Re: [npoc-voice] Sessions description draft for Beijing

[mlemineur@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Dear Poncelet and all,

I have improved the description of our youth session and incorporated
Poncelet´s  suggestion to mention the IGF. I am in the process of
uploading it to the wiki hopefully I can make it for today if not, it will
be uploaded before our conference call tomorrow.

Also, I think we should be careful on how we focus the issue of the
involvement of youth and be aware from the very beginning that we do not
want to promote only a "protection agenda" since there is a tendency from
adults to ONLY think of youth and the dangers of the Internet and
therefore only speak of how they should be protected. I have been involved
with this part for many years now and I acknowlegde that this can not be
left aside. Awareness-raising activities for promoting self-protection is
indispensible. Nervertheless, I have also seen that it is key to empower
youth as subjects of rights and not just limit our vision to promote a
perception of youth as passive recipients of the protection strategies we
adults design and implement. This is trap easy to fall in.

In summary, personlly I favor an agenda where youth tells what they can do
instead of focusing solely on listing what they should be protected from.

I´d love to hear other´s  thoughts on this...

Thanks

Best,

Marie-laure

Hello ML,
>
> Thanks for sharing the details of our session, am still awaiting feed back
> from the Chinese YMCA representative am certain to get it soon, the draft
> agenda is looking good, I will like us to add something on the IGF on
> especially on the role of the youths, with the various online data
> protection and privacy issues going on, as this can feed into a more
> detailed topic for is for the coming IGF, so it will be great to get
> discussions on going.
>
> Again thank you I will like your thoughts on getting  an aspect of youth
> and IGF involved in our session.
>
> Thanks
>
> Poncelet
>
> On 26 February 2013 11:21, <mlemineur@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> As agreed, please find attached the draft of the description for our
>> sessions in Beijing.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Marie-Laure
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