{"id":12756,"date":"2021-10-05T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/10\/05\/en-taiwan-igf-2021-overview\/"},"modified":"2021-10-05T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T12:00:00","slug":"en-taiwan-igf-2021-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/10\/05\/en-taiwan-igf-2021-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"TWIGF 2021 (Taiwan Internet Governance Forum) \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-2021-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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-2021-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>TWIGF 2021 ran on 10\u201311 December as the series&#39; first fully online annual meeting, themed &quot;Internet Governance in Post-COVID Era&quot; and built around community-proposed workshops.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Internet pioneer Steve Crocker delivered the opening keynote, and sessions tackled digital rights under the pandemic, contact-tracing tools, domain name seizures by law enforcement, and cybersecurity standards.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The tension between pandemic response and privacy was a universal 2021 question; TWIGF shows how Taiwan \u2014 praised for its COVID tech response \u2014 reflected on it in year two.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>TWIGF 2021 (Taiwan Internet Governance Forum)<\/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; The series&#39; first fully online annual meeting; no physical venue, with sessions streamed on YouTube<\/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-2021-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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>TWIGF 2021 (Taiwan Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>7th annual meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>10\u201311 December 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Fully online (all-virtual meeting)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Internet Governance in Post-COVID Era<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Taiwan Internet Governance Forum (TWIGF; secretariat: NII Enterprise Promotion Association)<\/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-2021-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Post-COVID Internet Governance \u2014 Rebuilt as a Fully Online Forum<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall programme (six sub-themes, around ten community-proposed workshop slots)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Six sub-themes structured the meeting: Internet infrastructure; human rights and data protection; economy and digital transformation; cybercrime and cybersecurity; environmental sustainability; and cross-cutting issues [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Workshops were community-proposed, 90-minute sessions with three to five panellists \u2014 and unlike 2020&#39;s hybrid format, every session ran online [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Steve Crocker of the Edgemoor Research Institute, famed as the author of RFC 1 in the Internet&#39;s earliest days, gave the opening keynote [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Digital Rights under the Pandemic \u2014 Reining in Tracing Tools<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Sessions on COVID-19 and digital rights, rights protection during the pandemic, and digital tracing tools (10\u201311 December)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>International panellists including Lizzie O&#39;Shea (Digital Rights Watch, Australia) and Prasanth Sugathan (SFLC.in, India) joined Taiwanese researchers and civil society to ask how pandemic-era surveillance can be kept in check [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>Using Taiwan&#39;s own contact-registration and tracing schemes as the case study, Henry Tsai, T.H. Schee and Cheng-Tsung Lo examined legal controls on tracing tools [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>Civil liberties advocates pressed the &#39;exit&#39; question: how emergency measures get rolled back once the emergency ends [2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Domain Name Seizures \u2014 Law Enforcement Meets the DNS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session on domain name seizure (10 December, moderated by Henry Tsai)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TWNIC CEO Kenny Huang sat down with judges, prosecutors and lawyers to work through the technical and legal issues of seizing domain names in criminal investigations [2]<\/li>\n<li>The session localised a global dilemma: what registry-level takedowns mean for free expression and due process [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Connecting with the Asia-Pacific \u2014 Including Voices from Japan<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary Panel 2 (11 December, moderated by Edmon Chung)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderated by DotAsia&#39;s Edmon Chung, the plenary brought together Akinori Maemura of Japan&#39;s JPNIC, TWNIC&#39;s Kenny Huang and ICANN&#39;s Jia-Rong Low to survey regional Internet governance challenges [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>Going fully online lowered the barrier for overseas speakers, enabling cross-border sessions on EU digital governance and the private sector&#39;s role [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>European experts such as Wout de Natris and Mark Carvell joined the session on cybersecurity standards [2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What made TWIGF 2021 different?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It was the first fully online annual meeting since the forum began in 2015 \u2014 no physical venue at all \u2014 with a theme that faced the pandemic head-on: Internet governance in the post-COVID era.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Who spoke?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Internet pioneer Steve Crocker opened with the keynote, joined across two days by JPNIC&#39;s Akinori Maemura from Japan, ICANN staff, digital rights advocates from Australia and India, and Taiwanese judges, lawyers and engineers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The contact-tracing-versus-privacy debate it hosted played out in every country, and its answers \u2014 legal limits and exit strategies for emergency tech \u2014 remain the playbook for the next crisis.<\/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-2021-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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 2021 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\/twigf-2021\/\">TWIGF 2021\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 TWIGF (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igf.org.tw\/twigf-2021\/%E8%88%87%E8%AB%87%E4%BA%BA%EF%BD%9Cspeaker\/\">TWIGF 2021 \u8207\u8ac7\u4eba\uff5cSpeaker\uff08\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 TWIGF (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igf.org.tw\/2021_workshop\/\">2021\u81fa\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\u5de5\u4f5c\u574a\u5373\u65e5\u8d77\u5fb5\u6c42\u63d0\u6848\uff08\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30d7\u516c\u52df\uff09<\/a> \u2014 TWIGF (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLrOOx-G2sgeL_7Rdquz4C7c7SVf-hE2iC\">TWIGF 2021 (December 10-11) \u9332\u753b\u30d7\u30ec\u30a4\u30ea\u30b9\u30c8<\/a> \u2014 Taiwan IGF \u79d8\u66f8\u8655\uff08YouTube\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 5 October 2021, 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>TWIGF 2021 ran on 10\u201311 December as the series&#8217; first fully online annual meeting, themed &#8220;Internet Governance in Post-COVID Era&#8221; and built <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,43],"tags":[163,161,160,162,164,881],"class_list":["post-12756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-taiwan-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-taiwanigf2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756","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=12756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}