IGF Perú 2020 (Fourth National IGF of Peru) — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

The fourth IGF Perú went fully online for the first time on 1–3 December 2020. Registrations jumped to 2,886 — from 75 in-person attendees the year before — with women outnumbering men.
Six main panels tackled legislative proposals, connectivity, international digital cooperation, remote schooling (#AprendoenCasa), the digital economy and online gender violence, flanked by ten open-call mini-panels brought by the public.
It is a vivid measure of how far participation spreads once venue limits disappear — with pandemic-era topics like remote education and gender violence dominating the agenda.

Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on IGF Perú 2020 (Fourth 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 2020 (Fourth National IGF of Peru)
Dates	1–3 December 2020 (The catalogue's 'Nov–Dec 2020, exact dates unconfirmed' is now fixed at 1–3 December 2020 by the UN-submitted report and Hiperderecho's results article)
Venue	Fully online due to COVID-19, streamed on Facebook and YouTube
Theme	Regional governance themes
Registered	2,886 (The UN report cites 2,886 registrations; the 30 November cutoff count was 2,419 (748 civil society, 598 academia, 546 government, 349 business, 178 technical; 1,256 women, 1,145 men) per Hiperderecho's results article)
Host	Organising committee: the Ministry of Transport and Communications (Vice-Minister Nakagawa et al.), Elaine Ford (D&D / ISOC Peru), Maritza Agüero (CGI USMP), Jaime Dupuy (ComexPerú), Sandro Marcone (Cultura Digital) and Carlos Guerrero (Hiperderecho); the MTC replaced SEGDI as the government seat
Outcome	Six main panels plus ten open-call mini-panels (50 proposals shortlisted); all videos published on the official site and social media

(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. 2,886 Registrations — the Year Venue Limits Vanished

Sessions: The forum overall (1–3 December, streamed on Facebook and YouTube)

Registrants broke down as 748 civil society, 598 academia, 546 government, 349 business and 178 technical, including 476 lawyers, 349 engineers and 290 students [2]
Panels drew up to 1,050 Facebook views each; for safety the Zoom room was reserved for speakers, with the public watching via social media [2]

2. Keeping Remote Schooling — #AprendoenCasa as a Digital-Learning Opportunity

Sessions: Panel 4 'La continuidad de #AprendoenCasa y #PeruEduca' (2 December)

Education specialists, Khan Academy and a network operator discussed turning AprendoenCasa — the pandemic's TV-radio-web schooling programme — into a permanent digital-learning platform [1][3]
Moderated by Cultura Digital's Sandro Marcone; education recurred across mini-panels on 'Digital education and COVID-19' and 'literacy for Society 5.0' [1][3]

3. Gender Violence Online — Regional NGOs and the Ministry at One Table

Sessions: Panel 6 'Gender violence in digital environments' (3 December)

Jamila Venturini of Derechos Digitales moderated a panel with Hiperderecho's Denisse Albornoz, the women's ministry MIMP, Fundación Telefónica and a PUCP researcher on tackling online gender violence [1][2]
With women outnumbering men among registrants, gender stood out as a defining theme of the 2020 edition [1][2]

4. International Digital Cooperation — Latin America's NRIs Link Up

Sessions: Panel 3 on internet governance and digital cooperation in the international framework (2 December)

Speakers from Brazil (Raquel Gatto), Panama (IPANDETEC's Lía Hernández), Argentina (LACTLD), Bolivia (ISOC Bolivia's Roberto Zambrana) and Uruguay (Youth IGF) compared UN digital-cooperation currents with national-IGF experience [1]
Chaired by Elaine Ford, the session showed the Peruvian IGF acting as a hub of the Latin American NRI network [1]

5. Ten Open-Call Mini-Panels — an Experiment in Public-Sourced Sessions

Sessions: Mini-panels (one hour each, mornings and evenings)

A question on the registration form — 'would you present your research or product for 30–60 minutes?' — yielded 50 shortlisted proposals and ten mini-panels with 19 presenters [2][3]
Topics ran from cybercrime, GovTech and fake news in elections to taxing ride-hailing apps and regulating the sharing economy — the public's own agenda, verbatim [2][3]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. What did going online change?

A. The scale: 2,886 registrations versus 75 in-person attendees the year before, ten public-sourced mini-panels, and more women than men among registrants.

Q. What was the biggest issue?

A. The pandemic internet: making the AprendoenCasa remote-schooling scheme permanent, and confronting online gender violence that worsened as life moved indoors.

Q. Why should I care?

A. It is a well-documented natural experiment — down to view counts and registration breakdowns — in how far online formats widen participation in policy dialogue.

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 2020 meeting are the foundation of the "next rules" for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.