{"id":12702,"date":"2019-10-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/10\/28\/en-japanigf-2019-overview\/"},"modified":"2019-10-28T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T05:00:00","slug":"en-japanigf-2019-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/10\/28\/en-japanigf-2019-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"27th Meeting of the Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ) \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-japanigf-2019-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2019 \u6771\u4eac \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-japanigf-2019-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2019 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 9 July 2019 the 27th meeting of the Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ) convened at the JPNIC conference room in Kanda, Tokyo \u2014 the last on the public record of a series begun in 2014.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>On the agenda: the results of the G20 Osaka Summit and B20. MIC&#39;s Yoichi Iida and Keidanren&#39;s Ko Nakajima explained the digital-economy negotiations and outcomes directly to the community.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>That autumn the &#39;IGF 2019 pre-meeting&#39; launched a new format, shifting Japan&#39;s domestic dialogue from IGCJ to the Japan IGF cycle of pre-meetings and debriefs \u2014 a generational handover in grassroots governance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>27th Meeting of the Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ)<\/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-japanigf-2019-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2019 \u6771\u4eac \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>27th Meeting of the Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>9 July 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>JPNIC conference room, Kanda, Tokyo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ; secretariat: JPNIC)<\/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-japanigf-2019-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2019 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Debriefing the G20 Osaka Summit \u2014 Into the DFFT Era<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: 27th meeting (9 July), &#39;The G20 and B20: process and results, focusing on ICT and the digital economy&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yoichi Iida of MIC&#39;s Global Strategy Bureau and Ko Nakajima of Keidanren&#39;s International Economic Affairs Bureau reported on the June G20 Osaka Summit and the preceding B20, focusing on ICT and the digital economy [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Coming right after Osaka put &#39;Data Free Flow with Trust&#39; (DFFT) on the world stage, the meeting let the domestic community hear about \u2014 and question \u2014 a leaders-level agreement directly from those involved [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>It ran as an open meeting (capacity 40) where anyone could attend and speak, with remote participation available [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Twenty-seven Meetings On \u2014 The IGCJ Experiment Reaches a Milestone<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The IGCJ series as a whole (June 2014 \u2013 July 2019)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launched in 2014 on the unusual premise of &#39;a gathering of individuals hosted by the community itself, with no designated organiser&#39;, IGCJ leaves no meeting records on the public archive after this 27th session [1][7]<\/li>\n<li>JPNIC&#39;s later retrospective is frank: the format first broadened topics and participation, but &#39;the variety of themes to address shrank&#39; over time and attendance declined [1][7]<\/li>\n<li>From IGF 2019 onward the debrief function for the global IGF was folded into Japan IGF activities, passing the torch of domestic dialogue [1][7]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The IGF 2019 Pre-meeting \u2014 A New Domestic Dialogue, Bound for Berlin<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: IGF 2019 pre-meeting (25 October, Essam Kanda Hall Bldg 1, Room 301)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ahead of IGF 2019 in Berlin (25\u201329 November), a domestic pre-meeting gathered Japan&#39;s talking points \u2014 the first in the pre-meeting series recorded on japanigf.jp [4][5][7]<\/li>\n<li>Per JPNIC&#39;s retrospective, from IGF 2018 onward the Japan IGF planning team and veterans of the global IGF became the driving force organising debriefs and pre-meetings [4][5][7]<\/li>\n<li>Discuss at home, carry it to the IGF, report back on return \u2014 the cycle that still defines Japan&#39;s domestic IGF activity took shape this year [4][5][7]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Sending the Young to Berlin \u2014 The IGF 2019 Fellowship<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: JPNIC open call (applications September 2019; second round until 9 October)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JPNIC ran a fellowship covering round-trip airfare and accommodation for two participants aged 18\u201330 to attend IGF 2019 [6]<\/li>\n<li>Framed as boosting Japan&#39;s presence on the international stage through first-hand conference experience, it marked a step toward cultivating the next generation [6]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. So did IGCJ come to an end?