Dear listers, This might be of interest to the young folks. Please apply! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Elisabeth Schauermann <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 8:00 AM Subject: Call for Working Group Members: Youth4DigitalSustainability To: <[email protected]> <http://www.gi.de> *Open Call for Working Group Members* *Youth for Digital Sustainability 2020* Dear friends and colleagues, the past months have shown in even greater clarity that *sustainable development* <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300> has distinct digital aspects. We cannot separate the struggle for climate action and environmental sustainability from the use and governance of the Internet. Both are global efforts that can only succeed if we find ways of effective multi-stakeholder cooperation. Young people play a vital role in advocacy – both for environmental changes, and for a fair, inclusive Internet. Last year, we at the German Informatics Society were able to network over 100 youth representatives from all world regions in the Youth Internet Governance Forum Summit, the outcomes of which can be found in *our report* <https://yigf.gi.de/fileadmin/GI/Hauptseite/Aktuelles/Projekte/YIGF/YIGF_Publikation_Website.pdf> . This year, we want to bring these two advocacy streams together in one policy development process. *Youth4DigitalSustainability* <https://yigf.de/events/youth4digitalsustainability-program-2020/> aims to gather young experts, activists, and organisations who are interested in the following key topics and want to collaborate on policy development regarding: • *Greening the Internet* <https://yigf.de/greening-the-internet/> • *Fair Digital Businesses* <https://yigf.de/fair-digital-businesses/> • *Internet for Social Cohesion* <https://yigf.de/internet-for-social-cohesion/> • *Sustainable Governance of the Internet* <https://yigf.de/sustainable-governance-of-the-internet/> For each key topic, a transdisciplinary, international working group of young people will collaborate in order to draft policy recommendations to be presented to the *United Nations Internet Governance Forum* <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/> and other fora. *This is where you can get active! *We call to all interested individuals ages 16 to 30 to submit their expression of interest to participate in a working group *until July 19, 23:59 Central European Summer Time*. More information and the application form can be found here: *https://yigf.de/events/youth4digitalsustainability-program-2020/ * <https://yigf.de/events/youth4digitalsustainability-program-2020/> Please feel free to share this call to your respective communities. We are looking forward to expressions of interest from young people in different world regions and with diverse backgrounds. We are active on *Twitter* <https://twitter.com/YouthIGFSummit>, where all relevant updates will be shared. We’d be delighted to work with you on these important issues! - Elisabeth for the Organising Team *Apply Now!* <https://yigf.de/events/youth4digitalsustainability-program-2020/> About the German Informatics Society The German Informatics Society (GI) is with about 20,000 personal and 250 corporate members the largest and most important professional association for computer science in the German-speaking world. It represents the interests of computer scientists in science, economy, public administration, society and politics since 1969. With 14 departments, over 30 active regional groups and countless specialist groups, the GI is the platform and mouthpiece for all disciplines in computer science. The members are bound by the Ethical Guidelines for Computer Scientists of the GI. *Contact* Elisabeth Schauermann German Informatics Society (GI) Office Berlin Spreepalais am Dom Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Str.2, 10178 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 24009-806 Mail: [email protected] Web: www.yigf.de *Impressum* <https://gi.de/impressum> *Datenschutz* <https://gi.de/datenschutz> <https://twitter.com/youthigfsummit> This e-mail has been sent to [email protected], click here to unsubscribe <http://jtxm.mjt.lu/unsub2?hl=en&m=AM8AAHeXZT0AActEvWwAALT61pkAASVruOEAJP9-AAjbuABe_Bhjd35KKLNFQGu4bcykSpQOVQAIZxg&b=71aa2c71&e=46a8c976&x=VM64jqJ8SZqKBjLOB0y9r5AoJ8EPQPA3IJ3jW6rKntI> . -- Keith Andere Tech | Policy | Peace & Security | Sustainable Development M: +254 722 565 212 W: wa.me/+254722565212 <http://wa.me/254722565212> E: [email protected] Wisteria Lane, Lower Methodist Rd, Kenya [image: linkedin icon] <https://www.linkedin.com/ke/andereke> [image: twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/AndereKE> www.andere.ke *Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail or it's contents.*