{"id":12572,"date":"2011-08-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2011\/08\/16\/en-brazil-igf-2011-overview\/"},"modified":"2011-08-16T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T20:00:00","slug":"en-brazil-igf-2011-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2011\/08\/16\/en-brazil-igf-2011-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Brazilian Internet Forum (I F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil) \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-brazil-igf-2011-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2011 \u30b5\u30f3\u30d1\u30a6\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-brazil-igf-2011-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2011 \u30b5\u30f3\u30d1\u30a6\u30ed \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>CGI.br convened the first F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil (FIB 1) on 13\u201314 October 2011 at Expo Center Norte in S\u00e3o Paulo, drawing 784 participants from across the country.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Six tracks \u2014 freedom, governance, universality, diversity, standardisation and the legal environment \u2014 put the newly introduced Marco Civil internet bill of rights and net neutrality at centre stage.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The forum launched Brazil&#39;s on-equal-footing multistakeholder dialogue and seeded the debate that produced the Marco Civil, later a global reference for internet-rights legislation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>1st Brazilian Internet Forum (I F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil)<\/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<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-brazil-igf-2011-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2011 \u30b5\u30f3\u30d1\u30a6\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>Official name<\/td>\n<td>1st Brazilian Internet Forum (I F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>13\u201314 October 2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Expo Center Norte Convention Center, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>784<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tracks<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br)<\/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-brazil-igf-2011-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2011 \u30b5\u30f3\u30d1\u30a6\u30ed \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Marco Civil Bill \u2014 A Crowdsourced Internet Bill of Rights Heads to Congress<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Track on the legal and regulatory environment and security<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Held weeks after the Marco Civil bill \u2014 drafted through online public consultations in 2009\u20132010 \u2014 reached Congress in August 2011, making it the core topic of the legal-environment track [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>CGI.br later summed up the forum&#39;s key consensus: no regulation or law should alter the freedom of expression and freedom of technological creation that have defined the internet since its origin [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>Whether online copyright disputes should go to courts or to online arbitration was among the questions tabled (paper by Pedro Paranagu\u00e1) [2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Net Neutrality \u2014 A Warning Against Turning the Internet into &#39;a Giant Cable-TV Network&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Track on standardisation, interoperability, neutrality and innovation<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;If telecom operators are allowed to filter and prioritise traffic, the internet will turn into a giant cable-TV network&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>S\u00e9rgio Amadeu (CGI.br board member, sociologist)<\/strong> [2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Participants debated writing into the Marco Civil the neutrality principle from CGI.br&#39;s 2009 &#39;Dec\u00e1logo&#39; \u2014 its ten principles for internet governance [2]<\/li>\n<li>Civil-society voices warned that letting infrastructure operators pick and choose traffic would put innovation itself at risk [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. A Multistakeholder Experiment \u2014 Four Sectors at the Same Table<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall format (six parallel tracks)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each of the six tracks was co-coordinated by representatives of the four sectors that make up CGI.br \u2014 government, business, academia and civil society \u2014 by design [1][2][5]<\/li>\n<li>Live streaming and chat participation were offered from the start, making it a hybrid national dialogue [1][2][5]<\/li>\n<li>It was positioned as the first of Brazil&#39;s annual &#39;pre-IGF&#39; meetings feeding national views into the UN Internet Governance Forum [1][2][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Privacy and Personal Data Protection \u2014 Ahead of Any Law<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Co-located 2nd International Seminar on Privacy and Personal Data Protection (13\u201314 October)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In parallel, CGI.br, the Federal Prosecution Service&#39;s ICT working group and FGV Law School co-hosted an international seminar on privacy and data protection, with a keynote by Prof. Yves Poullet (University of Namur) and updates on the revision of Council of Europe Convention 108 [3]<\/li>\n<li>Speakers included Danilo Doneda of the Ministry of Justice \u2014 later a key architect of Brazil&#39;s LGPD data-protection law \u2014 covering IPv6, IoT, cloud computing and health-data systems [3]<\/li>\n<li>The debate predated any comprehensive Brazilian data-protection statute, coming seven years before the LGPD of 2018 [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was this gathering, exactly?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Brazil&#39;s national version of the UN Internet Governance Forum. CGI.br, the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, launched it in 2011 so that government, business, academia and citizens could debate internet issues as equals \u2014 not to make binding decisions, but to shape policy proposals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the hottest topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The Marco Civil, Brazil&#39;s &#39;internet bill of rights&#39;, which had just been sent to Congress. How to protect free expression, net neutrality and privacy dominated the discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Brazil&#39;s crowdsourced approach to writing a foundational internet law became a global reference point \u2014 and this forum is where that national conversation formally began.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Brazil IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-brazil-igf-2011-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2011 \u30b5\u30f3\u30d1\u30a6\u30ed \u2014 About Brazil IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Brazil IGF 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 2011 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:\/\/www.ti.rio\/i-forum-da-internet-no-brasil\/\">I F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil<\/a> \u2014 TI Rio (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/baixacultura.org\/2011\/10\/12\/discutir-o-presente-e-o-futuro-da-rede-i-forum-da-internet-no-brasil\/\">Discutir o presente e o futuro da rede: I F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil<\/a> \u2014 BaixaCultura (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg.org.br\/noticia\/releases\/comite-gestor-da-internet-promove-seminario-sobre-protecao-a-privacidade-e-aos-dados-pessoais-em-paralelo-ao-i-forum-da-internet\/\">Comit\u00ea Gestor da Internet promove Semin\u00e1rio sobre Prote\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 Privacidade e aos Dados Pessoais em paralelo ao I F\u00f3rum da Internet<\/a> \u2014 CGI.br\uff08\u30d7\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cg.org.br\/noticia\/releases\/recife-sediara-o-ii-forum-da-internet-no-brasil\/\">Recife sediar\u00e1 o II F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil\uff08\u7b2c1\u56de\u306e\u53c2\u52a0\u8005\u6570784\u4eba\u3068\u6210\u679c\u306b\u8a00\u53ca\uff09<\/a> \u2014 CGI.br\uff08\u30d7\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fib.cgi.br\/2024\/edicoes\/\">Edi\u00e7\u00f5es \u2014 F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil<\/a> \u2014 CGI.br\uff08FIB\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/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 15 August 2011, 16:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 16 July 2026, 20:09 (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>CGI.br convened the first F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil (FIB 1) on 13\u201314 October 2011 at Expo Center Norte in S\u00e3o Paulo, drawing 784 participa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,3,19,11],"tags":[163,2239,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-braziligf2011","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572","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=12572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}