{"id":12758,"date":"2022-07-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/07\/24\/en-taiwan-igf-2022-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-07-24T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T07:00:00","slug":"en-taiwan-igf-2022-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/07\/24\/en-taiwan-igf-2022-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"TWIGF 2022 (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-2022-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2022 \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-2022-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2022 \u53f0\u5317 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 8th TWIGF met 27\u201328 September 2022 at Taipei New Horizon in hybrid format, themed &quot;Challenges and Opportunities on Internet Resilience: Geopolitics, Web 3.0 and Intermediaries Governance.&quot;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The war in Ukraine and the weaponisation of networks, the month-old Ministry of Digital Affairs, platform governance including Meta&#39;s Oversight Board, and blockchain DNS topped the agenda, with inaugural Digital Minister Audrey Tang attending.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is a snapshot of the year geopolitics rewrote the Internet agenda \u2014 and of how Taiwan framed &#39;digital resilience&#39; just weeks after creating its digital ministry.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>TWIGF 2022 (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; Hybrid format combining the Taipei New Horizon venue with live streaming<\/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-2022-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2022 \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>TWIGF 2022 (Taiwan Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>8th annual meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>27\u201328 September 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Taipei New Horizon, Taipei (hybrid)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Challenges and Opportunities on Internet Resilience: Geopolitics, Web 3.0 and Intermediaries Governance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Taiwan Internet Governance Forum (TWIGF), in cooperation with TWNIC<\/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-2022-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2022 \u53f0\u5317 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Geopolitics and the Weaponisation of Networks \u2014 Lessons from Ukraine<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening ceremony and geopolitics sessions (27 September)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;In the Russia-Ukraine war we have seen how critical the Internet is \u2014 and how vulnerable it is (translated from Chinese)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Lo Ping-cheng (Minister without Portfolio, Executive Yuan)<\/strong> [2][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Lo warned that malicious cyberattacks and floods of disinformation are weaponising inherently neutral network technologies and social media [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan had just weathered waves of cyberattacks and disinformation around the August 2022 Pelosi visit, making resilience an immediate concern rather than an abstraction [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>NCC Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang also attended, adding the regulator&#39;s perspective [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. A Month-Old Digital Ministry \u2014 Inaugural Minister Audrey Tang Takes the Stage<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening ceremony (27 September)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;This TWIGF&#39;s theme fully reflects the core concerns of today&#39;s Internet community (translated from Chinese)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Audrey Tang (Minister of Digital Affairs)<\/strong> [2][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>As first head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs \u2014 launched just a month earlier on 27 August 2022 \u2014 Tang discussed the Internet&#39;s future alongside TWIGF chair Kuo-Wei Wu and TWNIC CEO Kenny Huang [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Tang noted the meeting&#39;s breadth across infrastructure, human rights, privacy, data protection, the economy and digital transformation [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Kenny Huang argued that countering online threats requires public-sphere responses and co-governance across sectors [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Intermediary Governance \u2014 The Meta Oversight Board Experiment<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Intermediary governance sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sessions examined Meta&#39;s Oversight Board, noting it had received more than one million appeals while issuing 28 decisions [3]<\/li>\n<li>Intermediary governance \u2014 who enforces rules between platforms and states, including cross-border corporate data transfers \u2014 formed one of the meeting&#39;s three thematic pillars [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Web 3.0 and Blockchain DNS \u2014 Does Decentralisation Change Governance?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel #3 &quot;Blockchain Domain Names under Global Internet Governance&quot; and related sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderated by Henry Tsai \u2014 also a presiding judge at the Shilin District Court \u2014 Panel #3 explored how blockchain domains issued outside the established DNS regime challenge governance [3][5]<\/li>\n<li>Speakers cited over US$7 billion in blockchain-related attack and fraud losses, weighing Web 3.0&#39;s promise against its risks [3][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the headline issue at TWIGF 2022?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The weaponisation of the Internet exposed by the war in Ukraine. Executive Yuan minister Lo Ping-cheng opened by warning that cyberattacks and disinformation are turning neutral technology into weapons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. In what capacity did Audrey Tang appear?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. As the inaugural Minister of Digital Affairs \u2014 the ministry had launched only a month earlier. It was the new ministry&#39;s first TWIGF, signalling that the government owned the &#39;resilience&#39; agenda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter elsewhere?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Taiwan&#39;s new digital ministry invites comparison with digital agencies worldwide, and its intermediary-governance debate mirrors platform-regulation fights in the EU, Japan and beyond.<\/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-2022-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2022 \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 2022 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\/2022-twigf\/\">TWIGF 2022\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 TWIGF (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitimes.com.tw\/tech\/dt\/n\/shwnws.asp?id=0000647065_G9TLNAYA7QQLPQ45DH96Q\">\u7b2c8\u5c46TWIGF \u81fa\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\u5e74\u6703\u767b\u5834<\/a> \u2014 DIGITIMES (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationsecurity.com.tw\/article\/article_detail.aspx?aid=10097\">\u7b2c8\u5c46TWIGF \u81fa\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\u8207\u6578\u4f4d\u90e8\u5510\u9cf3\u63a2\u8a0e\u53f0\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u97cc\u6027\u767c\u5c55<\/a> \u2014 Information Security (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twnic.tw\/2022\/09\/26\/24494\/\">\u3010 TWIGF\u8ad6\u58c7-\u7db2\u8def\u97cc\u6027\u7684\u6311\u6230\u8207\u5951\u6a5f\uff1a\u5730\u7de3\u653f\u6cbb\u3001WEB 3.0 \u8207\u4e2d\u4ecb\u8005\u6cbb\u7406\u30112022\u5e74\u5927\u6703\uff0c\u5373\u5c07\u76db\u5927\u767b\u5834<\/a> \u2014 TWNIC Blog\uff08\u8ca1\u5718\u6cd5\u4eba\u53f0\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u8cc7\u8a0a\u4e2d\u5fc3\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/law.nycu.edu.tw\/%E3%80%90twigf-2022-%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E7%B6%B2%E8%B7%AF%E6%B2%BB%E7%90%86%E8%AB%96%E5%A3%87%E3%80%91%E7%B6%B2%E8%B7%AF%E9%9F%8C%E6%80%A7%E7%9A%84%E6%8C%91%E6%88%B0%E8%88%87%E5%A5%91%E6%A9%9F%EF%BC%9A\/\">\u3010TWIGF 2022 \u81fa\u7063\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\u3011Panel#3 \u5168\u7403\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u4e0b\u7684\u5340\u584a\u93c8\u57df\u540d\uff08\u767b\u58c7\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u56fd\u7acb\u967d\u660e\u4ea4\u901a\u5927\u5b66\u79d1\u6280\u6cd5\u5f8b\u5b66\u9662 (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 24 July 2022, 15:00 (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 8th TWIGF met 27\u201328 September 2022 at Taipei New Horizon in hybrid format, themed &#8220;Challenges and Opportunities on Internet Resilience: <\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,651],"class_list":["post-12758","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-taiwanigf2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12758","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=12758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}