Re-energising the YCIG

[Tim Davies]

Hey all,

With Eurodig taking place right now, this list has been worrying quiet. 

I've just put a post on the YCIG site at http://www.ycig.org/index.php/2012/06/could-you-re-energise-the-youth-coalition-on-internet-governance/ with a call out for new engagement and involvement in making the most of the great foundations we have here in an IGF Dynamic Coalition.

All the best

Tim

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[Janna Anderson]

Thanks for the posting, Tim!  Everyone should try using social media or face-to-face contact today to get at least one more person involved in YCIG and the future of the Internet.

I am a “youthful” 56, so not really a YCIG “member,” but I lead Imagining the Internet, an organization based at Elon University that brings its students and alumni to national and global Internet governance events.

We were proud and happy to be at the Internet Society’s 20th Anniversary Global INET conference in Geneva in April, where – among other things – we got to be among the few who were allowed to do multimedia journalism documenting the inaugural induction of the Internet Hall of Fame. Our group included nine young people between the ages of 16 and 23. There were many important sessions at the conference, including one on Internet governance. The conference theme was “Imagining the Future Internet,” so it really fit with the mission of Imagining the Internet.

You can see my students’ reports from the many events at Global INET here:
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/isoc_20th_2012/default.xhtml

There were a few other young people from the Internet Society chapters from around the globe and from the Next Generation Leaders Programme, but not too many. Everyone on this list should take into consideration the opportunities that ISOC offers to you locally to get involved and also remember that you can start a local chapter yourself if there are none close to you - http://www.internetsociety.org/get-involved

You can also consider applying for various leadership programmes and fellowships funded by ISOC. These are open on a rotating basis. If you look at ISOC’s site and see that a programme is “closed,” return again a few months later and it may be open for a new round of applicants: http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-programmes

Best regards,
Janna

On 6/14/12 5:08 AM, "Tim Davies" <t...@practicalparticipation.co.uk> wrote:

Hey all,

With Eurodig taking place right now, this list has been worrying quiet. 

I've just put a post on the YCIG site at http://www.ycig.org/index.php/2012/06/could-you-re-energise-the-youth-coalition-on-internet-governance/ with a call out for new engagement and involvement in making the most of the great foundations we have here in an IGF Dynamic Coalition.

All the best

Tim

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Janna Quitney Anderson
Director of Imagining the Internet
www.imaginingtheinternet.org

Associate Professor of Communications
Director of Internet Projects
School of Communications
Elon University
and...@elon.edu
(336) 278-5733 (o)

[Rafik Dammak]

Hello,

Thank you Tim for the post and taking initiative for revival or let's say pushing YCIG to be more active :)

yes,  I share the view that we need new people, new blood, new faces but also existing members to take initiative and lead, bringing new ideas and strategy, that should be YCIG 2.0, do we think about new topics to defend? should we update our charter and statement? do we need new strategic planning? do we need new structure o reorganization? do we need to bring more members and organizations? lots of questions to answer

dynamic coalitions are by nature informal and loosely structure, they are real dependent to volunteers who want to commit time, that won't be so much and it is really needed to prepare for coming IGF in 3 months while the purpose was never to limit the ycig activities to IGF. 

for meeting slot in IGF Baku, I already submit report about YCIG activities to IGF secretariat to secure slot, I will keep the ML updated.

finally, the ycig blog is open to everybody for publishing guest posts about youth and internet issues.

Best,

Rafik Dammak

@rafik

"fight for the users"

2012/6/14 Tim Davies <t...@practicalparticipation.co.uk>

[Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)]

Dear all,
yes indeed the coalition needs revamping.
I agree with Janna about taking advantage of opportunities for youth
development. indeed ISOC and Diplo's programmes have been a great help
in equipping young people from developing countries to participate at
IGF.
We can make our coalition more meaningful by for starters, sharing on
the events we are taking part in.
the Kenya IGF and East African IGF are both coming up in July and this
time young people have been invited to organise and manage discussions
on topical issues in the region. although "youth" is not a discussion
topic in itself, the inclusion of young people in organisation and
talks is meaningful and I encourage each member of the coalition to
participate in their local IGFs.
best!

2012/6/17, Rafik Dammak <rafik....@gmail.com>:

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[Matyx Seg]

Hi!

I'm Maties, from Spain. I don't know how to contribute to the YCIG, but I'd like help and work for it more than I'm doing right now...

I've never been in any YCIC International Conference. I just found this initiative in the Internet and I felt it was very interesting and I joined.

I think planing a new strategy 2.0 colud be useful, but what I feel more necessary is getting contact to schools, and working with practical projects involved en internet behaviours and issues. Then we could gather and analyse the different projects and works.

For instance, nowadays I'm working in a series of young hackers novels that the children (between 9 ant 12 years) is reading and working at schools from Galicia (Spain). These books are cross-media, with several contents online, mixturing the paper book and Internet contents and possibilities.

This is the website: http://www.xoeliki.com/

And we have also a social net work for them (based in Elgg sofware): http://www.tesourospiratas.xoeliki.com

I think this is an interesting experience that it can be studied and analysed.

My point is focusing on projects about youth and Internet around the world, contacting them (mapping projects, initiatives), and helping to know each other iin order to share experiences and go on together.

Does it make sense?

Regards,

Maties.

2012/6/17 Rafik Dammak <rafik....@gmail.com>