{"id":14726,"date":"2023-07-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/07\/07\/en-bangladesh-youth-igf-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:00:00","slug":"en-bangladesh-youth-igf-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/07\/07\/en-bangladesh-youth-igf-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth IGF Bangladesh 2023 (BYIGF 2023, 3rd edition, Dhaka) \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-bangladesh-youth-igf-2023-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh Youth IGF 2023 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \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-bangladesh-youth-igf-2023-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh Youth IGF 2023 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 25\u201327 May 2023 the third Youth IGF Bangladesh (BYIGF 2023) met in Dhaka under the theme &#39;The Internet We Want \u2013 Empowering Youth and Youth Women&#39;, running eight sessions plus a workshop over three days.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The agenda spanned AI and emerging technologies, the cybersecurity capacity maturity model, future skills and the SDGs\/Global Digital Compact, with ICANN&#39;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&#39;s and Kids&#39; IGFs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It stands, as far as records show, as the series&#39; final annual meeting: after Bangladesh&#39;s 2024 upheaval the parent BIGF stalled and the official website vanished \u2014 a case study in why archiving matters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Youth IGF Bangladesh 2023 (BYIGF 2023, 3rd edition, Dhaka)<\/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-bangladesh-youth-igf-2023-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh Youth IGF 2023 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \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 Bangladesh 2023 (BYIGF 2023, 3rd edition, Dhaka)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>25\u201327 May 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Dhaka (per the UN NRI page; the venue name is not stated in surviving sources)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;The Internet We Want \u2013 Empowering Youth and Youth Women&#39;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>8 (8 sessions plus a workshop over three days (official schedule); day 3 co-hosted the Women&#39;s IGF session and the 3rd Kids&#39; IGF opening)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>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<\/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-bangladesh-youth-igf-2023-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh Youth IGF 2023 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. AI and Emerging Technologies \u2014 The Youth Agenda in the Year of Generative AI<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 03 &#39;Artificial Intelligence &amp; Emerging Technologies&#39; (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)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In early 2023, just after ChatGPT&#39;s breakout, a dedicated AI session was built around a university AI researcher \u2014 with a youth member also presenting [1]<\/li>\n<li>Youth IGF Poland&#39;s co-founder joined from Europe, wiring cross-border youth-IGF collaboration into the programme [1]<\/li>\n<li>Moderated by a University of Dhaka IIT lecturer, the session split the AI agenda across academia, the regulator and youth [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Cybersecurity Maturity \u2014 Measuring National Defences with the CMM<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 04 &#39;Youth Cybersecurity, Cybercrime &amp; Online Safety: the Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model in Bangladesh&#39; (26 May; police cybercrime investigators, a bank security architect, Fiber@Home&#39;s CTO and others)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The session applied the international Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model to Bangladesh \u2014 a concrete framework rather than generic awareness talk [1]<\/li>\n<li>Police cybercrime investigators, a commercial bank&#39;s security architect, a telecom CTO and an awareness foundation spanned enforcement, finance, infrastructure and civic education [1]<\/li>\n<li>Treating youth cybercrime as a national capacity issue went a step beyond the victim-education framing typical of youth safety programmes [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Trinity with the Women&#39;s and Kids&#39; IGFs \u2014 The &#39;IGF Family&#39; Complete<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day 3 (27 May): the Women&#39;s IGF session on SDG 5 and the opening of the 3rd Bangladesh Kids&#39; IGF<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The final day saw the Bangladesh Women&#39;s IGF debate its role in achieving SDG 5, with IGFSA Chair Amrita Choudhury and an MP on stage [1]<\/li>\n<li>The 3rd Kids&#39; IGF then opened \u2014 schoolchildren serving as moderator, keynote speaker and chair in a thoroughly child-led format [1]<\/li>\n<li>Running Youth, Women&#39;s and Kids&#39; forums under one roof was the theme &#39;Empowering Youth and Youth Women&#39; made concrete [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Last Annual Meeting on Record \u2014 Upheaval and a Vanished Domain<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: (Verification of what followed)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The UN NRI page&#39;s meeting information stops at this event (25\u201327 May 2023, Dhaka), and report links end with 2022 [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>After the August 2024 upheaval the parent BIGF&#39;s records cease, and the official domain youth.bangladeshigf.org was repurposed as an unrelated spam site \u2014 which is why every official-site citation here is a Wayback snapshot [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The closing session&#39;s agenda \u2014 youth engagement with the Global Digital Compact and the 2024 Summit of the Future \u2014 was left without its local champion when the series went dormant [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was this event?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The third edition of Bangladesh&#39;s youth IGF: three days in Dhaka on AI, cybersecurity, future skills and the SDGs, with the Women&#39;s and Kids&#39; IGFs sharing the venue on the final day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What happened afterwards?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 the era survives only in the Internet Archive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It shows how easily civic-initiative records vanish amid political change \u2014 an argument for web archiving and for institutional designs that outlive any government or individual.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Bangladesh Youth IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-bangladesh-youth-igf-2023-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh Youth IGF 2023 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \u2014 About Bangladesh Youth IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh 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 2023 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:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230603040625\/https:\/\/youth.bangladeshigf.org\/schedule\/\">Schedule\uff08BYIGF 2023\u30fb3\u65e5\u9593\u5168\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u3002\u5f53\u6642\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u306eWayback\u4fdd\u5b58\u7248\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Youth IGF Bangladesh\uff08Internet Archive Wayback Machine\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/bangladesh-youth-igf\">Bangladesh Youth IGF\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF NRI\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff1a\u5e74\u6b21\u4f1a\u5408\u60c5\u5831\u300c25-27 May 2023, Dhaka\u300d\u30fb\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30ea\u30f3\u30af\u306f2021\/2022\u306e\u307f\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240415000945\/https:\/\/youth.bangladeshigf.org\/byigf-2022\/\">BYIGF 2022\uff08\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u69cb\u6210\u306b\u300cBYIGF 2023\u300d\u300cPrevious BYIGF: 2022\/2021\u300d\u3092\u78ba\u8a8d\u3067\u304d\u308bWayback\u4fdd\u5b58\u7248\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Youth IGF Bangladesh\uff08Internet Archive Wayback Machine\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\u670811\u65e5 17\u664202\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 25\u201327 May 2023 the third Youth IGF Bangladesh (BYIGF 2023) met in Dhaka under the theme &#8216;The Internet We Want \u2013 Empowering Youth and Yout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[163,2571,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-14726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-youth-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-bangladeshyouthigf2023","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726","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=14726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}