The 3-Line Summary
- The 14th Internet Forum in Brazil (FIB14) met 21–24 May 2024 at the Bourbon Hotel in Curitiba, Paraná, with 1,340 registered participants (in-person and remote) and 27 workshops picked from a record 165 proposals.
- The opening put disinformation and digital sovereignty front and centre; plenaries tackled 'technodiversity and digital colonialism,' global challenges for digital-world governance, and Brazil's AI research-and-adoption strategy, while speakers urged a tech response to the Rio Grande do Sul floods.
- Held weeks after NETmundial+10 and months before the UN's Global Digital Compact, FIB14 captured the Global South's bid to shape AI and governance norms at a pivotal moment.
Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on 14th Internet Forum in Brazil (14º Fórum da Internet no Brasil / FIB14) 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 | 14th Internet Forum in Brazil (14º Fórum da Internet no Brasil / FIB14) |
| Dates | 21–24 May 2024 |
| Venue | Bourbon Curitiba Hotel, Curitiba, Paraná |
| Theme | Regional governance themes |
| Workshops | 27 |
| Registered | 1,340 (Combined in-person and remote registrations announced at the opening) |
| Host | Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), operated by NIC.br |
(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. Opening — Disinformation and Digital Sovereignty Front and Centre
Sessions: Opening ceremony (21 May, 18:30)
"We must fight for Brazil to have technological and digital sovereignty"
— Renata Mielli (CGI.br Coordinator) [2][4]
"It is important to think of a technology- and science-based project to reduce the impact of this catastrophe"
— Hartmut Glaser (CGI.br Executive Secretary) [2][4]
- The ceremony hammered on the need to fight disinformation, framing digital sovereignty, digital rights, cybersecurity and technological colonialism as the edition's through-lines [2][4]
- With the historic May 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods unfolding, speakers called on the tech and science community to aid recovery [2][4]
- UFPR rector Ricardo Marcelo Fonseca joined the opening of the first FIB ever held in Curitiba [2][4]
2. Technodiversity and Digital Colonialism — Imagining Other Futures
Sessions: Plenary 'Technodiversity and digital colonialism: imagining other futures' (22 May, 14:00)
- The plenary framed the concentration of AI, cloud and platform stacks in a few countries and firms as 'digital colonialism,' exploring 'technodiversity' as an alternative to a single path of technological development [4][5]
- Coming right after NETmundial+10 in São Paulo (April 2024), it voiced a Global South vision for governance [4][5]
3. Global Challenges for Digital Governance — On the Eve of the GDC
Sessions: Plenary 'Global challenges for the governance of the digital world' (23 May, 14:00)
- With the UN Global Digital Compact due at the September 2024 Summit of the Future and WSIS+20 looming in 2025, the fate of the multistakeholder model was the core question [4][5]
- Building on NETmundial+10's São Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines, panellists mapped Brazil's role in the coming governance negotiations [4][5]
4. Brazil's AI Strategy — Designing National Research, Development and Adoption
Sessions: Plenary 'Strategies for research, development and adoption of AI in Brazil' (24 May, 14:00)
- The plenary weighed home-grown R&D and compute investment against dependence on foreign models, and AI adoption in the public sector — a debate feeding into the Brazilian AI Plan (PBIA) and the AI bill (PL 2338) later that year [4][3]
- 'New technologies and AI' was among the largest macro-themes of the 27 selected workshops, alongside privacy and security, citizenship, and regulatory extraterritoriality [4][3]
5. Record Submissions — The Participatory Model Keeps Growing
Sessions: Overall programme
"This is the edition of the event that received the most proposal submissions"
— Tanara Lauschner (coordinator, CGI.br Forum Working Group) [2][3]
- A record 165 workshop proposals were vetted by a 60-member multisectoral commission (15 per sector, 12 per region), which selected 27 [2][3]
- 1,340 people registered (in person and remote) for the free, hybrid, YouTube-streamed event [2][3]
Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered
Q. What defined this edition?
A. Timing. Sandwiched between NETmundial+10 in April and the UN Global Digital Compact in September, it debated who writes the digital world's rules — from the Global South's side.
Q. What was the keyword?
A. Digital sovereignty. CGI.br coordinator Renata Mielli declared at the opening that Brazil must fight for technological and digital sovereignty, a thread running through the AI and cloud-dependence debates.
Q. Why does it matter abroad?
A. How to build a national AI strategy while foreign firms own the underlying models is the dilemma every middle power faces — FIB14 shows Brazil's answer taking shape.
What Is Brazil IGF? (for first-time readers)
Brazil 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 2024 meeting are the foundation of the "next rules" for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.
Sources & References
- Fórum da Internet no Brasil — FIB14 — FIB / CGI.br（公式サイト） (accessed 2026-07-11)
- Abertura do 14º Fórum da Internet no Brasil ressalta a necessidade do combate à desinformação no país — NIC.br（公式リリース） (accessed 2026-07-11)
- CGI.br abre inscrições para o 14º Fórum da Internet no Brasil — NIC.br（公式リリース） (accessed 2026-07-11)
- Tudo pronto para o 14º Fórum da Internet no Brasil (FIB) — CRN1（報道） (accessed 2026-07-11)
- 14º Fórum da Internet no Brasil, principal evento sobre governança da rede no país, acontece em Curitiba — Gazz Conecta（報道） (accessed 2026-07-11)
Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.
Related links
- IGF official (NRI list): https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives
- Japan IGF: https://japanigf.jp/
- Yuki Nakazawa's blog: https://nkzw.jp/category/igf/
Revision History
Rev. 1 — published 8 August 2024, 10:00 (Article published)
Rev. 2 — updated 16 July 2026, 20:09 (Fully revised into the in-depth edition: added the 3-line summary, minutes digest, short talk, source list and diagrams (all quotes verified against the listed sources))
— 中澤祐樹
