{"id":14728,"date":"2018-07-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/07\/11\/en-india-youth-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-07-11T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T04:00:00","slug":"en-india-youth-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/07\/11\/en-india-youth-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth IGF India 2018 (1st edition, New Delhi) \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-2018-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"India Youth IGF 2018 \u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30c7\u30ea\u30fc \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-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"India Youth IGF 2018 \u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30c7\u30ea\u30fc \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 12 October 2018, India&#39;s first Youth IGF convened at IGDTUW, a women&#39;s technical university in New Delhi, as the day-zero event of inSIG 2018 \u2014 100 delegates from across the country, 90 of them women.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The programme was hands-on: a multistakeholder role play on &#39;Connecting the Next Billion&#39;, the IPGo game teaching how the Internet works, and a panel on privacy and safeguards, with practitioners from ICANN, APNIC and ISOC.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The day created India&#39;s institutional on-ramp for youth into Internet governance \u2014 the origin of a forum that has since toured a different host university almost every year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Youth IGF India 2018 (1st edition, New Delhi)<\/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-india-youth-igf-2018-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"India Youth IGF 2018 \u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30c7\u30ea\u30fc \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 2018 (1st edition, New Delhi)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>12 October 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW), New Delhi<\/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>100 (100 delegates (90 of them women), joining in person and remotely; 200+ fellowship applications, with 5 travel+accommodation and 10 accommodation fellowships awarded)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>A youth-led initiative founded by inSIG fellows Shahul Hameed and Ihita Gangavarapu, supported by inSIG, ICANN, APNIC, IGDTUW and the Internet Society<\/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-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"India Youth IGF 2018 \u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30c7\u30ea\u30fc \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Born at a Women&#39;s Technical University \u2014 90% Female Participation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening ceremony (remarks by IGDTUW Vice-Chancellor Anita Devi and others)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Held at IGDTUW, a women&#39;s technical university, with 90 of 100 delegates being women \u2014 a strikingly gender-inclusive debut by global youth-IGF standards [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The forum opened with a traditional lamp-lighting; the Vice-Chancellor raised cybercrime awareness among youth, and ISOC Delhi&#39;s Amrita Choudhury spoke on the Internet&#39;s &#39;haves and have-nots&#39; and a next generation of users centred on Asia and Africa [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Founders Shahul Hameed and Ihita Gangavarapu, both inSIG fellows, took the idea from mentorship at inSIG 2017 to a full event in one year [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Role Play on &#39;Connecting the Next Billion&#39; \u2014 Learning Governance by Playing the Parts<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Multi-stakeholder Role Play (from 10:40)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In groups of five, participants took the roles of civil society, private sector, technical community and government to argue issues and remedies for connecting the next billion [1]<\/li>\n<li>Civil society flagged language barriers, digital literacy and the gender gap; the technical group rural and mountain access and speeds; the government group friendlier public websites and awareness of Internet law [1]<\/li>\n<li>ICANN&#39;s India head Samiran Gupta lectured on the inclusive, consensual and flexible nature of the multistakeholder model, with Q&amp;A ranging from WhatsApp encryption to IPv4 exhaustion [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Privacy and Safeguards \u2014 Reading the IT Act 2000 Through Young Eyes<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel discussion &#39;Privacy &amp; Safeguards in Internet&#39; (from 15:05)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A mixed panel \u2014 IGDTUW academia, ISOC Kolkata, a practising lawyer and the Cyber Peace Foundation \u2014 debated what challenges privacy online [1]<\/li>\n<li>Digital privacy, they argued, differs from traditional expectations: protecting user information is the core, and the issues shift rapidly [1]<\/li>\n<li>The panel also examined the limits of the Information Technology Act 2000, then India&#39;s most comprehensive legal provisions on Internet privacy [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Learning How the Internet Works Through Games \u2014 and Staying Involved<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;How the Internet Works \u2013 IPGo Game&#39; and the experience-sharing session<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;&#39;Being a technologist means, you get involved with the technology&#39; (from the official report)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Sunny Chendi (APNIC, concluding remarks)<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>APNIC&#39;s Sunny Chendi and ICANN&#39;s Dilpreet Kaur ran the card-based IPGo game so every attendee could feel how IP addressing and routing work [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The forum closed with organisers sharing their own journeys into Internet governance, urging students to keep engaging with conferences and the community [1][2]<\/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. India&#39;s first UN IGF-recognised youth conference on Internet governance \u2014 not a decision-making body, but an on-ramp where students learn through role plays and games who sets the Internet&#39;s rules and how.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What made it unique?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Ninety of the 100 delegates were women. Hosting it at a women&#39;s technical university flipped the usual gender ratio of tech policy events \u2014 rare for any youth IGF&#39;s first edition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Its playful formats \u2014 role plays and the IPGo game \u2014 are a reusable blueprint for getting newcomers into policy debates anywhere, and this forum became the template for India&#39;s touring youth IGF.<\/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-2018-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"India Youth IGF 2018 \u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30c7\u30ea\u30fc \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 2018 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\/filedepot_download\/7508\/1697\">Youth Internet Governance Forum India &#8211; 2018 Report\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u5831\u544a\u66f8PDF\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Youth IGF India \/ \u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40 filedepot (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youthigf.in\/2018-2\/\">Youth IGF India 2018\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u30fb\u904e\u53bb\u5927\u4f1a\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 youthigf.in (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/youth-igf-initiatives\">Youth IGF Initiatives\uff08India Youth IGF\uff1a2018\u5e74\u8a2d\u7acb\u30fb2018-10-12\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30c7\u30ea\u30fc\u521d\u4f1a\u5408\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youthigf.in\/past-editions\/\">Past Editions\uff082018 IGDTUW\u30fb\u30c7\u30ea\u30fc\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\u670819\u65e5 10\u664239\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 12 October 2018, India&#8217;s first Youth IGF convened at IGDTUW, a women&#8217;s technical university in New Delhi, as the day-zero event of inSIG <\/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":[163,161,160,747,162,164],"class_list":["post-14728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-youth-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-indiayouthigf2018","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14728","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=14728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}