IGF Perú 2019 (Third National IGF of Peru) — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

The third IGF Perú gathered 75 people at a Miraflores hotel auditorium in Lima on 5 December 2019 — the restart after a deliberate one-year pause in 2018 'to rethink the organization', with the first Youth IGF Perú held the previous day.
Four sessions covered connectivity, internet regulation, digital citizenship and rights, and cybersecurity, featuring regulators INDECOPI and OSIPTEL, ride-hailing app Beat and Access Now, plus a gender scorecard and a book launch in the breaks.
The organisers' frankness about pausing and rebuilding makes this a valuable case study in the sustainability of national IGFs.

Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on IGF Perú 2019 (Third National IGF of Peru) draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.

Conference at a Glance (from official records)

Item	Detail
Official name	IGF Perú 2019 (Third National IGF of Peru)
Dates	5 December 2019
Venue	Auditorium of the Hotel Casa Andina Premium, Av. La Paz 463, Miraflores, Lima
Theme	Regional governance themes
Participants	75 (Breakdown: 9 academia, 19 civil society, 10 technical community, 12 private sector, 1 government, 24 unspecified (UN-submitted report))
Host	Organising committee: Marushka Chocobar (SEGDI/PCM), Elaine Ford (D&D Internacional / ISOC Peru), Maritza Agüero (CGI-USMP), Sandro Marcone (Ingenio Learning), Rolando Toledo (RCP) and Carlos Guerrero (Hiperderecho), with Hiperderecho leading logistics and agenda-making
Outcome	All panel videos were posted on the official site; the forum was live-streamed for the first time

(See the source list at the end of this article.)

Discussion Digest — from the Session Records

Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.

1. Restart after a One-Year Pause — a Rebuilt Committee and the First Youth IGF

Sessions: Opening ceremony (remarks by Chocobar, Toledo and Ford) and framing

The UN report states plainly that after two successful editions the organisers 'decided to have a one year pause to rethink the organization'; a September 2019 meeting formed a new committee with three newcomers including SEGDI and CGI-USMP [1][3]
The first Youth IGF Perú ran the day before at USMP, creating a dedicated path for university students [1][3]

2. Internet Regulation — Brake on Innovation or Opportunity?

Sessions: Session 2 'Internet Regulation: Block to innovation or opportunity?' (11:00–12:30)

Competition authority INDECOPI, telecom regulator OSIPTEL, ride-hailing app Beat, Access Now and law firm Niubox debated how to balance platform regulation with innovation [1]
Seating two regulators beside a regulated startup on one panel was the year's signature move [1]

3. Digital Citizenship and Rights — Educating the Next Generation

Sessions: Session 3 'Digital citizenship and Digital Rights' (14:00–15:30)

SEGDI's Chocobar, Fundación Telefónica and Niubox discussed how to educate generations growing up online [1]
Break slots featured Hiperderecho's Gender Score Card project and Ford's book 'El reto de la democracia digital', threading gender and digital democracy through the day [1]

4. Cybersecurity and Cyberdefence — 'Who Protects Us?'

Sessions: Session 4 'Cybersecurity and Ciberdefense: Are we safe in the Internet?' (16:00–17:30)

Yuri Almonacid of the PCM's digital-government secretariat, lawyer Erick Iriarte and ISOC Peru's Abel Revoredo examined national cyber-defence, moderated by Hiperderecho's Guerrero [1][2]
With an open mic and closing cocktail, the 75-person format was deliberately built for dense, direct dialogue [1][2]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. Why was there no 2018 edition?

A. The organisers told the UN plainly: they took a one-year pause to rethink the organisation, then relaunched in 2019 with the PCM and a university research centre on board.

Q. What was discussed?

A. Connectivity, regulation, digital citizenship and cybersecurity — highlighted by a regulation panel seating the regulators beside ride-hailing app Beat, and by the first Youth IGF Perú.

Q. Why should I care?

A. Openly recording the choice to pause and rebuild, rather than limp on annually, is a rare and useful precedent for community-run events.

What Is Peru IGF? (for first-time readers)

Peru IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.

Why It Matters to You

What was discussed here becomes the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years. The principles confirmed at the 2019 meeting are the foundation of the "next rules" for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.