Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica 2022 (Diálogo de Gobernanza de Internet, DGI CR) — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

On 30 November 2022, the Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica (DGI CR) returned to an in-person format at the CIEMI training centre in Curridabat, greater San José, with about 30 participants on site and on Zoom.
Speakers from NIC Costa Rica, ISOC, LACNIC and CIETEL covered Internet governance, cybersecurity and digital trust, information-security culture, and 5G network security.
With a USD 500 budget, half a day and 30 people, this was a minimal restart — but one grounded in a 43-response public consultation, restoring the Dialogue's continuity after the 2021 gap.

Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica 2022 (Diálogo de Gobernanza de Internet, DGI CR) draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.

📍 Catalogued under San José; the venue is the CIEMI training centre in Curridabat, in the San José metropolitan area

Conference at a Glance (from official records)

Item	Detail
Official name	Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica 2022 (Diálogo de Gobernanza de Internet, DGI CR)
Dates	30 November 2022, 9:00–12:30
Venue	CIEMI training centre (Colegio de Ingenieros Electricistas, Mecánicos e Industriales), Curridabat, greater San José
Theme	Regional governance themes
Participants	30 (Per the official page: about 30 participants, hybrid (in-person plus Zoom))
Host	Tri-sector committee: Adriana Segura (ISOC, civil society), Nancy Quirós (MICITT, government), Leidy Guillén (NIC Costa Rica, technical)

(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. Cybersecurity and Digital Trust — Costa Rica After the Conti Attacks

Sessions: Presentation by Shernon Osepa (ISOC) and related discussion

ISOC's Shernon Osepa presented on cybersecurity and digital trust — the year's central theme in a country whose government agencies had been paralysed by ransomware earlier in 2022 [1]
LACNIC's César Díaz raised the challenges of building an information-security culture, arguing weaknesses are organisational and human as much as technical [1]
The pre-event consultation (43 responses) had likewise ranked infrastructure, human rights and access, connectivity and cybersecurity as priority areas [1]

2. 5G-Era Security — Hosted by the Engineers' Association

Sessions: Presentation by Leonardo Steller (CIETEL)

CIETEL's Leonardo Steller explained 5G mobile-network security, in a venue — the CIEMI engineers' training centre — that gave the edition a strongly technical flavour [1]
NIC Costa Rica executive director Luis Carlos Solano opened with Internet-governance fundamentals, bridging newcomers into the 5G and security debate [1]

3. Restarting at Minimum Scale — A USD 500, 30-Person Dialogue

Sessions: Operations (from the official record)

The USD 500 budget (LACNIC alone) covered stationery, catering and promotion — far below 2018's USD 6,000 and 115 attendees, yet the framing of inclusive multistakeholder dialogue was kept [1]
The tri-sector committee continued with a new generation of members (Segura for ISOC, Quirós for MICITT, Guillén for NIC CR), reviving the Dialogue after the 2021 gap [1]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. What was discussed?

A. Cybersecurity and digital trust above all — right after Costa Rica's government was hit by massive ransomware attacks — plus 5G network security and building a security culture.

Q. Why only 30 people?

A. It was a restart after the 2021 gap, on a USD 500 budget funded by LACNIC. Even so, a 43-response public consultation set the agenda, and the meeting ran hybrid, in person and on Zoom.

Q. Why should I care?

A. A country hit by state-scale cyberattacks put 'trust' at the centre of its national IGF that same year — a pointer for how any country, Japan included, might stage public dialogue after a major incident.

What Is Costa Rica IGF? (for first-time readers)

Costa Rica 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 2022 meeting are the foundation of the "next rules" for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.