{"id":12747,"date":"2017-07-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/07\/03\/en-taiwan-igf-2017-overview\/"},"modified":"2017-07-03T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T06:00:00","slug":"en-taiwan-igf-2017-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/07\/03\/en-taiwan-igf-2017-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Internet Governance Forum 2017 (TWIGF 2017) \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-2017-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2017 \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-2017-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2017 \u53f0\u5317 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The third TWIGF met on 17 June 2017 at the GIS NTU Convention Center in Taipei under the theme &quot;Opportunities in the Digital Collision \u2014 Harmonious Development of Economy, Security and Human Rights,&quot; drawing about 200 participants to seven workshops chosen from 11 open-call proposals.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>NCC chairperson Nicole Chan opened with a keynote, while Digital Minister Audrey Tang joined a panel on contentious speech and privacy as an ordinary speaker; other sessions covered AI-era cybersecurity, the sharing economy and Taiwan&#39;s internet exchange environment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>This was the year TWIGF left government commissioning behind and became fully community-run, with an MSG-led, open-call programme \u2014 a model documented internationally in the GISWatch 2017 special issue.<\/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 2017 (TWIGF 2017)<\/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-2017-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2017 \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 2017 (TWIGF 2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>3rd edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>17 June 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>GIS NTU Convention Center, Taipei<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Opportunities in the Digital Collision \u2014 Harmonious Development of Economy, Security and Human Rights<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Workshops<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>NII Enterprise Promotion Association (NIIEPA) with the multistakeholder steering group (MSG) \u2014 fully community-run from this year<\/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-2017-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2017 \u53f0\u5317 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Going Fully Community-Run \u2014 The MSG and the Open Call<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall forum (organisation)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TWIGF&#39;s official history records that from 2017 the forum became an entirely private, voluntary organisation \u2014 the year&#39;s biggest structural change [2][5]<\/li>\n<li>The MSG formed in December 2016 after APrIGF Taipei \u2014 15 members spanning the technical community, business, civil society, government and academia \u2014 selected seven workshops from 11 open-call proposals [2][5]<\/li>\n<li>Per the GISWatch report, funding came from corporate donors including LINE, Chunghwa Telecom and Chief Telecom; of roughly 200 participants, 61% came from business, 15% from government and 14% from academia [2][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Contentious Speech and Privacy \u2014 With Audrey Tang on the Panel<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Socrates Hall: Controversial speech mitigation; privacy and personal data protection (11:00\u201312:30)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderated by Kuo-Wei Wu, the panel included Digital Minister Audrey Tang and Lee and Li attorney Ken-Ying Tseng [1]<\/li>\n<li>The session weighed responses to harmful speech against privacy and data protection \u2014 with a cabinet-level minister debating as just another panellist, embodying the multistakeholder format [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Cybersecurity in the AI Era<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Socrates Hall: Cybersecurity challenges and prospects in the era of artificial intelligence (13:30\u201315:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderated by NTU professor Tsung-Nan Lin, with experts from Trend Micro and the Institute for Information Industry [1]<\/li>\n<li>Panellists examined how AI would transform both cyber attack and defence, from industry and research perspectives [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Sharing Economy&#39;s Shock \u2014 In the Year of the Uber Standoff<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Alexander Hall: The impact and evolution of the sharing economy (13:30\u201314:30)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kenny Huang (APNIC Executive Council) spoke on the collision between regulation and innovation through the lens of the sharing economy [1]<\/li>\n<li>Uber had suspended its Taiwan service that February under regulatory pressure (resuming in April), making this the year&#39;s most literal case of the forum&#39;s &quot;digital collision&quot; theme [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Taiwan&#39;s Internet Exchange Points \u2014 Issues and Challenges<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Alexander Hall: Taiwan Internet Exchange Point \u2014 issues and challenges (15:00\u201316:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderated by Wen-Sheng Chen (NIIEPA executive director), with interconnection players such as Chief Telecom [1]<\/li>\n<li>The panel aired rarely-public infrastructure questions \u2014 Taiwan&#39;s domestic traffic exchange environment and its cost structure [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What changed most this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The governance of the forum itself: TWIGF went from a government-commissioned event to a fully community-run one, funded by corporate donations, with an open call for workshop proposals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Any big names?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Yes \u2014 Digital Minister Audrey Tang joined a panel on speech and privacy, and NCC chairperson Nicole Chan gave the opening keynote. Ministers debating as ordinary panellists is the forum&#39;s signature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter elsewhere?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Fake news, AI security and sharing-economy regulation were global battles in 2017, and TWIGF&#39;s shift to community-run operation became a reference model for national IGFs \u2014 documented in the GISWatch 2017 special issue.<\/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-2017-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2017 \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 2017 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\/2017\/\">2017 \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.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<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@yinchuchen\/twigf-2018-68aac1047244\">\u95dc\u65bc2018\u5e74\u7684\u53f0\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\uff082017\u5e74\u5927\u4f1a\u306e\u632f\u308a\u8fd4\u308a\u3092\u542b\u3080\uff09<\/a> \u2014 YingChu Chen\uff08TWIGF MSG\uff09, Medium (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<\/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 3 July 2017, 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>The third TWIGF met on 17 June 2017 at the GIS NTU Convention Center in Taipei under the theme &#8220;Opportunities in the Digital Collision \u2014 Har<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,413],"class_list":["post-12747","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-taiwanigf2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747","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=12747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}