IGF 2019 WS #411
Ensuring a collaborative growth of the human online society

Description: The session will be about sharing strategies that the speakers have employed to engage themselves and to share what kinds of changes we’ve made over the years through our active engagement in the Internet Governance Ecosystem as we believe that sharing our individual experiences will help us secure diversity and inclusion toward the inclusive digital societies by engaging those unheard.
We will also talk about how making more women and undeserved people involved in all these activities will help ensure diverse and inclusive digitization of the world.

As all of our panelists are females who have been active in the Internet Governance field, we would especially like to share what kinds of hurdles we’ve faced working in the field, but at the same time what kind of benefits and hopes we have found through our engagement in the field over the years. We’ve all made some changes - big or small- through our engagement in Internet Governance throughout the years as lawyers, policymakers, founders and directors of big Internet-related organizations present domestically, regionally and internationally.
And as the age group of our speakers widely vary, we would like to cover different challenges and opportunities that different generations experience so that other marginalized or less-heard groups of people can also be engaged in developing better Internet ecosystem.

Expected Outcomes: Although the session will be mostly about sharing our experiences so far, more importantly, we'd like to hear the voices and opinions from the audience in which part of the world we can create more opportunities to bring changes toward inclusive and diverse Internet ecosystem.
All the speakers have different specialties inside the Internet ecosystem but agree that we need to share our skills and learned lessons, draft best practices to strategies with key stakeholders on step forward.
We would like to create more opportunities to be embedded in the systems so that more organizations can hear more from those unheard. As most of the session panelists are in their grad,post-grad positions, they will also try to engage the younger generations through Youth IGFs or IGA (Internet Governance Academy) in their regions by sharing their experiences, and will also try to get involved in the legislative activities as many of them are also deeply involved in legislative activities (2 lawyers each from Latin America and Africa), and working with national institutions working for legislative activities related to the Internet. In addition to this, we would like to share our opinions in other regional platforms such as SEEDIG, EuroDIG or EuroSSIG, APrIGF, APNIC, AFRINIC, IGF as we've been all active in all these arenas for more than 5 years now. Best practices relating to inclusion and enabling sustainable development will translate into programs the state can drive to encourage inclusion as well
The outcome of the session will be shared in a blog on Digital Grassroots website (https://www.digitalgrassroots.org)