{"id":15014,"date":"2023-08-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/08\/28\/en-costarica-igf-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T20:00:00","slug":"en-costarica-igf-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/08\/28\/en-costarica-igf-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica 2023 (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-2023-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2023 \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-2023-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2023 \u30b5\u30f3\u30db\u30bb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 2023 Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica (DGI CR) met on the afternoon of 4 October at ULACIT&#39;s Tourn\u00f3n campus in San Jos\u00e9, with 55 in-person attendees and a Facebook Live stream.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two panels \u2014 &#39;financial cybersecurity: protecting digital assets&#39; and &#39;human rights in the digital era: guaranteeing Internet inclusion&#39; \u2014 featured five speakers including the Ombudsman&#39;s office and a youth-IGF representative.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Telecom regulator SUTEL and host university ULACIT joined as co-organisers, widening the coalition. Pairing consumer protection with rights guarantees made this a citizen-centred national IGF.<\/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 2023 (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-2023-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2023 \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 2023 (Di\u00e1logo de Gobernanza de Internet, DGI CR)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>4 October 2023, 13:30\u201316:30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>ULACIT (Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnolog\u00eda), Tourn\u00f3n campus, San Jos\u00e9<\/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 (55 in-person attendees per the official page; also streamed via Facebook Live)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Co-organised by NIC Costa Rica (National Academy of Sciences), the ministry MICITT, telecom regulator SUTEL, ISOC and ULACIT<\/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-2023-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2023 \u30b5\u30f3\u30db\u30bb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Financial Cybersecurity \u2014 Protecting Digital Assets<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 1: &#39;Financial cybersecurity: protecting digital assets&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rub\u00e9n Fallas, a systems and telecoms engineer with 15+ years in information security, and Adalid Medrano, a digital-law attorney and international cybercrime consultant, discussed protecting citizens&#39; assets from account takeovers and e-fraud [1]<\/li>\n<li>After the 2022 ransomware crisis, the security debate visibly shifted from defending state infrastructure to preventing everyday financial harm [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Human Rights in the Digital Era \u2014 The Guarantors&#39; Perspective on Inclusion<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 2: &#39;Human rights in the digital era: guaranteeing Internet inclusion&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hazel D\u00edaz, director of public governance and labour affairs at the Ombudsman&#39;s office (Defensor\u00eda de los Habitantes), brought the national human-rights guarantor onto the main panel [1]<\/li>\n<li>Youth activist Karen Cruz \u2014 Costa Rica&#39;s representative at Youth LACIGF and the global IGF \u2014 and systems engineer Leidy Guill\u00e9n, with a public-policy research background, spanned generations and sectors on inclusion [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. A Wider Coalition \u2014 SUTEL and ULACIT Join as Co-Organisers<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Organisational record<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The traditional NIC Costa Rica\u2013MICITT\u2013ISOC trio grew to five co-organisers with telecom regulator SUTEL and host university ULACIT [1]<\/li>\n<li>An afternoon slot (13:30\u201316:30), a university campus and a Facebook Live stream widened access for students and the general public [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. Two panels: financial cybersecurity \u2014 protecting people&#39;s digital assets from online-banking fraud \u2014 and guaranteeing Internet inclusion as a human right, with the national Ombudsman&#39;s office on stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What changed this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The organising coalition grew: telecom regulator SUTEL and host university ULACIT joined the registry\u2013ministry\u2013ISOC trio, the venue moved onto a campus, and the youth-IGF generation was on the panel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Treating everyday fraud protection as an Internet-governance topic bridges consumer protection and net policy \u2014 a framing worth borrowing anywhere.<\/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-2023-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Costa Rica IGF 2023 \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 2023 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-2023\/\">Edici\u00f3n 2023\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30fb\u958b\u50ac\u8a18\u9332: 2023-10-04 ULACIT Tourn\u00f3n\u30fb\u5bfe\u976255\u540d\u30fb2\u30d1\u30cd\u30eb\u3068\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u7565\u6b74\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\u67089\u65e5 19\u664207\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 2023 Internet Governance Dialogue of Costa Rica (DGI CR) met on the afternoon of 4 October at ULACIT&#8217;s Tourn\u00f3n campus in San Jos\u00e9, with <\/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":[163,2704,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-15014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costarica-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-costaricaigf2023","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014","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=15014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}