{"id":14561,"date":"2022-07-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/07\/04\/en-bangladesh-igf-2022-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T01:00:00","slug":"en-bangladesh-igf-2022-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/07\/04\/en-bangladesh-igf-2022-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"17th Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF 2022) \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-2022-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh IGF 2022 \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-2022-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh IGF 2022 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 10\u201312 November 2022 the 17th Bangladesh IGF met at CIRDAP Millennium Hall in Dhaka under the theme &#39;Resilient Internet for Sustainable Development and Smart Bangladesh&#39;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Telecoms minister Mustafa Jabbar hailed the &#39;One Country One Rate&#39; fixed-broadband tariff as a milestone against the digital divide, while three packed days covered data protection, the .bd domain and universal acceptance \u2014 plus dedicated Kids, Youth and Women IGF tracks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Billed as the &#39;Road to Addis Ababa&#39; three weeks before the UN IGF, it showcased a layered national forum \u2014 down to a Kids IGF, still rare worldwide \u2014 and how a national IGF coexists with government and regulator.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>17th Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF 2022)<\/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-2022-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh IGF 2022 \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>17th Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF 2022)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>10\u201312 November 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>CIRDAP Millennium Hall, Topkhana Road, Dhaka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Resilient Internet for Sustainable Development and Smart Bangladesh (The programme was built around 15 constituent themes aligned with the UN Secretary-General&#39;s envisioned Global Digital Compact)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF); chaired by Hasanul Haq Inu MP, with Secretary General Mohammad Abdul Haque Anu<\/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-2022-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh IGF 2022 \u30c0\u30c3\u30ab \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Opening \u2014 &#39;One Country One Rate&#39;, Smart Bangladesh, and the Road to Addis Ababa<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening session &#39;Resilient Internet for Sustainable Development and Smart Bangladesh; Road to Addis Ababa&#39; (10 November, 16:15)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Implementation of the &#39;One Country One Rate&#39; initiative for fixed internet is a historic milestone in removing the country&#39;s digital divide (translated from Bengali)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Mustafa Jabbar (Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, chief guest)<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;A sustainable internet is essential for establishing a happy and prosperous Bangladesh (translated from Bengali)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Hasanul Haq Inu MP (BIGF Chairperson)<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Minister Jabbar also called the internet&#39;s contribution to national growth &#39;immeasurable&#39; and said work was under way on fair mobile data pricing (BSS report) [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>BTRC chairman Shyam Sunder Sikder, the ISPAB president and the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce president shared the stage \u2014 regulator, industry and commerce in one line-up [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>As the session title &#39;Road to Addis Ababa&#39; signalled, the forum was framed as national input to the UN IGF 2022 held three weeks later in Ethiopia [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Data Governance and Privacy \u2014 From the Supreme Court to the Central Bank<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Governing Data and Protecting Privacy&#39; (11 November, 15:45) and &#39;Data Privacy &amp; Emerging Technologies in Financial Ecosystem&#39; (12 November, 14:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The data-governance panel seated a Supreme Court barrister, an Assistant Attorney General, the University of Dhaka&#39;s IIT, the software industry body BASIS and the state satellite company&#39;s CEO \u2014 law and industry at one table [1]<\/li>\n<li>The finance session brought in Bangladesh Bank officials, commercial banks and Grameenphone, making &#39;data privacy in the financial ecosystem&#39; a standalone theme fitting a mobile-finance powerhouse [1]<\/li>\n<li>With the country&#39;s draft Data Protection Act under debate at the time, the sessions served as an issue-mapping exercise on the eve of legislation [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. .bd and Universal Acceptance \u2014 With ICANN and DotAsia at the Table<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Policy Dialogue on Dot Bd and Universal Acceptance&#39; (12 November, 11:15)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ICANN&#39;s Ajay Data and Sarmad Hussain joined DotAsia&#39;s Edmon Chung (Hong Kong) for a policy dialogue on the .bd country domain, the Bangla-script .