{"id":14520,"date":"2021-07-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/07\/07\/en-vietnam-youth-igf-2021-overview\/"},"modified":"2021-07-07T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T07:00:00","slug":"en-vietnam-youth-igf-2021-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/07\/07\/en-vietnam-youth-igf-2021-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Internet Governance Forum Viet Nam 2021 (YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam 2021) \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-vietnam-youth-igf-2021-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Vietnam Youth IGF 2021 \u30cf\u30ce\u30a4 \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-vietnam-youth-igf-2021-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Vietnam Youth IGF 2021 \u30cf\u30ce\u30a4 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 6\u20137 November 2021 Vietnam&#39;s first standalone Youth IGF (YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam 2021) drew 200 participants in hybrid form \u2014 at Hanoi&#39;s University of Social Sciences and Humanities and on Zoom \u2014 in the same year the initiative won UN IGF recognition.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>103 youth ambassadors aged 18\u201325, chosen from 673 applications, role-played five stakeholder groups debating data privacy; the results went to Vietnamese policymakers as a Youth Recommendation Letter on data security.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its formula \u2014 building digital-citizenship skills and internet-governance awareness early \u2014 offers a Southeast Asian model of youth participation just as the region writes its data-protection laws.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Youth Internet Governance Forum Viet Nam 2021 (YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam 2021)<\/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<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-vietnam-youth-igf-2021-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Vietnam Youth IGF 2021 \u30cf\u30ce\u30a4 \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 Internet Governance Forum Viet Nam 2021 (YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam 2021)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>6\u20137 November 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Hybrid: in person at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH) in Hanoi, with online participation via Zoom for other regions and overseas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>200 (200 participants in total, including 103 youth ambassadors (selected from 673 applications; Vietnamese aged 18\u201325; 72% female, 27% male; 82% from the north) and a 17-member youth committee (task force))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Host: Vietnet-ICT; co-hosts: USSH and the Vietnam Internet Association; main sponsor: The SecDev Foundation; sponsor: APNIC; supported by VNNIC (under the Ministry of Information and Communications) and the Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>One Youth Recommendation Letter on data security submitted to Vietnamese policymakers; over 500,000 people reached via social media and press<\/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-vietnam-youth-igf-2021-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Vietnam Youth IGF 2021 \u30cf\u30ce\u30a4 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Multistakeholder Role-Play \u2014 Five Groups Debate Data Privacy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The role-play session on the morning of 7 November (topic: data privacy) and mentor consultations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ambassadors split into five groups \u2014 government, private sector, academia, civil society and internet users \u2014 each prepped in hour-long consultations with real-world mentors, from an education-ministry IT policy official (Nguyen Hoai Nam) and the founder of comics platform Comicola to Vietnet-ICT&#39;s founder, cybersecurity expert Ngo Viet Khoi and APNIC Foundation&#39;s Phan Nhung [1]<\/li>\n<li>The prompt was concrete: a 25-year-old, online nearly 20 hours a day, who feels &#39;watched&#39; as ads and solicitations track his searches and conversations \u2014 set against news of 1.5 million leaked accounts [1]<\/li>\n<li>Fifteen minutes of group discussion, presentations, then twenty minutes of cross-group debate: a miniature of the UN IGF&#39;s multistakeholder method, letting young people experience interest-balancing first-hand [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The Youth Recommendation Letter \u2014 Calling for a Personal Data Protection Law<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Drafting and hand-over of the letter (afternoon of 7 November, delivered by ambassador representative Chau Quoc Thai)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Signed by all 103 ambassadors, the letter starts from the privacy guarantee of Article 21 of the 2013 Constitution, identifies five problems \u2014 including policy&#39;s &#39;backwardness&#39; against a fast-moving digital society \u2014 and urges a personal data protection law built on data-minimisation, de-identification and deletion once the purpose is served [1]<\/li>\n<li>It also proposes consolidating the overlapping 2015 Law on Cyberinformation Security and 2018 Cybersecurity Law, and fines that outweigh the profits of violations \u2014 citing how tougher drink-driving penalties changed behaviour [1]<\/li>\n<li>The letter closes that the role-play taught them &#39;it is vital that all stakeholders are involved to discuss and find solutions, which is the key to sustainable change&#39;, and asks policymakers to keep the dialogue open [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. UN Recognition and International Backing \u2014 a Canadian Foundation, the Swedish Embassy and APNIC<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The opening session on the morning of 6 November, and beyond<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We are proud, with our partners, to have initiated and organised the Youth IGF in Vietnam. By developing digital-citizenship skills and awareness of internet governance from a young age, we believe young people can