YouthLACIGF 2020 on the way!

The Organising Committee of the YouthLACIGF is preparing great activities for the YouthLACIGF 2020. This year the event will be entirely online on August 1-2. Chilean Time Zone.

The online event will address these 4 thematic areas:

—Online education and access to the internet. Digital Literacy matters!

–Misinformation, problems with social media

–COVID 19 related to privacy and cybersecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean region

–Online democracies: a new model of democracies after the pandemic?

If you are a young resident of the Latin America and the Caribbean region, you can submit your application by filling this form. Applications in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese are accepted.

Read more information on formats, deadlines and speakers at the website.

In adittion, the Organising Committee has prepared an Open Course with the support of Internet Society. Taking into account the situation of COVID-19 in the region, we considered to provide this capacity building tool as preparation for the YouthLACIGF and LACIGF online meetings. We will have webinars with experts of the Latin American and the Caribbean region on selected topics relevants for the region.

You can enroll in the course here. Deadline to enroll: May 14, 2020, 11h59pm UTC

May 13, 2020 Events 1 comment

Youth Observatory Webinar on COVID-19

Youth Observatory has prepared a webinar on COVID-19, with the purpose of joining efforts to fight COVID-19 with Dr. Abhishek Royal.

Dr. Royal is a medical doctor and a public health professional with experience of working with various vulnerable and marginalized population and public health emergencies in India. He is currently pursuing Master’s in Public Health in Implementation Research from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He has received full scholarship from World Health Organization – Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases to pursue this international master’s program.

Dr. Abhishek Royal will talk to us on April 15th on the Community perspective on the pandemic and the effects of lockdown on Mental health.

Moderator: Mohammad Atif Aleem (Regional Engagement Director- Asia Pacific Region).

Sign up before April 13 at 12 pm UTC here: https://bit.ly/YouthObsAgainstCovid

The webinar on COVID-19 will take place on April 15 at 14pm UTC. Few spots available!

Watch the recording of the webinar below:

Youth Observatory Webinar on COVID-19

Youth Observatory Webinar on COVID-19. Dr. Abhishek Royal (MBBS, MPH Scholar | Implementation Research) will cover 1) Community perspective on pandemic; 2) Effects of lockdown and infodermic on mental health.

Posted by Youth Observatory on Wednesday, April 15, 2020

As part of Youth Obs Challenge, we are also proposing our community to take a short course on COVID-19 (enroll here) and share your certificate, tagging @YouthObs on social media and using the proposed hashtags #onlineandinformed #youthobsonline #InternetUnited #unitedagainstCovid19 #youthuniteagainstcovid.

April 9, 2020 Events No comments yet

Youth LACIGF 2019

The youth meeting took place in August 5th, in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. The organizing process started in January 2019 when we invited Youth Observatory members to take part in online meetings to shape the fourth edition of the Youth LACIGF, having our communication at our official Telegram group in order to set the working commissions.

In order to create an Internet Governance Initiative that achieves the goals of openness, transparency, inclusiveness, non-commercial, and multi-stakeholder participation, the main organizers established a dialogue with other stakeholders interested in the event. At the end of July, we had the participation of 5 actors from different stakeholder groups which conform the Organization Committee.


The Committee decided to use the format of “Break-out groups” to maximize the participation of all attendees in our agenda. The event was open to the public, free of charge and was widely disseminated in digital media.

Watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/uVk_p7lDPIc

Read the full report here (English).

August 7, 2019 Events No comments yet

Youth LACIGF 2018

On July 29 we hosted the Youth LACIGF 2018 in partnership with Youth IGF Argentina, as Buenos Aires was the host city of LACIGF. In this meeting, we gathered young individuals from all the region to share knowledge, experiences and thoughts on the challenges we are facing in the LAC region. Due this year we are sharing common interests and for the sake of complement strategies, we decided to organize both events in the same day and venue.

The Youth IGF Argentina is a discussion forum and space of exchange of ideas that has a goal amply the voices of young individuals between 18 to 30 years that are interested in Internet Governance.

At the meeting we had 50 young participants from Latin America and the Caribbean interested on learning about several topics related to Internet Governance as well as acquiring knowledge from young persons of other countries. The topics addressed included freedom of expression in Internet, liability of intermediary platforms; cybersecurity and threats in digital spaces; at an informal environment when young persons could make all types of questions about the above said topics.

Moreover, the meeting counted with the presentation of Maia Daniel Levy (Youth IGF Argentina, on “Liability of intermediary platforms”) and Silvio Messina (Datas, on “Threats to digital rights in Argentina”). We also had a workshop facilitated by Romina Colman (part of the team of La Nación Data, an Argentine newspaper) and the presentation of a project created by the organization “Las De Sistemas” (an organization that empowers women on the usage of STEM). The meeting included presentations of youth initiatives of young leaders in the LAC region.

Thanks to the provided fellowships, we could have 8 guest fellows from Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, Chile and Paraguay.

Access the full Report here (English).

October 10, 2018 Events No comments yet

Youth LACIGF 2017

In the second edition of the Youth LACIGF, we had our meeting in the city of Panama City in Panama, where the LACIGF was having place too. This edition sought to deepen the debate and involvement of young people in the region, bringing new issues to be discussed among participants.

The agenda of the meeting was followed after the results of a public poll conducted during June 2017. For our forum, we used the format of “Birds of Further” to maximixe the participation of the attendess of the Youth LACIGF 2017. The thematic areas we addressed were “Infrastructure and Access”, “Cybersecurity and Surveillance”, “Internet and Human Rights”, “The Youth and Internet Governance”. It has also included the “Agenda Hacking” and the presentation of the book “Analysis of youth connected” (‘Análisis de una joventud conectada’).

You can watch the recording of the meeting at the links below:

Part 1: https://youtu.be/WMyYjs2T78I

Part 2: https://youtu.be/CSasbu9hZKo

Read the full report here (English).

October 10, 2017 Events No comments yet

Youth LACIGF 2016

The first ever Youth LACIGF took place in the city of San José, Costa Rica. This initiative born from the growing community of Latin American youth interested in issues related to the Internet. Given the active role that the youth have started taking, this new space is created with multi-sectoral characteristics, as a forum for debate of new ideas and perspectives to encourage the creation of lines of discussion that will be taken to other forums.

The agenda for this edition was defined based on the results of a public poll conducted between the end of June and the beginning of July, 2016. More than 70 users voted. Then, main members of the initiative formed a program Committee composed of representatives of all the stakeholders involved. This Committee was responsible for defining the agenda, the
format of the discussions and logistics details.

The topics discussed at this meeting were “Infrastructure and Access”, “Human Rights and Internet”, “Surveillance and Cybersecurity” and “Youth and the Internet Governance: What Is The Future?”

Watch the presentation video of the first edition of the Youth LACIGF here: https://youtu.be/sw9aXB9OL6A

Read the full report here (English)

July 28, 2016 Events No comments yet