{"id":14588,"date":"2019-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/08\/10\/en-guatemala-igf-2019-overview\/"},"modified":"2019-08-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:00:00","slug":"en-guatemala-igf-2019-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/08\/10\/en-guatemala-igf-2019-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Guatemala 2019 (3rd Guatemala 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-guatemala-igf-2019-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Guatemala IGF 2019 \u30b0\u30a2\u30c6\u30de\u30e9\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3 \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-guatemala-igf-2019-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Guatemala IGF 2019 \u30b0\u30a2\u30c6\u30de\u30e9\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 5 November 2019, the 3rd IGF Guatemala drew 357 registered participants to INTECAP headquarters in Guatemala City under the slogan &#39;For a free, secure and trustworthy Internet&#39; \u2014 its largest attendance yet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Six parallel tracks covered public policies, MANRS routing security, net neutrality, national infrastructure, cybersecurity and the digital gap; headline recommendations were criminalising computer crimes and producing more digital content in indigenous languages.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The agenda was deliberately aligned with that year&#39;s regional LACIGF in Argentina, and the indigenous-language content debate spotlights a dimension of the digital divide \u2014 language \u2014 that connectivity statistics alone miss.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF Guatemala 2019 (3rd Guatemala 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-guatemala-igf-2019-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Guatemala IGF 2019 \u30b0\u30a2\u30c6\u30de\u30e9\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3 \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>IGF Guatemala 2019 (3rd Guatemala Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>5 November 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>INTECAP (Technical Institute for Training and Productivity) headquarters, Civic Center, Guatemala City<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>357 (The III Forum&#39;s conclusions report states 357 people registered and attended; the 2022 retrospective adds &#39;more than 300 people and around 2,000 connected to the streaming&#39;)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>A multistakeholder organizing committee (ISOC Guatemala Chapter, UNESCO, DEMOS Institute, SIT, FONDETEL and others; Fred Clark coordinating for his second year)<\/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-guatemala-igf-2019-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Guatemala IGF 2019 \u30b0\u30a2\u30c6\u30de\u30e9\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Cybercrime Law \u2014 Writing Computer Crimes into the Criminal Code<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The Cybersecurity Forum \u2014 again the best-attended track; panellists included Congressman Rodrigo Valladares, promoter of bill 5601 (filed 6 August 2019) on cybercrime prevention and protection<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panellists showed that the Criminal Code (Decree 17-73 of 1973) cannot punish computer crimes against privacy, and recommended amending it to give Guatemalans &#39;legal certainty&#39; [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The Budapest Convention was presented as the framework for standardising offences and obliging evidence cooperation among signatories, closing off criminals&#39; safe havens [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A dedicated computer-crimes investigation office within the Public Ministry, staffed to acquire, manage and analyse digital evidence, was recommended [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Net Neutrality \u2014 It Survived Even Threats from Electoral Officials<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The Network Neutrality Forum, incorporating freedom of expression<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The forum affirmed that digital free expression exists in Guatemala \u2014 internet service has not been blocked or censored as in other countries [1]<\/li>\n<li>Despite threats by members of the Electoral Court during the general election held earlier that year, network neutrality held, participants reported [1]<\/li>\n<li>Tim Wu&#39;s original neutrality concept was read to the audience; neutrality was framed as favouring small and mid-size ISPs and as a key factor in the internet&#39;s global development [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Digital Gap and Indigenous Languages \u2014 &#39;Not Enough Digital Content&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The Digital Gap Forum, approached from an education perspective<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In multilingual Guatemala the forum concluded explicitly that &#39;there is not enough digital content in indigenous languages&#39; and recommended promoting its production [1]<\/li>\n<li>Technology had narrowed the gap, panellists noted, yet users&#39; lack of education was straining interpersonal relationships [1]<\/li>\n<li>Insufficient support for learning-by-doing communities was flagged as a further gap [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. MANRS and Infrastructure \u2014 Routing Security and LoRa for Remote Areas<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The MANRS Forum and the National Infrastructure Forum<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ISOC&#39;s global MANRS routing-security norms were presented as free to join, with four concrete actions implementable even by non-ISP operators [1]<\/li>\n<li>The infrastructure track prioritised fibre optics while exploring LoRa technology to bring message transmission to communities without internet access [1]<\/li>\n<li>Panellists explained 5G&#39;s gains over 4G in latency, speed and connection density, and recommended a legal framework to support network development in unconnected communities [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was this meeting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Guatemala&#39;s 3rd national IGF, held 5 November 2019 at INTECAP headquarters in the capital with 357 registered participants \u2014 its largest yet, running six thematic tracks in parallel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the main outcome?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A concrete path toward cybercrime legislation: the forum showed the 1973 Criminal Code cannot prosecute privacy-violating computer crimes, and recommended amending it, aligning with the Budapest Convention, and creating a digital-evidence investigation office in the Public Ministry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The finding that indigenous-language digital content is scarce shows a digital divide that connectivity statistics miss. Language policy for online content matters in any multilingual society.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Guatemala IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-guatemala-igf-2019-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Guatemala IGF 2019 \u30b0\u30a2\u30c6\u30de\u30e9\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3 \u2014 About Guatemala IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Guatemala 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:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/filedepot_download\/7508\/2391\">Conclusions and recommendations of the III Guatemala Internet Governance Forum\uff08\u7b2c3\u56de\u7d50\u8ad6\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30fbUN\u63d0\u51fa\uff09<\/a> \u2014 intgovforum.org (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191113041006\/https:\/\/igf.gt\/2019\/\">IGF Guatemala 2019 \u2014 05\/noviembre, Sede Central Intecap\uff08\u5f53\u6642\u306e\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u3002\u30a2\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c0\u30fb\u30e2\u30c7\u30ec\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc\u4e00\u89a7\u3002Wayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6 2019-11-13\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF Guatemala\uff08Internet Archive\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/latin-american-and-caribbean-regional-group-grulac\">Latin American and Caribbean Regional Group (GRULAC) \u2014 Guatemala IGF\uff082019\u5e74\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30ea\u30f3\u30af\uff09<\/a> \u2014 intgovforum.org (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/intgovforum.org\/en\/filedepot_download\/21\/24960\">IV Annual, 2022 Guatemala Internet Governance Forum Final Report\uff08\u56de\u9867\u7ae0: INTECAP\u958b\u50ac\u30fbLACIGF\u3068\u306e\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u6574\u5408\u3002\u203b\u65e5\u4ed8\u306f\u300c10\u670824\u65e5\u300d\u3068\u8aa4\u8a18\uff09<\/a> \u2014 intgovforum.org (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/guatemala-igf\">Guatemala IGF\uff08NRI\u30df\u30fc\u30c6\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 intgovforum.org (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\u670811\u65e5 14\u664207\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 5 November 2019, the 3rd IGF Guatemala drew 357 registered participants to INTECAP headquarters in Guatemala City under the slogan &#8216;For a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,3,19,11],"tags":[163,161,160,620,162,164],"class_list":["post-14588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemala-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-guatemalaigf2019","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588","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=14588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}