\u09ac\u09be\u0982\u09b2\u09be domain and universal acceptance [1]<\/li>\n<li>A BTRC brigadier general and executives of the state carrier BTCL sat in for government and operations, testing domain-management practicalities against international expertise [1]<\/li>\n<li>It deepened a signature theme running since the 2020 TLD session \u2014 a thread that later grew into a national &#39;Bangladesh UA Day&#39; in 2025 [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Inclusion Across Three Generations \u2014 Kids, Youth and Women IGF Tracks<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Kids IGF on digital rights (11 November); Women IGF on meaningful, affordable access (12 November); youth session (10 November)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Kids IGF, school students themselves debated children&#39;s rights in the digital environment, complete with their own closing ceremony \u2014 a standing kids&#39; track remains rare among national IGFs worldwide [1]<\/li>\n<li>The Women IGF (BWIGF) tackled &#39;meaningful access and affordable Internet for women&#39;, with sitting MP Naheed Ezaher Khan, an ICT Division director and Oracle&#39;s country lead on stage [1]<\/li>\n<li>Day one&#39;s youth session, &#39;Empowering Youth for Smart Bangladesh onwards to IG Process&#39;, had the Youth IGF, the government&#39;s a2i programme and DotAsia mapping pathways for young participants [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the biggest news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Minister Jabbar&#39;s &#39;One Country One Rate&#39; \u2014 a single nationwide fixed-broadband tariff presented as a milestone against the digital divide, with mobile data pricing next in line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What made this edition distinctive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Three parallel inclusion tracks \u2014 Kids, Youth and Women IGFs. A kids&#39; track where school students debate their own digital rights is still a global rarity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Universal acceptance \u2014 making domains work in local scripts \u2014 is every non-Latin language&#39;s problem, and vetting telecom pricing policy inside an IGF is a model other countries&#39; policy dialogues can borrow.<\/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-2022-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Bangladesh IGF 2022 \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 2022 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.live\/16005\/\">WEBCAST NOV 10-12 \u2013 17th Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum\uff08\u5168\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb\u4e2d\u7d99\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ISOC Live\uff08Internet Society\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/bangla\/national\/66083\">\u09ae\u09cb\u09ac\u09be\u0987\u09b2 \u0987\u09a8\u09cd\u099f\u09be\u09b0\u09a8\u09c7\u099f\u09c7\u09b0 \u09a6\u09be\u09ae \u09a8\u09bf\u09b0\u09cd\u09a7\u09be\u09b0\u09a3\u09c7\u09b0 \u09b2\u0995\u09cd\u09b7\u09cd\u09af\u09c7 \u0986\u09ae\u09b0\u09be \u0995\u09be\u099c \u0995\u09b0\u099b\u09bf : \u099f\u09c7\u09b2\u09bf\u09af\u09cb\u0997\u09be\u09af\u09cb\u0997 \u09ae\u09a8\u09cd\u09a4\u09cd\u09b0\u09c0\uff08\u958b\u4f1a\u5f0f\u5831\u9053\u30fb\u30d9\u30f3\u30ac\u30eb\u8a9e\uff09<\/a> \u2014 BSS\uff08\u30d0\u30f3\u30b0\u30e9\u30c7\u30b7\u30e5\u56fd\u55b6\u901a\u4fe1\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@BangladeshIGF\/streams\">Bangladesh IGF \u2014 \u30e9\u30a4\u30d6\u914d\u4fe1\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6<\/a> \u2014 BIGF\u516c\u5f0fYouTube\u30c1\u30e3\u30f3\u30cd\u30eb (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\u670818\u65e5 20\u664251\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 10\u201312 November 2022 the 17th Bangladesh IGF met at CIRDAP Millennium Hall in Dhaka under the theme &#8216;Resilient Internet for Sustainable De<\/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":[163,736,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-14561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aprigf","category-bangladesh-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-bangladeshigf2022","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561","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=14561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}