{"id":14753,"date":"2022-07-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/07\/26\/en-vietnam-youth-igf-2022-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T02:00:00","slug":"en-vietnam-youth-igf-2022-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/07\/26\/en-vietnam-youth-igf-2022-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Internet Governance Forum Viet Nam 2022 (YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam 2022) \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-2022-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Vietnam Youth IGF 2022 \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-2022-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Vietnam Youth IGF 2022 \u30cf\u30ce\u30a4 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 24\u201325 September 2022 the second Youth IGF Viet Nam met fully in person at Hanoi&#39;s University of Social Sciences and Humanities: 150 participants, including 92 youth ambassadors chosen from 803 applications nationwide.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two days of debate covered e-commerce, emerging technologies, data governance and cybersecurity, producing a second Youth Recommendation Letter to policymakers \u2014 with the UN IGF itself and the ISOC Foundation now among the sponsors, and the IGF Secretariat&#39;s Anja Gengo on stage.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In two years a local NGO initiative grew into a UN-backed forum \u2014 a model of how connecting to international institutions can sustain a national youth IGF.<\/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 2022 (YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam 2022)<\/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-2022-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Vietnam Youth IGF 2022 \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 2022 (YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam 2022)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>24\u201325 September 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), 336 Nguyen Trai Street, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi \u2014 fully in person, with ambassadors&#39; travel costs covered in full<\/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>150 (150 participants in total, including 92 youth ambassadors (selected from 803 applications) and a 17-member youth committee plus alumni; 101 &#39;youth champions&#39; (ambassadors + committees) joined the discussions)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Hosts: Vietnet-ICT and the YIGF Vietnam Youth Committee; co-host: USSH; sponsors: The SecDev Foundation, the UN IGF, the Internet Society (ISOC) Foundation and APNIC; supported by the UN in Viet Nam and VNNIC; media partners Ybox.vn and iVolunteer Vietnam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>A second consecutive Youth Recommendation Letter to policymakers; roughly one million 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-2022-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Vietnam Youth IGF 2022 \u30cf\u30ce\u30a4 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The UN Steps In \u2014 UN IGF Sponsorship and an Opening from the Resident Coordinator&#39;s Office<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The opening session on the morning of 24 September and the day-one wrap-up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sponsor list now included the UN IGF itself and the ISOC Foundation, with the UN in Viet Nam among supporting institutions \u2014 an unusual line-up for a national youth IGF [1][4]<\/li>\n<li>Shin Umezu of the UN Resident Coordinator&#39;s Office in Viet Nam opened the forum, USSH president Hoang Anh Tuan gave the welcome, and Anja Gengo of the IGF Secretariat (UN Office at Geneva) delivered the day-one wrap-up [1][4]<\/li>\n<li>Day two was opened by Michael Gray, senior programme manager of the SecDev Foundation \u2014 its third year accompanying the initiative since the 2019 roundtable [1][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Four Themes \u2014 From E-Commerce to Cybersecurity<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panels and talk shows on 24 September and the cybersecurity sessions of 25 September<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The four themes \u2014 e-commerce, emerging technologies and innovation, data governance, and cybersecurity and trust \u2014 were chosen in consultation with the 2021 ambassadors and the youth and advisory committees: youth-led agenda-setting [1][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>Day one paired a panel on emerging technologies from an internet-governance perspective (Vietnet-ICT director Ngo Minh Trang, Vietcombank&#39;s Nguyen Hong Thang, VNNIC&#39;s Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy and youth committee member Nguyen Ngoc Bao Lam) with talk shows on e-commerce (the CEO of An Phat Group) and data governance (cybersecurity expert Ngo Viet Khoi) [1][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>Day two opened with cybersecurity expert Philip Hung Cao&#39;s lightning talk &#39;Why Cybersecurity? Why now?