seriously and responsibly assess how they use technology every day \u2014 and contribute their voice to building a civilised, healthy digital environment&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Ng\u00f4 Minh Trang, Director of Vietnet-ICT (translated from Vietnamese)<\/strong> [2][3][4][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The opening featured Michael Gray of the SecDev Foundation and First Secretary Ola Karlman of the Swedish Embassy, with Vietnam Internet Association secretary-general Vu The Binh opening day two \u2014 a line-up spanning domestic institutions (VNNIC, TikTok Vietnam&#39;s policy director, Vietcombank) and international backers [2][3][4][1]<\/li>\n<li>That year the initiative became a UN-recognised youth NRI, with 2021 and 2022 reports filed; the SecDev Foundation traces the arc &#39;from a March 2019 roundtable in Hanoi to staging a first-ever standalone YIGF Vietnam event by November 2021&#39; [2][3][4][1]<\/li>\n<li>An APNIC Foundation session introduced the SWITCH SEA project on women in technical leadership across Southeast Asia&#39;s internet industry \u2014 fitting for a cohort of ambassadors 72% of whom were women [2][3][4][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Talk Shows \u2014 Digital Transformation, AI and Digital Citizenship for Young People<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Talk shows including &#39;Civilised digital citizens, a safe cyberspace&#39; (afternoon of 6 November)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To Thuy Diem Quyen, CEO of education consultancy InnEdu and a Microsoft-recognised global educator, urged self-directed learning over waiting for lesson plans \u2014 and searching in multiple keywords and languages before synthesising objectively [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Three more talks tracked youth concerns from careers to AI: digitalisation and job opportunities (Aptech), digital citizenship and data privacy (Oxfam), and how AI shapes internet users&#39; behaviour (a VietAI researcher) [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>State media coverage framed the forum as an initiative &#39;organised exclusively for young people&#39;, where they learn and join debates on data security, privacy, digital communication and artificial intelligence [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did the forum decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It is a place for young people to experience and influence internet rule-making rather than decide anything \u2014 but this edition produced something tangible: a data-security recommendation letter in the name of 103 ambassadors, submitted to Vietnamese policymakers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does 2021 matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It was the year the initiative held its first standalone event and won UN IGF recognition at once \u2014 growing from a 2019 side event into a two-day, 200-person forum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Vietnam went on to adopt its personal data protection decree in 2023, moving in the direction the ambassadors urged \u2014 a live example of youth participation feeding real policy debates.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Vietnam Youth IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-vietnam-youth-igf-2021-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Vietnam Youth IGF 2021 \u30cf\u30ce\u30a4 \u2014 About Vietnam Youth IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Vietnam 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 2021 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:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/filedepot_download\/21\/20605\">Report: Youth Internet Governance Forum Viet Nam 2021\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\u63d0\u51fa\u306e\u516c\u5f0f\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30fbPDF 28p\uff09<\/a> \u2014 YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam \/ Vietnet-ICT\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF filedepot\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thiduakhenthuongvn.org.vn\/chinh-tri-xa-hoi\/khai-mac-dien-dan-thanh-nien-quan-tri-internet-viet-nam-2021\">Khai m\u1ea1c Di\u1ec5n \u0111\u00e0n Thanh ni\u00ean qu\u1ea3n tr\u1ecb Internet Vi\u1ec7t Nam 2021\uff08\u958b\u4f1a\u5831\u9053\u30fb\u30d9\u30c8\u30ca\u30e0\u8a9e\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Trang Th\u00f4ng tin \u0111i\u1ec7n t\u1eed Thi \u0111ua &#8211; Khen th\u01b0\u1edfng\uff08\u30d9\u30c8\u30ca\u30e0\u4e2d\u592e\u7af6\u4e89\u30fb\u8868\u5f70\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\u60c5\u5831\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/youth-initiatives\">Youth Initiatives\uff08Vietnam Youth IGF: recognized in 2021\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/secdev-foundation.org\/sea-yigf\/\">Youth rising: A right to help shape the digital world\uff08SecDev\u8ca1\u56e3\u306b\u3088\u308b\u6771\u5357\u30a2\u30b8\u30a2YIGF\u652f\u63f4\u306e\u7dcf\u62ec\uff09<\/a> \u2014 The SecDev Foundation (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240625194005\/https:\/\/yigf.vn\/su-kien\/\">S\u1ef1 ki\u1ec7n\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u306e\u958b\u50ac\u5b9f\u7e3e: 2019\u5e74\u30b5\u30a4\u30c9\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u301c2021\u5e74\u5927\u4f1a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam\uff08yigf.vn\uff09\u203bWayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff082024\u5e746\u6708\u6642\u70b9\uff09 (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\u670816\u65e5 13\u664247\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 6\u20137 November 2021 Vietnam&#8217;s first standalone Youth IGF (YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam 2021) drew 200 participants in hybrid form \u2014 at Hanoi&#8217;s University <\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,890],"class_list":["post-14520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-youth-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-vietnamyouthigf2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520","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=14520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}