IGF Perú 2024 (8th National IGF of Peru) — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

The eighth IGF Perú filled a San Isidro hotel auditorium in Lima on 4 December 2024, with about 90 people in person plus a Facebook stream — funded solely by LACNIC.
Four main panels covered meaningful connectivity and digital appropriation, AI for the public interest (justice, education, governance), cryptography and remote digital signatures, and AI regulation and personal data, alongside six open-call mini-panels.
Citizen-submitted sessions tackled Pegasus spyware, 5G and child grooming in online games; the in-person recovery leads on to 2026's first edition outside the capital, in Arequipa.

Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on IGF Perú 2024 (8th 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 2024 (8th National IGF of Peru)
Dates	4 December 2024 (The catalogue's 'date unconfirmed' is resolved by the official registration page (Wayback, 21 November 2024): 4 December 2024)
Venue	Auditorium of the Hotel Ramada, Av. Javier Prado Este 390, San Isidro, Lima — a full-day meeting also streamed on Facebook
Theme	Regional governance themes
Participants	90 (About 90 people attended in person (official site; up from about 60 in 2023), with additional viewers via the Facebook stream)
Host	Organising committee: Maritza Aguero (CGI USMP, technical secretariat), Rubiela Gaspar (Hiperderecho), Sandro Marcone (CulturaDigital.pe), Elaine Ford (D&D / ISOC Peru), Pedro Chirinos (ComexPerú), RENIEC, Red Científica Peruana and Alfredo Astudillo (president, ISOC Peru chapter)
Outcome	Four main panels plus six open-call mini-panels were held

(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 for the Public Interest — Deployment in Justice, Education and Governance

Sessions: Panel 'Sistemas de IA para el interés público en el Perú: justicia, educación y gobernanza'

The panel moved Peru's AI debate from principles to design: how to deploy AI in courts, schools and government rather than commerce [1]
A companion panel on AI regulation and personal data addressed Peru's AI-promotion law and data-protection reform [1]

2. Meaningful Connectivity — Being Online Is Not Enough

Sessions: Panel 'Conectividad significativa y apropiación digital'

Discussion shifted the metric from access to 'meaningful connectivity' — quality, skills and real-life appropriation of the internet [1]
Together with the cryptography and remote-digital-signature panel, public-infrastructure players RENIEC and RCP anchored the technical track [1]

3. Six Open-Call Mini-Panels — from Pegasus to Child Grooming

Sessions: Mini-panels selected through an open call

The six selected talks spanned digital emotional intelligence for lawyers, digital security and human rights, Pegasus spyware as a threat to free expression, 5G and emerging tech, the DIAna reproductive-rights tool, and child grooming in online games [1]
The open-call mechanism born in the 2020 online edition carried over intact to the in-person format, wiring citizen concerns straight into the agenda [1]

4. LACNIC's Sole Funding and the Next Step — Arequipa 2026

Sessions: Organisational and series context

Funding shifted from Google's long-running grants to LACNIC alone, tying the national IGF to the regional internet-infrastructure community [1][3]
Per the UN's GRULAC record, the next edition is set for 27–28 August 2026 in Arequipa — the series' first meeting outside Lima [1][3]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. What was the meeting like?

A. A full day at a Lima hotel with about 90 people and a Facebook stream: four main panels — public-interest AI, meaningful connectivity, cryptography and digital signatures, AI regulation — plus six open-call mini-panels.

Q. What stood out?

A. LACNIC funding the whole event alone, and citizen-submitted topics from Pegasus spyware to in-game child grooming. Attendance rose from about 60 to 90.

Q. Why should I care?

A. The shift to 'meaningful connectivity' metrics and public-sector AI deployment mirrors debates everywhere, and a regional registry bankrolling a national IGF is a funding model worth noting.

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 2024 meeting are the foundation of the "next rules" for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.