{"id":15006,"date":"2018-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/08\/25\/en-costarica-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-08-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T15:00:00","slug":"en-costarica-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/08\/25\/en-costarica-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica 2018 (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-2018-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2018 \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-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2018 \u30b5\u30f3\u30db\u30bb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The second Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica (DGI CR) met on 11 September 2018 at Universidad Latina&#39;s San Pedro campus in San Jos\u00e9, with 115 participants \u2014 nearly double the first year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Working groups tackled three axes \u2014 access, human rights and trust \u2014 chosen through a public consultation that drew 63 responses, and a final technical report was published.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The shift from listen-to-panels to working groups, and outreach down to middle-school students, mark a small national IGF deepening its dialogue in year two.<\/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 2018 (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-2018-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2018 \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 2018 (Di\u00e1logo de Gobernanza de Internet, DGI CR)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>Second edition \u2014 the official technical report states it was held &#39;por segundo a\u00f1o consecutivo&#39;; earlier catalogue claims of a 2018 debut are wrong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>11 September 2018, 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>115 (Per the official technical report: 115 participants across technical, government, student, academic, private-sector and civil-society groups, including 7th\u20139th graders from Lumen School)<\/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<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>A final technical report (Reporte T\u00e9cnico) was published<\/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-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2018 \u30b5\u30f3\u30db\u30bb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Switching to Working Groups \u2014 Access, Human Rights and Trust<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Main meeting (8:00\u201313:00): three working groups with joint opening and shared conclusions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The second edition adopted a working-group format: three topic groups, with only the opening and the presentation of conclusions held in plenary [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Topics came from a 2\u201323 July public consultation (63 responses): net neutrality (31.7%) and broadband led the access axis, &#39;should new human rights be added for the Internet?&#39; (38.1%) led the rights axis, and cybersecurity (34.9%) plus data protection led the trust axis [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Respondents were 41.3% academia, 20.6% government, 20.6% technical and 12.7% civil society \u2014 an unusually strong academic presence [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Broadening Participation \u2014 115 Attendees, Down to Middle Schoolers<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Main meeting and operations record<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attendance nearly doubled from the first year (about 70) to 115, keeping the multi-sector mix of technical, government, student, academic, private and civil-society participants [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Local Lumen School helped with logistics and registration, bringing its 7th\u20139th graders into the room \u2014 direct exposure of school-age children to Internet-governance dialogue [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Preparatory Webinars \u2014 Learning from Uruguay<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Pre-events: webinars on 12 May, 7 June and 28 August; a conversation forum on 12 July<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The May webinar &#39;What is an IGF and how can I take part?&#39; featured Alejandra Erramuspe, IGF Uruguay representative and member of the IGF&#39;s Multistakeholder Advisory Group, sharing a neighbour&#39;s experience [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>In June, Ignacio Trejos Zelaya lectured on net neutrality for non-discriminatory social and economic development; on 12 July a conversation forum was held at the CIEMI training centre in Curridabat with ISOC figures [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>On 28 August, NIC Costa Rica&#39;s Susana Chaves Araya ran a webinar on the event&#39;s dynamics, preparing participants for the working-group format [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Diversified Funding \u2014 ICANN and IGFSA Join in Year Two<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Operations (from the official technical report)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The USD 6,000 budget roughly doubled year one&#39;s; ICANN and the IGF Support Association (IGFSA) joined the ISOC Costa Rica chapter and LACNIC as funders [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Spending covered venue setup, materials, catering, promotion and a new official website; the Internet Society Foundation&#39;s project list also records &#39;IGF Costa Rica 2018&#39; [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was discussed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Three axes chosen by public consultation \u2014 access, human rights and trust: net neutrality, whether the Internet age needs new human rights, cybersecurity and data protection \u2014 debated hands-on in working groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What changed from year one?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Format and scale. Panels gave way to participant-driven working groups, attendance grew from about 70 to 115, middle schoolers helped run the day, and ICANN and IGFSA joined as funders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It is a template for growing a national IGF in year two: set the agenda by consultation, work in groups, publish a report \u2014 a modest, repeatable loop any local dialogue can copy.<\/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-2018-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2018 \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 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=\"https:\/\/igf.cr\/edicion-2018\/\">Edici\u00f3n 2018\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30fb\u958b\u50ac\u8a18\u9332: 2018-09-11 Universidad Latina San Pedro\u30fb\u53c2\u52a0115\u540d\u30fb\u4e88\u7b976,000\u30c9\u30eb\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF Costa Rica\uff08igf.cr\uff09 (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\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u6280\u8853\u5831\u544a\u66f8:\u300csegundo a\u00f1o consecutivo\u300d\u30fb\u4f5c\u696d\u30b0\u30eb\u30fc\u30d7\u65b9\u5f0f\u30fb\u30b3\u30f3\u30b5\u30eb\u30c6\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f363\u56de\u7b54\u306e\u5185\u8a33\u30fb\u6e96\u5099\u30a6\u30a7\u30d3\u30ca\u30fc\u8a73\u7d30\uff09<\/a> \u2014 DGI CR \u7d44\u7e54\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isocfoundation.org\/project\/igf-costa-rica-2018\/\">IGF Costa Rica 2018\uff08Beyond the Net\u52a9\u6210\u30d7\u30ed\u30b8\u30a7\u30af\u30c8\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Internet Society Foundation (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\u30fb\u958b\u50ac\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 NIC Costa Rica \/ IGF Costa Rica (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\u670810\u65e5 9\u664258\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 second Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica (DGI CR) met on 11 September 2018 at Universidad Latina&#8217;s San Pedro campus in San Jos\u00e9<\/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":[163,507,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-15006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costarica-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-costaricaigf2018","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006","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=15006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}