IGF 2024

The IGF 2024 Global Summit is a key component of the IGF 2024 Youth Track, organized under the motto "Empowering Youth for Trusted AI" as part of a broader series of activities. As the entire track, the Summit is developed through bottom-up consultations amongst designated representatives of the IGF Host Country, the UN IGF Secretariat, various Youth IGFs, and other youth-driven Internet governance initiatives.

Undoubtedly, AI is impacting education. While the highest legal and human rights mechanisms guarantee the right to education, in reality, this right is not universally realized. Is AI an opportunity or an obstacle in making the right to education a reality for everyone, everywhere? Through an exchange of perspectives and practices between current and future experts and leaders from both the Global South and Global North, the Summit will explore AI’s role in education. A dynamic dialogue is anticipated, focusing on key policy questions related to AI’s impact on education, ethical considerations, and ways education systems can evolve to prepare humanity for an AI-driven future.

The IGF 2024 Global Youth Summit discussion will be guided by several policy questions, such as:
• How’s AI innovation impacting education? What concerns the world and what brings opportunities?
• How do existing education policies and guidelines effectively integrate AI usage and adoption in the educational system?
• What ethical principles should guide the development and implementation of AI in educational settings? What are the potential risks of prioritizing innovation over ethics in the development of AI tools for education? Is there a risk in excluding localized data in AI systems used in education?
• What policies are necessary to prevent the digital divide from widening due to AI implementation in education?
• Who should be held accountable for decisions made by AI systems in educational environments, and how can this accountability be enforced?
• How can global collaboration be fostered to address the challenges and opportunities of AI in education?
• How can education systems be reformed to better prepare students for a future where AI plays a significant role?

The session will open by experts:
• Mr. Henri Verdier, Ambassador for Digital Affairs, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Government of France
• Ms. Margaret Nyambura Ndung'u, Minister, Ministry of Information, Communications, and Digital Economy, Government of Kenya
• Ms. Phyo Thiri Lwin, Coordinator, Youth Myanmar IGF
• Mr. Ahmad Khan, Research and Development Engineer, Aramco, Saudi Arabia
• Mx. Umut Pajaro Velasquez, Coordinator of Youth LACIGF and Youth IGF Colombia; Member of Youth Coalition on Internet Governance; Junior Researcher at Malmö University

Onsite Moderators:
• Ms. Carol Roach, IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group Chair
• Ms. Ihita Gangavarapu, Youth India IGF coordinator

Online Moderators:
• Ms. Ines Hfaiedh, Tunisia IGF, Arab IGF
• Mr. Keith Andere, Kenya IGF, Africa Youth IGF

Agenda and flow:
The Summit is designed as an interactive dialogue between current and future generations of experts and learners. After the panel - comprising senior and youth experts - sets the stage, most of the session will focus on an open discussion with all participants, both in-person and online. The overall flow is:
• Welcome by the moderators
• Panellists set the context (each speaks for up to 5 minutes)
• Open floor discussion (40 minutes)
• Concluding remarks by panellists (1 minute each)
• Closing by the moderators

Output: Action-oriented Messages from Youth to be part of the IGF 2024 Report for broad dissemination. The messages will be produced by the IGF Secretariat and the summit’s rapporteurs:
• Ms. Afi Edoh, Togo IGF
• Mr. Athanase Bahizire, Youth DR Congo coordinator
• Ms. Polycarp Ochieng, Kenya Youth IGF
• Mr. Ernest Mafuta, Zambia Youth IGF

In support of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development