{"id":12761,"date":"2024-07-08T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/07\/08\/en-taiwan-igf-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:00:00","slug":"en-taiwan-igf-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/07\/08\/en-taiwan-igf-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"TWIGF 2024 (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-2024-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2024 \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-2024-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2024 \u53f0\u5317 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>TWIGF 2024 convened jointly with the Asia Pacific Regional IGF (APrIGF 2024) on 20\u201323 August at the NTUH International Convention Center in Taipei, drawing about 1,000 participants from 63 countries and economies across 37 sessions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Under the theme &quot;Rethinking Internet Governance: AI, Resilience, Sustainability, Security,&quot; the joint opening featured Digital Minister Yennun Huang, tutorials included Internet pioneer Jun Murai from Japan, and 23 August hosted TWIGF workshops on Taiwan&#39;s digital fundamental law, intermediary liability and more.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>By hosting the regional IGF, Taiwan turned the meeting into a stage for digital diplomacy \u2014 a milestone for an economy often shut out of international gatherings, with strong Japanese participation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>TWIGF 2024 (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; 20 August was TWIGF&#39;s tutorial Day 0; the joint TWIGF-APrIGF opening was on the morning of 21 August, APrIGF ran 21\u201323 August, and TWIGF workshops filled 23 August<\/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-2024-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2024 \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 2024 (Taiwan Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>10th annual meeting (held jointly with APrIGF 2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>20\u201323 August 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>NTUH International Convention Center, Taipei (hybrid)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Rethinking Internet Governance: AI, Resilience, Sustainability, Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>1,000 (About 1,000 Internet experts from 63 countries\/economies attended the joint event, with 37 sessions (per Ministry of Digital Affairs))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Co-hosted by the Ministry of Digital Affairs, TWNIC and TWIGF<\/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-2024-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2024 \u53f0\u5317 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Joint Meeting with APrIGF \u2014 A Stage for Taiwan&#39;s Digital Diplomacy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Joint TWIGF-APrIGF opening ceremony (morning of 21 August)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;APrIGF is the most important annual event in Asia-Pacific Internet public policy, and hosting it helps expand Taiwan&#39;s digital diplomacy and raise its international visibility (translated from Chinese, as recorded in the Ministry of Digital Affairs release)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Yennun Huang (Minister of Digital Affairs)<\/strong> [4][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Eight years after APrIGF 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan again hosted the regional IGF, co-organised by the Ministry of Digital Affairs, TWNIC and TWIGF [4][2]<\/li>\n<li>About 1,000 experts from 63 countries and economies attended across 37 sessions \u2014 the largest international stage in the 10-year history of TWIGF [4][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Rethinking Internet Governance \u2014 Day 0 Tutorials Featuring Jun Murai<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: TWIGF tutorials (Day 0, 20 August)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jun Murai \u2014 often called the father of Japan&#39;s Internet \u2014 taught &quot;Digital Civilization in Asia-Pacific,&quot; with former Hong Kong legislator Charles Mok on security and resilience, lawyer Ken-Ying Tseng on geopolitics, and Chester Soong on Europe&#39;s GDPR and data protection [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>The &quot;Rethinking&quot; theme framed the meeting as a re-examination of governance frameworks along four axes: AI, resilience, sustainability and security [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. TWIGF Workshop Day \u2014 From a Digital Fundamental Law to Child Safety<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: TWIGF workshops (23 August, parallel tracks in Rooms 301 and 401)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chinese-language workshops dug into Taiwan-specific policy: its global Internet governance strategy, a digital fundamental law, personal data protection, intermediary liability and algorithmic governance [3]<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Digital censorship and democracy&quot; and &quot;Internet infrastructure resilience&quot; ran in English, opening Taiwan&#39;s debates to regional participants [3]<\/li>\n<li>Practical tracks on disaster-time infrastructure recovery and child online safety reflected 2024 concerns from the Hualien earthquake to youth social media use [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Fraud, Disinformation and Digital Trust \u2014 The Government&#39;s Pledge<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Digital Minister&#39;s opening address (21 August)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minister Huang argued that while the Internet is the key platform for AI development and the digital economy, users now face fraud, disinformation and cyberattacks [4][5]<\/li>\n<li>He pledged that the ministry, while building a &#39;superhighway for the digital economy,&#39; would keep constructing a sound and responsible Internet governance framework [4][5]<\/li>\n<li>This dovetailed with APrIGF&#39;s theme of evolving ecosystems and enduring principles, making trust in the AI era the joint meeting&#39;s through-line [4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was different about TWIGF 2024?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It merged with the Asia Pacific Regional IGF, bringing about 1,000 participants from 63 countries and economies to Taipei \u2014 instantly turning the 10th TWIGF into an international congress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was on the agenda?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. &quot;Rethinking Internet Governance&quot; across four pillars \u2014 AI, resilience, sustainability, security \u2014 spanning Taiwan&#39;s digital fundamental law and intermediary liability to anti-fraud measures and disaster-time network recovery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It showed how a place largely excluded from international organisations uses Internet governance as diplomacy, and its debates \u2014 AI-era trust, infrastructure resilience against disasters \u2014 are everyone&#39;s debates.<\/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-2024-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Taiwan IGF 2024 \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 2024 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-2024\/\">TWIGF 2024\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 TWIGF (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/2024.aprigf.asia\/twigf\/\">TWIGF &#8211; APrIGF 2024\uff08\u5408\u540c\u958b\u50ac\u6848\u5185\uff09<\/a> \u2014 APrIGF 2024\uff08TWNIC\u904b\u55b6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/2024.aprigf.asia\/program\/twigf-program\/\">TWIGF Program &#8211; APrIGF 2024<\/a> \u2014 APrIGF 2024\uff08TWNIC\u904b\u55b6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/moda.gov.tw\/press\/press-releases\/13596\">2024\u300c\u4e9e\u592a\u5340\u57df\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\uff08APrIGF\uff09\u300d\u76db\u5927\u958b\u5e55 \u5171\u540c\u63a2\u8a0e\u6578\u4f4d\u6cbb\u7406\u672a\u4f86\u65b9\u5411<\/a> \u2014 \u6570\u4f4d\u767a\u5c55\u90e8\uff08Ministry of Digital Affairs, moda\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knews.com.tw\/news\/82F0F7F0D607CDE792EB7C202ECEE9A0\">\u4e9e\u592a\u5340\u57df\u7db2\u8def\u6cbb\u7406\u8ad6\u58c7\u958b\u5e55 \u6578\u767c\u90e8\u9577\u9ec3\u5f65\u7537\uff1a\u52a9\u6211\u570b\u6578\u4f4d\u5916\u4ea4\u3001\u63d0\u5347\u570b\u969b\u80fd\u898b\u5ea6<\/a> \u2014 knews (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 8 July 2024, 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>TWIGF 2024 convened jointly with the Asia Pacific Regional IGF (APrIGF 2024) on 20\u201323 August at the NTUH International Convention Center in <\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,727],"class_list":["post-12761","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-taiwanigf2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761","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=12761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}