Youth IGF Nepal is excited to announce that applications for the 2024 Fellowship Program are now open! This national initiative aims to promote awareness and understanding of Internet governance issues among young people in Nepal. As part of the larger Youth Internet Governance Forum (Youth IGF) movement, Youth IGF Nepal provides a platform for young…
About Youth IGF Nepal Youth Internet Governance Forum (yIGF) Nepal is a youth initiative that was formally recognized by the UN IGF Secretariat in December 2021. Since its inception, youth IGF Nepal has been actively engaging young people in substantive discussions on internet governance issues. Within a couple of years, youth IGF Nepal successfully organized…
Safer Internet Day has been celebrated in around 180 countries and territories worldwide on 7th February since 2005. This year youth IGF Nepal along with the coalition members of Digital Freedom Coalition organized a High-level Panel on Internet Regulation in Nepal on the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2023 on 7th February 2023. Program Outline: …
Universal Acceptance (UA) is a crucial issue that has been promoted by the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) since 2015. The primary aim is to make the internet ecosystem inclusive, particularly in terms of domain names, email addresses, and all internet-enabled applications, regardless of the language script. To raise awareness about this issue, 28th March…
The Digital Freedom Coalition held its first summit on December 9th, 2022, on the eve of World Human Rights Day, to promote the issues of democracy in the digital age. The summit was divided into four panel discussions, including “Democracy in the Digital Age: Political Perspective” , “Freedom to Connect: Infrastructure & Content” , “Digital…
Fellowship Opportunity It was my very first time attending a regional IGF in person and I was very thrilled to have been selected as one of the 28 fellows from 19 different countries through the APrIGF-APSIG Joint Fellowship program. This year it was more exciting because Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF), Asia Pacific…
Youth IGF Nepal along with Forum for Digital Equality and Internet Governance Institute hosted a one day Workshop on “Online Child Safety For School Teachers and Parents” on November 18, 2021, in Kathmandu, Nepal. The purpose of this workshop was to hold an interactive Discussion where school teachers, parents, law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders…
While the whole world is threatened by the COVID-19 Pandemic we are forced to remain at our home, this situation positioned the internet as a basic need. When still half of the world doesn’t have access to the internet the community networks are playing a very important role in this period. In my conversation with…
Community networks (CN) are networks built and owned by communities trying to build on low-cost and effective infrastructure solutions in the remote geographic locations where Internet Service Providers (ISPs) would not expand their networks due to lack of profits and other business opportunities. Usually, community networks build upon low-cost Wi-Fi equipment utilizing the unlicensed spectrum…
As covid 19 was one of the most painful pandemics this generation has seen ever. In the case of domain names, there was a huge increase in registrations of corona related domain names. Along with genuine causes, a lot of domains also entertained malicious, phishing, and spam content. This panel was moderated by Vice President…