{"id":14811,"date":"2024-06-26T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/26\/en-youth-eurodig-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:00:00","slug":"en-youth-eurodig-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/26\/en-youth-eurodig-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUthDIG 2024 \u2014 Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance, Vilnius \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-2024-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2024 \u30d3\u30ea\u30cb\u30e5\u30b9 \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-2024-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2024 \u30d3\u30ea\u30cb\u30e5\u30b9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 14\u201316 June 2024 the eighth YOUthDIG met in Vilnius, Lithuania. Applications hit 275 (159 women, 113 men, 3 non-binary), with 30 participants funded, feeding into EuroDIG 2024 (17\u201319 June).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In a global election year, the Youth Messages 2024 led with AI and human rights \u2014 including the demand that AI use in border control &#39;should be prohibited&#39; \u2014 and proposed a &#39;badge of authenticity&#39; using QR codes or a blue-tick circle to verify information against deepfakes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Their call to make explicit opt-in, GDPR-style, the standard for using personal content in AI training speaks directly to generative-AI debates everywhere; publishing the applicant gender breakdown set a transparency benchmark too.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>YOUthDIG 2024 \u2014 Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance, Vilnius<\/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-2024-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2024 \u30d3\u30ea\u30cb\u30e5\u30b9 \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 2024 \u2014 Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance, Vilnius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>14\u201316 June 2024 (arrival on the 13th), preceded by an online phase with webinars on 13, 20 and 27 May and 2 and 10 June<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Vilnius, Lithuania<\/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 2024 in three clusters \u2014 policy propositions on AI and human rights (discrimination, techno-solutionism, AI in border control, education, training data, deepfakes), an intersectional approach to youth participation, and fair and privacy-preserving use of data \u2014 presented at EuroDIG and the global 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-2024-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2024 \u30d3\u30ea\u30cb\u30e5\u30b9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. AI and Human Rights \u2014 &#39;Prohibit&#39; AI in Border Control<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth Messages, &#39;Policy Propositions on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The strongest prohibition in the series&#39; history: AI in border control raises grave human-rights concerns for refugees and border-crossers, biometric data is collected without proper consent, AI is not a solution to the migration crisis \u2014 therefore &#39;the use of AI in border control should be prohibited&#39; [1]<\/li>\n<li>Against AI-reproduced discrimination they proposed transparency, synthetic data, focus groups representing minority and intersectional backgrounds, and legal clarification of responsibility [1]<\/li>\n<li>Policy makers&#39; techno-solutionism got its own warning: AI may not be the most efficient fix \u2014 from waste to migration management \u2014 so comprehensive multistakeholder impact assessments and accountability must precede deployment [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Deepfakes and Elections \u2014 the &#39;Badge of Authenticity&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth Messages sections &#39;Deepfakes&#39; and &#39;Data for AI training&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deepfake videos flooding the media in crises and elections prevent rational decision-making, fuel distrust in institutions and harm democracy, the messages argued \u2014 demanding a legal framework, funding for detection technology and mandatory labelling of all deepfakes [1]<\/li>\n<li>They proposed &#39;a system to confirm the authenticity of information, such as a badge of authenticity using a QR code or blue tick circle&#39;, for media houses to verify content [1]<\/li>\n<li>On AI training data: replace today&#39;s opt-out with explicit opt-in following the GDPR example \u2014 redesigning consent for the generative-AI era [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Intersectional Youth Participation \u2014 Demanding Seats and Funding<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth Messages, &#39;An intersectional approach for youth participation for a better Internet governance future&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a youth &#39;seat at the table&#39; a requirement, they demanded \u2014 with standards and recommendations for meaningful participation in high-level discussions and stable funding, including operational grants, for youth organisations [1]<\/li>\n<li>They proposed spaces with co-management structures where young people issue policy recommendations and monitor their implementation [1]<\/li>\n<li>Inclusivity starts with language: youth-friendly versions of policy documents, LLMs trained across European languages to narrow information gaps, and accessibility standards for users with disabilities [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Fair Data Use \u2014 Outlaw Dark Patterns, Go Slow on Age Verification<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth Messages, &#39;Fair and Privacy Preserving Use of Data&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Data privacy should not depend on personal, social or economic status: outlaw dark patterns, empower consumer agencies to pursue them, and make opt-in the standard without penalty or exclusion [1]<\/li>\n<li>A &#39;new economics of data&#39;: data is an asset produced by users&#39; labour and used to facilitate price discrimination \u2014 so companies should be barred from raising prices based on personal data shared without consent [1]<\/li>\n<li>On age verification the cohort was candid: no effective technical solution protects children without infringing privacy, so priority should go to strengthening law enforcement and shifting liability to providers of explicit content rather than privacy-reducing technocentric fixes [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. How competitive was it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. 275 applications for 30 funded places \u2014 roughly nine to one. Publishing the gender breakdown (159 women, 113 men, 3 non-binary) set a transparency benchmark for youth programmes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the boldest demand?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Prohibit AI in border control \u2014 the strongest prohibition in the series&#39; history, citing biometric data collected from refugees without proper consent. The &#39;badge of authenticity&#39; against deepfakes was the most concrete invention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The opt-in demand for AI training data and the scepticism about age-verification technology map directly onto generative-AI copyright debates and child-safety legislation in most countries.<\/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-2024-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"YouthDIG 2024 \u30d3\u30ea\u30cb\u30e5\u30b9 \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 2024 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_2024\">YOUthDIG 2024\uff08\u30e6\u30fc\u30b9\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u5168\u6587\u30fb\u5fdc\u52df\u7d71\u8a08275\u4ef6\/30\u4eba\uff09<\/a> \u2014 EuroDIG Wiki\uff08EuroDIG\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurodigwiki.org\/wiki\/YOUthDIG_2024_programme\">YOUthDIG 2024 programme\uff08\u30a6\u30a7\u30d3\u30ca\u30fc5\u56de\uff0b\u73fe\u57306\/14-16\u306e\u8a73\u7d30\u65e5\u7a0b\uff09<\/a> \u2014 EuroDIG Wiki\uff08EuroDIG\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurodigwiki.org\/wiki\/EuroDIG_2024\">EuroDIG 2024\uff08June 17\u201319 in Vilnius, Lithuania\u30fbRRT\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\u67089\u65e5 17\u664222\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 14\u201316 June 2024 the eighth YOUthDIG met in Vilnius, Lithuania. 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