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== YouthDIG at EuroDIG 2018 in Tbilisi, Georgia ==
== YouthDIG at EuroDIG 2018 in Tbilisi, Georgia ==
=== Youth Messages ===
=== Youth Messages – english ===


'''Accessibility'''
'''Accessibility'''

Revision as of 15:38, 21 August 2018

YOUthDIG 2018 programme overview

YouthDIG at EuroDIG 2018 in Tbilisi, Georgia

Youth Messages – english

Accessibility

Ensuring equity of participation of young people from different backgrounds, especially underprivileged groups, such as but not limited to women, minorities, and LGBTQI+, through funding mechanisms by governments, private companies and international organizations.

Increasing visibility of the possibilities to participate in internet governance activities, by improving accessibility to quality and attractive information (e.g. edutainment) and by building the capacity of participants.

Ensuring a systematic approach for youth participation in statutory structures of the internet governance stakeholders, e.g. youth representation in decision making bodies.

Digital literacy

No one should tolerate mis-, dis-, and malinformation nor give ground to those who create and share it. More resources should be allocated to promote critical thinking on information disorder.

Education is vital for increasing digital literacy so that people can make informed decisions online in order to get the most out of their time on the internet and stay safe. This includes measures such as identifying scams, critical thinking, netiquette, and knowing your rights and responsibilities as a digital citizen.

An internet that works for everybody

The internet will be even more indispensable in everyone’s lives in the future. Everybody should have the right to shape the future of the internet and we need to ensure that it remains a global social resource that is open and benefits humanity. In order to achieve this, the development of the internet should be pursued in an inclusive, bottom up and multi-stakeholder process.

It needs to be ensured that the internet develops in a ethical way so that everybody is supported in making a balanced and healthy use of it.

The internet must develop in a way that respects the environment and remains sustainable.

Regulation of internet, data privacy and legal protection against cybercrime

Regulation of internet involves rules which govern the internet and should be enforced by governments and/or intermediaries while also constituting a mechanism which empowers and protects the rights of end users.

Data privacy is of paramount importance to ensure that everyone has the right to decide how their own content is being employed. This right should be reasonably enforceable.

Legal protection against cybercrime should be comprehensive. All crimes committed online should be dealt with the same seriousness as those committed offline. Cybercrime should be dealt with tools which pertain to the online world.

Digital inclusion

In order to foster digital inclusion, computer ware as well as content and services should be usable and accessible by design on a non-discriminatory basis.

Preventive and reactive measures are necessary to better protect vulnerable groups, such as but not limited to children, women, ethnic minorities and LGBTQI+ groups. Users should be more proactive about calling out hate speech online and websites need to have more robust ways to tackle discriminatory and dehumanising behaviour.

We commit to continuing this dialogue and to make it a central point of discussion in the next European Dialogue on Internet Governance.