Asia Pacific yIGF 2021
Virtual Camp

Asia Pacific Youth IGF 2021 was held in conjunction with the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) from 17 to 20 September 2021 this year. NetMission.Asia organised and facilitated the event to raise awareness and build the capacity for youth to join the Internet governance discussions...

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Asia Pacific Youth IGF 2021 was held in conjunction with the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) from 17 to 20 September 2021 this year. NetMission.Asia organised and facilitated the event to raise awareness and build the capacity for youth to join the Internet governance discussions. Based on the mandate of IGF to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, YIGF provides an open platform for the young generation to express and interchange their ideas and own thoughts on internet governance freely.

The yIGF is usually a 4-days-3-nights camp in which participants are assigned a role as one of the interest groups such as government, private sectors, and civil society organisations. During the camp, they are encouraged to think from a new standpoint and different perspectives. It also serves as a preparation camp for them to understand various internet issues via interactive activities & games as well as further directly participating in the local and global internet policy discussion platform.

This year, yIGF will be held as a 4-day virtual meeting with a series of virtual social meet-ups during the event week of yIGF 2021 and APrIGF 2021. Participants will be engaged in discussing hot issues related to Internet governance with other young talents from the region and experienced speakers from the IG community.

In this report, you will find out more about the input from participants at yIGF 2021. We hope to include opinions and suggestions from youth in the Asia Pacific region on a particular topic, in order to encourage more active participation and to allow the Internet governance community to project voice and views from the youth as contributions to the discussion at the regional and global Internet governance forums.

This year, we have received 135 registration. Applicants of this year came from 19 territories in the Asia Pacific, namely Australia (1), Bangladesh (4), Brunei (1), Cambodia (1), China (1), Fiji (1), India (5), Malaysia (2), Myanmar (4), Nepal (4), Papua New Guinea (1), The Philippines (9), Pakistan (10), Russia (2), Sri Lanka (3), Taiwan (6), Thailand (3), Timor-Leste (1), and Vietnam (76).

According to our record, more than 70% of the applicants come from the Southeast Asia region. Followed by nearly 20% from Southern Asia. The rest is made up of around 5.2% from East Asia, 1.5% from Northern Asia, and 2.2% from the Pacific.

After the 4-day event, 83 youth participants have successfully completed the program by attending all sessions at the yIGF 2021. The overall attendance rate is over 78% with the highest attendance rate of more than 90% on Day 0. There were 56 females, 25 males, and 2 non-binary. Below is the chart that shows the regional diversity of participants who completed the 4-day program.

The Asia Pacific YIGF 2021 emphasised innovation, collaboration, and engagement this year. In this 4-day event, we held 2 discussion panels and 2 collaborative sessions with 21 guest speakers invited, in order to help bridge the YIGF participants with community members and MSG members of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF). Additionally, by launching sessions with multilingual speakers and facilitators and interactive games in the sessions, we have encouraged higher attendance at yIGF and active participation at APrIGF.

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yIGF 2021 Outcomes

This year, we have contributed additional efforts in putting together the inputs from our youth participants into “actual work”. In our report, you may find records or a summary of our discussions, which includes our suggestions and opinions on different topics and areas around the major theme of yIGF 2021. We have included outputs from 4 sessions held at our virtual event, namely (1) records of idea Wall on Day 1, (2) summary on Day 0 – Meet-up with industry experts, (3) summary and youth statement on topic 1 and 2, and (4) summary on dialogue with youth leaders.

This year we managed to cover topics suggested by youth from our regions, including:

1. Consumers’ reliance on Internet & technology: Living the new normal 
2. Ramifications of Internet hardware on geopolitics and the environment
3. Is Cryptocurrency harming our planet?

It was our pleasure to be able to have invited honourable guest speakers from APrIGF MSG and community members from the Asia Pacific region. Without the participation of our community, our event won’t be able to be held with great success in such a critical time of the century.

For the report of yIGF 2021 Virtual Camp, you may click here to find out more.

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