{"id":14927,"date":"2017-07-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/07\/22\/en-afghanistan-igf-2017-overview\/"},"modified":"2017-07-22T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T02:00:00","slug":"en-afghanistan-igf-2017-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/07\/22\/en-afghanistan-igf-2017-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGFA 2017 \u2014 the first Internet Governance Forum of Afghanistan \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 29\u201330 March 2017, Kabul hosted IGFA 2017, Afghanistan's first-ever Internet Governance Forum, bringing government, civil society and the technical community to one table.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. APNIC's Paul Wilson spoke on the global, open and neutral nature of the Internet, alongside an IPv6 deployment workshop and a cybersecurity panel.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. The forum showed that multistakeholder dialogue can start even in a conflict-affected country \u2014 the women attendees photographed as 'the Afghan DNS Women' became its symbol.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on IGFA 2017 \u2014 the first Internet Governance Forum of Afghanistan<\/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>\nIGFA 2017 \u2014 the first Internet Governance Forum of Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Edition<\/td>\nFirst meeting of IGFA (matches the series' establishment year 2017 in the UN NRI record)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n29\u201330 March 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nKabul, Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nRegional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nAfghanistan's Internet community (Internet Society Afghanistan circle), with APNIC speaker support and Internet Society webcasts of all sessions<\/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. An Inaugural Forum \u2014 Multistakeholder Dialogue Begins in a Conflict-Affected Country<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: Opening session (29 March 2017)<\/p>\n