{"id":7765,"date":"2022-07-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/07\/26\/en-bangladesh-youth-igf-2022-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T01:00:00","slug":"en-bangladesh-youth-igf-2022-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/07\/26\/en-bangladesh-youth-igf-2022-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh 2nd Youth Internet Governance Forum 2022 (CIRDAP, Dhaka) \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-bangladesh-youth-igf-2022-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh Youth IGF 2022 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \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-bangladesh-youth-igf-2022-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh Youth IGF 2022 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 26\u201327 August 2022 the second Youth IGF Bangladesh met in person at the CIRDAP centre in Dhaka \u2014 179 participants including 139 fellows, and 38+ speakers, after a virtual first edition.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eight sessions ran from &#39;Smart Bangladesh&#39; and government startup support to domain-name security, cyberbullying, the rural-urban connectivity gap and the SDGs, with Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar as chief guest.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Billed partly as a run-up to the UN IGF in Addis Ababa that November, it showcased Bangladesh&#39;s layered IG ecosystem \u2014 bdSIG, a Women&#39;s IGF and a Kids&#39; IGF alongside the youth forum.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Bangladesh 2nd Youth Internet Governance Forum 2022 (CIRDAP, Dhaka)<\/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-bangladesh-youth-igf-2022-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh Youth IGF 2022 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \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>Bangladesh 2nd Youth Internet Governance Forum 2022 (CIRDAP, Dhaka)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>26\u201327 August 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>CIRDAP, Dhaka<\/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>179 (179 participants (139 fellowship, 20 BTRC, 20 Summit Communications) with 472 online registrations; by division, Dhaka 84, Chattogram 8, Khulna 7 and more (official report deck))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>8 (8 sessions over two days (Day 1: 3 hours; Day 2: 9 hours), 38+ local and international speakers)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Organised by Youth IGF Bangladesh under BIGF; backed by ICANN, APNIC, IGFSA, ISPAB, Audra, Carnival Internet, Summit Communications, bdSIG and BNNRC; chief guest was Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar<\/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-bangladesh-youth-igf-2022-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh Youth IGF 2022 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Building &#39;Smart Bangladesh&#39; \u2014 Government Startup Support Meets Youth<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day 1 &#39;Empowering Youth for Smart Bangladesh&#39; (a2i&#39;s Md Sahariar Hasan JiiSun, Startup Khulna&#39;s Sharifa Alam and others)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An official from a2i, the government&#39;s innovation agency, cast youth as the nucleus of Bangladesh&#39;s economic rise, outlining skills development and iDEA-project startup support [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The prior year&#39;s argument \u2014 leverage the demographic dividend through market-demanded skills \u2014 was deepened in face-to-face debate [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Discussants from BACCO and the ICT journalists&#39; forum grounded the vision in labour-market realities [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Safety, Security and Accountability \u2014 Youth Against Cyberbullying<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day 2 &#39;Enabling Safety, Security and Accountability&#39; (BGD e-GOV CIRT&#39;s Mohammad Makchudul Alam, International Children&#39;s Peace Prize laureate Sadat Rahman and others)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experts from the government CIRT walked young users through online hygiene and personal safety [2]<\/li>\n<li>Sadat Rahman, founder of the Cyber Teens Foundation and 2020 International Children&#39;s Peace Prize laureate for his anti-cyberbullying app, showed what youth-led protection looks like [2]<\/li>\n<li>Together with the morning&#39;s domain-registration and TLD-security session, safety was addressed across institutions, technology and lived practice [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Rural-Urban Divide \u2014 Connecting the Unconnected Youth<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day 2 sessions &#39;Connecting All Youth in the IGF Process \u2013 Rural and Urban&#39; and &#39;Connecting the Unconnected&#39; (moderated by BNNRC&#39;s AHM Bazlur Rahman; BTRC Director General Brig. Gen. Nasim Parvez and others)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participation numbers told the structural story: 84 of 179 came from Dhaka division while others sent single digits \u2014 reaching rural youth remains the challenge [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Private players \u2014 rural-focused ISP Carnival Internet and digital-wellness service Audra \u2014 showed who carries the last mile [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The closing session&#39;s chief guest, BTRC&#39;s Director General and UN IGF focal point, framed the forum as youth input on the road to the UN IGF in Addis Ababa [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. A Youth Forum That Drew a Minister \u2014 Unveiling the Layered Ecosystem<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening ceremony (chief guest Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar; special guest BTRC Vice-Chairman Subrata Roy Maitra; chaired by Hasanul Haq Inu MP)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A sitting minister as chief guest and the regulator BTRC sending its vice-chairman plus 20 staff signalled unusually deep government engagement [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Solidarity speeches from the Kids&#39; IGF, Women&#39;s IGF and bdSIG displayed Bangladesh&#39;s four-layer &#39;IGF family&#39; [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Official materials set the next goals in writing: expansion to the seven divisions beyond Dhaka and networking across all 64 districts [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What changed from the first edition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It went in-person: 179 participants at Dhaka&#39;s CIRDAP centre, with the sitting Posts and Telecommunications Minister as chief guest \u2014 government engagement deepened markedly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What topped the agenda?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. How youth power the government&#39;s &#39;Smart Bangladesh&#39; vision, online safety and cyberbullying \u2014 featuring an International Children&#39;s Peace Prize laureate \u2014 and the rural-urban connectivity gap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Running Kids&#39;, Women&#39;s and Youth IGFs in parallel is a distinctive Bangladeshi design for giving every group its own on-ramp \u2014 worth studying anywhere participation lags.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Bangladesh Youth IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-bangladesh-youth-igf-2022-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh Youth IGF 2022 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \u2014 About Bangladesh Youth IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh Youth IGF 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 2022 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:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/filedepot_download\/21\/22343\">Youth IGF Bangladesh 2022 Report\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u5831\u544a\u8cc7\u6599PDF\uff1a26-27 August\u30fbCIRDAP\u30fb179\u540d\u30fb8\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Youth IGF Bangladesh \/ \u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40 filedepot (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230603041906\/https:\/\/youth.bangladeshigf.org\/schedule-2022\/\">Schedule 2022\uff08\u5f53\u6642\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u306eWayback\u4fdd\u5b58\u7248\uff1a\u5168\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30fb\u767b\u58c7\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Youth IGF Bangladesh\uff08Internet Archive Wayback Machine\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240415000945\/https:\/\/youth.bangladeshigf.org\/byigf-2022\/\">BYIGF 2022\uff08\u5f53\u6642\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u306eWayback\u4fdd\u5b58\u7248\u30fb\u5927\u4f1a\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Youth IGF Bangladesh\uff08Internet Archive Wayback Machine\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/bangladesh-youth-igf\">Bangladesh Youth IGF\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF NRI\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff1a\u5e74\u6b21\u5831\u544a\u66f82021\/2022\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (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\u670814\u65e5 21\u664242\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 26\u201327 August 2022 the second Youth IGF Bangladesh met in person at the CIRDAP centre in Dhaka \u2014 179 participants including 139 fellows, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[163,833,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-7765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-youth-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-bangladeshyouthigf2022","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765","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=7765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}