IGF Perú 2022 (Sixth National IGF of Peru) — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

The sixth IGF Perú ran online on 5–7 December 2022 — until the morning of day three, when President Castillo's self-coup attempt, decreeing the closure of Congress, forced the cancellation of the entire final day.
The two completed days followed the global IGF's themes: connecting all people and safeguarding human rights, avoiding internet fragmentation, security and accountability, and data governance and privacy.
A national IGF physically halted by a coup attempt is as stark a demonstration as any that internet governance and democracy are entangled — and the UN report's matter-of-fact record of the event is itself a document of note.

Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on IGF Perú 2022 (Sixth 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.

📍 Per the series verification, the correct location is 'Virtual' (the earlier 'Lima' entry was wrong and has been corrected)

Conference at a Glance (from official records)

Item	Detail
Official name	IGF Perú 2022 (Sixth National IGF of Peru)
Dates	5–7 December 2022 (day three cancelled)
Venue	Fully virtual, chosen deliberately to broaden decentralised participation nationwide
Theme	Regional governance themes
Host	Eight-member organising committee (Chocobar/SGTD, Ford, Agüero, Dupuy, Marcone, Toledo, Lucía León of Hiperderecho and Cristian Mesa of ISICRI); coordinated by ISICRI with logistics support from Hiperderecho
Outcome	Two days of open-submission morning talks plus four expert panels were held; videos were posted on the official site and Facebook

(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. Day Three Cancelled by a Self-Coup — the Day Politics Stopped the IGF

Sessions: 7 December (the planned digital-citizenship and advanced-technologies panels never ran)

The UN report records: 'A self-coup took place, the temporary closure of the Congress of the Republic was dictated to call for new elections and form an emergency government' — and a cancellation statement went out for the day [1]
Lost were Elaine Ford's digital-citizenship panel and the SGTD-led advanced-technologies panel; Castillo was removed and detained the same day as Peru entered a political crisis [1]

2. Avoiding Internet Fragmentation — the Global Agenda, Localised

Sessions: Panel 2 'Avoid Internet fragmentation' (5 December)

Fátima Toche (Iriarte & Abogados), Dilmar Villena (Hiperderecho) and MAG-affiliated Alan Ramírez localised the fragmentation debate for Peru [1]
The panels mirrored the five themes of the 2022 global IGF in Addis Ababa, making the national-global linkage unusually explicit [1]

3. Connectivity, Rights and Education — the 'Connecting All People' Panel

Sessions: Panel 1 'Connecting all people and safeguarding human rights' (5 December)

Fundación Telefónica, Argentina's ADC and the education ministry linked the connectivity gap to rights and schooling, moderated by SGTD's Carlos Guerrero [1]
Mornings carried open-submission talks (emerging tech, cybercrime, telecom policy), continuing the two-tier expert-plus-public format [1]

4. Data Governance and Security — the Second Day That Did Happen

Sessions: Panels 'Enabling security, protection and accountability' and 'Data governance and privacy protection' (6 December)

The security panel drew the SGTD, identity agency RENIEC, banking association ASBANC and LACIGF's Roberto Zambrana [1]
The data-governance panel, chaired by Maritza Agüero, featured Brazil IGF's Claudio Lucena, a cybercrime expert and an IDB specialist [1]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. Why was day three cancelled?

A. President Castillo attempted a self-coup that morning, decreeing the closure of Congress. The organisers sent out a cancellation statement; Castillo was removed the same day as Peru plunged into crisis.

Q. What happened on the two days that ran?

A. Panels mirroring the global IGF agenda — connectivity and rights, avoiding fragmentation, security and accountability, data governance — plus open-submission morning talks.

Q. Why should I care?

A. It is a rare, concrete reminder that multistakeholder dialogue rests on stable democratic institutions — here, an IGF literally stopped by a coup attempt.

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