{"id":12949,"date":"2017-06-15T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/06\/15\/en-armenia-igf-2017-overview\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T08:00:00","slug":"en-armenia-igf-2017-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/06\/15\/en-armenia-igf-2017-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Armenian Internet Governance Forum (ArmIGF 2017) \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-2017-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2017 \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-2017-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2017 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 3rd ArmIGF met on 2 October 2017 at the Tekeyan Business Centre in Yerevan with about 130 participants, running seven sessions in a day \u2014 from information security and IPTV to libraries and disability rights.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Experts from the National Security Council, ICANN, Microsoft, RIPE NCC and ISOC Europe took the stage, alongside a hands-on personal-data-protection workshop; the through-line was the digitisation of everyday life.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With the private sector making up 30% of attendees, Armenia&#39;s IT industry was clearly treating the forum as a working venue \u2014 and the libraries-and-disability agenda still reads as a model for local digital-inclusion policy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>3rd Armenian Internet Governance Forum (ArmIGF 2017)<\/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-2017-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2017 \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>3rd Armenian Internet Governance Forum (ArmIGF 2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>2 October 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Tekeyan Business Centre, 50 Khanjyan Street, Yerevan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>The Internet Governance Council (IGC), the Ministry of Transport, Communication and IT (MTCIT), 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-2017-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2017 \u30a8\u30ec\u30d0\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Information Security \u2014 The Security Council and ICANN at One Table<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session &#39;Information Security&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vahe Saratikyan of the National Security Council shared the agenda with ICANN&#39;s Alexandra Kulikova, linking national security to global internet operations [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>With RIPE NCC&#39;s Maksim Burtikov joining, security was treated as both a state matter and an operational one \u2014 classic national-IGF framing [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. IPTV and Broadcasting \u2014 TV and Radio in the Netflix Era<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session &#39;IPTV &amp; Broadcasting Impact&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regulators, broadcasters and telecom operators debated how IPTV and OTT distribution reshape traditional TV and radio and their regulation [1][4]<\/li>\n<li>The official report discusses shifting viewing habits with reference to YouTube and Netflix \u2014 a small broadcast market bracing for the platform wave [1][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Libraries in the Digital Era and Disability Rights \u2014 The Inclusion Track<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Sessions &#39;Libraries in the Digital Era&#39; and &#39;Disability Rights&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Library and university speakers discussed libraries&#39; digital-age role, while disability access to ICT got its own session [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>ISOC Armenia&#39;s ongoing programmes \u2014 PCs and connectivity for rural libraries, support for the visually impaired \u2014 meant the agenda mapped directly onto real projects [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Cloud and Open Government \u2014 Digital Foundations for the State<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Sessions &#39;Cloud Technologies&#39; and &#39;Open Government Collaboration&#39;, plus a personal-data-protection workshop<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft&#39;s Levon Hovhannisyan presented on cloud technologies while civil society examined Open Government Partnership collaboration \u2014 practical questions about state data [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A dedicated workshop drilled into applying the 2015 personal-data-protection law, with ISOC Europe&#39;s Ceren \u00dcnal among the speakers [1][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 130 people from government, business and civil society spent a day on security, broadcasting and libraries, with conclusions passed to policymakers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What made it distinctive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. How close the agenda sat to daily life: TV in the IPTV era, libraries in the digital age, disability access. Private-sector attendees at 30% signalled a working, not ceremonial, forum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Broadcast moving online and public institutions going digital are universal stories, and Armenia&#39;s rural-library connectivity work is a transferable model for local digital inclusion.<\/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-2017-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Armenia IGF 2017 \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 2017 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\/2017\/\">ArmIGF 2017\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\u30fb\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:\/\/armigf.am\/2017\/en\/home\/\">The third annual Armenian Internet Governance Forum\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u82f1\u8a9e\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ArmIGF\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/armigf.am\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ArmIGF2017Report_AM.pdf\">ArmIGF 2017 Report\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30fb\u30a2\u30eb\u30e1\u30cb\u30a2\u8a9e\u3002\u53c2\u52a0\u8005\u7d71\u8a08\u3092\u542b\u3080\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ArmIGF\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 (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\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 15 June 2017, 10:00 (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 3rd ArmIGF met on 2 October 2017 at the Tekeyan Business Centre in Yerevan with about 130 participants, running seven sessions in a day <\/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":[163,2424,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-armeniaigf2017","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949","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=12949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}