Youth LACIGF 2025 (10th edition) — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

On 3–4 November 2025 the tenth Youth LACIGF met at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina — marking ten years since the 2016 founding in San José with 164 participants from 16 countries and 22 hybrid sessions.
Five tracks set the agenda: ethical AI and regulation, human rights and digital policy, trust/privacy/cybersecurity, inclusion and the digital divide, and digital activism and resilience — with sessions on indigenous connectivity gaps, AI and gender equity, and elections and disinformation.
The programme's skeleton was decided by young people themselves in a May–June open call involving 88 participants, and everything was webcast in four languages — a portrait of youth self-governance matured over a decade. Next stop: Fortaleza, Brazil, 2026.

Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on Youth LACIGF 2025 (10th edition) draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.

Conference at a Glance (from official records)

Item	Detail
Official name	Youth LACIGF 2025 (10th edition)
Edition	10th edition (the series' tenth-anniversary meeting)
Dates	3–4 November 2025
Venue	Auditorio CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Av. Vélez Sarsfield 1611), Córdoba, Argentina (hybrid)
Theme	Regional governance themes
Participants	164 young people from 16 countries; 22 sessions. The May–June 2025 call-for-topics process involved 88 participants from the region
Languages	Webcast and recorded in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese via ISOC Live
Host	The Youth LACIGF organising committee, hosted at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; platinum sponsor Internet Society Foundation, with partners including LACNIC and Hiperderecho
Next	The 11th edition is scheduled for Fortaleza, Brazil, on 3–4 November 2026 (hybrid)

(See the source list at the end of this article.)

Discussion Digest — from the Session Records

Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.

1. Ten Years On — From a Pre-Event in San José to a Two-Day Conference in Córdoba

Sessions: The 10th Youth LACIGF as a whole (3–4 November, Auditorio CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)

A series that began in 2016 with 77 people and one day reached its tenth edition with 164 participants from 16 countries and 22 sessions over two days, anchored in a national university's science faculty [1][3][4]
The official site defines the forum as 'an open, participatory space where the youth of Latin America and the Caribbean dialogue, propose and build around the future of the internet', keeping its founding bottom-up, multisectoral, safe-space principles [1][3][4]
Support came from both wings of the ecosystem: platinum sponsor Internet Society Foundation, plus LACNIC and Peru's Hiperderecho among others [1][3][4]

2. Five Tracks — From AI Ethics to Digital Activism

Sessions: Thematic sessions (3–4 November)

Five areas structured the agenda: new technologies, regulation and ethical AI; human rights and digital policies; digital trust, privacy and cybersecurity; inclusion and the digital divide; and digital activism, appropriation and resilience [1][2]
Individual sessions covered indigenous communities' digital divides, AI and gender equity, content moderation and surveillance, electoral processes and disinformation, and environmental sustainability (per the ISOC Live recording index) [1][2]
Making digital activism a standalone track — a series first — framed young people explicitly as rights defenders, not just future professionals [1][2]

3. An Agenda Set by Youth — An 88-Person Open Call and Four-Language Webcast

Sessions: The pre-event call process (May–June 2025) and the webcast operation

The May–June 2025 call for topics drew 88 participants, meaning even the five thematic pillars were assembled from young people's own proposals [1][2][4]
Every session was webcast and archived in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese via ISOC Live — the multilingualism institutionalised in the 2020 online era surviving the return to in-person meetings [1][2][4]
The 11th edition is set for Fortaleza, Brazil, on 3–4 November 2026, continuing the series' rotation between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking halves of the region [1][2][4]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. What changed by edition ten?

A. Scale and self-governance. A 77-person pre-event grew into a 164-person, 22-session conference — and even the agenda pillars were set by an 88-person open call among young people.

Q. What dominated the debate?

A. AI — its ethical use and regulation led the five tracks, alongside sessions on AI and gender equity and on elections and disinformation, plus standing regional issues like indigenous connectivity gaps.

Q. Why should I care?

A. Ten years of continuity turned a side event into an institution. The operating pattern — open-call agenda, multilingual webcast, university hosting — is a ready-made blueprint for youth governance forums anywhere.

What Is Youth LACIGF? (for first-time readers)

Youth LACIGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.

Why It Matters to You

What was discussed here becomes the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years. The principles confirmed at the 2025 meeting are the foundation of the "next rules" for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.