[governance] workshop 70: Policy, governance and participation: Harnessing all aspects of the net for youth activism

[Katitza Rodriguez]

Greetings,

We should support workshop 70 and make sure that they are green lighted. 
See description below.

Workshop 70:  Policy, governance and participation: Harnessing all 
aspects of the net for youth activism
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.

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.

*Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does 
your workshop fall under?*
Security, Openness and Privacy

*Have you organized an IGF workshop before?* Yes
*If so, please provide the link to the report:*
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> 


*Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning 
to invite:*
Jillian York, Berkman Center for Internet & Society (USA)
Mary Joyce, DigiActive (USA)
Hisham Khribchi, Global Voices Online (Morocco)
Rebecca MacKinnon, Visiting Fellow at Princeton's Center for Information 
Technology Policy (USA)
Lucie Morillon or Clothilde le Coz of Reporters Without Borders (France)
Robert Guerra, Internet FreedomHouse (Canada)
Sami Ben Ghrabia, Global Voices Advocacy (Tunisia)
Issac Mao, Blogger, (China)
Victoria Grand, YouTube
Robin Sloane,Twitter

*Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their 
affiliation to various stakeholder groups:*
Global Voices Online, Academia
Berkman Center For Internet & Society, Academia
Youth Coalition on Internet Governance, Multi-stakeholder group

*Organization:*The Berkman Center for Internet & Society

*Contact Person:* Jillian York

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