{"id":12593,"date":"2021-10-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/10\/06\/en-brazil-igf-2021-overview\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:00:00","slug":"en-brazil-igf-2021-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/10\/06\/en-brazil-igf-2021-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"11th Internet Forum in Brazil (11\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil \/ FIB11) \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-2021-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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-2021-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 11th Internet Forum in Brazil (FIB11) ran online for a second straight year on 26\u201330 July 2021, with 20 workshops and three main sessions, 1,143 registrations and over 12,000 video views during the week.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Headline debates covered universities&#39; dependence on foreign platforms for remote education (66% of federal-university e-mail domains sat on Google servers), how \u2014 not whether \u2014 to regulate platforms, and five years of the Youth Brazil programme.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The session framing &#39;the question is not whether to regulate, but how&#39; marks the starting point of Brazil&#39;s subsequent platform-regulation debate \u2014 a framing now common worldwide.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>11th Internet Forum in Brazil (11\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil \/ FIB11)<\/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-2021-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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>11th Internet Forum in Brazil (11\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil \/ FIB11)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>26\u201330 July 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Held online (streamed on the NIC.br YouTube channel, with an avatar-based virtual networking space)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Main sessions<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Workshops<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Registered<\/td>\n<td>1,143<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), operated by NIC.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-2021-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Platformised Education \u2014 Remote Schooling on Big Tech&#39;s Servers<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Main session on the adoption of platforms in education<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Brazil has quite a robust framework for protecting children and adolescents, but we still don&#39;t have those directives (for educational platforms)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Janaina Costa (ITS-Rio)<\/strong> [2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Research presented by Leonardo Cruz: 66% of federal-university e-mail domains ran on Google servers, 4% on Microsoft, only 30% on institutional servers [2]<\/li>\n<li>Panellists warned that pandemic-era remote education was locking public education into foreign private platforms [2]<\/li>\n<li>Guidelines on educational-data sovereignty and children&#39;s data protection were flagged as urgent [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Platform Regulation \u2014 From &#39;Whether&#39; to &#39;How&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Main session on the regulation of informational platforms<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The question is not whether to regulate, but how&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Murilo C\u00e9sar Ramos (University of Bras\u00edlia)<\/strong> [2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Against the stock objection that &#39;regulation delays innovation,&#39; panellists such as Diego Cerqueira argued outcomes depend entirely on design and implementation [2]<\/li>\n<li>With the PL 2630 &#39;fake news bill&#39; still in Congress, the forum moved the multistakeholder debate from principle to regulatory design [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Five Years of Youth Brazil \u2014 Building the Next Generation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Main session marking five years of the Youth Brazil programme<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since 2015 the programme had trained more than 700 participants and supported over 100 young people at global Internet-governance forums, session coordinator Tanara Lauschner reported [2]<\/li>\n<li>Embedding youth-pipeline building inside the national IGF itself is a distinctive Brazilian design choice [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Second Online Year \u2014 Experimenting with an Avatar Venue<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall programme<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A &#39;virtual venue&#39; let participants mingle as avatars between sessions, recreating the hallway serendipity of in-person forums [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>1,143 registered, 721 confirmed attendance, and live interactions numbered nearly 2,300; certificates went to those watching live [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The 20 workshops were built from community-proposed themes, alongside a cultural event [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Second year online \u2014 anything new?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. An avatar-based virtual venue tried to recreate hallway networking, over 1,100 people registered, and videos logged 12,000+ views during the week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the headline?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The hidden side of remote schooling: research showed 66% of federal-university e-mail domains ran on Google&#39;s servers, turning education&#39;s Big Tech dependence into a digital-sovereignty debate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter abroad?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Every school system that moved to the cloud during COVID faces the same questions about educational-data sovereignty and children&#39;s data that FIB11 debated in 2021.<\/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-2021-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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 2021 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:\/\/cgi.br\/noticia\/releases\/11-forum-da-internet-no-brasil-fib11-comeca-na-proxima-segunda-feira-26-confira-a-programacao\/\">11\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil (FIB11) come\u00e7a na pr\u00f3xima segunda-feira (26) &#8211; confira a programa\u00e7\u00e3o<\/a> \u2014 CGI.br\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgi.br\/noticia\/releases\/com-mais-de-12-mil-visualizacoes-em-sua-programacao-fib11-discutiu-temas-atuais-sobre-a-internet-no-brasil-confira-um-resumo-das-sessoes-principais\/\">Com mais de 12 mil visualiza\u00e7\u00f5es em sua programa\u00e7\u00e3o, FIB11 discutiu temas atuais sobre a Internet no Brasil; confira um resumo das sess\u00f5es principais<\/a> \u2014 CGI.br\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fib.cgi.br\/2021\/\">11\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil \u2014 \u30b5\u30a4\u30c8<\/a> \u2014 FIB \/ CGI.br\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLQq8-9yVHyOaZT7gvJYqCA5JpbpC5nhRt\">11\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil (FIB11) \u2014 \u5168\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u52d5\u753b\u30d7\u30ec\u30a4\u30ea\u30b9\u30c8<\/a> \u2014 NIC.br\uff08YouTube\u516c\u5f0f\u30c1\u30e3\u30f3\u30cd\u30eb\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 5 October 2021, 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>The 11th Internet Forum in Brazil (FIB11) ran online for a second straight year on 26\u201330 July 2021, with 20 workshops and three main session<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,3,11],"tags":[163,2334,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-braziligf2021","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593","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=12593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}