{"id":14818,"date":"2023-06-19T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/19\/en-youth-igf-germany-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T12:00:00","slug":"en-youth-igf-germany-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/19\/en-youth-igf-germany-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Vorabend-Veranstaltung des Jugend-IGF-D 2023 (Youth IGF Germany \u2014 the pre-evening event of IGF-D 2023) \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-igf-germany-2023-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Youth IGF Germany 2023 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\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-igf-germany-2023-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Youth IGF Germany 2023 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On the evening of 12 September 2023, around 25 young people gathered at Wikimedia Deutschland in Berlin for the Jugend-IGF-D pre-event, debating digital sustainability ahead of the next day&#39;s IGF-D 2023.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Three lightning talks unpacked ecological, social and economic sustainability; a World Caf\u00e9 then distilled demands \u2014 universal informatics education, systematic device recycling \u2014 carried into the main forum.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The youth wing&#39;s initiative also produced the main event&#39;s flagship EU AI Act panel, and the outcome document travelled to the UN IGF in Kyoto \u2014 a textbook case of youth agenda-setting reaching from national to global level.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Vorabend-Veranstaltung des Jugend-IGF-D 2023 (Youth IGF Germany \u2014 the pre-evening event of IGF-D 2023)<\/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-igf-germany-2023-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Youth IGF Germany 2023 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\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>Vorabend-Veranstaltung des Jugend-IGF-D 2023 (Youth IGF Germany \u2014 the pre-evening event of IGF-D 2023)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>12 September 2023 (check-in 18:30, start 19:00, get-together from 21:05)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., Tempelhofer Ufer 23\/24, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Workshop &#39;Digital Sustainability: A Chance for the Future?&#39; \u2014 three lightning talks followed by a World Caf\u00e9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>25 (Around 25 young people took part (per GI&#39;s participant report))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Demands such as universal informatics education and systematic device recycling were carried into IGF-D 2023; sustainability and youth-participation points were reflected in the outcome document &#39;From Berlin to Kyoto&#39;, delivered to the UN IGF in Kyoto<\/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-igf-germany-2023-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Youth IGF Germany 2023 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Three Sustainabilities \u2014 Lightning Talks on Ecology, Society and Economy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Lightning talks from 19:10 (Economy, Ecology, Social)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Verena M\u00fcller (Technical University of Munich) covered ecological sustainability, Carolin Henze (German Informatics Society) social sustainability \u2014 &#39;conditions for socially just digitalisation&#39; \u2014 and Dirk Krischenowski (dotBERLIN) the economic pillar [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Krischenowski flagged the growing dependence on rare earths, putting the resource footprint of digital devices at the centre of the economic debate [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The announcement&#39;s guiding questions \u2014 what makes digitalisation sustainable, how to reconcile social justice with innovation, how to build climate-friendly data spaces \u2014 threaded through all three talks [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The World Caf\u00e9 \u2014 Carrying Youth Demands into the Main Forum<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: World Caf\u00e9 (19:35\u201321:05) and the hand-over of results<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Around World Caf\u00e9 tables with the experts, participants distilled concrete demands: universal informatics education across the country and systematic recycling of end devices [1][2][4]<\/li>\n<li>The demands were carried into the IGF-D 2023 main forum at the Federal Foreign Office the next day, where the discussion continued [1][2][4]<\/li>\n<li>The sustainability chapter of the outcome document &#39;From Berlin to Kyoto&#39; echoes the evening&#39;s points \u2014 expanding the circular economy to cut raw-material dependence, prioritising digital education \u2014 and went to the UN IGF in Kyoto that October [1][2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Youth Agenda-Setting \u2014 The AI Act Panel and &#39;Effective Youth Participation&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Ripple effects into the IGF-D 2023 main forum (13 September)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The main forum&#39;s flagship panel on the EU AI Act was instigated by the youth wing (Y-IGF) and moderated by Julia Kloiber [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>&#39;From Berlin to Kyoto&#39; enshrined the channel in writing \u2014 its fifth AI message demands &#39;effective youth participation in political decision-making processes on the use and regulation of artificial intelligence \u2014 especially in foreign policy and international forums&#39; \u2014 before travelling to the UN IGF in Kyoto [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>Hosting the evening at Wikimedia Deutschland, a core IGF-D participant, cemented the pattern of anchoring youth events in civil-society venues [2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What kind of event was it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A youth workshop on the eve of IGF-D 2023, at Wikimedia Deutschland in Berlin: about 25 participants, three lightning talks and a World Caf\u00e9 on digital sustainability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Did it produce anything?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Yes \u2014 demands for universal informatics education and systematic device recycling went into the main forum, and the sustainability and youth-participation points surfaced in &#39;From Berlin to Kyoto&#39;, the outcome document delivered to the UN IGF in Kyoto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It traces the full pipeline from a two-hour evening youth event to the outcome document of a UN-level conference \u2014 proof that small, well-placed youth fora can set international agendas.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Youth IGF Germany? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-youth-igf-germany-2023-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Youth IGF Germany 2023 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 About Youth IGF Germany\"><\/p>\n<p>Youth IGF Germany 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:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231004194930\/https:\/\/www.igf-d.de\/igf-d-2023\/vorabend-veranstaltung-des-jugend-igf-d\/\">Vorabend-Veranstaltung des Jugend-IGF-D\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u544a\u77e5\u30fb\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Internet Governance Forum Deutschland (IGF-D) \u203bWayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gi.de\/meldung\/igf-d2023\">Alle an einem Tisch: GI-Vertreterinnen beim Internet Governance Forum Deutschland\uff08\u524d\u591c\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u306e\u53c2\u52a0\u5831\u544a\u3092\u542b\u3080\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Informatik e.V.\uff08\u30c9\u30a4\u30c4\u60c5\u5831\u5b66\u4f1a\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/youth-initiatives\">Youth Initiatives\uff08German Youth IGF: established in 2013\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf-d.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/From-Berlin-to-Kyoto.pdf\">From Berlin to Kyoto \u2014 Messages from the Internet Governance Forum Germany, 13th September 2023 (PDF)<\/a> \u2014 IGF-D (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\u670821\u65e5 11\u664205\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 the evening of 12 September 2023, around 25 young people gathered at Wikimedia Deutschland in Berlin for the Jugend-IGF-D pre-event, deba<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,2618],"class_list":["post-14818","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-youthigfgermany2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818","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=14818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}