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The 27th meeting in July 2019 is the last on record under the IGCJ name. But the dialogue didn&#39;t vanish \u2014 it carried over into the Japan IGF pre-meetings and debriefs, feeding the later revitalisation of Japan&#39;s domestic IGF activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why discuss the G20 at a meeting open to citizens?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The Osaka Summit had just launched &#39;Data Free Flow with Trust&#39; (DFFT) onto the world stage. Government and business insiders taking questions from citizens and engineers at an open meeting is multistakeholder dialogue at its most literal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. DFFT became a cornerstone of later cross-border data rules and AI-era data policy. And the pre-meeting\/IGF\/debrief cycle that took shape this year still serves as an open door for anyone to join global internet-policy debates.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Japan IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-japanigf-2019-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2019 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 About Japan IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Japan 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 2019 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:\/\/igcj.jp\/meetings\/\">\u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff08IGCJ\uff09\u30df\u30fc\u30c6\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u4e00\u89a7<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff08IGCJ\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igcj.jp\/meetings\/2019\/0709\/\">\u7b2c27\u56de\u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff082019\u5e747\u67089\u65e5\uff09\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb\u8cc7\u6599<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u4f1a\u8b70\uff08IGCJ\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nic.ad.jp\/ja\/topics\/2019\/20190606-01.html\">\u7b2c27\u56deIGCJ\u4f1a\u5408\u958b\u50ac\u306e\u3054\u6848\u5185<\/a> \u2014 \u4e00\u822c\u793e\u56e3\u6cd5\u4eba\u65e5\u672c\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30a4\u30f3\u30d5\u30a9\u30e1\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08JPNIC\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nic.ad.jp\/ja\/event\/2019calendar.html\">2019\u5e74\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u30ab\u30ec\u30f3\u30c0\u30fc\uff08IGF2019\u4e8b\u524d\u4f1a\u5408: 10\u670825\u65e5\u30fb\u30a8\u30c3\u30b5\u30e0\u795e\u7530\u30db\u30fc\u30eb1\u53f7\u9928301\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u4e00\u822c\u793e\u56e3\u6cd5\u4eba\u65e5\u672c\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30a4\u30f3\u30d5\u30a9\u30e1\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08JPNIC\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/meetings\/igf-1\">IGF\u56fd\u5185\u4e8b\u524d\u4f1a\u5408\uff08\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672cIGF\uff08japanigf.jp\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nic.ad.jp\/ja\/topics\/2019\/20190909-01.html\">IGF 2019\u53c2\u52a0\u652f\u63f4\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u5fdc\u52df\u53d7\u4ed8\u958b\u59cb\u306e\u304a\u77e5\u3089\u305b\u301c\u82e5\u624b\u306e\u56fd\u969b\u4f1a\u8b70\u53c2\u52a0\u8cbb\u7528\u3092\u652f\u63f4\u3057\u307e\u3059\u301c<\/a> \u2014 \u4e00\u822c\u793e\u56e3\u6cd5\u4eba\u65e5\u672c\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30a4\u30f3\u30d5\u30a9\u30e1\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08JPNIC\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nic.ad.jp\/ja\/materials\/igf\/20210520\/material3.html\">\u65e5\u672c\u306b\u304a\u3051\u308b\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u95a2\u9023\u6d3b\u52d5\u306e\u7d4c\u9a13\u3068\u8ab2\u984c\uff082021\u5e745\u670820\u65e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u4e00\u822c\u793e\u56e3\u6cd5\u4eba\u65e5\u672c\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30a4\u30f3\u30d5\u30a9\u30e1\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08JPNIC\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 28 October 2019, 14:00 (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>On 9 July 2019 the 27th meeting of the Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ) convened at the JPNIC conference room in Kanda, Tokyo \u2014 t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,140,11],"tags":[163,161,160,1977,162,164],"class_list":["post-12702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aprigf","category-igf","category-japan-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-japanigf2019","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702","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=12702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}