{"id":12598,"date":"2024-08-08T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/08\/08\/en-brazil-igf-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:00:00","slug":"en-brazil-igf-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/08\/08\/en-brazil-igf-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"14th Internet Forum in Brazil (14\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil \/ FIB14) \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-2024-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2024 \u30af\u30ea\u30c1\u30d0 \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-2024-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2024 \u30af\u30ea\u30c1\u30d0 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 14th Internet Forum in Brazil (FIB14) met 21\u201324 May 2024 at the Bourbon Hotel in Curitiba, Paran\u00e1, with 1,340 registered participants (in-person and remote) and 27 workshops picked from a record 165 proposals.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The opening put disinformation and digital sovereignty front and centre; plenaries tackled &#39;technodiversity and digital colonialism,&#39; global challenges for digital-world governance, and Brazil&#39;s AI research-and-adoption strategy, while speakers urged a tech response to the Rio Grande do Sul floods.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Held weeks after NETmundial+10 and months before the UN&#39;s Global Digital Compact, FIB14 captured the Global South&#39;s bid to shape AI and governance norms at a pivotal moment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>14th Internet Forum in Brazil (14\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil \/ FIB14)<\/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-2024-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2024 \u30af\u30ea\u30c1\u30d0 \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>14th Internet Forum in Brazil (14\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil \/ FIB14)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>21\u201324 May 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Bourbon Curitiba Hotel, Curitiba, Paran\u00e1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Workshops<\/td>\n<td>27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Registered<\/td>\n<td>1,340 (Combined in-person and remote registrations announced at the opening)<\/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-2024-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2024 \u30af\u30ea\u30c1\u30d0 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Opening \u2014 Disinformation and Digital Sovereignty Front and Centre<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening ceremony (21 May, 18:30)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We must fight for Brazil to have technological and digital sovereignty&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Renata Mielli (CGI.br Coordinator)<\/strong> [2][4]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;It is important to think of a technology- and science-based project to reduce the impact of this catastrophe&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Hartmut Glaser (CGI.br Executive Secretary)<\/strong> [2][4]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The ceremony hammered on the need to fight disinformation, framing digital sovereignty, digital rights, cybersecurity and technological colonialism as the edition&#39;s through-lines [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>With the historic May 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods unfolding, speakers called on the tech and science community to aid recovery [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>UFPR rector Ricardo Marcelo Fonseca joined the opening of the first FIB ever held in Curitiba [2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Technodiversity and Digital Colonialism \u2014 Imagining Other Futures<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary &#39;Technodiversity and digital colonialism: imagining other futures&#39; (22 May, 14:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plenary framed the concentration of AI, cloud and platform stacks in a few countries and firms as &#39;digital colonialism,&#39; exploring &#39;technodiversity&#39; as an alternative to a single path of technological development [4][5]<\/li>\n<li>Coming right after NETmundial+10 in S\u00e3o Paulo (April 2024), it voiced a Global South vision for governance [4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Global Challenges for Digital Governance \u2014 On the Eve of the GDC<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary &#39;Global challenges for the governance of the digital world&#39; (23 May, 14:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the UN Global Digital Compact due at the September 2024 Summit of the Future and WSIS+20 looming in 2025, the fate of the multistakeholder model was the core question [4][5]<\/li>\n<li>Building on NETmundial+10&#39;s S\u00e3o Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines, panellists mapped Brazil&#39;s role in the coming governance negotiations [4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Brazil&#39;s AI Strategy \u2014 Designing National Research, Development and Adoption<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary &#39;Strategies for research, development and adoption of AI in Brazil&#39; (24 May, 14:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plenary weighed home-grown R&amp;D and compute investment against dependence on foreign models, and AI adoption in the public sector \u2014 a debate feeding into the Brazilian AI Plan (PBIA) and the AI bill (PL 2338) later that year [4][3]<\/li>\n<li>&#39;New technologies and AI&#39; was among the largest macro-themes of the 27 selected workshops, alongside privacy and security, citizenship, and regulatory extraterritoriality [4][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Record Submissions \u2014 The Participatory Model Keeps Growing<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall programme<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;This is the edition of the event that received the most proposal submissions&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Tanara Lauschner (coordinator, CGI.br Forum Working Group)<\/strong> [2][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>A record 165 workshop proposals were vetted by a 60-member multisectoral commission (15 per sector, 12 per region), which selected 27 [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>1,340 people registered (in person and remote) for the free, hybrid, YouTube-streamed event [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What defined this edition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Timing. Sandwiched between NETmundial+10 in April and the UN Global Digital Compact in September, it debated who writes the digital world&#39;s rules \u2014 from the Global South&#39;s side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the keyword?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Digital sovereignty. CGI.br coordinator Renata Mielli declared at the opening that Brazil must fight for technological and digital sovereignty, a thread running through the AI and cloud-dependence debates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter abroad?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. How to build a national AI strategy while foreign firms own the underlying models is the dilemma every middle power faces \u2014 FIB14 shows Brazil&#39;s answer taking shape.<\/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-2024-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Brazil IGF 2024 \u30af\u30ea\u30c1\u30d0 \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 2024 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:\/\/forumdainternet.cgi.br\/fib14\/\">F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil \u2014 FIB14<\/a> \u2014 FIB \/ CGI.br\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nic.br\/noticia\/releases\/abertura-do-14-forum-da-internet-no-brasil-ressalta-a-necessidade-do-combate-a-desinformacao-no-pais\/\">Abertura do 14\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil ressalta a necessidade do combate \u00e0 desinforma\u00e7\u00e3o no pa\u00eds<\/a> \u2014 NIC.br\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nic.br\/noticia\/releases\/cgi-br-abre-inscricoes-para-o-14-forum-da-internet-no-brasil\/\">CGI.br abre inscri\u00e7\u00f5es para o 14\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil<\/a> \u2014 NIC.br\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/crn1.com.br\/2024\/05\/tudo-pronto-para-o-14o-forum-da-internet-no-brasil-fib\/\">Tudo pronto para o 14\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil (FIB)<\/a> \u2014 CRN1\uff08\u5831\u9053\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gazzconecta.com.br\/gazz-conecta\/14o-forum-da-internet-no-brasil-principal-evento-sobre-governanca-da-rede-no-pais-acontece-em-curitiba-com-inscricoes-gratuitas\/\">14\u00ba F\u00f3rum da Internet no Brasil, principal evento sobre governan\u00e7a da rede no pa\u00eds, acontece em Curitiba<\/a> \u2014 Gazz Conecta\uff08\u5831\u9053\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 8 August 2024, 10:00 (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 14th Internet Forum in Brazil (FIB14) met 21\u201324 May 2024 at the Bourbon Hotel in Curitiba, Paran\u00e1, with 1,340 registered participants (i<\/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":[163,627,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-braziligf2024","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598","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=12598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}