{"id":12750,"date":"2018-07-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/07\/23\/en-taiwan-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T04:00:00","slug":"en-taiwan-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/07\/23\/en-taiwan-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Internet Governance Forum 2018 (TWIGF 2018) \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-2018-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2018 \u65b0\u5317\u5e02\u677f\u6a4b \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-2018-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2018 \u65b0\u5317\u5e02\u677f\u6a4b \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The fourth TWIGF met on 13\u201314 July 2018 at the Chunghwa Telecom Academy in Banqiao, New Taipei City, under the theme &quot;Taiwan&#39;s Digital Transformation and Its Future: Crises and Challenges&quot; \u2014 its first two-day edition, with 2 plenaries and 16 workshops chosen from 25 proposals.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Weeks after GDPR took effect, sessions tackled cross-border data flows and localisation, blockchain and cryptocurrency, 5G security, internet blocking, and women in ICT; Taiwan&#39;s first youth IGF camp ran just beforehand.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In scale and format this was the year today&#39;s TWIGF took shape \u2014 and a snapshot of how one Asian economy digested the global shock of GDPR.<\/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 2018 (TWIGF 2018)<\/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<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; Held not in Taipei City proper but at Chunghwa Telecom&#39;s training academy in Banqiao, New Taipei City, within the Taipei metropolitan area<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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-2018-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2018 \u65b0\u5317\u5e02\u677f\u6a4b \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 2018 (TWIGF 2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>4th edition (first two-day forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>13\u201314 July 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Chunghwa Telecom Academy Banqiao Campus, New Taipei City<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Taiwan&#39;s Digital Transformation and Its Future: Crises and Challenges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>18 (2 plenaries plus 16 breakout sessions, selected from 25 open-call proposals)<\/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-2018-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2018 \u65b0\u5317\u5e02\u677f\u6a4b \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Two Days and a Youth IGF \u2014 The Forum Comes of Age<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall forum \/ internet governance camp and youth IGF (11\u201312 July)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sixteen workshops were selected from 25 proposals \u2014 11 from business, 5 from government, none from academia, the rest from civil society \u2014 with a conflict-of-interest rule barring proposers from scoring their own submissions [1][2][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan&#39;s first youth IGF camp preceded the forum, planned for about 45 trainees, featuring ICANN simulations and role-play, co-organised by NIIEPA and TWNIC with DotAsia&#39;s CEO instructing [1][2][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>Most sessions ran in Mandarin, with live streaming provided [1][2][3][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Cross-Border Data Governance in GDPR&#39;s First Weeks<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day 1 workshops: data localisation, cross-border law enforcement and e-evidence, GDPR and data protection, digital competition, 5G security<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meeting less than two months after GDPR took effect on 25 May 2018, Day 1 concentrated on cross-border data transfer, data localisation and cross-border access to e-evidence in the cloud [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>5G security and digital competition law rounded out a day where telecom policy met national security [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Blockchain versus the Right to Be Forgotten<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day 2 blockchain and cryptocurrency workshops (two sessions)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sessions confronted a structural clash: blockchain&#39;s immutability and decentralisation versus GDPR&#39;s rights to erasure and data portability [5][3]<\/li>\n<li>Participants advocated a preventive approach \u2014 keep personally identifiable information off the chain in the first place [5][3]<\/li>\n<li>A visiting NetMission ambassador reported approvingly that Taiwan&#39;s community treated GDPR not as a crisis but as directional guidance for responsible blockchain development [5][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. TechGIRLS \u2014 Women in the Technical Community<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: TechGIRLS roundtable (90 minutes, about 25 participants)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Once you sit at the table, don&#39;t give your seat up easily&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Peifen Hsieh (International Affairs Committee, TWNIC)<\/strong> [6]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderated by Rio Kao of The News Lens, with women from Bitmark, Shopee, TWNIC and ICANN on the panel [6]<\/li>\n<li>The roundtable mapped five barriers women face everywhere in tech: lack of mentors, absence of role models, workplace gender bias, unequal growth opportunities and pay inequality [6]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Where was it held \u2014 not Taipei?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. At Chunghwa Telecom&#39;s training academy in Banqiao, New Taipei City, right next to Taipei. Same metropolitan area, but the forum doubled to two days and moved to a campus that could also host the youth camp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the biggest topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. GDPR, in force for barely seven weeks. Its ripples ran through the whole forum \u2014 from cross-border data rules to the paradox that you cannot exercise the right to be forgotten on an immutable blockchain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Every economy trading with Europe faced the same GDPR reckoning, and Taiwan&#39;s answer \u2014 plus its first youth IGF \u2014 shows how a mid-sized digital economy builds governance capacity.<\/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-2018-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2018 \u65b0\u5317\u5e02\u677f\u6a4b \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 2018 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:\/\/www.igf.org.tw\/events\/archives\/2018-2\/\">2018\u5e74\u81fa\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\uff08\u5927\u4f1a\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u81fa\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\uff08TWIGF\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ithome.com.tw\/pr\/123942\">2018\u81fa\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\u5373\u5c07\u8209\u884c \u8aa0\u646f\u9080\u8acb\u5404\u754c\u53c3\u8207\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u544a\u77e5\u30d7\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\uff09<\/a> \u2014 iThome (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/twigf\/introduce-taiwan-igf-2018-briefly-577612a2bc0a\">Introduce Taiwan IGF 2018 Briefly<\/a> \u2014 YingChu Chen, Medium\uff08TWIGF publication\uff09 (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<\/a> \u2014 YingChu Chen\uff08TWIGF MSG\uff09, Medium (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/netmission.asia\/2018\/09\/18\/participation-in-twigf-2018\/\">Blockchain: New Internet Governance challenges \u2014 TWIGF 2018<\/a> \u2014 Alvin Ho, NetMission.Asia (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/twigf\/twigf-2018-techgirls-aa3e0e9f3fe\">TWIGF 2018 TechGIRLS<\/a> \u2014 YingChu Chen, Medium\uff08TWIGF publication\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 23 July 2018, 12:00 (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 fourth TWIGF met on 13\u201314 July 2018 at the Chunghwa Telecom Academy in Banqiao, New Taipei City, under the theme &#8220;Taiwan&#8217;s Digital Trans<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,899],"class_list":["post-12750","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-taiwanigf2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750","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=12750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}