in real-life situations nowadays. Participants who came from Asia-Pacific had a bunch of interactive workshops with us to get themselves familiarised with the theme of yIGF this year. We designed interactive activities as shown in yIGF Training materials. By holding different interactive sessions, such as idea wall, role-play discussion, and initiative planning, we managed to include different opinions in our discussion.

What is Role Play discussion?

1. To prepare the youth for engagement in Internet Governance Discussions
2. To gain new perspectives when it comes to internet governance issues
3. To better understand the stakeholders’ role and involvement in the Internet Governance
4. To familiarise themselves with the yIGF model and adopt it in the future
5. To give them an idea of all the different IGF categories involved when it comes to Internet Governance

3 topics we have covered this year for participants to stimulate Internet Governance related policy discussion in different stakeholder perspective :

Committee 1 : Freedom of speech
Committee 2 : The right to be forgotten
Committee 3 : Advertising strategy

Asia Pacific yIGF 2017Bangkok

Asia Pacific yIGF 2017
Bangkok