{"id":12575,"date":"2012-08-24T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2012\/08\/24\/en-brazil-igf-2012-overview\/"},"modified":"2012-08-24T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T17:00:00","slug":"en-brazil-igf-2012-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2012\/08\/24\/en-brazil-igf-2012-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Brazilian Internet Forum (II 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-2012-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2012 \u30ec\u30b7\u30d5\u30a7\uff08\u30aa\u30ea\u30f3\u30c0\uff09 \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-2012-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2012 \u30ec\u30b7\u30d5\u30a7\uff08\u30aa\u30ea\u30f3\u30c0\uff09 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 2nd F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil (FIB 2) met on 3\u20135 July 2012 in Recife \u2014 at the Pernambuco Convention Center on the Olinda side \u2014 with about 700 participants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Across five tracks the dominant cause was the stalled Marco Civil bill: participants signed the &#39;Carta de Olinda&#39;, addressed to the heads of both chambers of Congress and the President.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It was the forum&#39;s first edition outside S\u00e3o Paulo, setting the rotating-host pattern \u2014 and a case study in citizens mobilising to push internet legislation forward.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>2nd Brazilian Internet Forum (II 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<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; Billed as Recife; the Pernambuco Convention Center venue sits on the Olinda side of the metropolitan border \u2014 hence the outcome document &#39;Carta de Olinda&#39;<\/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-brazil-igf-2012-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2012 \u30ec\u30b7\u30d5\u30a7\uff08\u30aa\u30ea\u30f3\u30c0\uff09 \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>2nd Brazilian Internet Forum (II F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>3\u20135 July 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Pernambuco Convention Center, Recife metropolitan area, 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>700<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tracks<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Carta de Olinda \u2014 a collective letter in defence of passing the Marco Civil bill<\/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-2012-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2012 \u30ec\u30b7\u30d5\u30a7\uff08\u30aa\u30ea\u30f3\u30c0\uff09 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Marco Civil \u2014 A Stalled Bill and the Carta de Olinda<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Marco Civil&#39; track on online rights and the closing plenary<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Marco Civil bill, sent to Congress in 2011, kept being pulled from the voting agenda \u2014 so the forum devoted an entire track to it [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Participants drafted and signed the Carta de Olinda in defence of a genuinely free internet, to be delivered to the presidents of the Chamber, the Senate and the Republic [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Proposals gathered in each track were presented at the closing plenary and compiled into a final report published on CGI.br&#39;s website [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Participatory Lawmaking \u2014 Rapporteur Molon on Building a Bill Together<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Closing ceremony (5 July)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Federal deputy Alessandro Molon (PT-RJ), rapporteur of the Marco Civil, joined the closing ceremony to walk through his report and the bill&#39;s consultation-driven drafting process [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Molon argued the innovative collaborative process should be replicated by other legislators, and pointed participants to the online comment window open until 6 July (paraphrased from Portuguese) [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The whole forum could be followed remotely via chat and live webcast \u2014 remote participation in lawmaking was itself on display [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Content and Intellectual Property \u2014 Copyright versus Internet Culture<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Content and Platforms&#39; and &#39;Intellectual Property&#39; tracks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two of the five tracks \u2014 &#39;Content and Platforms&#39; and &#39;Intellectual Property&#39; \u2014 tackled copyright reform and the promotion of Brazilian digital content [1]<\/li>\n<li>Parallel tracks on global governance and digital inclusion carried the forum&#39;s pre-IGF role of aggregating national input for the UN IGF [1]<\/li>\n<li>Participant-driven &#39;unconferences&#39; and technical talks made their first appearance at this edition [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. First Edition in the Northeast \u2014 The Rotation Begins<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Event-wide<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leaving S\u00e3o Paulo (784 participants in 2011) for Pernambuco in the Northeast, the forum established its practice of rotating host cities every year [1][4][5]<\/li>\n<li>A travel-grant scheme helped researchers, educators and under-funded civil-society representatives attend, broadening regional participation [1][4][5]<\/li>\n<li>About 700 people debated the state of the internet and Brazil&#39;s development challenges across all sectors [1][4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What came out of this edition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The Carta de Olinda \u2014 a collective letter urging Congress to pass the Marco Civil, Brazil&#39;s internet bill of rights, signed by participants and addressed to the heads of both chambers and the President.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why two city names, Recife and Olinda?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The event was billed as Recife, but the Pernambuco Convention Center sits just across the municipal line in Olinda \u2014 which is why the outcome document is called the Carta de Olinda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Did the letter work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The bill kept stalling until the 2013 NSA surveillance revelations turbo-charged it; the Marco Civil finally became law in April 2014. This grassroots push helped build that momentum.<\/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-2012-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2012 \u30ec\u30b7\u30d5\u30a7\uff08\u30aa\u30ea\u30f3\u30c0\uff09 \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 2012 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:\/\/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<\/a> \u2014 CGI.br\uff08\u30d7\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgi.br\/noticia\/plenaria-encerra-atividades-do-ii-forum-da-internet-no-brasil\/\">Plen\u00e1ria encerra atividades do II F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil<\/a> \u2014 CGI.br\uff08\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30b9\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pt.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada\/propostas\/Marco_Civil_da_Internet_e_a_Carta_de_Olinda_(10jul2012)\">Marco Civil da Internet e a Carta de Olinda (10jul2012)<\/a> \u2014 Wikip\u00e9dia (pt) Esplanada (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/agenciapatriciagalvao.org.br\/mulheres-de-olho\/agenda\/ii-forum-de-internet-no-brasil-pe-03-a-05072012\/\">II F\u00f3rum de Internet no Brasil \u2013 PE, 03 a 05\/07\/2012\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u544a\u77e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Ag\u00eancia Patr\u00edcia Galv\u00e3o (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 23 August 2012, 13:00 (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>The 2nd F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil (FIB 2) met on 3\u20135 July 2012 in Recife \u2014 at the Pernambuco Convention Center on the Olinda side \u2014 with a<\/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":[163,2318,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-braziligf2012","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575","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=12575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}