{"id":10456,"date":"2024-07-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/07\/12\/en-india-youth-igf-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T02:00:00","slug":"en-india-youth-igf-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/07\/12\/en-india-youth-igf-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth IGF India 2024 (7th Annual Forum, IIM Bangalore) \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-india-youth-igf-2024-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"India Youth IGF 2024 \u30d0\u30f3\u30ac\u30ed\u30fc\u30eb \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-india-youth-igf-2024-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"India Youth IGF 2024 \u30d0\u30f3\u30ac\u30ed\u30fc\u30eb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 30 September 2024 the seventh Youth IGF India met in hybrid form at IIM Bangalore \u2014 the touring forum&#39;s first stop at a business school after years of technical campuses.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Built around the panel &#39;Preparing Youth for an AI-Driven Future&#39;, the day ran from cybersecurity to meaningful connectivity to an AI-governance role play, with the UN IGF&#39;s Anja Gengo, ICANN Board Director Maarten Botterman and India&#39;s Department of Telecommunications on stage.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Debating AI&#39;s impact in India&#39;s tech capital carried real symbolism: youth Internet-governance training had reached the intersection of technology, management and policy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Youth IGF India 2024 (7th Annual Forum, IIM Bangalore)<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; The catalogue originally listed New Delhi; the verified venue is IIM Bangalore<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-india-youth-igf-2024-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"India Youth IGF 2024 \u30d0\u30f3\u30ac\u30ed\u30fc\u30eb \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Official name<\/td>\n<td>Youth IGF India 2024 (7th Annual Forum, IIM Bangalore)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>30 September 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>16 (The official agenda lists 16 slots (S00 registration to S15 closing); roughly 10 substantive sessions)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Format<\/td>\n<td>Hybrid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Youth IGF India, hosted by IIM Bangalore; APNIC, ICANN, Meta, IGFSA, VerSe Innovations and others among past sponsors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-india-youth-igf-2024-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"India Youth IGF 2024 \u30d0\u30f3\u30ac\u30ed\u30fc\u30eb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Preparing for an AI-Driven Future \u2014 AI and Youth in India&#39;s Tech Capital<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Preparing Youth for an AI-Driven Future&#39; (12:00\u201312:45; Satish Babu of IEEE, Jayanth N Kolla of Convergence Catalyst, Prof. Rajalakshmi Kamath of IIMB; moderated by Ihita Gangavarapu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A cross-disciplinary panel \u2014 IEEE, an industry analyst and a management professor \u2014 took on AI-era careers, skills and impacts on youth [1]<\/li>\n<li>An afternoon stakeholder role play (15:00\u201316:00) applied the forum&#39;s learn-by-acting tradition to AI governance [1]<\/li>\n<li>Holding it in Bangalore put the debate in front of the students most exposed to AI&#39;s labour-market effects [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Cybersecurity in a Connected World \u2014 ICANN, C-DAC and Industry<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Cybersecurity in a Connected World&#39; (14:00\u201315:00; Champika Wijayatunga of ICANN, Balaji Rajendran of C-DAC, Nivya Ravi of CloudSEK)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ICANN&#39;s technical engagement lead, government research body C-DAC and security firm CloudSEK covered cybersecurity from institutional, public-research and industry angles [1]<\/li>\n<li>Content ran from DNS security to threat intelligence \u2014 directly relevant to students entering the job market [1]<\/li>\n<li>It paired with the morning&#39;s IG-ecosystem primer (ICANN, IETF, IGF, ISOC, RIRs), alternating between institutions and practice [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Meaningful Access and Connectivity \u2014 Government, ICANN and Civil Society at One Table<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Internet Governance: Meaningful Access &amp; Connectivity&#39; (15:30\u201316:15; HariKrishnan S of India&#39;s DoT, Samiran Gupta of ICANN, Amrita Choudhury of APrIGF\/CCAOI)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An official from India&#39;s Department of Telecommunications, ICANN&#39;s Samiran Gupta and APrIGF veteran Amrita Choudhury debated meaningful connectivity \u2014 a multistakeholder panel in miniature [1]<\/li>\n<li>The session localised the global shift from raw connection counts to &#39;meaningful access&#39; with usable speeds, devices and skills [1]<\/li>\n<li>Gupta and Choudhury, involved since the 2018 debut, embodied seven years of continuity [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Arriving at a Business School \u2014 IIM Bangalore Hosts the 7th Edition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening plenary (Ihita Gangavarapu, Prof. Shankar Venkatagiri of IIMB, Anja Gengo of the UN IGF)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After engineering-focused hosts (IGDTUW, IIIT, IIT), management school IIM Bangalore broadened the pipeline toward business talent [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The opening seated an IIMB professor beside the UN IGF Secretariat&#39;s Anja Gengo \u2014 local academia and the UN as co-sponsors of the day [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Note: the verified venue is IIM Bangalore, not New Delhi as some records once claimed; both the official agenda and event page confirm it [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was new?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The venue. After years of engineering campuses, the forum met at a management school \u2014 IIM Bangalore \u2014 adding business and policy lenses to AI, cybersecurity and connectivity debates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Who showed up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The UN IGF Secretariat&#39;s Anja Gengo, ICANN Board Director Maarten Botterman, an official from India&#39;s Department of Telecommunications, and experts from IEEE, APNIC and security industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Folding AI-readiness into Internet-governance education, and bringing business schools into the fold, are moves any country&#39;s youth IG community can borrow.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is India Youth IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-india-youth-igf-2024-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"India Youth IGF 2024 \u30d0\u30f3\u30ac\u30ed\u30fc\u30eb \u2014 About India Youth IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>India Youth IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2024 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youthigf.in\/agenda-2\/\">Agenda 2024\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c0\uff1a\u5168\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30fb\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u30fbIIM Bangalore\u30fb\u30cf\u30a4\u30d6\u30ea\u30c3\u30c9\uff09<\/a> \u2014 youthigf.in (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youthigf.in\/youth-igf-india-2024\/\">Youth IGF India 2024\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u30fb\u5927\u4f1a\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff1a\u7b2c7\u56de\u5e74\u6b21\u30d5\u30a9\u30fc\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb9\u670830\u65e5\u30fbIIMB\u958b\u50ac\uff09<\/a> \u2014 youthigf.in (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youthigf.in\/past-editions\/\">Past Editions\uff082024 IIM Bangalore\uff09<\/a> \u2014 youthigf.in (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u66f4\u65b0\u5c65\u6b74<\/h2>\n<p>\u7b2c1\u7a3f\u6295\u7a3f 2026\u5e747\u670820\u65e5 18\u664226\u5206\uff08\u8a18\u4e8b\u30b3\u30f3\u30c6\u30f3\u30c4\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\uff09<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 September 2024 the seventh Youth IGF India met in hybrid form at IIM Bangalore \u2014 the touring forum&#8217;s first stop at a business school a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[163,161,160,910,162,164],"class_list":["post-10456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-youth-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-indiayouthigf2024","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}