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<div align="justify"><span class="cf_text" style="line-height: 180%;">Greetings,<br>
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We should support workshop 70 and make sure that they are green
lighted. See description below. <br>
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Workshop 70: Policy, governance and participation: Harnessing all
aspects of the net for youth activism<br>
Globally, youth activists are increasingly turning to online platforms
and social media as means for initiating and organizing social action.
However, along with the enabling factors, youth activists find numerous
barriers to entry in participation in social media. They often find
that norms, local laws, and international treaties hinder open
participation in these media platforms when it comes to social,
political, and cultural activism. The variety or rules and regulations
that may govern the same social media platform in different parts of
the world creates great confusion. Differences in quality of
communication infratructure and inequality in the level of online
skills add another tear of complexity when it comes to efficient
utilization of social media in youth activism.<br>
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Multi-stakeholder initiatives like the Global Network Initiative are
working to create broad standards for online platforms. Numerous NGOs
are acting to bridge the access and the skills divides. But what else
can be done? This workshop will discuss the various ways in which
social media can be used to increase transparency and ways in which
youth activists, can evoke change using such platforms. It will bring
together social media professionals and youth activists to discuss ways
to encourage youth participation and will hear from the youth
themselves about how they use and would like to use social networks,
blogs, and other social media for creation of positive change.</span> </div>
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<div align="justify"><span class="cf_text"><b>Which of the five broad
IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall
under?</b><br>
Security, Openness and Privacy</span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span class="cf_text"><b>Have you organized an IGF
workshop before?</b> Yes</span>
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<span class="cf_text"><b>If so, please provide the link to the report:</b><br>
<a target="_blank" title="Link to report"
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsreports2009View&curr=1&wr=46">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsreports2009View&curr=1&wr=46</a></span>
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<div align="justify"><span class="cf_text" style="line-height: 180%;"><b>Provide
the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:</b><br>
Jillian York, Berkman Center for Internet & Society (USA)<br>
Mary Joyce, DigiActive (USA)<br>
Hisham Khribchi, Global Voices Online (Morocco)<br>
Rebecca MacKinnon, Visiting Fellow at Princeton's Center for
Information Technology Policy (USA)<br>
Lucie Morillon or Clothilde le Coz of Reporters Without Borders
(France) <br>
Robert Guerra, Internet FreedomHouse (Canada)<br>
Sami Ben Ghrabia, Global Voices Advocacy (Tunisia)<br>
Issac Mao, Blogger, (China) <br>
Victoria Grand, YouTube<br>
Robin Sloane,Twitter</span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span class="cf_text" style="line-height: 180%;"><b>Provide
the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to
various stakeholder groups:</b><br>
Global Voices Online, Academia<br>
Berkman Center For Internet & Society, Academia<br>
Youth Coalition on Internet Governance, Multi-stakeholder group</span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span class="cf_text"><b>Organization:</b>The
Berkman Center for Internet & Society</span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span class="cf_text"><b>Contact Person:</b>
Jillian York</span></div>
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