To further develop the IGF Youth Strategy, and continue engaging youth in IGF processes, the IGF Secretariat, in collaboration with the current IGF Host Country and all Youth IGF coordinators, is designing and implementing the IGF Youth Track as a capacity development activity implemented throughout the year-round IGF process including at the annual IGF meeting. The 2025 track builds on the achievements and outputs made during the previous IGF Youth Tracks in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Close cooperation with several international youth-centric organizations is sought.
The IGF 2025 Youth Track is focused on multistakeholder approach to governing the Internet and digital technologies. Learn more about the track's structure further below and subscribe to a dedicated mailing list.
Focus on Multistakeholder Approach to Governing Digital Tech
Building on the demand from young people, as well as on the outputs of last year’s IGF 2024 Youth Track and the Messages from Youth, the IGF 2025 aims to create a set of activities to connect youth from around the world among themselves, but also to inter-connect youth and senior stakeholders - experts in Internet governance.
Following the outputs that emerged from the previous youth track editions focused on digital transformation, safe digital future, and AI governance, this year's IGF Youth Track will unpack several issues related to multistakeholder approach to Internet governance of importance to youth and for youth. Specifically, youth engagement activities will aim to:
- Develop capacity on the overall concept of multistakeholder Internet governance, focusing on opportunities and challenges digital tech brings to policy shapers and makers;
- Establish networking among young people from around the world; and
- Support cooperation among youth-focused initiatives involved or interested in Internet governance across the world.
Road to Lillestrøm
- activities to engage in -
The track will be composed of several capacity development workshops delivered by experts on various aspects under the umbrella theme of multistakeholder Internet governance. There will be several opportunities to guide engagement in the IGF processes. The workshops will be delivered in a hybrid format at several regional IGF meetings, as per the schedule below which is being updated as workshop details are confirmed. Workshops are linked to a mini-repository of useful materials and sources of knowledge. All participants are strongly encouraged to consult this resource before and after the workshop takes place. If interested in connecting with the Youth IGF coordinators, please visit the list of youth IGF coordinators and approach the IGF Secretariat to connect you. The coordinators can further connect interested stakeholders with youth from their communities.
| IGF 2025 YOUTH TRACK Young leaders for multistakeholder governance of digital tech |
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Workshop I |
Workshop II - More information - |
| IGF 2025 GLOBAL YOUTH SUMMIT Age verification and social media regulation Hosted at the 20th annual IGF meeting in Lillestrøm, Norway & online 23 June 2025 | Tme to be confirmed UTC |
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Workshop III - More information - |
Workshop IV - More information - |
The outcomes of the workshops feed into the subsequent workshops and the IGF 2025 Global Youth Summit. The Messages from Youth will emerge from the Track.
Start engaging now!
Subscribe here to the mailing list through which all relevant information is communicated ([email protected]). Also, contact us at igf [at] un [dot] org. For the start, we will connect you to the Youth IGF coordinator who is the closest to you and the place you live.
Meet the organizers
A multistakeholder working group composed of all IGF Youth coordinators listed below, IGF 2025 Host Country and IGF Secretariat are in the organizing team as equals. An open invitation to international youth-focused organizations stands to contribute to designing and implementing of the track.
Youth IGF coordinators are based in different parts of the world and are the key drivers of the regional engagement of young people.
In designing and implementing the track, the organizers also cooperate with the Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth.
The work is open and transparent for all.