{"id":14802,"date":"2020-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/10\/05\/en-youth-eurodig-2020-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T15:00:00","slug":"en-youth-eurodig-2020-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/10\/05\/en-youth-eurodig-2020-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUthDIG 2020 \u2014 Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance (virtual edition) \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-youth-eurodig-2020-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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-youth-eurodig-2020-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>YOUthDIG 2020, originally planned at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, was cancelled by COVID-19 and reinvented as the series&#39; first fully virtual edition \u2014 four webinars from 2 May to 6 June.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>After sessions ranging from an internet-governance primer by EuroDIG secretary general Sandra Hoferichter to disinformation and youth participation, participants drafted the Youth Messages on the weekend before the virtual EuroDIG 2020 (10\u201312 June), covering data protection, access and inclusion, blockchain, and greening the internet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Their call to treat dark patterns as GDPR violations and fine offenders anticipated later EU platform regulation. The pivot showed how a youth policy programme can survive a pandemic intact.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>YOUthDIG 2020 \u2014 Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance (virtual edition)<\/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-youth-eurodig-2020-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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>YOUthDIG 2020 \u2014 Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance (virtual edition)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>May\u2013June 2020 (webinar series on 2 May, 10 May, 16 May and 6 June; the Youth Messages were drafted on the weekend before EuroDIG 2020)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Fully online (originally planned at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy; replaced by a webinar series due to COVID-19)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Youth Messages 2020 in four themes: data protection and children&#39;s safety, internet access and inclusion, blockchain, and greening the internet<\/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-youth-eurodig-2020-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. From Trieste to Webinars \u2014 the COVID Pivot<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Webinar series (2 May: the IG ecosystem, Sandra Hoferichter; 10 May: online activism, Giorgio Menella; 16 May: countering disinformation, Daniel Rzasa; 6 June: youth participation, with YCIG)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The in-person gathering at Trieste&#39;s ICTP was abandoned for a distributed design: four thematic webinars plus a message-drafting weekend [1]<\/li>\n<li>EuroDIG secretary general Sandra Hoferichter herself taught the opening session on the IG ecosystem; the disinformation webinar was led by Daniel Rzasa, editor-in-chief of Polish business site 300Gospodarka, and the finale was co-hosted with the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance [1]<\/li>\n<li>Webinars stayed closed to selected participants to preserve small-group dialogue, and fellows served as online moderators at the virtual EuroDIG 2020 [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Data Protection and Children&#39;s Safety \u2014 Dark Patterns Are GDPR Violations<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth Messages theme 1, &#39;Data protection and children&#39;s safety&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Companies should not use dark patterns to nudge and deceive users into consenting to data collection \u2014 and regulators should recognise dark patterns as a violation of GDPR and fine violators, the messages argued, anticipating later EU platform rules [2]<\/li>\n<li>Even under GDPR, data practices can discriminate against minorities such as LGBTQ+ people and victims of violence; representatives of those communities should join the policy-making process [2]<\/li>\n<li>They also called for legislation to remove personal information spread without consent and punish perpetrators, and for coordinated parent-school-government action on bullying [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Access and Inclusion \u2014 Community Networks as the Decentralised Fix<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth Messages theme 2, &#39;Internet Access and inclusion&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the year lockdowns turned connectivity gaps into life gaps, the cohort urged local governments, technologists and civil society to leverage community networks as a decentralised solution for rural and remote access [2]<\/li>\n<li>They called for public-private internet booths and telecentres, and for evidence-based policy grounded in joint government-academia research into population needs [2]<\/li>\n<li>Also proposed: guidelines for detecting fake news built on Council of Europe work, and a dedicated internet governance awareness week [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Blockchain and Greening the Internet \u2014 Two Very 2020 Topics<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth Messages themes 3 and 4, &#39;Blockchain&#39; and &#39;Greening the Internet&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On blockchain the cohort was notably sober: don&#39;t use it for every process, but focus on the pool of use-cases where transparency, immutability and accountability add the most value \u2014 citing online voting, identity verification and public procurement [2]<\/li>\n<li>The transition to a green internet should be transparent, accountable and based on scientific research, they argued, calling for a standing dialogue between tech and energy companies and EU institutions [2]<\/li>\n<li>This was the series&#39; first stand-alone environmental theme \u2014 the forerunner of 2022&#39;s &#39;Sustainability and ICTs&#39; and the 2025 data-centre debates [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What happened to the in-person event?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Cancelled. The plan was the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, but COVID-19 forced a switch to four webinars across May and June \u2014 the only edition in the series with no single event date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Did the virtual format still deliver?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Yes. The cohort adopted Youth Messages on data protection, access, blockchain and greening the internet \u2014 including the call to treat dark patterns as GDPR violations, which anticipated later EU regulation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The &#39;thematic webinars plus drafting weekend&#39; design is a practical model for running distributed youth policy programmes anywhere.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is YouthDIG? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-youth-eurodig-2020-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 About YouthDIG\"><\/p>\n<p>YouthDIG 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 2020 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:\/\/eurodigwiki.org\/wiki\/YOUthDIG_2020\">YOUthDIG 2020\uff08\u30a6\u30a7\u30d3\u30ca\u30fc\u65e5\u7a0b\u30fb\u8b1b\u5e2b\u30fb\u958b\u50ac\u5f62\u5f0f\u5909\u66f4\u306e\u7d4c\u7def\uff09<\/a> \u2014 EuroDIG Wiki\uff08EuroDIG\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurodigwiki.org\/wiki\/YOUthDIG_2020_messages\">YOUthDIG 2020 messages\uff08\u30e6\u30fc\u30b9\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u5168\u6587\uff09<\/a> \u2014 EuroDIG Wiki\uff08EuroDIG\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurodigwiki.org\/wiki\/EuroDIG_2020\">EuroDIG 2020\uff08June 10\u201312, virtual meeting\uff09<\/a> \u2014 EuroDIG Wiki\uff08EuroDIG\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurodig.org\/get-involved\/youthdig\/\">YOUthDIG\uff08\u7cfb\u5217\u6982\u8981\u3068\u6b74\u4ee3\u30e6\u30fc\u30b9\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u306e\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09<\/a> \u2014 EuroDIG\uff08eurodig.org\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 12\u664213\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>YOUthDIG 2020, originally planned at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, was cancelled by COVID-19 and <\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,2497],"class_list":["post-14802","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-youthdig2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14802","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=14802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}