Creating Networks – Youth Observatory

Youth Observatory (Youth SIG) was invited by the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance to participate in the session “Youth Coalition on Internet Governance: Creating synergies and the Way Forward”. This session was part of the Day 0 program at EuroDIG2020.

EuroDIG is the pan- European dialogue of Internet Governance, where participants from countries of all Europe gather to discuss issues of the region. This year, the online event chose the overarching theme “Towards a sustainable governance of the Internet” to discuss the focus areas: a) Cooperation, legislation, standardisation; b)Leverage connecting the unconnected; c)Data governance and data security; d)Media issues (ongoing); e) all matter DNS.

On this session, our Regional Engagement Director for Eastern European Group Elnur Karimov introduced the audience to Youth Observatorys initiatives we have done in the last years, including Youth Atlas, Creating Networks and the session proposals we worked within the IGF Working Groups for the IGF2020.

Elnur said “more youth participation means better Internet Governance” while highlighting the achieved projects by the Youth Observatory and our enthusiasm for the future involved in IG.

Our Regional Engagement Director for EEG also mentioned what we have done in the last months, including submitting sessions proposals to the IGF2020 and the launch at Regional Activities, which have the goal to feature young individuals from our community to share their thoughts on relevant topics for youth.

We will soon share news on our social media, stay tuned!

–We want to thank Youth Coalition on Internet Governance for the invitation-

The Youth Observatory (also called “Youth SIG”) has been always creating new ways to engage young individuals across the globe, after our internalization process, while using different platforms to encourage youth to give their valuable inputs on how to engage their communities, as well as fostering the creation and thrive of young initiatives, eager to create a better Internet for everyone.

Our experience around the years has shown us there are many young leaders working around the world in amazing initiatives, starting from teaching girls how to code; provide STEM solutions to rural communities; till creating local initiatives to foster the inclusion of local languages in Internet; among many other topics. Their voices are a part of the Internet Governance picture, and their roles as changemakers in their countries are a big part of all the benefits Internet can bring to our daily lives.

The Creating Networks project is an initiative funded by the Internet Society Beyond The Net fund, where we created a map of youth initiatives and organizations that involve young people, informatics and telecommuniciations. In adittion to the Creating Networks Map, we designed a competition of youth-led projects that will be formed by the participants of the competition. In this competition, we will bring them capacity building tools (webinars, project management tools) in the thematic areas we are going to address, such as digital inclusion, gender inclusion and infrastructure matters.

This initiative was created thanks to participants Juliana Novaes, Carlos Rubí, Ángel David Santiago, Eduardo Tome, Giovanna Michelato, Guilherme Alves, Isabela Inês, Jhon Caballero, Paula Côrte Real, Juan Pablo González, Augusto Luciano Mathurin, Renata Ribeiro.

This initiative was also shared at the Internet Society’s website here

You can watch some of the videos shared by the Creating Networks participants, talking about their youth initiatives here:

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