{"id":14746,"date":"2023-07-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/07\/13\/en-nepal-youth-igf-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T07:00:00","slug":"en-nepal-youth-igf-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/07\/13\/en-nepal-youth-igf-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth IGF Nepal 2023 (2nd edition, Kathmandu and online) \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-nepal-youth-igf-2023-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Nepal Youth IGF 2023 \u30ab\u30c8\u30de\u30f3\u30ba \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-nepal-youth-igf-2023-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Nepal Youth IGF 2023 \u30ab\u30c8\u30de\u30f3\u30ba \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 29 May 2023 the second Youth IGF Nepal met at Kathmandu&#39;s Aranya Boutique Hotel and online, gathering 90+ young representatives under the theme &#39;Empowering Youths for Open, Inclusive and Secured Internet&#39;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The NTA chairman and UNESCO&#39;s representative to Nepal opened the day; panels ranged from an international youth exchange (Nepal, India, South Korea, Myanmar, Nigeria) to a policy panel with a political party, prosecutors and entrepreneurs \u2014 plus a role play on Nepal&#39;s social-media platform registration.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>That the registration mandate \u2014 which later escalated into real platform shutdowns \u2014 was already on the youth training table in 2023 is striking. The closing ceremony also institutionalised a leadership handover.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Youth IGF Nepal 2023 (2nd edition, Kathmandu and online)<\/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-nepal-youth-igf-2023-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Nepal Youth IGF 2023 \u30ab\u30c8\u30de\u30f3\u30ba \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 Nepal 2023 (2nd edition, Kathmandu and online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>29 May 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Aranya Boutique Hotel, Kathmandu, and online<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;Empowering Youths for Open, Inclusive and Secured Internet&#39;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>90 (The official report counts &#39;more than 90 young representatives&#39; (the website&#39;s wrap-up article says approximately 70))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Youth IGF Nepal (secretariat: Internet Governance Institute), supported by the NTA, Internet Society Foundation, Nepal Telecom, APNIC, the UN IGF Secretariat and others<\/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-nepal-youth-igf-2023-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Nepal Youth IGF 2023 \u30ab\u30c8\u30de\u30f3\u30ba \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Role-Playing Platform Registration \u2014 Rehearsing a Crisis Before It Happened<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Human Rights in the Digital Age: Multi-Stakeholder Roleplay Session&#39; on social-media platform registration in Nepal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participants took government, business and civil-society roles to negotiate over social-media platform registration in Nepal [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The mandate became real in the government&#39;s 2023 social-media directive and escalated to the 2025 shutdown of 26 unregistered platforms \u2014 youth had rehearsed the flashpoint two years early [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The session&#39;s conclusion: defending digital rights requires multistakeholder collaboration [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. A Party Politician, a Prosecutor and Entrepreneurs \u2014 The Inclusive-Internet Policy Panel<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Youth at the Digital Crossroads: Shaping Policies for an Inclusive Internet&#39; (moderated by advocate Mamta Siwakoti)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Code Himalaya co-founder Ismaran Duwadi argued taxation and a domestic-server requirement blunt Nepali IT firms&#39; competitiveness against India, and pressed for industry-aligned curricula [1]<\/li>\n<li>Joint attorney Sandesh Shrestha proposed stronger investigation infrastructure, dedicated cyber bureaus and wider court jurisdiction so cyber-justice reaches all of Nepal [1]<\/li>\n<li>Nepali Congress central committee member Ajaya Siwakoti said the digital divide, literacy and AI feature in party policy debates, voicing concern over AI&#39;s job impact while balancing misinformation control with free expression [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Youth from Five Countries and Global On-Ramps \u2014 An International Second Edition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Youth Perspectives Unleashed&#39; (Nepal, India, South Korea, Myanmar, Nigeria) and &#39;Youth in the Digital Frontier&#39; (Prof. Salma Abbasi, Amrita Choudhury, ISOC Youth SG Chair Veronica Piccolo and others)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;By equipping our youth with digital expertise and empowering them to participate in decision-making processes, we can address the evolving obstacles brought about by digitalization.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Anja Genjo (NRI Coordinator, UN IGF Secretariat; written message in the report)<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Young speakers from five countries compared their Internet-governance journeys, moderated by Bibek Silwal [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The global session mapped fellowships and capacity programmes at ICANN, the IGF and APNIC, plus the ISOC Youth Standing Group [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Salma Abbasi of eWorldwide Group stressed building human digital resilience [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Opened by the Regulator and UNESCO \u2014 Closed with a Generational Handover<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening plenary (chief guest NTA Chairman Purushottam Khanal; keynote by UNESCO Representative Michael Croft) and the closing ceremony with leadership handover<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The NTA chairman as chief guest and UNESCO&#39;s representative as keynote speaker underscored a safe Internet for youth [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The closing ceremony handed the chair from Deepa Bhattarai to Ananda Gautam before e-Governance Commission CEO Dipesh Bista \u2014 institutionalising leadership turnover as a formal rite [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Backing from the UN IGF Secretariat, NTA, ISOC Foundation, Nepal Telecom and APNIC was unusually deep for a second-year initiative, reflecting a tight-knit national IG community [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What kind of event was it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The second edition of Nepal&#39;s youth IGF: 90+ young people in Kathmandu running through a social-media-regulation role play, a five-country youth panel and a policy debate featuring a party politician and a prosecutor \u2014 in one day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. The most prescient moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The role play on social-media platform registration. That very mandate later became a real directive \u2014 and by 2025, the shutdown of 26 platforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Platform regulation is contested everywhere; Nepal&#39;s method of letting youth stress-test a rule through simulated negotiation before it bites is a lesson in policy education.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Nepal Youth IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-nepal-youth-igf-2023-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Nepal Youth IGF 2023 \u30ab\u30c8\u30de\u30f3\u30ba \u2014 About Nepal Youth IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Nepal 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:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/filedepot_download\/52\/29851\">Youth IGF Nepal 2023 Summary Report\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u5831\u544a\u66f8PDF\uff1a90\u540d\u8d85\u30fb\u5168\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Youth IGF Nepal \/ \u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40 filedepot (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yigf.org.np\/youth-igf-nepal-2023-concluded\/\">Youth IGF Nepal 2023 Concluded Successfully\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u958b\u50ac\u5f8c\u8a18\u4e8b\uff09<\/a> \u2014 yigf.org.np (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/youth-nepal-igf\">Youth Nepal IGF\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF\u4f1a\u5408\u30ce\u30fc\u30c9\uff1a2023\u5e745\u670829\u65e5\u30fb\u30ab\u30c8\u30de\u30f3\u30ba\uff0b\u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/nepal-youth-igf\">Nepal Youth IGF\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF NRI\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff1a\u5e74\u6b21\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30ea\u30f3\u30af2022\/2023\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (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\u670821\u65e5 15\u664252\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 29 May 2023 the second Youth IGF Nepal met at Kathmandu&#8217;s Aranya Boutique Hotel and online, gathering 90+ young representatives under the<\/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":[163,161,160,162,531,164],"class_list":["post-14746","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-nepalyouthigf2023","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746","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=14746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}