{"id":15005,"date":"2017-08-21T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/08\/21\/en-costarica-igf-2017-overview\/"},"modified":"2017-08-21T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T18:00:00","slug":"en-costarica-igf-2017-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/08\/21\/en-costarica-igf-2017-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica 2017 (Di\u00e1logo de Gobernanza de Internet, DGI CR) \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-costarica-igf-2017-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2017 \u30b5\u30f3\u30db\u30bb \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-costarica-igf-2017-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2017 \u30b5\u30f3\u30db\u30bb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Costa Rica&#39;s first national IGF, the Internet Governance Dialogue (DGI CR), met on 31 August 2017 at Universidad Latina&#39;s San Pedro campus in San Jos\u00e9, drawing about 70 participants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A tri-sector committee \u2014 NIC Costa Rica, the science and telecom ministry MICITT and the ISOC Costa Rica chapter \u2014 built the agenda bottom-up through a public consultation and three preparatory webinars, in a half-day format.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It launched on a budget of just USD 3,200, yet the same tri-sector model has carried the Dialogue almost every year since \u2014 a Central American case study in starting small and lasting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica 2017 (Di\u00e1logo de Gobernanza de Internet, DGI CR)<\/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-costarica-igf-2017-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2017 \u30b5\u30f3\u30db\u30bb \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>Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica 2017 (Di\u00e1logo de Gobernanza de Internet, DGI CR)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>First edition \u2014 the official site states the Dialogue was &#39;realizado por primera vez en 2017&#39;, and the 2018 technical report calls 2018 the &#39;second consecutive year&#39;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>31 August 2017, 8:00\u201313:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Universidad Latina, San Pedro campus, San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>70 (Per the official edicion-2017 page: 70 attendees from technical, government, student, academic, private-sector and civil-society backgrounds)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Tri-sector organising committee: NIC Costa Rica (technical community), MICITT (government) and the ISOC Costa Rica chapter (civil society)<\/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-costarica-igf-2017-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2017 \u30b5\u30f3\u30db\u30bb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. How the First Edition Came Together \u2014 A Tri-Sector Committee and Public Consultation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Preparatory process and main meeting (8:00\u201313:00, moderated panels)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Government (MICITT), civil society (ISOC) and the technical community (NIC Costa Rica) jointly launched the Dialogue in 2017; committee members included Ang\u00e9lica Chinchilla (MICITT), Luis Carlos Solano and Nancy Quir\u00f3s (ISOC), and Susana Chaves of NIC CR [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A public consultation ran from 26 June to 21 July to set the agenda, drawing responses from civil-society, government, technical and academic sectors [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The main meeting used moderated panel discussions, with about 70 participants from technical, government, student, academic, private-sector and civil-society backgrounds [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. A Minimum-Viable National IGF \u2014 What a USD 3,200 Budget Means<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Operations (from the official record)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The USD 3,200 budget covered venue setup, materials, catering and promotion, funded by the ISOC Costa Rica chapter and LACNIC \u2014 regional Internet institutions underwriting a national dialogue [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Three preparatory webinars gave first-time participants grounding in Internet governance; the &#39;pre-learning plus main meeting&#39; pattern carried into later editions [1][2]<\/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. Costa Rica&#39;s first national IGF: a half-day on a university campus where about 70 people from government, business, civil society and the technical community talked as equals, with the agenda set by a public consultation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Who ran it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A three-party committee \u2014 NIC Costa Rica (the .cr registry), the ministry MICITT and the ISOC Costa Rica chapter. The tri-sector balance was baked in from day one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It shows a national IGF can start with USD 3,200 and half a day \u2014 a start-small, repeat-annually model relevant to any community wanting its own Internet-governance dialogue.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Costa Rica IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-costarica-igf-2017-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2017 \u30b5\u30f3\u30db\u30bb \u2014 About Costa Rica IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Costa Rica 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 2017 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:\/\/igf.cr\/edicion-2017\/\">Edici\u00f3n 2017\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30fb\u7b2c1\u56de\u958b\u50ac\u8a18\u9332: 2017-08-31 Universidad Latina San Pedro\u30fb\u53c2\u52a070\u540d\u30fb\u4e88\u7b973,200\u30c9\u30eb\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF Costa Rica\uff08igf.cr\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igf.cr\/\">IGF &#8211; Di\u00e1logo de Gobernanza de Internet de Costa Rica\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30c8\u30c3\u30d7:\u300crealizado por primera vez en 2017\u300d\u30fb\u958b\u50ac\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 NIC Costa Rica \/ IGF Costa Rica (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Reporte-Teicnico-Final-IGF-CR-2018-1.pdf\">Reporte T\u00e9cnico Final DGI CR 2018\uff082018\u5e74\u3092\u300csegundo a\u00f1o consecutivo\u300d\u3068\u8a18\u8f09 = 2017\u521d\u958b\u50ac\u306e\u508d\u8a3c\uff09<\/a> \u2014 DGI CR \u7d44\u7e54\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a (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 18\u664204\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>Costa Rica&#8217;s first national IGF, the Internet Governance Dialogue (DGI CR), met on 31 August 2017 at Universidad Latina&#8217;s San Pedro campus i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,3,19,11],"tags":[163,2701,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-15005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costarica-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-costaricaigf2017","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005","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=15005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}