10º Foro Colombiano de Gobernanza de Internet (10th Colombian Internet Governance Forum) — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

On 23 November 2023 the 10th Colombian IGF met at Universidad del Rosario's Jockey Club building in Bogotá — the climax of a three-day hybrid programme with the 2nd Youth Summit on the 21st and workshops on the 22nd.
The forum's four panels covered the digital divide and inclusion, AI and emerging technologies, cybersecurity and cybercrime, and human rights and freedoms; workshops debuted digital wellbeing and blockchain-and-privacy.
At its tenth milestone the series effectively promoted the youth summit to a full opening day, and — in the year generative AI broke through — put AI front and centre.

Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on 10º Foro Colombiano de Gobernanza de Internet (10th Colombian Internet Governance Forum) 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	10º Foro Colombiano de Gobernanza de Internet (10th Colombian Internet Governance Forum)
Dates	23 November 2023
Venue	Universidad del Rosario, Edificio Jockey Club, Cra. 6 #15-18, Bogotá (Resolves the catalogue's unknown venue via the official page: 'El Foro será híbrido y tendrá lugar en la Universidad del Rosario, Edificio Jockey Club Cra. 6 #15 – 18… y a través de la Plataforma Zoom y YouTube' — a return to the 2016-2017 venue)
Theme	Regional governance themes
Format	Hybrid (on site plus Zoom and YouTube)
Host	Mesa Colombiana de Gobernanza de Internet
Note	Tenth-edition milestone

(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. AI and Emerging Technologies — Centre Stage in Generative AI's Breakout Year

Sessions: Panel 'Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies' (23 Nov, one of four panels)

AI, introduced as a workshop subject in 2022, was promoted to a full forum panel in the wake of generative AI's explosion [1]
A new workshop on blockchain and information privacy (run by Universidad Distrital) expanded the pathway for learning new technologies' rights impact [1]
The Youth Summit likewise listed AI and emerging tech among its four themes, creating a cross-generational AI-governance structure [1]

2. The Youth Summit Comes of Age — a Full Day with an Open Call for Sessions

Sessions: 2nd Youth Internet Governance Summit of Colombia (21 Nov, 8 am – 6 pm)

The summit, designed and run by 18-35-year-olds from Colombia and abroad, expanded to a full day with panels, workshops, keynotes, round tables and lightning talks [1]
Around four themes — digital inclusion, AI and emerging tech, digital human rights, cybersecurity — it adopted a global-IGF-style open call for session proposals (until 16 October 2023) [1]
It cemented the series' youth-participation institution, carried into the 3rd summit in 2024 (with LACNIC on cybersecurity) [1]

3. Cybersecurity and Digital Wellbeing — Citizen Safety on Two Layers

Sessions: Panel 'Cybersecurity, cybercrime and online safety' (23 Nov) and the 'Digital Wellbeing' workshop (22 Nov, Universidad de La Sabana)

The forum panel reframed cybersecurity from state defence to the citizen's view of cybercrime and online safety [1]
Universidad de La Sabana's new digital-wellbeing workshop imported a broader safety concept — over-connection, mental health — that would become a headline theme by 2025 [1]
The standing workshops continued: multistakeholder model (CRC) and digital security (Colnodo, Telefónica/Movistar, Universidad Distrital) [1]

4. Rights, Freedoms and the Divide — a Ten-Year Benchmark

Sessions: Panels 'Human rights and freedoms' and 'Digital divide and inclusion' (23 Nov)

The rights-and-freedoms and digital-divide threads running since the 2014 first edition each kept an independent panel at the milestone [1][2]
Hybrid streaming with sign-language interpretation continued — practising the inclusion the agenda preached [1][2]
Returning to the Jockey Club auditorium of 2016-2017 reaffirmed academia's role as the series' host sector [1][2]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. What changed at the tenth edition?

A. Youth. The summit designed by 18-35-year-olds was elevated to a full opening day with an open call for sessions — making a three-day structure: youth day, workshop day, forum day.

Q. What led the agenda?

A. AI. In the first edition after ChatGPT's debut, AI and emerging technologies became a full forum panel, joined by new workshops on blockchain-and-privacy and digital wellbeing.

Q. Why should I care?

A. It is a clean benchmark for comparing how national communities began deliberating generative AI, and the open-call youth track is a directly reusable design.

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

Colombia 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 2023 meeting are the foundation of the "next rules" for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.