{"id":14865,"date":"2019-08-25T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/08\/25\/en-colombia-igf-2019-overview\/"},"modified":"2019-08-25T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T17:00:00","slug":"en-colombia-igf-2019-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/08\/25\/en-colombia-igf-2019-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"6to. Foro colombiano de Gobernanza de Internet (6th Colombian 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-colombia-igf-2019-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Colombia IGF 2019 \u30dc\u30b4\u30bf \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-colombia-igf-2019-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Colombia IGF 2019 \u30dc\u30b4\u30bf \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 6-7 November 2019 the 6th Colombian IGF met at Universidad Externado in Bogot\u00e1 \u2014 rotating hands-on workshops on day one, the forum on day two.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Panels covered connecting the unconnected, free expression and content blocking, work in the digital era, and whether Colombia&#39;s data-protection law needs reform; IGFSA chair Markus Kummer sent the opening message.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Asking whether the 2012 data-protection statute should be rewritten for a post-GDPR world anticipated reform debates across Latin America, and the introduction of sign-language interpretation marked an accessibility turn.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>6to. Foro colombiano de Gobernanza de Internet (6th Colombian 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-colombia-igf-2019-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Colombia IGF 2019 \u30dc\u30b4\u30bf \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>6to. Foro colombiano de Gobernanza de Internet (6th Colombian Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>6-7 November 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Universidad Externado de Colombia, Calle 12 No. 01-17 Este, Bogot\u00e1 \u2014 governance workshops on 6 Nov, forum on 7 Nov in auditorium AH-202 (Block H)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Mesa Colombiana de Gobernanza de Internet<\/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-colombia-igf-2019-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Colombia IGF 2019 \u30dc\u30b4\u30bf \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Connecting the Unconnected \u2014 in a Country Where Half the Population Is Offline<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Internet-governance actions to connect the unconnected&#39; (7 Nov, 9:30-11:00, moderator: CRC Commissioner Carlos Lugo)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting from the fact that about half of Colombians were unconnected or under-connected, the panel asked which measures and technologies could accelerate access [1]<\/li>\n<li>Speakers were CRC research head Claudia Ximena Bustamante, Colnodo director Juli\u00e1n Casasbuenas, spectrum-agency ANE director Miguel Felipe Anzola and Jean-Marie Chenou of Universidad de los Andes [1]<\/li>\n<li>Discussion connected to that year&#39;s ICT modernisation law (Ley TIC), spanning spectrum, funds and regulatory redesign [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Free Expression and Content Blocking \u2014 between Child Protection and Copyright<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Free expression and online content blocking&#39; (7 Nov, 11:30-1:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The panel mapped every blocking type \u2014 shutdowns, site\/IP\/domain blocking and filtering tech, through to criminalising legitimate speech and intermediary liability [1]<\/li>\n<li>Abuse of the legal blocking regime built for child-sexual-exploitation material, and new copyright-enforcement rules, were named as live threats in Colombia [1]<\/li>\n<li>Red PaPaz legal adviser Andr\u00e9s V\u00e9lez (child protection), Externado IP scholar Diego Acosta and Google&#39;s Central-America policy manager Gabriel Recalde argued from three distinct corners [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Should the Data-Protection Law Be Reformed? \u2014 a Post-GDPR Question<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Is a reform of the personal-data-protection law necessary?&#39; (7 Nov, 4:30-6:00 pm, led by Youth Observatory and ISOC Colombia)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The panel traced Colombia&#39;s regime from the constitution&#39;s habeas-data right through Laws 1266 (2008) and 1581 (2012), comparing it with GDPR&#39;s new elements \u2014 extraterritoriality, automated processing, ethics by design [1]<\/li>\n<li>It posed a choice: reform the national law, or pursue supranational rules at Andean Community level \u2014 referencing parallel debates in Chile, Panama, Brazil and Argentina [1]<\/li>\n<li>Externado privacy scholar Sol Beatriz Calle led the legal analysis, and the session itself was designed and run by youth organisations [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Work in the Digital Era, and Day One&#39;s Hands-On Workshop Format<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Challenges of work in the digital era&#39; (7 Nov, 2:30-4:00 pm, led by Universidad del Rosario) and the four rotating workshops of 6 November<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The labour panel examined how global cost-cutting competition and precarisation together reconfigure work practices, relations and guarantees in the digital era [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Day one evolved into small rotating workshops: how the internet works (Karisma\/ISOC), multistakeholder participation (CRC), threats to children and teens (Red PaPaz), user-level security (Colnodo\/Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica) and privacy and data (ISOC) [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The opening message came from Markus Kummer, chair of the IGF Support Association&#39;s executive committee \u2014 making visible the international funding network behind national IGFs [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the event like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The sixth edition&#39;s two days: rotating hands-on workshops (from &#39;how the internet works&#39; to child safety) then four panels \u2014 connectivity, blocking, labour, data protection \u2014 now streamed with sign-language interpretation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the key question?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Whether Colombia&#39;s 2012 data-protection law should be rewritten for the GDPR era \u2014 even weighing an Andean Community supranational rulebook \u2014 plus a warning about abuse of the child-protection blocking regime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It mirrors data-protection reform cycles and site-blocking controversies seen worldwide, and shows youth organisations designing and running a major policy panel.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Colombia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-colombia-igf-2019-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Colombia IGF 2019 \u30dc\u30b4\u30bf \u2014 About Colombia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Colombia 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:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191105021314\/https:\/\/gobernanzadeinternet.co\/evento2019\/\">6to. Foro colombiano de Gobernanza de Internet\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8: \u6982\u8981\u30fb\u30a2\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c0\u30fb\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u30fb\u30bf\u30e9\u30fc\u8a73\u7d30\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Mesa Colombiana de Gobernanza de Internet\uff08Wayback Machine\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gobernanzadeinternet.co\/es\/foros-anteriores\">Foros anteriores\uff08\u7b2cVI\u56de=2019\u5e7411\u67086-7\u65e5\u30fbUniversidad Externado\u306e\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 gobernanzadeinternet.co (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191017170437\/https:\/\/gobernanzadeinternet.co\/es\/foros\">Foros Nacionales de Gobernanza\uff08\u65e7\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u306e\u30d5\u30a9\u30fc\u30e9\u30e0\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Mesa Colombiana de Gobernanza de Internet\uff08Wayback Machine 2019\u5e74\u30b9\u30ca\u30c3\u30d7\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20251101115302\/https:\/\/colnodo.apc.org\/es\/alianzas-membresias\/mesa-colombiana-de-gobernanza-de-internet2-2\">Mesa Colombiana de Gobernanza de Internet\uff08\u7cfb\u5217\u306e\u5e74\u6b21\u958b\u50ac\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Colnodo\uff08Wayback Machine\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/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 17\u664233\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 6-7 November 2019 the 6th Colombian IGF met at Universidad Externado in Bogot\u00e1 \u2014 rotating hands-on workshops on day one, the forum on day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,3,19,11],"tags":[163,2642,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-14865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colombia-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-colombiaigf2019","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865","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=14865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}