{"id":14773,"date":"2014-07-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2014\/07\/04\/en-youth-apr-igf-2014-overview\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T08:00:00","slug":"en-youth-apr-igf-2014-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2014\/07\/04\/en-youth-apr-igf-2014-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Internet Governance Forum 2014 (YIGF 2014), Delhi \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n

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  1. On 3\u20136 August 2014 the 5th yIGF convened in India's Delhi NCR (Greater Noida): some 60 Indian university students spent four days under the banner 'From Internet to Equinet', debating access, openness and security.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Split across 10 stakeholder roles, they produced 30 position papers and over 12 hours of debate, feeding a public session of APrIGF 2014 \u2014 and premiered 'DataWar', a NetMission-designed game about how companies monetise user data.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Hosted in a country whose 'next billion' users defined the access debate, the camp let those users speak for themselves; its ICT-startup sessions on e-learning and e-banking foreshadowed the Digital India era.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on Youth Internet Governance Forum 2014 (YIGF 2014), 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

    Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n

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    Item<\/th>\nDetail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Official name<\/td>\nYouth Internet Governance Forum 2014 (YIGF 2014), Delhi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Edition<\/td>\n5th edition of the series, under the tagline 'Express, Explore, Experience'<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n3\u20136 August 2014 (a 4-day, 3-night camp, coinciding with the parent APrIGF 2014 Delhi)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nDelhi National Capital Region \u2014 the parent forum met at the Hotel Crowne Plaza, Greater Noida, with yIGF sessions in the 'Sadhya 2' room<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\n'From Internet to Equinet' \u2014 three pillars (Access, Openness, Security) plus ICT-driven social innovation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Participants<\/td>\n60 (About 60 Indian university students (official history page); split into 10 stakeholder roles, they produced 30 position papers across three topics and logged over 12 hours of discussion (official report))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nOrganised by NetMission Ambassadors (NetMission.Asia); the orientation featured APrIGF chair Paul Wilson (APNIC), ISPAI president Rajesh Chharia, ICANN's Y.C. Kuek and ISOC's Rajnesh Singh, among others<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Outcome<\/td>\nPosition papers were presented in a public session feeding into APrIGF 2014; the camp also debuted 'DataWar', a NetMission-designed game about corporate data exploitation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    (See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n

    Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n

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    Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n

    1. The Road to an 'Equinet' \u2014 Overcoming Unequal Access<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: Access topic discussion (4 August, 'Internet Governance Experience Day', 13:30\u201317:00, Sadhya 2)<\/p>\n