{"id":14558,"date":"2019-07-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/07\/19\/en-bangladesh-igf-2019-overview\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T08:00:00","slug":"en-bangladesh-igf-2019-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/07\/19\/en-bangladesh-igf-2019-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum 2019 (14th BIGF) \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-bangladesh-igf-2019-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh IGF 2019 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \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-bangladesh-igf-2019-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh IGF 2019 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 16 November 2019 the 14th Bangladesh IGF met for a single packed day at CIRDAP&#39;s Chameli House in Dhaka, with APNIC Director General Paul Wilson delivering the keynote and telecoms minister Mustafa Jabbar as chief guest.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The programme sprinted through five sessions: a morning Youth IGF, emerging technology and cybercrime in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, freedom of expression in the digital transformation, and the internet&#39;s impact on politics.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Held days before the UN IGF in Berlin, it doubled as a national warm-up \u2014 with ARTICLE 19, IETF and ICANN fellows on stage. It was also the last in-person BIGF before COVID-19; the format would not return until 2022.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum 2019 (14th BIGF)<\/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-bangladesh-igf-2019-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh IGF 2019 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \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>Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum 2019 (14th BIGF)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>16 November 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>CIRDAP, Chameli House, Topkhana Road, Dhaka 1000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Keynote<\/td>\n<td>Keynote by Paul Wilson, Director General of APNIC; chief guest Mustafa Jabbar, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF), chaired by Hasanul Haq Inu MP, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Information<\/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-bangladesh-igf-2019-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh IGF 2019 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Opening Session \u2014 APNIC&#39;s Chief on &#39;Achieving the SDGs in the Digital Age&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session II, Opening (10:15\u201311:30)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Wilson, Director General of APNIC, keynoted on &#39;Internet Governance: Perspectives on Current State and Future \u2014 Achieving the SDGs in the Digital Age&#39; [1]<\/li>\n<li>The chief guest was Mustafa Jabbar, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications and champion of the &#39;Digital Bangladesh&#39; agenda, with BIGF chairperson Hasanul Haq Inu MP presiding \u2014 a heavyweight government and parliamentary line-up [1]<\/li>\n<li>Special guests included ISPAB president Aminul Hakim (who would become BIGF chairperson for 2024\u201326) and the country representative of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Emerging Tech and Cybercrime in the 4IR \u2014 From the Home Ministry to IETF Fellows<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session III on emerging technology and cybercrime in the 4IR era (11:45\u201313:00), plus the closing keynote<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A project director from the Ministry of Home Affairs (Lt Col Rakibul Hassan) framed IoT, big data, AI, blockchain and cybercrime as a single agenda \u2014 putting the security establishment directly on an IGF stage [1]<\/li>\n<li>Two IETF fellows, an ICANN fellow, an ISOC Dhaka chapter board member and a university CSE professor shared the panel, keeping the discussion anchored in the technical community [1]<\/li>\n<li>The closing keynote, &#39;Internet Governance in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution&#39; by Syed Tamjid ur Rahman of the Bangladesh Center for 4IR, wrapped up the day [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Free Expression in the Digital Transformation \u2014 ARTICLE 19 on Stage a Year After the DSA<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session on freedom of expression in digital transformation (14:00\u201315:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faruq Faisel, South Asia regional director of ARTICLE 19, moderated a session squarely asking whether citizens and civil society can make their voices heard and protect rights amid digital transformation [1]<\/li>\n<li>Media voices dominated the panel \u2014 a University of Dhaka journalism professor, the head of the Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum, and the editor-in-chief of Ekushey Television [1]<\/li>\n<li>No record survives of what was said about the Digital Security Act (enacted 2018), but devoting a standalone session to free expression one year after the law took effect was itself the notable choice [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Youth IGF and &#39;Has the Internet Changed Politics?&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session I, Bangladesh Youth IGF (9:00\u201310:15); Session IV, &#39;Has Internet brought paradigm shift in Politics?&#39; (15:00\u201316:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first morning slot went to the Bangladesh Youth IGF, featuring an APNIC senior policy advisor, an ICANN fellow and youth-organisation leaders \u2014 embedding young people in the main meeting became standard practice from around this time [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>In the afternoon, &#39;Has Internet brought paradigm shift in Politics?&#39; brought together a sitting MP (Professor Masuda M. Rashid Chowdhury), a news-site chief editor and the CTO of a fibre-backbone operator [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A year after the December 2018 general election, putting social-media-era political culture on a national IGF&#39;s main agenda was an early move for South Asia [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the headline?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. APNIC Director General Paul Wilson&#39;s keynote \u2014 the head of the region&#39;s IP address registry talking SDGs in the digital age at a national forum, sharing the stage with a cabinet minister.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the boldest topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Free expression. A year after the Digital Security Act, the forum gave ARTICLE 19&#39;s regional director the moderator&#39;s chair for a session on whether civil society can still make its voice heard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It shows the &#39;small but complete&#39; national IGF formula \u2014 youth, emerging tech, free speech and politics in one day \u2014 that many countries, Japan included, use to feed national voices into the global UN IGF a week later in Berlin.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Bangladesh IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-bangladesh-igf-2019-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh IGF 2019 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \u2014 About Bangladesh IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh 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 2019 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:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211026011543\/http:\/\/bangladeshigf.org\/bigf2019.html\">Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum 2019\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30fb\u8a73\u7d30\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u3001Wayback Machine\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Bangladesh IGF\uff08bangladeshigf.org\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/igf-bangladesh\">IGF Bangladesh\uff082019\u5e7411\u670816\u65e5\u30fb\u30c0\u30c3\u30ab\uff09<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201201022951\/http:\/\/bangladeshigf.org\/2020\/index.php\">BIGF 2020 \u30d0\u30fc\u30c1\u30e3\u30eb\u30d5\u30a9\u30fc\u30e9\u30e0\uff08BIGF EVENT ARCHIVES \u9023\u756a\u300c14 &#8211; 2019\u300d\u3001Wayback Machine\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Bangladesh IGF\uff08bangladeshigf.org\/2020\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bangladeshigf.org\/about-us\/\">About us \u2014 Established in 2006<\/a> \u2014 Bangladesh IGF\uff08bangladeshigf.org\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/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>\u66f4\u65b0\u5c65\u6b74<\/h2>\n<p>\u7b2c1\u7a3f\u6295\u7a3f 2026\u5e747\u67089\u65e5 21\u664252\u5206\uff08\u8a18\u4e8b\u30b3\u30f3\u30c6\u30f3\u30c4\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\uff09<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 November 2019 the 14th Bangladesh IGF met for a single packed day at CIRDAP&#8217;s Chameli House in Dhaka, with APNIC Director General Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,78,3,11],"tags":[163,2514,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-14558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aprigf","category-bangladesh-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-bangladeshigf2019","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558","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=14558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}