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Our flagship program NetMission.asia, is coming up on its 14th anniversary in 2023. This year, we've received over 100 youth leaders applications from 16 different countries, including Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam and more. After a long and competitive selection process, we are glad to announce that 37 candidates have been shortlisted for this year's program.

In 2022, we’ve co-organized the Asia Pacific Youth Internet Governance Forum (www.yigf.asia) and held the first ever APAC Youth Leaders Dialogue along with more than ten other youth initiatives from the Asia Pacific region to explore strategies for the enhancement of youth participation and Asia-Pacific representation at the global level.

Tackling DNS Abuse: In 2022 DotAsia and TWNIC (Taiwan Network Information Center) announced that we are joining forces to curb cybercrime. For the first time, a ccTLD (.TW) and a gTLD (.Asia) are working together to develop an anti-phishing Fast Track mechanisms for DNS Abuse takedowns. In the near future, when either .TW or .Asia receives an alert via the Fast Track mechanism, we will be able to take immediate actions with efficiency and accuracy to reduce the impact of cybercrime.

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In September, we returned to Singapore, serving as secretariat for the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (www.aprigf.asia), co-hosted by our partner APNIC (www.apnic.net) and co-located with APSIG (www.apsig.asia) helping to bring together 600 in-person participants from over 60 countries and over 300 remote participants for 30+ sessions by around 120 speakers across a wide range of Internet Governance topics.

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After being a part of the Internet governance community since 2020, the Internet Governance Forum 2022 was the very first IGF for attending in person in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the support of the IGF Secretariat and DotAsia Organisation. In addition to that, as a young person from the Asia Pacific region, I could take a chance to give in a speech at the closing ceremony as “The chance may or may not come twice.” My Internet governance journey started through APAC Youth IGF and moved forward through NetMission.Asia and the local youth NRI. Like “Experience can’t be bought with money.”, these experiences were valuable and the memories were unforgettable.

By attending this IGF at the global level, I OBVIOUSLY observed how the multi-stakeholder model and young people were important for reducing our bias, listening to our voices, and generating new ideas at the global level. As some voices are still in silent mode, we cannot listen up properly there. So far, I found out that multilingualism is still controversial in the Internet governance community discussions. It was also fruitful to know that there were many things we could do not only for the local, regional and global youth community.

Definitely, it is still needed to encourage to amplify the voices there when someone, otherwise, even ourselves is shutting up our mouths in that kind of event. In conclusion, we, young people, are future generations and the generations who have to support the next generation. Thus, we need guidance and mentorship from experts and seniors to hand over what we learned, what we experienced, and what we have done for the next generation. “It is ok to be tired but we cannot leave our challenges and fears alone instead of running away from them.” And, I proved it on the IGF stage at the closing ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Phyo Thiri Lwin
NetMission Ambassador 2022