&#39; \u2014 matching the SecDev Foundation&#39;s summary that the 2022 conference focused on digital safety and cybersecurity [1][3][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Ambassador Model Matures \u2014 803 Applications and In-Person Participation Nationwide<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The ambassador call (25 August \u2013 9 September) and the role-play and recommendation-letter sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The call promised 100 fully travel-sponsored in-person places; 803 applications arrived (up from 673) and 92 ambassadors were selected \u2014 growing demand that signals a maturing institution [2][1][3]<\/li>\n<li>Ambassadors joined expert roundtables, honed a youth message through role-play and prepared their own presentations; the outcome, a second consecutive recommendation letter, went to policymakers [2][1][3]<\/li>\n<li>A &#39;Diversity and Inclusion in Tech&#39; session by APNIC Foundation&#39;s Phan Nhung carried the gender-and-diversity thread forward, while media and social reach roughly doubled year on year to about one million [2][1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. 2022 as the High-Water Mark \u2014 The Series Then Falls Dormant<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: (Background)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The SecDev Foundation records that the 2022 conference &#39;matched the scale of the 2021 event&#39;, crediting the youth-committee-led structure with Vietnet-ICT as &#39;a neutral secretariat&#39; [4][3][5]<\/li>\n<li>The official site announced a 2023 edition (7\u20138 October, Hanoi), but no primary evidence confirms it took place, and no later editions are recorded; only the 2021 and 2022 reports were ever filed with the UN [4][3][5]<\/li>\n<li>That leaves the 2022 edition \u2014 UN-recognised, UN IGF-sponsored, 150 people in person \u2014 as the initiative&#39;s confirmed high-water mark [4][3][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. How was this different from 2021?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Format and backing. 2021 was hybrid; 2022 went fully in person, covering travel for 92 ambassadors nationwide \u2014 and the UN IGF itself joined as sponsor, with IGF Secretariat staff from Geneva on stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was discussed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Four themes chosen with the previous year&#39;s participants: e-commerce, emerging technologies, data governance and cybersecurity \u2014 capped by a second youth recommendation letter to policymakers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Is it still running?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. As far as records show, this was the last edition: a 2023 event was announced but never confirmed, and the official site later went offline \u2014 making 2022 the initiative&#39;s confirmed peak.<\/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-2022-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Vietnam Youth IGF 2022 \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 2022 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\/fr\/filedepot_download\/21\/23332\">Report: Youth Internet Governance Forum Viet Nam 2022\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\u63d0\u51fa\u306e\u516c\u5f0f\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30fbPDF 45p\uff09<\/a> \u2014 YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam \/ Vietnet-ICT\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF filedepot\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220930184849\/https:\/\/yigf.vn\/%F0%9F%93%A3-dien-dan-thanh-nien-quan-tri-internet-viet-nam-2022-chinh-thuc-mo-don-tim-kiem-cac-dai-su-%F0%9F%93%A3\/\">Di\u1ec5n \u0111\u00e0n Thanh ni\u00ean Qu\u1ea3n tr\u1ecb Internet Vi\u1ec7t Nam 2022 ch\u00ednh th\u1ee9c m\u1edf \u0111\u01a1n t\u00ecm ki\u1ebfm c\u00e1c \u0110\u1ea1i s\u1ee9\uff08\u5927\u4f7f\u516c\u52df\u544a\u77e5\u30fb\u30d9\u30c8\u30ca\u30e0\u8a9e\/\u82f1\u8a9e\uff09<\/a> \u2014 YIGF Vi\u1ec7t Nam\uff08yigf.vn\uff09\u203bWayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff082022\u5e749\u670830\u65e5\u6642\u70b9\uff09 (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\u306e2022\u5e74\u5927\u4f1a\u8a08\u753b\u30fb4\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u3068\u958b\u50ac\u5b9f\u7e3e\u4e00\u89a7\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<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=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/youth-initiatives\">Youth Initiatives\uff08Vietnam Youth IGF: 2021\u30fb2022\u5e74\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30ea\u30f3\u30af\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\u670812\u65e5 9\u664210\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 24\u201325 September 2022 the second Youth IGF Viet Nam met fully in person at Hanoi&#8217;s University of Social Sciences and Humanities: 150 parti<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,2579],"class_list":["post-14753","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-vietnamyouthigf2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753","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=14753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}