[IGFmaglist] Readout Event of IGF2016 by Japan IGF

[Izumi Okutani]

Dear Colleagues,


For your reference, I would like to share the summary report of Readout Event of IGF2016 organised by Japan IGF as attached (It is a shortened version in English).

 From the report, I quote some general observations about IGF2016 event in general below.

*	New Comers Session
It was nice and considerate to have new comers’session. At the same time, new comers to the IGF may not be always equal to beginners to the Internet Governance. It is often the case that new comers may be attending to global IGF for the first time but experts within their arena and aware of the basic internet governance concept/background and purpose of the IGF. The new comers' session could become more useful for such new comers, if there was introduction on the highlight of the IGF2016 program, key points of issues/themes to be covered, in addition to basic introduction about multistakeholder.

*	Encouragement on youth participation
-	An observation was made that several countries have governments proactively promoting youth from their countries to participate in IGF
-	A comment was expressed that a youth engagement session at the IGF2016 helped feel the need to encourage enthusiastic young generation from Japan to participate more in the global IGF

*	Positive Changes from early IGF
A participant who had been regular participant to early IGF meetings and attended IGF2016 after several years gap observed several positive changes.

-	More subject matter experts, who have real expertise about a subject under discussions, compared to early days
-	The global IGF has matured enough to cover challenging yet interesting theme such as Trade Agreement and TPP
-	Nurturing young generation of participants -  how IGF nurtures youth; An observation was made that a participant in youth IGF in early IGF was being a presenter at a session in IGF2016, and was contributing in discussions
-	More diversity of stakeholders observed, ranging from civil society to business, and World Economic Forum (WEF) proactively participating this time

Additional Information:
Blog report of the IGF2016 Readout Event (With some photos: in Japanese): https://blog.nic.ad.jp/blog/igcj-igf2016/
IGF2016 Readout event Webpage(Slides, Report, video to be posted: in Japanese):  http://igcj.jp/meetings/2017/0126/


Best Regards,
Izumi
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