LACIGF 2009 Rio de Janeiro — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

1. The 2nd Regional Preparatory Meeting for the IGF (later counted as LACIGF 2) met on 11-13 August 2009 at the Novo Mundo Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — the first three-day edition, organised by NUPEF/RITS, APC and LACNIC.
2. Beyond the two key topics of access and security-and-privacy, the region singled out local content, multilingualism and multiculturalism, and freedom of expression as its most important concerns, feeding them into the 4th global IGF in Sharm el-Sheikh that November.
3. The host was Brazil — which had staged the global IGF in 2007 and that same year adopted CGI.br's ten principles for internet governance — a showcase of how a multistakeholder pioneer nurtured the regional dialogue.

Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on LACIGF 2009 in Rio de Janeiro draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.

📍 The official list of past editions on lacigf.org confirms the 2nd edition took place in Rio de Janeiro in 2009, matching the catalogue. The one-year city shift found in the 2023-2025 catalogue entries does not apply to this year.

Conference at a Glance (from official records)

(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. The Region's Top Concerns — Local Content, Multilingualism and Free Expression

Sessions: Across the meeting's thematic debates

• In addition to the two key topics of access and security and privacy, issues around local content, multilingualism and multiculturalism, and freedom of expression were highlighted as the region's most important concerns [4]
• For a region of Spanish, Portuguese and indigenous languages, safeguarding cultural diversity on an English-dominated internet was a distinctive priority [4]

2. Bridging to Sharm el-Sheikh — Widening Regional Participation

Sessions: Across the meeting

• The meeting's stated goals were to involve more players from the region in the themes and dynamics of the global IGF, to debate the central themes of IGF 2009, and to identify regional priorities to take to Egypt in November [3][1]
• Expanding from Montevideo's single day to three days, the process aimed to deepen the quality of debate and broaden participation [3][1]

3. Host-Country Context — CGI.br's Ten Principles and Brazil's Multistakeholder Model

Sessions: Host-country backdrop (2009)

• That same year Brazil's multistakeholder Internet Steering Committee, CGI.br, adopted Resolution CGI.br/RES/2009/003/P, the 'Principles for the Governance and Use of the Internet in Brazil' — ten principles spanning freedom of expression, privacy and human rights, democratic governance and net neutrality that later underpinned the Marco Civil da Internet [5][6]
• NIC.br's 2009 annual activity report records its participation in the regional IGF meeting in Rio ('IGF-Rio'), showing the domestic technical community's support for the regional dialogue [5][6]

4. Continuity of the Regional Process — From Prep Meeting to Annual Forum

Sessions: Across the meeting

• Following Montevideo in 2008, this second consecutive edition effectively established the regional preparatory meeting as an annual process rather than a one-off event [2][4]
• The joint stewardship of NUPEF/RITS, APC and LACNIC continued, laying the groundwork for the programme-committee model of later years [2][4]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. What did this meeting decide?

A. Nothing binding — it was a preparatory meeting to carry the region's voice to the UN IGF in Egypt that November. Local content, multilingualism and freedom of expression were declared the region's top concerns.

Q. Why Brazil?

A. Brazil had hosted the global IGF itself in 2007 and was the region's multistakeholder pioneer — in 2009 CGI.br adopted its ten principles for internet governance, including net neutrality and free expression.

Q. Why should I care?

A. The 2009 question of protecting local-language content and cultural diversity on an English-dominated internet is universal, and CGI.br's ten principles later fed the Marco Civil, a model for internet legislation worldwide.

What Is LACIGF? (for first-time readers)

LACIGF 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 2009 meeting are the foundation of the "next rules" for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.

Sources & References

1. Foros anteriores（歴代開催一覧、LACIGF 2: 2009年8月11〜13日・リオデジャネイロ） — LACIGF（公式） (accessed 2026-07-10)
2. Reunión Regional Preparatoria para el Foro para la Gobernanza de Internet — Wikipedia（スペイン語版） (accessed 2026-07-10)
3. II Latin American and Caribbean Preparatory Meeting for IGF 2009（開催案内: 8月11〜13日・ノヴォ・ムンド・ホテル、主催 Nupef/Rits・APC・LACNIC） — DiploFoundation (accessed 2026-07-10)
4. Latin American and Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Internet Governance Forum (LACIGF) — GISWatch / APC (accessed 2026-07-10)
5. Resolução CGI.br/RES/2009/003/P — Princípios para a governança e uso da Internet no Brasil — CGI.br（ブラジル・インターネット運営委員会） (accessed 2026-07-10)
6. Relatório de Atividades NIC.br 2009（年次活動報告、IGF-Rio参加の記録） — NIC.br／CGI.br (accessed 2026-07-10)
7. El debate en Latinoamérica（第2回リオ会合の開催予告を含む） — Telos 80号（Fundación Telefónica） (accessed 2026-07-10)

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 13 August 2009, 09:00 (Article published)

Rev. 2 — updated 10 July 2026, 23:16 (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