The 2011 Internet Governance Forum is taking place over the coming week in Nairobi, Kenya.
You can find details of all the sessions on the IGF Aggregator, or the official IGF Website, and many sessions this year have youth involvement.
Dynamic Coalition Workshop
The main workshop of the Youth Coalition is taking place on Thursday between 11am and 12.30pm. The YCIG is open to all children, young people and young adults (and other supporters of youth involvement in Internet governance) and provides an open space for the co-ordination of activities both around the participation of young people in Internet Governance processes, and substantive issues young people want to bring into Internet Governance debates.
Draft agenda
1- Introduction of youth coalition membership
2- Summary of 2010-2011 activities: evaluation and assessment
3- Strategic planning for 2012: action plan
4- Statement for IGF main session
Whether this is your first IGF, or you have been along to many meetings before, you are very welcome to take part in this coalition meeting. Coalition membership is currently very informal, and based on the mailing list linked at http://www.ycig.org.
Other workshops
The following workshops focus upon youth issues: however, YCIG members will be participating throughout the IGF programme.
- The Challenges to Access from a Youth and Global Perspective - Wednesday 09:00 - 10:30
- Securing the Future of Youths Through ICT’s - Wednesday 09:00 - 10:30
- Digital Citizenship – A Charter of Children;s and Young People’s Rights in the Online World - Wednesday – 11:00 - 12:30
- Challenging Myths about Young People and the Internet - Thursday 14:30 -16:00
- Is the Youth Factor Counting in IG and is IG Affecting the Youth - Thursday 16:30 – 18:00.
- Young People and their Safeguards in an Increasingly Connected World - Friday – 11:00 -12:30
Youth presence at IGF
There are many different youth groups present at IGF. We invite all children, young people and young adults groups (and individuals) involved in Internet Governance to join YCIG and to let us know about their activities at IGF so they can be featured here.
Who is here:
- ChildNet Youth IGF Project
- Elon University Imagining the Internet
- Who else?
