World Internet Conference (WIC) Global Youth Leaders Program 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: July 24, 2026

Applications are open for the World Internet Conference (WIC) Global Youth Leaders Program 2026. The Global Youth Leadership Program (GYLP) is a flagship initiative launched by the WIC in 2023. Over the previous three years, 56 Global Youth Leaders from 38 international locations and areas have been invited to attend the Youth Forum on the Wuzhen Summit, participating in in-depth exchanges with main figures throughout the worldwide web group. In 2025, this system attracted excellent younger candidates from almost 120 international locations and areas, receiving widespread consideration and recognition.

The program goals to pick excellent younger individuals within the world Internet discipline frequently, carefully comply with the frontier tendencies of Internet know-how, trade and governance, perform a sequence of youth actions round Forum, Training, and Research, and construct a global alternate and cooperation platform for younger individuals to be taught from one another.

Benefits

• Receive an official Global Youth Leader certificates from the WIC.
• Attend the 2026 WIC Wuzhen Summit and communicate on the Youth Forum. Round-trip airfare, complimentary catering and lodging can be found upon application. You could have the OPPORTUNITY to have interaction in in depth exchanges with excessive-degree representatives of different worldwide organizations, governments, world main Internet firms, nicely-identified consultants and students, and senior officers of the WIC worldwide group.
• Gain alternatives to arrange workshops or actions at different WIC summits and thematic and regional boards.
• Youth-led boards and actions initiated by Global Youth Leaders aligned with the WIC Global Youth Leaders Initiative shall be eligible for inclusion in this system and will obtain assist from the WIC Secretariat. Outstanding outcomes could also be featured in this system’s Collection of Practical Outcomes.
• Receive precedence entry to internship and job alternatives inside the WIC worldwide group.
• Outstanding candidates superior to the ultimate evaluate however not in the end chosen will obtain a Nominee Certificate of the WIC Global Youth Leadership Program and be invited to hitch the WIC’s youth group, the place they will take part in discussions, contribute concepts to convention actions, and luxuriate in precedence entry to WIC internship alternatives.

Eligibility

• Embrace the mission of the WIC worldwide group. Be prepared to have interaction with the imaginative and prescient of constructing a group with a shared future in our on-line world, and contribute concepts or views that assist this imaginative and prescient.
• Be underneath the age of 45.
• Have notable accomplishments in a number of web-associated or ICT-associated fields:
  • In the coverage discipline, they might maintain positions in authorities or worldwide organizations concerned in digital governance or web policymaking.
  • In the enterprise sector, they might function senior executives in established web firms or founders/leaders of modern startups, with robust management, innovation, and affect.
  • In the analysis discipline, they might have made contributions to synthetic intelligence, large knowledge, and different web-associated applied sciences, industries, or governance by publications, awards, patents, or acknowledged tutorial achievements.
  • In the general public curiosity discipline, they might lead NGOs or social organizations with experience in digital inclusion, digital literacy, or the application of know-how for public welfare and sustainable growth.
• Possess a global perspective and be prepared to contribute to the expansion of WIC’s youth group.
• Demonstrate interdisciplinary and various considering.
• Exhibit robust public talking and presentation expertise.

Application

Ready to form the way forward for the web? Complete your private info and submit the next supplies by the net system:

• A advice letter from a related establishment or acknowledged skilled.
• Supporting paperwork similar to analysis achievements or awards.
• An introduction video presenting your views on the WIC Global Youth Leaders Initiative and outlining proposed actions or initiatives, together with a written transcript.

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For extra info, go to WIC Global Youth Leaders.