Alumna Jianne Soriano (International Journalism) was born and raised in Hong Kong. As an ethnic minority in Hong Kong, Jianne strived her best to overcome the language barrier; and dedicated her time to promoting proper internet governance in Hong Kong. To that end, she teamed up with friends to join a competition called iCity NetY Ambassadors Program while she was in secondary 5 (2013) and wrote a research paper on the relationship of cyberbullying and the suicide rates in Hong Kong. Her team is the only non-Chinese team, and she took an active part in the competition, even though the language used was Chinese. In the end, her team won the competition and represented the youths of Hong Kong to participate in the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Bali, Indonesia.
Other than the regional IGFs, Jianne also attended the United Nations IGFs in Mexico (2016) and Geneva, Switzerland (2017); and she was selected, as a youth representative, to give the closing remarks at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva. She was nominated by the United Nations-Secretary General to serve on the United Nations Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) in 2018, and became then the youngest member of the Group. Jianne is currently part of Asia’s first and only youth coalition group for internet governance, Youth4IG, serving as the co-chair of the mentorship program and, in that capacity, leads the outreach group of the Youth41G. |
