{"id":14647,"date":"2020-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/10\/22\/en-ivorycoast-igf-2020-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-10-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:00:00","slug":"en-ivorycoast-igf-2020-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/10\/22\/en-ivorycoast-igf-2020-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum sur la Gouvernance de l&#8217;Internet en C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire (FGI-CI) 2020 \u2014 first edition \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-ivorycoast-igf-2020-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Ivory Coast IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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-ivorycoast-igf-2020-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Ivory Coast IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>From 22 to 24 October 2020, C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire held its first national Internet Governance Forum, FGI-CI 2020, entirely online, under the theme &#39;What ecosystem for digital inclusion in C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire?&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The pandemic forced a fully virtual format, but the five-stakeholder dialogue framework \u2014 government, private sector, academia, technical community and civil society \u2014 ran for the first time, aligned with the government&#39;s vision of ICT as a lever for development.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is the record of a newly UN-recognised NRI (2020) coming to life on screens in mid-pandemic \u2014 a reminder that a dialogue venue can launch even when nobody can meet in person.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Forum sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet en C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire (FGI-CI) 2020 \u2014 first edition<\/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-ivorycoast-igf-2020-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Ivory Coast IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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>Forum sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet en C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire (FGI-CI) 2020 \u2014 first edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>22\u201324 October 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Held entirely online, owing to the COVID-19 health situation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;Quel \u00e9cosyst\u00e8me pour une inclusion num\u00e9rique en C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire?&#39; (What ecosystem for digital inclusion in C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire?)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>The FGI-CI association (Forum sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet \u2014 a non-profit, apolitical multistakeholder platform constituted under C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire&#39;s 1960 associations law; president\/coordinator Fanny Salyou)<\/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-ivorycoast-igf-2020-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Ivory Coast IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The First Edition \u2014 Online in a Pandemic, Focused on Digital Inclusion<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: FGI-CI 2020 (22\u201324 October 2020, online)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first national forum gathering all actors of the digital ecosystem was held &#39;exceptionally online&#39; because of the health situation, per the launch announcement [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>The theme \u2014 &#39;What ecosystem for digital inclusion in C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire?&#39; \u2014 was framed to match the government&#39;s vision of ICT as a development lever and a tool for social well-being [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>The official 2021 final report retrospectively confirms that &#39;the 2020 edition &#8230; was essentially held online from October 22 to 24, 2020&#39; \u2014 a second, first-party confirmation of the dates and format [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The FGI-CI Vehicle \u2014 UN Recognition and a Multistakeholder Platform by Design<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The FGI-CI association&#39;s establishment and mission (per the UN NRI record and the official site of the time)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The UN IGF Secretariat&#39;s NRI record registers the national IGF of C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire as established in 2020, with Fanny Salyou as coordinator [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>The official site of the time described the association as &#39;a platform for inclusive multilateral, multistakeholder and multilingual discussion&#39;, with stated goals of awareness-raising and capacity building, promoting access to information, digital transformation, and local-language content in cyberspace [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>It explicitly cast the national forum as the entry point to the global IGF process \u2014 &#39;ensuring C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire&#39;s concerns are taken into account in the worldwide IGF process&#39; [2][4]<\/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 \u2014 it was the launch of C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire&#39;s first multistakeholder internet dialogue. Its digital-inclusion theme set the frame: every sector reporting who is left unconnected and why.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Did an online-only first edition work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It was a forced choice amid COVID-19. The 2021 report records the community&#39;s wish for an inclusive in-person forum \u2014 which the second edition delivered as a hybrid event in Abidjan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A national IGF taking root in francophone West Africa widens the base of global internet-governance dialogue \u2014 and launching a first edition mid-pandemic, rather than postponing it, is a useful operational lesson anywhere.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Ivory Coast IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-ivorycoast-igf-2020-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Ivory Coast IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 About Ivory Coast IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast 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 2020 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:\/\/africasmart.org\/fgi_ci_edition_2020\/\">Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet en C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire \u2014 FGI CI \u00e9dition 2020\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u544a\u77e5\uff1a10\/22\u301c24\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3\u30fb\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\uff09<\/a> \u2014 africasmart.org (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/c%C3%B4te-divoire-igf-0\">C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire IGF\uff08\u56fd\u9023NRI\u8a18\u9332\uff1a\u8a2d\u7acb2020\u5e74\u30fb\u30b3\u30fc\u30c7\u30a3\u30cd\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc Fanny Salyou\u30fb2021\u5e74\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30ea\u30f3\u30af\uff09<\/a> \u2014 intgovforum.org (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/filedepot_download\/21\/21919\">National Internet Governance Forum 2021 \u2014 Final Report\uff08\u7b2c2\u56de\u6700\u7d42\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u3002\u300c2020\u5e74\u7248\u306f10\u670822\u301c24\u65e5\u306b\u5b9f\u8cea\u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3\u958b\u50ac\u300d\u3068\u56de\u9867\uff09<\/a> \u2014 FGI-CI\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40 filedepot \u63b2\u8f09\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200814204352\/https:\/\/fgi.ci\/\">FGI C\u00f4te d&#39;Ivoire \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff082020\u5e748\u670814\u65e5\u6642\u70b9\u3002\u5354\u4f1a\u306e\u4f7f\u547d\u30fb\u76ee\u6a19\u30fb\u4f53\u5236\uff09<\/a> \u2014 FGI-CI\uff08Wayback Machine \u4fdd\u5b58\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\u670816\u65e5 19\u664215\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>From 22 to 24 October 2020, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire held its first national Internet Governance Forum, FGI-CI 2020, entirely online, under the theme &#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,80,11],"tags":[163,161,160,2541,162,164],"class_list":["post-14647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-ivorycoast-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-ivorycoastigf2020","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647","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=14647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}