{"id":12746,"date":"2016-07-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/07\/22\/en-taiwan-igf-2016-overview\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T02:00:00","slug":"en-taiwan-igf-2016-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/07\/22\/en-taiwan-igf-2016-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Internet Governance Forum 2016 (TWIGF 2016) \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-taiwan-igf-2016-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2016 \u53f0\u5317 \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-taiwan-igf-2016-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2016 \u53f0\u5317 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The second TWIGF met on 17 June 2016 at the NTUH International Convention Center in Taipei, hosted by the MOTC and organised by NIIEPA, in three blocks: IoT, net neutrality and OTT, and digital finance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Each block paired an expert keynote with a panel, drawing an NCC commissioner, the Financial Supervisory Commission, Academia Sinica, and companies such as Trend Micro and Chunghwa Telecom to debate how new technologies should be governed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Held barely a month before Taiwan hosted its first APrIGF in Taipei, 2016 proved the turning point: community interest surged, a multistakeholder steering group was formed that December, and full community-run operation followed in 2017.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Taiwan Internet Governance Forum 2016 (TWIGF 2016)<\/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-taiwan-igf-2016-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2016 \u53f0\u5317 \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>Taiwan Internet Governance Forum 2016 (TWIGF 2016)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>2nd edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>17 June 2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>NTUH International Convention Center, Room 401, Taipei<\/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>Hosted by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC); organised by the NII Enterprise Promotion Association (NIIEPA)<\/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-taiwan-igf-2016-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2016 \u53f0\u5317 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. IoT Security and Privacy \u2014 Governing the Connected Things<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Block 1: IoT security and privacy (keynote 10:20\u201310:40, panel 10:40\u201312:10)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kenny Huang (APNIC Executive Council) gave the keynote and moderated; panellists included Trend Micro, NCTU professor Ying-Dar Lin, Academia Sinica researcher Wen-Tsong Chiou and startup executives [1]<\/li>\n<li>At the dawn of mass IoT adoption, the session framed device vulnerabilities and sensor-data privacy as a single policy problem [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Net Neutrality and OTT \u2014 Regulation in the Streaming Age<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Block 2: Net neutrality and OTT management (keynote 13:30\u201313:50, panel 13:50\u201315:20)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nicole Chan \u2014 then head of the Science &amp; Technology Law Institute, and NCC chairperson from the following year \u2014 keynoted and moderated, joined by NCC commissioner Yi-Ning Chen, Chunghwa Telecom, Taipei Tech&#39;s Ya-Chi Chiang and content businesses [1]<\/li>\n<li>With Netflix having entered Taiwan at the start of the year, the panel debated fair competition between carriers and OTT services with the regulator in the room [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Third-Party Payment and Digital Finance \u2014 Governing Taiwan&#39;s E-Payment Take-Off<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Block 3: Third-party payment and digital finance governance (keynote 15:40\u201316:00, panel 16:00\u201317:30)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luke Han, COO of Pi Mobile Wallet, keynoted and moderated, with a Financial Supervisory Commission official, CTBC Bank, and economists from Tamkang and National Taiwan University [1]<\/li>\n<li>As Taiwan&#39;s e-payment law took effect and services launched, the panel weighed fintech promotion against consumer protection and financial supervision [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Run-Up to APrIGF Taipei \u2014 The Community&#39;s Turning Point<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall forum (context)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barely a month later, on 27\u201329 July 2016, Taiwan hosted its first Asia Pacific Regional IGF (APrIGF) in Taipei [3][4]<\/li>\n<li>According to the GISWatch report, the enthusiasm generated by APrIGF Taipei led to the formal creation of TWIGF&#39;s multistakeholder steering group (MSG) in December 2016 [3][4]<\/li>\n<li>The shift from a government-commissioned event to a fully community-run forum, completed in 2017, was set in motion this year [3][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What stood out this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The keynote-plus-panel format in three blocks \u2014 IoT, net neutrality and OTT, and e-payments \u2014 all topics that were taking off in Taiwan that very year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Did it decide anything?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It is a dialogue, not a decision body, but getting the NCC and the Financial Supervisory Commission on stage with industry and academia was itself the point. And a month later Taiwan hosted APrIGF in Taipei, which supercharged the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter internationally?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. OTT regulation and e-payment governance were live issues across Asia at the time, and APrIGF Taipei connected Taiwan&#39;s community with the wider region \u2014 the moment TWIGF stopped being a purely domestic exercise.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Taiwan IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-taiwan-igf-2016-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2016 \u53f0\u5317 \u2014 About Taiwan IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Taiwan 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 2016 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=\"http:\/\/www.nii.org.tw\/2016\/\">2016 \u81fa\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\uff08\u5927\u4f1a\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u30fb\u8b70\u7a0b\uff0f\u8b1b\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 NII\u7522\u696d\u767c\u5c55\u5354\u9032\u6703\uff08NIIEPA\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igf.org.tw\/events\/archives\/\">\u6b77\u5c46\u5e74\u6703\uff08TWIGF\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u81fa\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\uff08TWIGF\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igf.org.tw\/introduce\/about\/\">\u95dc\u65bcTWIGF\uff08\u7d44\u7e54\u6cbf\u9769\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u81fa\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\uff08TWIGF\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giswatch.org\/en\/country-report\/internet-governance\/taiwan-igf\">Taiwan IGF (country report, GISWatch 2017 Special Issue)<\/a> \u2014 APC (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 22 July 2016, 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 second TWIGF met on 17 June 2016 at the NTUH International Convention Center in Taipei, hosted by the MOTC and organised by NIIEPA, in t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,11,43],"tags":[163,161,160,162,164,873],"class_list":["post-12746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aprigf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-taiwan-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-taiwanigf2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12746","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=12746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}