{"id":14591,"date":"2020-08-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/08\/11\/en-guatemala-igf-2020-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-08-11T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T13:00:00","slug":"en-guatemala-igf-2020-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/08\/11\/en-guatemala-igf-2020-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Guatemala 2020 (4th Guatemala Internet Governance Forum) \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 28 October 2020, the 4th IGF Guatemala went fully online for the first time, packing a four-hour evening programme on Webex bookended by international keynotes, including ISOC board member Olga Cavalli.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Six forums covered public policies, data protection and cybersecurity, net neutrality, 21st-century education, infrastructure, and the internet as a business tool in the new era; the launch of IXP.GT, the country's first internet exchange point, was reported, while the absence of a national broadband plan loomed over every track.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. It is a record of the year COVID-19 exposed how fragile remote work and online schooling were \u2014 and of an NRI that adapted rather than pausing its dialogue.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on IGF Guatemala 2020 (4th 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

    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>\nIGF Guatemala 2020 (4th Guatemala Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n28 October 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nHeld online via the Cisco Webex meetings and events platform<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nRegional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nThe IGF Task Group of the ISOC Guatemala Chapter with stakeholders including the Ministries of the Interior and Education, UNESCO, Campus TEC, the private schools association, the Guatemala IXP Association, the Chamber of Technology and Innovation, and UNIS<\/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. The Pandemic Economy \u2014 the Internet Goes from Basic Tool to Survival Kit<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: Opening keynote by Olga Cavalli and the forum 'Internet as a tool in the new era' (moderators: Estuardo Sandoval and Donald Rodas)<\/p>\n

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    "This conference made clear that the internet is a vital and necessary tool for today's businesses. That is how businesses have survived in the context of the pandemic, and we have evolved toward new technologies"
    \n\u2014 Estuardo Sandoval (Director of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, UNIS; forum moderator) \u2014 translated from Spanish<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    "At Microsoft we have pushed software toward the cloud. Our sales approach changed \u2014 it is now consultative: more than selling a product, we sell projects"
    \n\u2014 Erick Sosa (Cloud BG Lead for Latin America, Microsoft; UNIS lecturer) \u2014 translated from Spanish<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n