{"id":14582,"date":"2019-08-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/08\/26\/en-dominicanrepublic-igf-2019-overview\/"},"modified":"2019-08-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T16:00:00","slug":"en-dominicanrepublic-igf-2019-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/08\/26\/en-dominicanrepublic-igf-2019-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IV Internet Governance Forum of the Dominican Republic (FGI-DO-2019) \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-dominicanrepublic-igf-2019-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Dominican Republic IGF 2019 \u30b5\u30f3\u30c8\u30c9\u30df\u30f3\u30b4 \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-dominicanrepublic-igf-2019-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Dominican Republic IGF 2019 \u30b5\u30f3\u30c8\u30c9\u30df\u30f3\u30b4 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 9 December 2019, the fourth Dominican Republic IGF (FGI-DO-2019) convened at the INDOTEL Cultural Centre in Santo Domingo&#39;s colonial quarter, under the theme &#39;A model of internet governance based on principles and rights.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Panels covered the country&#39;s experience connecting the unconnected, privacy and data protection, the national IXP project IX-DO, and free expression on platforms \u2014 plus a public reading of the Dominican Republic&#39;s Charter of Internet Principles. The Presidency&#39;s vice-minister for Rep\u00fablica Digital and the regulator&#39;s board president attended.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The charter first conceived in 2016 reached its public reading, and the 2017 IXP debate matured into the IX-DO project \u2014 a live demonstration of how a small national forum compounds into policy over successive editions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IV Internet Governance Forum of the Dominican Republic (FGI-DO-2019)<\/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-dominicanrepublic-igf-2019-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Dominican Republic IGF 2019 \u30b5\u30f3\u30c8\u30c9\u30df\u30f3\u30b4 \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>IV Internet Governance Forum of the Dominican Republic (FGI-DO-2019)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>9 December 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Centro Cultural INDOTEL (Espacio Rep\u00fablica Digital), Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, 8:30am\u20134:30pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;Un modelo de gobernanza de internet, basado en principios y derechos&#39; (A model of internet governance based on principles and rights)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>ISOC-DO (chapter president Osvaldo Larancuent gave the closing remarks), supported by ISOC&#39;s Beyond the Net programme, Google, INDOTEL and the IGFSA<\/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-dominicanrepublic-igf-2019-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Dominican Republic IGF 2019 \u30b5\u30f3\u30c8\u30c9\u30df\u30f3\u30b4 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Access \u2014 Dominican Experiences in Connecting the Unconnected<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 1 &#39;Dominican Republic experiences in access, to connect the unconnected&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vice-Minister Zoraima Puello, who runs the government&#39;s Rep\u00fablica Digital programme, attended \u2014 putting state connectivity policy and civil-society scrutiny in the same room [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The panel reviewed national efforts to close the urban\u2013rural connectivity gap, from community networks to broadband rollout [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Privacy and Data Protection in the Age of Emerging Technologies<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 2 &#39;Challenges of the right to privacy and data protection in the use of the internet and emerging technologies&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Representatives of Access Now, Panama&#39;s IPANDETEC and the ISOC Peru chapter brought a Latin American comparative lens to data-protection law [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>In line with the forum&#39;s theme, the panel positioned privacy as a precondition of technology policy, not an afterthought [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. IX-DO \u2014 The National IXP Project and the Charter of Internet Principles<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: ISOC-DO project updates on the national IXP (IX-DO) and the public reading of the Dominican Republic&#39;s Charter of Internet Principles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Progress on IX-DO (ixp.org.do), the national exchange-point project that grew out of the country&#39;s first IXP workshop in 2017, was reported alongside its expected impact on digital transformation [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The Charter of Internet Principles, first conceived in 2016, received its public reading \u2014 three years of multistakeholder work made tangible [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A report-back from the just-concluded global IGF 2019 in Berlin tied the national forum into the worldwide IGF process [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Free Expression and Platforms \u2014 Discussing &#39;Digital Democracy&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 3 &#39;Freedom of expression, social networks and digital platforms for content&#39; plus a discussion of the book &#39;Democracia Digital&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The panel took up free-expression challenges around social networks and platform content distribution, with national elections due the following year [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Elaine Ford of ISOC Peru presented her book &#39;Democracia Digital&#39;, drawing on regional cases to examine how online spaces reshape democracy [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did the meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding, but the Dominican Charter of Internet Principles got its public reading and the national IXP project IX-DO reported progress \u2014 earlier editions&#39; seeds visibly bearing fruit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Was there no 2018 edition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. No. The organisers themselves wrote that this was &#39;the fourth event since 2015&#39; \u2014 three editions before it. Small national IGFs skip years when money and volunteers run short; that is the reality of grassroots NRIs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Privacy, platform speech and public scrutiny of a government digitalisation programme are universal issues \u2014 and this forum shows how a small country builds a standing venue to debate them, edition after edition.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Dominican Republic IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-dominicanrepublic-igf-2019-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Dominican Republic IGF 2019 \u30b5\u30f3\u30c8\u30c9\u30df\u30f3\u30b4 \u2014 About Dominican Republic IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Dominican Republic 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:\/\/isoc.do\/isoc-do-dio-clausura-a-cuarto-foro-de-gobernanza-de-internet-de-rep-dominicana\/\">ISOC-DO dio clausura a cuarto Foro de Gobernanza de Internet de Rep. Dominicana\uff08\u9589\u4f1a\u8a18\u4e8b\uff1a2019-12-11\u4ed8\u3002\u65e5\u4ed8\u30fb\u4f1a\u5834\u30fb\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30fb\u6765\u8cd3\u30fb\u5168\u30a2\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c0\uff09<\/a> \u2014 isoc.do (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191215130823\/https:\/\/isoc-rd.org.do\/publicaciones\/noticias\/4to-foro-de-gobernanza-de-internet-republica-dominicana-2019\/\">4to Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Rep\u00fablica Dominicana 2019\uff08\u544a\u77e5\u8a18\u4e8b\uff1a2019-11-30\u4ed8\u3002\u300c2015\u5e74\u304b\u30893\u56de\u958b\u50ac\u3001\u4eca\u56de\u304c\u7b2c4\u56de\u300d\u3068\u660e\u8a18\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ISOC-RD\uff08Wayback Machine 2019-12-15\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/dominican-republic-igf\">Dominican Republic IGF\uff08\u56fd\u9023NRI\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 intgovforum.org (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/isoc.do\/category\/internet-society\/igf\/fgi-do\/\">FGI-DO\u30ab\u30c6\u30b4\u30ea\u8a18\u4e8b\u4e00\u89a7\uff082019\u5e74\u7b2c4\u56de\u306e\u5f8c\u3001\u56fd\u5185\u30d5\u30a9\u30fc\u30e9\u30e0\u958b\u50ac\u306e\u8a18\u9332\u304c2025\u5e74\u306e\u7b2c5\u56de\u544a\u77e5\u307e\u3067\u7121\u3044\u3053\u3068\u306e\u508d\u8a3c\uff09<\/a> \u2014 isoc.do (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\u670819\u65e5 19\u664223\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 9 December 2019, the fourth Dominican Republic IGF (FGI-DO-2019) convened at the INDOTEL Cultural Centre in Santo Domingo&#8217;s colonial quar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3,19,11],"tags":[163,161,521,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-14582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dominicanrepublic-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-dominicanrepublicigf2019","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582","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=14582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}