{"id":12986,"date":"2018-06-23T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/23\/en-georgia-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-06-23T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T09:00:00","slug":"en-georgia-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/23\/en-georgia-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"GeoIGF 2018 (4th Georgian 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-georgia-igf-2018-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Georgia IGF 2018 \u30c8\u30d3\u30ea\u30b7 \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-georgia-igf-2018-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Georgia IGF 2018 \u30c8\u30d3\u30ea\u30b7 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 4th GeoIGF took place in Tbilisi on 10\u201311 December 2018, hosted by ISOC Georgia at the Museum of Modern Arts on Rustaveli Avenue.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The biggest news was next door: the first GeoNOG \u2014 Georgia&#39;s network operators group \u2014 convened at Tbilisi Technopark, pairing the policy dialogue with a technical community meeting in the same week.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A forum born under international patronage was now run by the local civil-society chapter in a public art museum, and the NOG co-location model carried on in the years that followed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>GeoIGF 2018 (4th Georgian 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<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-georgia-igf-2018-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Georgia IGF 2018 \u30c8\u30d3\u30ea\u30b7 \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>GeoIGF 2018 (4th Georgian Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>10\u201311 December 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Museum of Modern Arts, 28 Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Co-located events<\/td>\n<td>Co-located with the first Georgian NOG (Network Operators Group) meeting at Tbilisi Technopark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Internet Society \u2013 Georgia (ISOC Georgia)<\/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-georgia-igf-2018-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Georgia IGF 2018 \u30c8\u30d3\u30ea\u30b7 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The First GeoNOG \u2014 Building a Home for the Technical Community<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: First Georgian NOG meeting (10 December, Tbilisi Technopark)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alongside the 4th GeoIGF, ISOC Georgia convened the country&#39;s first network operators group meeting (GeoNOG) at Technopark, launching the dedicated site nog.ge (ISOC Georgia announcement) [1]<\/li>\n<li>Pairing the policy-focused IGF with an operations-focused NOG in the same week began here and carried straight into 2019&#39;s &#39;GeoIGF 5.0 + GeoNOG 2.0&#39; [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. A Civil-Society-Led Forum \u2014 An IGF in an Art Museum<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Multiple sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ISOC Georgia hosted this edition at the Museum of Modern Arts, 28 Rustaveli Avenue, in central Tbilisi (ISOC Georgia announcement) [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>dig.watch billed the forum as bringing together &#39;all society members from various stakeholder groups discussing public policy issues relating to the Internet&#39; \u2014 cementing its identity as an open, all-comers gathering [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 formal \u2014 it is an annual dialogue. The real deliverable of 2018 was institutional: Georgia&#39;s network engineers got their own standing meeting, GeoNOG.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What stood out most?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The venue and the host. Run by the local ISOC chapter in an art museum rather than an institutional conference room, the forum visibly took root in Georgian society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Network operator groups (NOGs) exist in most countries \u2014 Japan&#39;s JANOG among them \u2014 and how a country connects its policy forum with its technical community is a universal question.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Georgia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-georgia-igf-2018-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Georgia IGF 2018 \u30c8\u30d3\u30ea\u30b7 \u2014 About Georgia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Georgia 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 2018 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:\/\/isoc.ge\/en\/774\/\">4th Georgian Internet Governance Forum and the first Georgian NOG meeting<\/a> \u2014 ISOC\u30b8\u30e7\u30fc\u30b8\u30a2\uff08Internet Society \u2013 Georgia\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/georgian-internet-governance-forum-2018\">Georgian Internet Governance Forum 2018<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/multilingual\/content\/georgia-igf-0\">Georgia IGF\uff08NRI\u767b\u9332\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (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 23 June 2018, 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 4th GeoIGF took place in Tbilisi on 10\u201311 December 2018, hosted by ISOC Georgia at the Museum of Modern Arts on Rustaveli Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,3,11],"tags":[163,161,160,791,162,164],"class_list":["post-12986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-georgia-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-georgiaigf2018","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986","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=12986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}