{"id":14809,"date":"2023-06-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/07\/en-youth-eurodig-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T07:00:00","slug":"en-youth-eurodig-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/07\/en-youth-eurodig-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUthDIG 2023 \u2014 Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance, Tampere \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-2023-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2023 \u30bf\u30f3\u30da\u30ec \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-2023-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2023 \u30bf\u30f3\u30da\u30ec \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 17\u201319 June 2023 the seventh YOUthDIG gathered 30 young people from Council of Europe member states in Tampere, Finland, after a preparatory phase of monthly webinars, feeding into EuroDIG 2023 (19\u201321 June).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In the first post-ChatGPT year, the Youth Messages 2023 led with detailed amendments to the EU AI Act \u2014 human oversight for high-risk systems, AI as a common good \u2014 and coined the cohort&#39;s clearest slogan yet: &#39;Do not break encryption! No backdoors!&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>From e-waste and migrants&#39; data protection to rural infrastructure investment, this was the edition where youth messages matured into clause-level regulatory demands \u2014 directly relevant wherever AI law and encryption policy are on the table.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>YOUthDIG 2023 \u2014 Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance, Tampere<\/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-2023-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2023 \u30bf\u30f3\u30da\u30ec \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 2023 \u2014 Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance, Tampere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>17\u201319 June 2023 (arrival on the 16th), preceded by an online phase of monthly virtual webinars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Tampere, Finland<\/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 2023 in four topics \u2014 AI safety and prosperity for all, a conscientious digital ecosystem, current challenges of data governance, and &#39;no backdoors in the future of IG&#39; \u2014 presented at EuroDIG and the global UN IGF<\/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-2023-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2023 \u30bf\u30f3\u30da\u30ec \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. A Brighter Future with AI \u2014 Clause-Level Demands on the EU AI Act<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth Messages topic 1, &#39;Creating a brighter future with artificial intelligence: safety and prosperity for all&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The messages went clause-by-clause at the draft EU AI Act: define &#39;subliminal techniques&#39; of manipulation explicitly and unambiguously, sharpen the distinction between &#39;foundational model&#39; and &#39;general purpose AI&#39;, and add explicit rules for research use of high-risk systems so the Act does not hinder research [1]<\/li>\n<li>High-risk AI systems must be supplemented by human involvement to prevent single points of failure, with equal investment in AI alignment and AI development research [1]<\/li>\n<li>AI should be regarded as a common good \u2014 with inclusive access, fairness and societal benefit at the centre \u2014 backed by AI teaching in formal and lifelong education across Europe [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. &#39;No Backdoors&#39; \u2014 the Youth Case for Encryption<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth Messages topic 4, &#39;No backdoors in the future of IG: towards a cooperative and evidence-based Internet governance!&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#39;Do not break encryption! No backdoors \u2014 no vulnerability management but vulnerability disclosure and patching processes!&#39; \u2014 a head-on intervention in the EU&#39;s chat-control debate [1]<\/li>\n<li>They called on the international community to create enforcement mechanisms holding governments to their commitments under the Declaration for the Future of the Internet, and for systematic engagement of the technical community throughout the policy cycle [1]<\/li>\n<li>EuroDIG itself was put on notice: ensure all past and future youth messages are addressed by their respective stakeholders, and involve youth systematically in decision-making [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. A Conscientious Digital Ecosystem \u2014 From E-Waste to Rural Infrastructure<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth Messages topic 2, &#39;Bridging the Divides: Building a Conscientious Digital Ecosystem&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduce the mining of critical raw materials by shifting to materials recovery and e-waste recycling, to prevent ecosystem degradation and human rights violations \u2014 reaching up the device supply chain [1]<\/li>\n<li>An urgent appeal to governments to invest in rural internet infrastructure, framed as reducing internet fragmentation and the work opportunities it forecloses [1]<\/li>\n<li>Cohesive interoperability standards to avoid vendor lock-in and market concentration, plus systematic education of caregivers and educators to build children&#39;s digital skills [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Data Governance Now \u2014 Migrants, Healthcare, Small Companies<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth Messages topic 3, &#39;Current Challenges of Data Governance&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Data of &#39;people on the move&#39; got its own heading: NGOs need access to and training on safe-by-design data warehouses, and the four-year retention period of the EU&#39;s large-scale migration database should be cut to align with the AI Act&#39;s safeguards [1]<\/li>\n<li>Member states should protect health-data rights under GDPR and keep the European Health Data Space proposal consistent to enable cross-border care [1]<\/li>\n<li>Affordable data-governance capacity building for small companies and integration of the European Declaration of Digital Rights and Principles into national regulation completed the picture [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What dominated this edition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. AI. In the first post-ChatGPT year the cohort marked up the draft EU AI Act clause by clause \u2014 define &#39;subliminal techniques&#39;, separate foundational models from general-purpose AI \u2014 while also coining the slogan &#39;Do not break encryption! No backdoors!&#39;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. How was it run?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Four alumni from Belgium, Georgia, Portugal and Lithuania organised it; 30 participants were recruited from Council of Europe member states, prepared through monthly webinars, then drafted the messages onsite using a systems approach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Anywhere AI law and encryption policy are debated in parallel, the twin demands \u2014 human oversight for high-risk AI, vulnerability disclosure instead of backdoors \u2014 translate directly.<\/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-2023-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2023 \u30bf\u30f3\u30da\u30ec \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 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:\/\/eurodigwiki.org\/wiki\/YOUthDIG_2023\">YOUthDIG 2023\uff08\u30e6\u30fc\u30b9\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u5168\u6587\u30fb\u958b\u50ac\u6982\u8981\uff09<\/a> \u2014 EuroDIG Wiki\uff08EuroDIG\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurodig.org\/eurodig-2023\/youthdig-2023\/\">YOUthDIG 2023\uff08\u4f1a\u671f\u30fb\u30aa\u30fc\u30ac\u30ca\u30a4\u30b8\u30f3\u30b0\u30c1\u30fc\u30e0\u30fb\u516c\u52df\u8981\u9818\uff1a30\u4eba\uff0fCoE\u52a0\u76df\u56fd\uff09<\/a> \u2014 EuroDIG\uff08eurodig.org\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurodigwiki.org\/wiki\/EuroDIG_2023\">EuroDIG 2023\uff08June 19\u201321, Tampere \/ Finland\u30fb\u30bf\u30f3\u30da\u30ec\u5927\u5b66\u30db\u30b9\u30c8\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\u670822\u65e5 21\u664225\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 17\u201319 June 2023 the seventh YOUthDIG gathered 30 young people from Council of Europe member states in Tampere, Finland, after a preparato<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,2613],"class_list":["post-14809","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-youthdig2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809","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=14809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}