{"id":10538,"date":"2009-08-13T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2009\/08\/13\/en-lacigf-2009-rio-overview\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:00:00","slug":"en-lacigf-2009-rio-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2009\/08\/13\/en-lacigf-2009-rio-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"LACIGF 2009 Rio de Janeiro \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-lacigf-2009-rio-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"LACIGF 2009 \u30ea\u30aa\u30c7\u30b8\u30e3\u30cd\u30a4\u30ed \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-lacigf-2009-rio-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"LACIGF 2009 \u30ea\u30aa\u30c7\u30b8\u30e3\u30cd\u30a4\u30ed \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>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 \u2014 the first three-day edition, organised by NUPEF\/RITS, APC and LACNIC.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>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.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The host was Brazil \u2014 which had staged the global IGF in 2007 and that same year adopted CGI.br&#39;s ten principles for internet governance \u2014 a showcase of how a multistakeholder pioneer nurtured the regional dialogue.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>LACIGF 2009 in Rio de Janeiro<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-lacigf-2009-rio-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"LACIGF 2009 \u30ea\u30aa\u30c7\u30b8\u30e3\u30cd\u30a4\u30ed \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>2nd edition (II Regional Preparatory Meeting)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>11-13 August 2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Novo Mundo Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Purpose<\/td>\n<td>To identify regional priorities ahead of the 4th global IGF in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (November 2009)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Organised by NUPEF\/RITS, APC and LACNIC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Milestone<\/td>\n<td>First multi-day (three-day) edition, held in Brazil \u2014 host of the global IGF itself in 2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-lacigf-2009-rio-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"LACIGF 2009 \u30ea\u30aa\u30c7\u30b8\u30e3\u30cd\u30a4\u30ed \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Region&#39;s Top Concerns \u2014 Local Content, Multilingualism and Free Expression<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Across the meeting&#39;s thematic debates<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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&#39;s most important concerns [4]<\/li>\n<li>For a region of Spanish, Portuguese and indigenous languages, safeguarding cultural diversity on an English-dominated internet was a distinctive priority [4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Bridging to Sharm el-Sheikh \u2014 Widening Regional Participation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Across the meeting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The meeting&#39;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]<\/li>\n<li>Expanding from Montevideo&#39;s single day to three days, the process aimed to deepen the quality of debate and broaden participation [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Host-Country Context \u2014 CGI.br&#39;s Ten Principles and Brazil&#39;s Multistakeholder Model<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Host-country backdrop (2009)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That same year Brazil&#39;s multistakeholder Internet Steering Committee, CGI.br, adopted Resolution CGI.br\/RES\/2009\/003\/P, the &#39;Principles for the Governance and Use of the Internet in Brazil&#39; \u2014 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]<\/li>\n<li>NIC.br&#39;s 2009 annual activity report records its participation in the regional IGF meeting in Rio (&#39;IGF-Rio&#39;), showing the domestic technical community&#39;s support for the regional dialogue [5][6]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Continuity of the Regional Process \u2014 From Prep Meeting to Annual Forum<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Across the meeting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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]<\/li>\n<li>The joint stewardship of NUPEF\/RITS, APC and LACNIC continued, laying the groundwork for the programme-committee model of later years [2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did this meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 it was a preparatory meeting to carry the region&#39;s voice to the UN IGF in Egypt that November. Local content, multilingualism and freedom of expression were declared the region&#39;s top concerns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why Brazil?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Brazil had hosted the global IGF itself in 2007 and was the region&#39;s multistakeholder pioneer \u2014 in 2009 CGI.br adopted its ten principles for internet governance, including net neutrality and free expression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The 2009 question of protecting local-language content and cultural diversity on an English-dominated internet is universal, and CGI.br&#39;s ten principles later fed the Marco Civil, a model for internet legislation worldwide.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is LACIGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-lacigf-2009-rio-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"LACIGF 2009 \u30ea\u30aa\u30c7\u30b8\u30e3\u30cd\u30a4\u30ed \u2014 About LACIGF\"><\/p>\n<p>LACIGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2009 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lacigf.org\/foros-anteriores\/\">Foros anteriores\uff08\u6b74\u4ee3\u958b\u50ac\u4e00\u89a7\u3001LACIGF 2: 2009\u5e748\u670811\u301c13\u65e5\u30fb\u30ea\u30aa\u30c7\u30b8\u30e3\u30cd\u30a4\u30ed\uff09<\/a> \u2014 LACIGF\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reuni%C3%B3n_Regional_Preparatoria_para_el_Foro_para_la_Gobernanza_de_Internet\">Reuni\u00f3n Regional Preparatoria para el Foro para la Gobernanza de Internet<\/a> \u2014 Wikipedia\uff08\u30b9\u30da\u30a4\u30f3\u8a9e\u7248\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diplointernetgovernance.org\/group\/diplolac\/forum\/topics\/ii-latin-american-and\">II Latin American and Caribbean Preparatory Meeting for IGF 2009\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u6848\u5185: 8\u670811\u301c13\u65e5\u30fb\u30ce\u30f4\u30a9\u30fb\u30e0\u30f3\u30c9\u30fb\u30db\u30c6\u30eb\u3001\u4e3b\u50ac Nupef\/Rits\u30fbAPC\u30fbLACNIC\uff09<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/giswatch.org\/en\/internet-governance\/latin-american-and-caribbean-regional-preparatory-meeting-internet-governance\">Latin American and Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Internet Governance Forum (LACIGF)<\/a> \u2014 GISWatch \/ APC (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg.org.br\/resolucoes\/documento\/2009\/003\/\">Resolu\u00e7\u00e3o CGI.br\/RES\/2009\/003\/P \u2014 Princ\u00edpios para a governan\u00e7a e uso da Internet no Brasil<\/a> \u2014 CGI.br\uff08\u30d6\u30e9\u30b8\u30eb\u30fb\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u904b\u55b6\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgi.br\/media\/docs\/publicacoes\/9\/relatorio-atividades-nicbr-2009.pdf\">Relat\u00f3rio de Atividades NIC.br 2009\uff08\u5e74\u6b21\u6d3b\u52d5\u5831\u544a\u3001IGF-Rio\u53c2\u52a0\u306e\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 NIC.br\uff0fCGI.br (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/telos.fundaciontelefonica.com\/archivo\/numero080\/el-debate-en-latinoamerica\/\">El debate en Latinoam\u00e9rica\uff08\u7b2c2\u56de\u30ea\u30aa\u4f1a\u5408\u306e\u958b\u50ac\u4e88\u544a\u3092\u542b\u3080\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Telos 80\u53f7\uff08Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Revision History<\/h2>\n<p>Rev. 1 \u2014 published 13 August 2009, 09:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 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))<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Jane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,11],"tags":[163,161,160,581,162,164],"class_list":["post-10538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-lacigf2009","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}