{"id":15009,"date":"2019-08-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/08\/17\/en-costarica-igf-2019-overview\/"},"modified":"2019-08-17T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:00:00","slug":"en-costarica-igf-2019-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/08\/17\/en-costarica-igf-2019-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica 2019 (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-2019-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2019 \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-2019-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2019 \u30b5\u30f3\u30db\u30bb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The third Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica (DGI CR) met on 25 September 2019 at Universidad Latina&#39;s San Pedro campus in San Jos\u00e9, with 55 participants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Working groups \u2014 the format inherited from 2018 \u2014 tackled three publicly consulted themes: the digital divide, IoT and emerging technologies, and human rights in the virtual world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Attendance and budget shrank from the previous year, but the tri-sector committee and pre-event consultation held firm. It proved the last in-person edition before the pandemic.<\/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 2019 (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-2019-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2019 \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 2019 (Di\u00e1logo de Gobernanza de Internet, DGI CR)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>25 September 2019, 9:00\u201312:00<\/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>55 (Per the official edicion-2019 page: 55 participants 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), 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-2019-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2019 \u30b5\u30f3\u30db\u30bb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Digital Divide \u2014 Gaps Even in a Regional Front-Runner<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Working group 1: Digital divide<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A public consultation held 19 July\u201316 August (15 responses) put the digital divide first among the three themes [1]<\/li>\n<li>Even in Costa Rica, a Central American connectivity leader, rural and low-income access gaps remained a standing concern of the national IGF [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. IoT and Emerging Technologies \u2014 Governing the Devices Moving In<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Working group 2: IoT and emerging technologies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Internet of Things and emerging technologies joined rights and divide topics on the 2019 agenda, a technical-community priority set alongside social ones [1]<\/li>\n<li>The group weighed benefits and risks of new technologies, including their security and privacy implications, across sectors [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Human Rights in the Virtual World \u2014 Deepening the 2018 Rights Axis<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Working group 3: Human rights in the virtual world<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The human-rights axis that drew strong interest in 2018 was promoted to a stand-alone theme for continued discussion [1]<\/li>\n<li>Combining open discussion with working groups, 55 participants distilled conclusions within a compact three-hour programme [1]<\/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 themes picked by public consultation \u2014 the digital divide, IoT and emerging technologies, and human rights online \u2014 debated by 55 participants in working groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why was it smaller?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Attendance halved (115 to 55) and the budget fell from USD 6,000 to 2,000. The record gives no reason, but external funders (ICANN, IGFSA) dropped out, leaving the three domestic organisers to self-fund.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It shows the value of keeping the loop intact \u2014 crowd-sourced agenda, working groups, annual cadence \u2014 even in a lean year. Continuity, not size, builds a national IGF&#39;s credibility.<\/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-2019-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2019 \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 2019 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-2019\/\">Edici\u00f3n 2019\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30fb\u958b\u50ac\u8a18\u9332: 2019-09-25 Universidad Latina San Pedro\u30fb\u53c2\u52a055\u540d\u30fb3\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30fb\u4e88\u7b972,000\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\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\u67087\u65e5 13\u664248\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 Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica (DGI CR) met on 25 September 2019 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":[163,2702,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-15009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costarica-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-costaricaigf2019","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009","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=15009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}