{"id":14866,"date":"2020-08-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/08\/18\/en-colombia-igf-2020-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-08-18T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:00:00","slug":"en-colombia-igf-2020-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/08\/18\/en-colombia-igf-2020-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"7\u00ba Foro Colombiano de Gobernanza de Internet (7th 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-2020-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Colombia 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-colombia-igf-2020-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Colombia IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 2-3 December 2020 the 7th Colombian IGF went fully virtual for the first time, preceded by online beginner workshops on 30 November &#8211; 1 December.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pandemic governance dominated: innovative proposals to connect the unconnected, economic reactivation through digitalisation, data handling in pandemic times, and digitalised daily life (work, education, leisure). Global MAG chair Anriette Esterhuysen sent the opening greeting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A workshop on contributing to Wikiaku&#39;aipa \u2014 the Wikipedia in the Indigenous Wayuu language \u2014 shows the forum keeping linguistic diversity on the agenda even mid-crisis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>7\u00ba Foro Colombiano de Gobernanza de Internet (7th 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-2020-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Colombia 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>7\u00ba Foro Colombiano de Gobernanza de Internet (7th Colombian Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>2-3 December 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Virtual (Zoom, with live streaming from the official site)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Format<\/td>\n<td>Virtual<\/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-2020-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Colombia 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 Pandemic and the Divide \u2014 Innovative Proposals for the Unconnected<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Innovative proposals to connect the unconnected&#39; (one of four panels, 2-3 Dec)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With work and schooling forced online, closing the access gap topped the agenda \u2014 &#39;innovative proposals for access, digital inclusion and narrowing the divide&#39; led the official invitation [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A second panel on economic reactivation through digitalisation addressed digitising small businesses under lockdown [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Individual moderators and speakers are not preserved on the archived pages, so this entry reflects the official programme&#39;s thematic structure [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Data in Pandemic Times \u2014 Personal Information in the Contact-Tracing Era<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Data handling in pandemic times&#39; and the workshop &#39;Where is my data?&#39; (1 Dec)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the year contact-tracing apps and centralised health data went global, &#39;data handling in pandemic times&#39; was a headline panel [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The preparatory workshop &#39;Where is my data?&#39; taught citizens where their data resides and what rights they hold over it [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A user-level digital-security workshop for COVID-19 times addressed the risks of newly home-bound life [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Indigenous Languages Online \u2014 Wikiaku&#39;aipa, the Wayuu-Language Wikipedia<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop &#39;Wikiaku&#39;aipa: building an encyclopedia in Wayuunaiki&#39; (1 Dec)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A hands-on session taught participants how to contribute to Wikiaku&#39;aipa, the encyclopedia project in Wayuunaiki, the language of the Wayuu people [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>It stretched the access debate beyond &#39;getting people online&#39; to &#39;in which language the content awaits them&#39; \u2014 linguistic diversity and cultural appropriation of technology [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Together with the opening greeting from global MAG chair Anriette Esterhuysen (of South Africa&#39;s APC), the edition kept the view from the periphery in focus [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Digitalised Daily Life \u2014 Work, Education and Leisure Now<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;The present of digitalisation&#39; (2-3 Dec)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A synthesis panel on &#39;the present of digitalisation&#39; \u2014 the future of digital work, education, research, entertainment and everyday life \u2014 argued from lockdown experience [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>It revisited the 2019 labour panel&#39;s questions after the forced natural experiment of the pandemic [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Closing announcements promised travel scholarships for an in-person 2021 edition \u2014 which in the event remained virtual [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did COVID change?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The forum went fully online: four days on Zoom (two of workshops, two of panels) with sign-language interpretation, and an agenda dominated by the divide, data, economic reactivation and digitalised daily life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What set it apart from other national IGFs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A hands-on session for writing Wikipedia in the Indigenous Wayuu language \u2014 asking not just whether people get online, but whether their language awaits them there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Contact-tracing data and emergency remote schooling were universal 2020 dilemmas; this is also a case study in keeping multistakeholder dialogue alive online through a crisis.<\/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-2020-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Colombia IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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 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:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201126155126\/https:\/\/gobernanzadeinternet.co\/es\/foro-de-gobernanza\">Foro de Gobernanza 2020 \u2014 Acerca del 7\u00ba Foro Colombiano de Gobernanza de Internet\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8: \u6982\u8981\u30fb\u62db\u8acb\u72b6\u30fb\u30bf\u30e9\u30fc\u8a73\u7d30\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Mesa Colombiana de Gobernanza de Internet\uff08Wayback Machine 2020\u5e7411\u670826\u65e5\u30b9\u30ca\u30c3\u30d7\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gobernanzadeinternet.co\/es\/foros-anteriores\">Foros anteriores\uff08\u7b2cVII\u56de=2020\u5e7412\u67082-3\u65e5\u30fb\u30d0\u30fc\u30c1\u30e3\u30eb\uff08Zoom\uff09\u306e\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 gobernanzadeinternet.co (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\u670819\u65e5 17\u664218\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 2-3 December 2020 the 7th Colombian IGF went fully virtual for the first time, preceded by online beginner workshops on 30 November &#8211; 1 D<\/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":[163,775,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-14866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colombia-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-colombiaigf2020","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866","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=14866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}