{"id":14839,"date":"2018-08-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/08\/14\/en-youth-lacigf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:00:00","slug":"en-youth-lacigf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/08\/14\/en-youth-lacigf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth LACIGF 2018 (3rd YouthLACIGF) \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-lacigf-2018-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Youth LACIGF 2018 \u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4\u30ec\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-lacigf-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Youth LACIGF 2018 \u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4\u30ec\u30b9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 29 July 2018 the third Youth LACIGF met at the NIC Argentina auditorium in Buenos Aires \u2014 49 participants from 11 countries, debating from 11 am to 7 pm jointly with the first-ever Youth IGF Argentina.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It opened a week in which Buenos Aires hosted four governance meetings back to back: Youth LACIGF, IGF Argentina (30 July), LACIGF 11 (31 July\u20132 August) and LACIGFem (1 August).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>This was the edition where the regional youth forum and a brand-new national youth IGF merged their launch \u2014 a model for pairing national youth initiatives with regional momentum.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Youth LACIGF 2018 (3rd YouthLACIGF)<\/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-lacigf-2018-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Youth LACIGF 2018 \u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4\u30ec\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>Youth LACIGF 2018 (3rd YouthLACIGF)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>3rd edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>29 July 2018, 11:00\u201319:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>NIC Argentina Auditorium, San Mart\u00edn 536, 1st floor, Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>49 young people from 11 countries; 5 presentations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>The Youth Observatory (the Internet Society&#39;s SIG Youth), running the forum for the third year, this time joining forces with Youth IGF Argentina<\/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-lacigf-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Youth LACIGF 2018 \u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4\u30ec\u30b9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Joining Forces \u2014 Launching Alongside Youth IGF Argentina<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Joint Youth LACIGF \/ Youth IGF Argentina meeting (29 July, 11:00\u201319:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ISOC&#39;s official blog recorded that &#39;our SIG Youth will be running the 2018 Youth LACIGF, for the third year&#39; and that &#39;this year it will join forces with the Youth IGF Argentina&#39; \u2014 the regional youth forum midwifing a national one [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>NIC Argentina framed both meetings as expanding &#39;training and participation of young sectors of Argentina in Internet Governance dialogues&#39;, free of charge with online registration [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The series had &#39;grown in its reach and importance every year&#39; since 2016 (ISOC blog), momentum that made the national launch possible [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Opening Governance Week \u2014 Four Forums in One Buenos Aires Week<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The Buenos Aires governance week (29 July\u20132 August)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The youth meeting on 29 July was followed by IGF Argentina (30 July), LACIGF 11 (31 July\u20132 August) and the SIG Women-led LACIGFem 2018 (1 August) [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>LACIGF 11 was streamed in Spanish, English and Portuguese, and the week was structured so youth participants could roll straight into the main regional debate [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Placing gender (LACIGFem) and youth (Youth LACIGF) events around the main meeting was ISOC&#39;s explicit strategy for addressing the digital divide inclusively [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. A Youth Forum Inside the Registry \u2014 The NIC Argentina Auditorium<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Venue and turnout<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The venue belonged to NIC Argentina, operator of the .ar country-code domain \u2014 the technical community directly hosting the youth forum [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Turnout was 49 participants from 11 countries with 5 presentations, mixing local Argentine youth with regional fellows [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The pattern of registries, public institutions and civil society taking turns to host continued in later editions (a military engineering university in La Paz 2019, Universidad de Chile in 2024) [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the headline of this edition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The joint launch with Youth IGF Argentina \u2014 in its third year, the regional youth forum was already strong enough to help start a national one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. How did it relate to the main LACIGF?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It opened the week two days before LACIGF 11 in the same city, part of a packed run that also included IGF Argentina on Monday and LACIGFem on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Using a regional forum&#39;s momentum to bootstrap a national youth IGF is a playbook any country can borrow.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Youth LACIGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-youth-lacigf-2018-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Youth LACIGF 2018 \u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4\u30ec\u30b9 \u2014 About Youth LACIGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Youth LACIGF 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 2018 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:\/\/nic.ar\/es\/enterate\/novedades\/buenos-aires-sede-foros-gi\">Durante una semana Buenos Aires ser\u00e1 sede de los foros m\u00e1s importantes sobre Gobernanza de Internet\uff08\u9031\u9593\u544a\u77e5\uff1a7\u670829\u65e5Youth IGF Argentina\uff0fYouthLACIGF\u3001NIC Argentina\u8b1b\u5802\uff09<\/a> \u2014 NIC Argentina (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/buenos-aires-sera-el-centro-de-las-discusiones-sobre-gobernanza-de-internet\/\">Buenos Aires Will Be the Place for Internet Governance This Week\uff08Raquel Gatto\u30fb2018\u5e747\u670830\u65e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Internet Society\u516c\u5f0f\u30d6\u30ed\u30b0 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youthlacigf.lat\/ediciones-anteriores\/\">Ediciones anteriores\uff08\u6b74\u4ee3\u958b\u50ac\u4e00\u89a7\uff1a2018\u5e74\u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4\u30ec\u30b9\u30fb49\u4eba\u30fb11\u30ab\u56fd\u30fb\u767a\u88685\u4ef6\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Youth LACIGF\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youthlacigf.lat\/\">YouthLACIGF\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u30fb\u7cfb\u5217\u6982\u8981\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Youth LACIGF\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 (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 18\u664233\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 29 July 2018 the third Youth LACIGF met at the NIC Argentina auditorium in Buenos Aires \u2014 49 participants from 11 countries, debating fro<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,2629],"class_list":["post-14839","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-youthlacigf2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14839","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=14839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}