IGF Chile 2023 — First Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Chile — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

On 8–9 June 2023 IGF Chile held its first annual meeting as a two-city relay — Temuco in the south, then Santiago — with 92 registered participants in hybrid format and the Araucanía regional governor opening day one.
Temuco debated Chile's digital future, connectivity and the digital divide; Santiago took resilient infrastructure, AI and cybersecurity, with the telecoms undersecretary and former senator Guido Girardi on stage.
Chile — home of the 2010 net-neutrality law and the 2021 neurorights law — finally got its national IGF, and chose a capital-plus-region design to launch it.

Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on IGF Chile 2023 — First Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Chile 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 Chile 2023 — First Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Chile
Dates	8–9 June 2023
Venue	Temuco (Hotel Frontera, Manuel Bulnes 726) on 8 June and Santiago (Auditorio Enrique D'Etigny, Beauchef campus, FCFM, Universidad de Chile) on 9 June; hybrid with live streaming
Theme	Regional governance themes
Participants	92 (92 formally registered (official narrative report); day 1 ~50 on-site + 10 online, day 2 ~15 on-site + 50 online; 284 recording views. Breakdown: civil society 38, private sector 31, government 15, technical community 7)
Host	Organised by Fundación EPAS, NIC Chile, FCFM (Universidad de Chile), Universidad del Bío-Bío and Fundación GesPública; sponsored by the Araucanía regional government (GORE), regional council (CORE), Desarrolla Araucanía and CORFO
Outcome	The first annual forum of IGF Chile (formed 2022); a narrative report was filed with the UN IGF Secretariat (USD 5,000 IGF grant); recordings published on YouTube

(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. A Two-City Relay — Starting the National IGF in Araucanía

Sessions: Temuco day (8 June; opened by regional governor Luciano Rivas and IGF Chile coordinator Stefan Berres)

Day one ran not in the capital but in Temuco, Araucanía, with the regional governor, council and development corporations as sponsors — a rare region-first launch [3][2]
Temuco's three panels covered 'Digital Chile, innovation and future', 'Connectivity and skills' and 'the digital divide', with SUBTEL and Smart Araucanía participating [3][2]
The open consultation at registration surfaced regional issues from Mapuche community access to connectivity in greater Temuco's periphery [3][2]

2. Resilient Infrastructure — Homework 13 Years After the Net-Neutrality Law

Sessions: Santiago panel 'Resilient Infrastructure' (9 June; undersecretary Claudio Araya, José Miguel Piquer, Daniel Halpern, Ximena Rojas)

Undersecretary Claudio Araya, U. de Chile's José Miguel Piquer and COTEL's Daniel Halpern examined infrastructure resilience [3][2]
The report's verdict: Chile's 2010 net-neutrality law remains 'inconclusive' in effective implementation for lack of regulations and inspection capacity — to be revisited at the next forum [3][2]
Redundancy in a disaster-prone geography and cooperative-run connectivity linked back to the regional day [3][2]

3. AI and Neurorights — Stress-Testing the 'Chilean Model'

Sessions: Santiago panel 'Artificial Intelligence' (9 June; Guido Girardi, Giovanni País, Ignacio Bugueño)

Former senator Guido Girardi — architect of the neurorights constitutional amendment — set out the next moves in AI regulation [3][2]
The report records Chile's 2021 National AI Policy and the pioneering neurorights legislation as governance advances of interest to other countries [3][2]
Pairing a startup CEO (Dual Vision) with university researchers kept industrial policy in the frame [3][2]

4. Starting with 92 — an Honest Record of a Nascent NRI

Sessions: The event overall, including the cybersecurity panel and the narrative report

The cybersecurity panel (Alejandro Hevia, Lorena Donoso and consultant Cristián Rojas) addressed the framework cybersecurity bill then in debate [3]
The narrative report discloses everything from the 92 registrations to daily on-site/online splits, candidly noting that open calls drew limited input 'for lack of visibility and community' [3]
Preparation ran on weekly meetings from April 2022, three warm-up webinars, and a USD 5,000 IGF grant [3]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. Chile had no IGF until now?

A. Correct. A legislative pioneer — net neutrality in 2010, neurorights in 2021 — only formed its multistakeholder forum in 2022, and this June 2023 meeting was the first annual edition.

Q. Why start in Temuco?

A. The regional government and foundations funded and hosted it — a region-first launch that put issues like Mapuche community access on a national agenda.

Q. Why should I care?

A. An honest 92-person start with fully disclosed attendance data is a model of transparency, and 'a law passed but never implemented' is a universal lesson from the net-neutrality debate.

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

Chile 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.