{"id":14977,"date":"2022-09-08T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/09\/08\/en-botswana-igf-2022-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:00:00","slug":"en-botswana-igf-2022-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/09\/08\/en-botswana-igf-2022-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana IGF 2022 annual meeting \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Botswana<\/p>\n

The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n

\"Botswana<\/p>\n

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  1. On 4 August 2022, Botswana's national Internet Governance Forum met for one day in Gaborone \u2014 the second verifiable annual meeting, recorded in the annual-meeting line of the UN IGF's African NRI listing.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. No agenda, speakers or outcome documents were published, and not a single annual report for this 2019-founded NRI has ever appeared on the UN IGF site.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. This is also the last meeting on the UN IGF's records for the series \u2014 a telling example of how hard it is for Africa's smaller NRIs to sustain activity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on Botswana IGF 2022 annual meeting<\/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

    \"Botswana<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Item<\/th>\nDetail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Official name<\/td>\nBotswana IGF 2022 annual meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n4 August 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nGaborone (no venue name on record) (Series verification found the earlier 'Francistown' entry to be a fabricated city swap; per the UN IGF listing the meeting was in Gaborone (catalogue since corrected))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nRegional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nBotswana IGF (NRI established in 2019; coordinator Phuthego Chere)<\/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

    \"Botswana<\/p>\n

    Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n

    1. The Last Meeting on Record \u2014 a One-Day Forum, Then Silence<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: Annual meeting (4 August, Gaborone)<\/p>\n