{"id":12945,"date":"2015-06-04T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/04\/en-armenia-igf-2015-overview\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T09:00:00","slug":"en-armenia-igf-2015-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/04\/en-armenia-igf-2015-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Armenian Internet Governance Forum (ArmIGF 2015) \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-armenia-igf-2015-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2015 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\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-armenia-igf-2015-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2015 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 1st Armenian Internet Governance Forum met in Yerevan on 7\u20138 September 2015 under the theme &#39;Multistakeholder approach to the National Internet Governance&#39;, covering six tracks from new media and net neutrality to content and cybersecurity over two days.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The programme featured opening keynotes by ICANN CEO Fadi Chehad\u00e9 and ISOC European Bureau Director Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Donck, with Armenia&#39;s justice minister joining a panel; topics ranged from the IANA transition and the .\u0570\u0561\u0575 Armenian-script domain to Russia&#39;s website blacklist practice.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It established the national-IGF format early in the Caucasus \u2014 a government-business-civil-society dialogue that joined the wave of national IGFs consolidating worldwide in 2015.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>1st Armenian Internet Governance Forum (ArmIGF 2015)<\/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-armenia-igf-2015-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2015 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\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>1st Armenian Internet Governance Forum (ArmIGF 2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>7\u20138 September 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Yerevan (breakout sessions in the Ani, Nairi and Dvin halls)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Multistakeholder approach to the National Internet Governance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Organised by the multistakeholder Internet Governance Council (IGC) of Armenia with the support of the Ministry of Transport and Communication and the Internet Society NGO (ISOC Armenia)<\/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-armenia-igf-2015-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2015 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Implementing the Multistakeholder Model at Home \u2014 The Founding Question<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day 1 session &#39;Multi-Stakeholder Model of Internet Governance for Armenia&#39; (7 Sept, 10:00\u201310:30, Grigori Saghyan, VP of ISOC Armenia)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Built around the Internet Governance Council (IGC) created by a 2014 government decision, the forum brought government, business, academia and NGOs to one table for the first time [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>ISOC&#39;s retrospective (&#39;The Lessons Learnt&#39;) noted how hard multistakeholderism is to implement with limited resources \u2014 and how engaging the ministry and local businesses as partners from day one, delegating sessions and speakers to them, made it work [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>Participants from Georgia, Russia, Serbia and Kyrgyzstan brought regional policy perspectives, making the first edition cross-border from the start [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Network Neutrality \u2014 Operators and the Regulator on One Stage<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session &#39;Network Neutrality&#39; (7 Sept, 16:00\u201317:30, Ani Hall)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Holly Raiche of ICANN&#39;s ALAC keynoted, joined by panellists from leading carrier VivaCell-MTS (K-Telecom), ISP Arpinet and the Public Services Regulatory Commission [2]<\/li>\n<li>With the ARMIX internet-exchange foundation also at the table, the operator-regulator-technical-community triangle mirrored the net-neutrality battles then raging worldwide [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Content Regulation and Free Expression \u2014 Russia&#39;s &#39;Blacklist&#39; as a Cautionary Tale<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session &#39;Content&#39; (8 Sept, 11:30\u201313:00, Nairi Hall)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The keynote came from Sargis Darbinyan, a lawyer fighting Russia&#39;s website-blacklist regime, presented as a cautionary tale for Armenia&#39;s own rulemaking [2]<\/li>\n<li>Justice Minister Arpine Hovhannisyan, Wikimedia Armenia, Mediamax and the police shared one panel \u2014 government, media and civil society debating where content regulation should stop [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The .\u0570\u0561\u0575 IDN and the IANA Transition \u2014 Global Resources Seen from a Small Country<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day 1 morning talks (.\u0570\u0561\u0575 IDN; Universal Acceptance; ICANN accountability and the IANA transition)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lianna Galstyan presented Armenia&#39;s own-script IDN .\u0570\u0561\u0575, while RNIDS chair Du\u0161an Stoji\u010devi\u0107 reported on Universal Acceptance progress for non-Latin domains [2]<\/li>\n<li>ICANN VP Michael Yakushev briefed the room on the IANA stewardship transition \u2014 completed the following year \u2014 bringing a turning point in global internet resource management to a national forum [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Child Safety and Cybersecurity \u2014 Day 2&#39;s Social Track<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day 2 morning talks and the &#39;Cyber Security&#39; session (11:30\u201313:00, Dvin Hall)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Short talks covered child online safety (Safer Internet Armenia), the national research and education network, and intellectual property versus free access [2]<\/li>\n<li>The cybersecurity panel was keynoted by the justice ministry&#39;s head of legislation, with UCom, OWASP and the employers&#39; union bringing practitioners&#39; views [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did this meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 it was Armenia&#39;s first two-day forum where government, business and civil society debated internet issues as equals, with the outcomes delivered as messages to policymakers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What stood out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The line-up: ICANN CEO Fadi Chehad\u00e9 and Armenia&#39;s justice minister on the programme of a first-ever national forum, debating net neutrality and Russia-style website blocking in a small-country context.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Around 2015 national IGFs were launching worldwide, and ArmIGF is a textbook case. Its debates on own-script domains and net neutrality map directly onto every country&#39;s language-domain and telecom-policy questions.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Armenia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-armenia-igf-2015-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2015 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\u30f3 \u2014 About Armenia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Armenia 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 2015 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:\/\/armigf.am\/2015\/\">ARMIGF 2015 \u2013 Armenian Internet Governance Forum\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ArmIGF\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/armigf.am\/2015\/schedule\/\">ArmIGF 2015 Schedule\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb\u5168\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u3068\u767b\u58c7\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ArmIGF\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/the-first-armenian-internet-governance-forum-the-lessons-learnt\/\">The First Armenian Internet Governance Forum: The Lessons Learnt\uff08\u76f4\u63a5\u53d6\u5f97\u306f403\u306e\u305f\u3081\u691c\u7d22\u30b9\u30cb\u30da\u30c3\u30c8\u3067\u5185\u5bb9\u78ba\u8a8d\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ISOC (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isoc.am\/armenian-internet-governance-forum-armigf\/\">Armenian Internet Governance Forum (ArmIGF)\uff08\u7cfb\u5217\u6982\u8981\u30fb2015\u5e74\u958b\u59cb\u306e\u4e3b\u50ac\u8005\u8aac\u660e\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Internet Society NGO\uff08ISOC Armenia\u3001.am\/.\u0570\u0561\u0575\u30ec\u30b8\u30b9\u30c8\u30ea\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 4 June 2015, 11:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 17 July 2026, 12:32 (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 1st Armenian Internet Governance Forum met in Yerevan on 7\u20138 September 2015 under the theme &#8216;Multistakeholder approach to the National I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3,11],"tags":[163,2422,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-armeniaigf2015","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12945","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=12945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}