{"id":15011,"date":"2020-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/08\/04\/en-costarica-igf-2020-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-08-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:00:00","slug":"en-costarica-igf-2020-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/08\/04\/en-costarica-igf-2020-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica 2020 (DGI CR, online edition) \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-2020-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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-2020-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 23 September 2020, the Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica (DGI CR) went fully online for the first time due to COVID-19 \u2014 a two-hour panel streamed via Zoom and Facebook Live.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Under the theme &#39;strengthening Internet governance in the pandemic era&#39;, speakers from LACTLD, MICITT and IPANDETEC discussed crisis-time public policy and regional cooperation, and marked NIC Costa Rica&#39;s 30th anniversary.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The headline is continuity: the half-day in-person event shrank to a two-hour stream rather than skip a year \u2014 a textbook case of a national IGF keeping its annual cadence through 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 2020 (DGI CR, online edition)<\/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<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; The catalogue lists the location as TBD; the official record confirms a fully virtual edition due to COVID-19<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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-2020-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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 2020 (DGI CR, online edition)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>23 September 2020, 9:30\u201311:30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Held online: panellists on Zoom, public viewing via Facebook Live on the ISOC CR and NIC CR pages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;C\u00f3mo aportar al Fortalecimiento de la Gobernanza de Internet en \u00e9poca de Pandemia&#39; (Strengthening Internet governance in the pandemic era)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Organised by NIC Costa Rica with the ISOC Costa Rica chapter and MICITT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Note<\/td>\n<td>Marked the 30th anniversary of NIC Costa Rica (the .cr registry)<\/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-2020-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Governance Under the Pandemic \u2014 A Crisis That Proved the Internet&#39;s Public Role<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Online panel, 9:30\u201311:30, moderated by ISOC CR president Silvia P\u00e9rez-Baires<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The central question was how to strengthen Internet governance in the pandemic era, as remote work and schooling made connectivity&#39;s public role unavoidable [1]<\/li>\n<li>MICITT&#39;s Ang\u00e9lica Chinchilla presented the government&#39;s COVID-19 policy response \u2014 the committee&#39;s government seat reporting on crisis management [1]<\/li>\n<li>Each speaker gave a 15-minute presentation followed by a lessons-learned round and a 25-minute public Q&amp;A, a flow designed for the online format [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Latin American Perspectives \u2014 LACTLD and IPANDETEC on the Panel<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Presentations within the same panel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Miguel Ignacio Estrada, general manager of LACTLD (the Latin American and Caribbean ccTLD association), reported on regional Internet development \u2014 registry-level regional ties sustaining dialogue through the pandemic [1]<\/li>\n<li>L\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez, executive director of Panama&#39;s IPANDETEC, presented governance good practices \u2014 Central American national IGFs lending each other speakers [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Going Virtual at a 30-Year Milestone \u2014 Changing Form to Keep Going<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening remarks and streaming operations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A two-tier setup \u2014 panellists on Zoom, the public on ISOC CR and NIC CR Facebook Live \u2014 replaced the three-hour in-person working groups with a two-hour streamed panel [1]<\/li>\n<li>The opening marked the 30th anniversary of NIC Costa Rica, the .cr registry; the recording was published on social media with a summary document planned [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. How was it held?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Fully online: four panellists debated on Zoom while the public watched on Facebook Live, and the usual half-day shrank to two hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was discussed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. How to strengthen Internet governance during the pandemic \u2014 the government&#39;s policy response, regional trends from the ccTLD association LACTLD, and good practices from Panama&#39;s IPANDETEC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Faced with a crisis year, the organisers chose &#39;smaller but held&#39; over &#39;cancelled&#39; \u2014 a lesson for any community event: two streamed hours can keep an annual institution alive.<\/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-2020-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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 2020 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-2020\/\">Edici\u00f3n 2020\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30fb\u958b\u50ac\u8a18\u9332: 2020-09-23 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3\u30fbZoom\uff0bFacebook Live\u30fb\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u3068\u9032\u884c\u306e\u8a73\u7d30\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\u67084\u65e5 21\u664226\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>On 23 September 2020, the Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica (DGI CR) went fully online for the first time due to COVID-19 \u2014 a two-h<\/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":[163,2703,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-15011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costarica-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-costaricaigf2020","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011","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=15011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}