{"id":14965,"date":"2018-10-18T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/10\/18\/en-belarus-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:00:00","slug":"en-belarus-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/10\/18\/en-belarus-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus IGF 2018 \u2014 the 3rd Belarus 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\/08\/en-belarus-igf-2018-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Belarus IGF 2018 \u30df\u30f3\u30b9\u30af \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-belarus-igf-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Belarus IGF 2018 \u30df\u30f3\u30b9\u30af \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The third Belarus IGF met at the Minsk Marriott Hotel on 3 October 2018, again organised by hoster.by within the UN framework with ICANN and RIPE NCC support.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The draft programme paired thematic sessions on e-government and on media and content with three roundtables \u2014 cybersecurity, online civic activism and IoT \u2014 featuring ISOC, ICANN, Facebook, Group-IB and SecDev speakers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Billed by organisers on the strength of the previous year&#39;s 400-plus participants from 20 countries, it consolidated one of Eastern Europe&#39;s largest national IGFs \u2014 the stable years before the 2020\u20132022 hiatus.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Belarus IGF 2018 \u2014 the 3rd Belarus 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\/08\/en-belarus-igf-2018-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Belarus IGF 2018 \u30df\u30f3\u30b9\u30af \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>Belarus IGF 2018 \u2014 the 3rd Belarus Internet Governance Forum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>Third edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>3 October 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Minsk Marriott Hotel, 20 Pobediteley Avenue, Minsk<\/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>hoster.by (Reliable Software, Ltd.), organised within the UN framework with ICANN and RIPE NCC support<\/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\/08\/en-belarus-igf-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Belarus IGF 2018 \u30df\u30f3\u30b9\u30af \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Third Edition \u2014 an International Line-up, ISOC Included<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall programme, 3 October 2018 (draft)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After the opening plenary, ISOC&#39;s senior manager for regional affairs in Europe, Maarit Palovirta, was slated to present the Internet Society&#39;s view of internet governance [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The official English site stated the forum &#39;will be held in Minsk on October 3, 2018&#39;, listing hoster.by&#39;s Povalishev, ICANN&#39;s Alexandra Kulikova (Eastern Europe and Central Asia), RIPE NCC&#39;s Maxim Burtikov and Human Constanta&#39;s Alexey Kozliuk among speakers [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The venue repeated 2017&#39;s: the Minsk Marriott, 20 Pobediteley Avenue [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Three Roundtables \u2014 Cybersecurity, Civic Activism, IoT<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtables, 14:30\u201316:00 (draft)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cybersecurity roundtable \u2014 &#39;the internet as a zone of instability&#39; \u2014 was moderated by Group-IB&#39;s Belarus business lead Alexander Sushko, with SecDev co-founder Rafal Rohozinski, the Emergencies Ministry, the military information agency Vayar and the state broadcaster [2]<\/li>\n<li>The online-civic-activism roundtable, moderated by OEEC&#39;s Svetlana Zinkevich, drew Baltic Internet Policy Initiative&#39;s Mikhail Doroshevich, trade and IP officials, lawyers and the founder of e-commerce leader OZ.by [2]<\/li>\n<li>The IoT roundtable was set to be moderated by ICANN VP Mikhail Yakushev, with Russia&#39;s internet ombudsman Marinichev and domain\/telecom figures from Russia, Ukraine and Moldova [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. E-Government and Media \u2014 with Facebook at the Table<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Thematic sessions, 12:00\u201313:30 (draft)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two thematic sessions ran in parallel \u2014 e-government, and media and content, the latter with Facebook&#39;s head of relations with state and public organisations, Uliana Zinina [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>E-government appearing for a third straight year underlines the forum&#39;s core concern: turning digital administration toward citizens [2][4]<\/li>\n<li>The Steering Committee&#39;s September 2020 open letter, citing ministry support &#39;of the Forums over the past 4 years&#39;, officially corroborates the unbroken 2016\u20132019 run that includes this edition [2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What kind of meeting was this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The third Belarus IGF, at the Minsk Marriott: roundtables on cybersecurity, civic activism and IoT plus sessions on e-government and media, with ISOC, ICANN and Facebook speakers in the mix.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What stands out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The seating chart. Security agencies and state media shared a programme with a human-rights NGO and foreign companies \u2014 a balance characteristic of the Belarus IGF&#39;s stable years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Putting a private threat-intelligence firm in the moderator&#39;s chair for cybersecurity, and platforms at the same table as officials, are design choices any national IGF can learn from.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Belarus IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-belarus-igf-2018-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Belarus IGF 2018 \u30df\u30f3\u30b9\u30af \u2014 About Belarus IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Belarus 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 2018 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=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180903162212\/https:\/\/igf.by\/en\/\">Belarus IGF \u82f1\u8a9e\u7248\u30c8\u30c3\u30d7\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff08\u300cwill be held in Minsk on October 3, 2018\u300d\u30fb\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u30fb\u4f1a\u5834\u30022018-09-03\u6642\u70b9\u306eWayback\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Belarus IGF\uff08igf.by\u3001Internet Archive\u7d4c\u7531\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180903161351\/https:\/\/igf.by\/schedule\/\">\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u0430\uff082018\u5e74\u5927\u4f1a\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u66ab\u5b9a\u7248\u30022018-09-03\u6642\u70b9\u306eWayback\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Belarus IGF\uff08igf.by\u3001Internet Archive\u7d4c\u7531\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180903161314\/https:\/\/igf.by\/venue\/\">\u041c\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f\uff08\u4f1a\u5834\u30da\u30fc\u30b8: Minsk Marriott Hotel, \u043f\u0440. \u041f\u043e\u0431\u0435\u0434\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0439 20\u30022018-09-03\u6642\u70b9\u306eWayback\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Belarus IGF\uff08igf.by\u3001Internet Archive\u7d4c\u7531\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210117102645\/https:\/\/igf.by\/en\/news\/the-5th-belarus-igf-will-not-be-held-this-year-an-open-letter-by-the-belarus-igf-steering-committee\/\">The 5th Belarus IGF will not be held this year. An open letter by the Belarus IGF Steering Committee\uff082020-09-01\u4ed8: \u300c\u904e\u53bb4\u5e74\u306e\u30d5\u30a9\u30fc\u30e9\u30e0\u300d\u8a00\u53ca\u3002Wayback\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Belarus IGF\u904b\u55b6\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\uff08igf.by\u3001Internet Archive\u7d4c\u7531\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/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\u5e748\u670812\u65e5 10\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>The third Belarus IGF met at the Minsk Marriott Hotel on 3 October 2018, again organised by hoster.by within the UN framework with ICANN and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[163,2683,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-14965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-belarusigf2018","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14965","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=14965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}