{"id":12990,"date":"2020-06-24T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/06\/24\/en-georgia-igf-2020-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-06-24T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T08:00:00","slug":"en-georgia-igf-2020-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/06\/24\/en-georgia-igf-2020-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"GeoIGF 2020 (6th 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-2020-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Georgia IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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-georgia-igf-2020-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Georgia IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 6th GeoIGF ran fully online for the first time on 2\u20133 December 2020, billed as the &#39;6th Virtual Forum&#39; amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its published agenda centred on four sessions: Georgia&#39;s information security ecosystem, the country&#39;s cyber readiness, the obstacles of online learning under COVID-19, and freedom of expression and the internet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In the pandemic year, connectivity itself became a lifeline: education&#39;s digital divide and cyber defence shared one table \u2014 the same twin worries every country faced in 2020.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>GeoIGF 2020 (6th 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-2020-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Georgia IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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>GeoIGF 2020 (6th Georgian Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>2\u20133 December 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Held online (virtual forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>A virtual forum supported by the Council of Europe<\/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-2020-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Georgia IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Auditing Information Security \u2014 Ecosystem and Cyber Readiness<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day-two sessions &#39;Georgia&#39;s infosec ecosystem and challenges&#39; and &#39;Georgia&#39;s cyber readiness&#39; (3 December)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two sessions examined national information security from both the &#39;ecosystem&#39; and &#39;readiness&#39; angles, with moderators and speakers drawn from government agencies, non-profits, academia and the private sector (published agenda) [1]<\/li>\n<li>Each session paired an on-site moderator with an online moderator \u2014 keeping multistakeholder voices in play even in a fully virtual format [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Online Learning Under COVID-19 \u2014 Education&#39;s Digital Divide<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day-two session on the challenges of online learning during COVID-19 (3 December)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With schools nationwide pushed onto remote teaching, a dedicated session tackled the connectivity, equipment and skills gaps blocking learning (published agenda) [1]<\/li>\n<li>In a country with persistent coverage gaps, whether a remote lesson happened at all depended on geography \u2014 education made the broadband shortfall visible [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Freedom of Expression and the Internet \u2014 The Standing Agenda, Online<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day-two session on current issues of freedom of expression and the internet (3 December)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Freedom of expression \u2014 a pillar since the 2015 first edition \u2014 kept its own session even in the virtual year (published agenda) [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The forum ran within the Council of Europe&#39;s media and internet freedom project for Georgia, whose Tbilisi office announced the 2 December, 10:30 opening [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 but the first fully virtual edition met the year&#39;s defining twin issues head-on: cyber defence and the digital divide in education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What stood out most?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The online-learning session. When classes moved online, the urban\u2013mountain connectivity gap translated directly into who could learn and who could not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Every country lived 2020&#39;s remote-schooling gaps and security scrambles. Georgia&#39;s debate reads like a miniature of what happened worldwide.<\/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-2020-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Georgia IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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 2020 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.scribd.com\/document\/486258044\/AG-ENG-DEC-3-ns\">Georgian Internet Governance 6th Virtual Forum Agenda DAY TWO: 3 December<\/a> \u2014 GeoIGF\uff08\u516c\u958b\u30a2\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c0\u3001Scribd\u63b2\u8f09\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/tbilisi\/supporting-freedom-of-media-and-internet-in-georgia\">Supporting Freedom of Media and Internet in Georgia\uff08GeoIGF 2020\u958b\u4f1a\u544a\u77e5\u3092\u542b\u3080\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u6b27\u5dde\u8a55\u8b70\u4f1a\u30b8\u30e7\u30fc\u30b8\u30a2\u4e8b\u52d9\u6240\uff08Council of Europe Office in Georgia\uff09 (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 24 June 2020, 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 6th GeoIGF ran fully online for the first time on 2\u20133 December 2020, billed as the &#8216;6th Virtual Forum&#8217; amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/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":[163,161,160,877,162,164],"class_list":["post-12990","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-georgiaigf2020","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990","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=12990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}