{"id":13052,"date":"2019-07-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/07\/04\/en-nepal-igf-2019-overview\/"},"modified":"2019-07-04T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T02:00:00","slug":"en-nepal-igf-2019-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/07\/04\/en-nepal-igf-2019-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Internet Governance Forum 2019 (3rd Nepal IGF) \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n

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  1. On 27\u201328 September 2019 the third Nepal IGF met in Kathmandu under the same theme as the UN's Berlin IGF \u2014 'One World, One Internet, One Vision' \u2014 with workshops chosen by open call.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Data governance ('data is political \u2014 and economic fuel') and child online protection headlined: government, telcos, cyber police and Facebook shared panels and spoke frankly about Nepal's legislative gaps.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. It was a small country's own take on the year's global questions \u2014 and, as it turned out, the last main Nepal IGF annual meeting held before the pandemic era.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on Nepal Internet Governance Forum 2019 (3rd Nepal IGF)<\/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

    Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n

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    Item<\/th>\nDetail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Official name<\/td>\nNepal Internet Governance Forum 2019 (3rd Nepal IGF)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n27\u201328 September 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nKathmandu, Nepal (venue name not confirmed in surviving sources)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nOne World, One Internet, One Vision (adopting the UN IGF 2019 overarching theme) (Alongside three IGF sub-themes, Nepal added its own sub-theme on 'Social Norms and Public Policy')<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nThe Nepal IGF multistakeholder steering group (MSG), with an open call for workshop proposals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    (See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n

    Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n

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    Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n

    1. Data Governance \u2014 'Data Is Political, and Economic Fuel'<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 'Data Governance: Prospects and Challenges in Nepal' (28 September, moderated by Hempal Shrestha)<\/p>\n