Youth IGF Bangladesh 2023 (BYIGF 2023, 3rd edition, Dhaka) — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

On 25–27 May 2023 the third Youth IGF Bangladesh (BYIGF 2023) met in Dhaka under the theme 'The Internet We Want – Empowering Youth and Youth Women', running eight sessions plus a workshop over three days.
The agenda spanned AI and emerging technologies, the cybersecurity capacity maturity model, future skills and the SDGs/Global Digital Compact, with ICANN's South Asia senior director, a Youth IGF Poland co-founder, the BTRC chairman and the Posts and Telecommunications Secretary on stage; day three co-hosted the Women's and Kids' IGFs.
It stands, as far as records show, as the series' final annual meeting: after Bangladesh's 2024 upheaval the parent BIGF stalled and the official website vanished — a case study in why archiving matters.

Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on Youth IGF Bangladesh 2023 (BYIGF 2023, 3rd edition, Dhaka) 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 IGF Bangladesh 2023 (BYIGF 2023, 3rd edition, Dhaka)
Dates	25–27 May 2023
Venue	Dhaka (per the UN NRI page; the venue name is not stated in surviving sources)
Theme	'The Internet We Want – Empowering Youth and Youth Women'
Sessions	8 (8 sessions plus a workshop over three days (official schedule); day 3 co-hosted the Women's IGF session and the 3rd Kids' IGF opening)
Host	Organised by Youth IGF Bangladesh under BIGF, chaired by Sayda Kamrun Jahan Ripa with Secretary-General Faisal Ahmed Bhubon; government attendees included the Posts and Telecommunications Secretary and the BTRC Chairman

(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. AI and Emerging Technologies — The Youth Agenda in the Year of Generative AI

Sessions: Session 03 'Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies' (25 May; keynote by Assoc. Prof. Kazi Hassan Robin of World University of Bangladesh, with Youth IGF Poland co-founder Emilia Hanna Zalewska and BTRC Secretary Md. Nurul Hafiz)

In early 2023, just after ChatGPT's breakout, a dedicated AI session was built around a university AI researcher — with a youth member also presenting [1]
Youth IGF Poland's co-founder joined from Europe, wiring cross-border youth-IGF collaboration into the programme [1]
Moderated by a University of Dhaka IIT lecturer, the session split the AI agenda across academia, the regulator and youth [1]

2. Cybersecurity Maturity — Measuring National Defences with the CMM

Sessions: Session 04 'Youth Cybersecurity, Cybercrime & Online Safety: the Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model in Bangladesh' (26 May; police cybercrime investigators, a bank security architect, Fiber@Home's CTO and others)

The session applied the international Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model to Bangladesh — a concrete framework rather than generic awareness talk [1]
Police cybercrime investigators, a commercial bank's security architect, a telecom CTO and an awareness foundation spanned enforcement, finance, infrastructure and civic education [1]
Treating youth cybercrime as a national capacity issue went a step beyond the victim-education framing typical of youth safety programmes [1]

3. Trinity with the Women's and Kids' IGFs — The 'IGF Family' Complete

Sessions: Day 3 (27 May): the Women's IGF session on SDG 5 and the opening of the 3rd Bangladesh Kids' IGF

The final day saw the Bangladesh Women's IGF debate its role in achieving SDG 5, with IGFSA Chair Amrita Choudhury and an MP on stage [1]
The 3rd Kids' IGF then opened — schoolchildren serving as moderator, keynote speaker and chair in a thoroughly child-led format [1]
Running Youth, Women's and Kids' forums under one roof was the theme 'Empowering Youth and Youth Women' made concrete [1]

4. The Last Annual Meeting on Record — Upheaval and a Vanished Domain

Sessions: (Verification of what followed)

The UN NRI page's meeting information stops at this event (25–27 May 2023, Dhaka), and report links end with 2022 [2][3]
After the August 2024 upheaval the parent BIGF's records cease, and the official domain youth.bangladeshigf.org was repurposed as an unrelated spam site — which is why every official-site citation here is a Wayback snapshot [2][3]
The closing session's agenda — youth engagement with the Global Digital Compact and the 2024 Summit of the Future — was left without its local champion when the series went dormant [2][3]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. What was this event?

A. The third edition of Bangladesh's youth IGF: three days in Dhaka on AI, cybersecurity, future skills and the SDGs, with the Women's and Kids' IGFs sharing the venue on the final day.

Q. What happened afterwards?

A. It turned out to be the last annual meeting on record. After the 2024 upheaval the organising body stalled, and the official domain was taken over by a spam site — the era survives only in the Internet Archive.

Q. Why should I care?

A. It shows how easily civic-initiative records vanish amid political change — an argument for web archiving and for institutional designs that outlive any government or individual.

What Is Bangladesh Youth IGF? (for first-time readers)

Bangladesh Youth IGF 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 2023 meeting are the foundation of the "next rules" for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.