{"id":15136,"date":"2022-08-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/08\/09\/en-panama-igf-2022-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:00:00","slug":"en-panama-igf-2022-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/08\/09\/en-panama-igf-2022-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Internet Governance Forum of Panama (V Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Panam\u00e1 2022) \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-panama-igf-2022-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Panama IGF 2022 \u30d1\u30ca\u30de\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3 \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-panama-igf-2022-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Panama IGF 2022 \u30d1\u30ca\u30de\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The fifth Internet Governance Forum of Panama ran all day on 31 August 2022 at Ciudad del Saber in Panama City, led by the University of Panama \u2014 150 in-person seats plus a livestream.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Under the theme &#39;a resilient Internet for a common, sustainable future&#39;, sessions covered the evolution of money, preserving the Internet for national development, data protection, e-commerce cybersecurity, and connectivity as a rights issue.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The series&#39; hallmark is its rotating stewardship \u2014 chamber-born in 2017, NGO-run in 2019, university-led by 2022 \u2014 and with the UN resident coordinator on stage, the link to the SDGs was explicit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Fifth Internet Governance Forum of Panama (V Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Panam\u00e1 2022)<\/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-panama-igf-2022-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Panama IGF 2022 \u30d1\u30ca\u30de\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3 \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>Fifth Internet Governance Forum of Panama (V Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Panam\u00e1 2022)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>Fifth edition (V Foro), per the University of Panama and AIG; editions III and IV were the 2020\u20132021 online dialogue formats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>31 August 2022, 9:00\u201317:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Convention Centre, Ciudad del Saber, Clayton, Panama City<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;Gobernanza de Internet en Panam\u00e1: Por una Internet resiliente para un Futuro Com\u00fan y Sostenible&#39; (A resilient Internet for a common, sustainable future)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>Up to 150 in person (free Eventbrite registration) plus a livestream<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Led by the University of Panama (Faculty of Informatics, Electronics and Communication), co-organised with Ciudad del Saber, the innovation authority AIG, NIC.pa, IPANDETEC, the ISOC Panam\u00e1 chapter and the IEEE Panama section<\/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-panama-igf-2022-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Panama IGF 2022 \u30d1\u30ca\u30de\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. A Resilient Internet \u2014 Preserving the Network for National Development<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Preserving the Internet for development&#39; and related sessions<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We all have to take part and generate synergies and articulations&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Alkin Saucedo (Director of Telecommunications, AIG; translated from Spanish)<\/strong> [1][2][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of Panama&#39;s Dr Iv\u00e1n Armuelles framed the IGF as a unique space for society to share information on the Internet&#39;s challenges across every sector [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>UN resident coordinator Cristian Munduate cast digital transformation as key to the 2030 Agenda, explicitly wiring the national IGF into UN goals [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>ISOC Panam\u00e1 chapter president Nayreth Gonz\u00e1lez pressed the Internet&#39;s role as a catalyst for development [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. E-Commerce Cybersecurity and the Evolution of Money \u2014 Managing the Risks of a Pandemic-Boosted Economy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panels on e-commerce cybersecurity and the evolution of money<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AIG national cybersecurity director Juan Ram\u00f3n Anria addressed securing the e-commerce environment \u2014 defending online commerce that had ballooned through the pandemic [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The &#39;evolution of money&#39; session weighed digital payments and new financial instruments from both consumer-protection and innovation angles [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Data Protection, Connectivity and Rights \u2014 The Inclusion Agenda<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Sessions on personal-data protection and connectivity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The workings of Panama&#39;s data-protection regime (Law 81 of 2019, in force since 2021) were examined alongside e-commerce growth [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>Connectivity was tied to rights guarantees, social development, education and gender equality \u2014 human rights in the information society as a load-bearing theme [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Move to University Stewardship \u2014 A Seven-Institution Coalition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Organisational record (from official announcements)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The fifth edition was led by the University of Panama&#39;s informatics faculty with seven co-organising institutions \u2014 Ciudad del Saber, AIG, NIC.pa, IPANDETEC, ISOC Panam\u00e1 and IEEE Panama \u2014 putting every stakeholder group on the organising side [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>The 150 free in-person seats ran on Eventbrite with a livestream alongside; local firms such as Vida Digital and Soluciones Seguras sponsored [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>Coordinators Gonz\u00e1lez (ISOC), Armuelles (University of Panama), Hern\u00e1ndez (IPANDETEC) and L\u00f3pez (UTP\/NIC.pa) linked the stewards of every edition since 2017 [1][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. Under the banner of a &#39;resilient Internet&#39;: the digitalisation of money, e-commerce cybersecurity, personal-data protection, and connectivity as a matter of rights, education and gender equality \u2014 across a full day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Who organised it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The University of Panama led a seven-institution coalition \u2014 AIG, NIC.pa, IPANDETEC, ISOC, IEEE and Ciudad del Saber \u2014 with the UN resident coordinator on stage tying the forum to the SDGs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The forum survived by relay: chamber, then NGO, then university stewardship. Not depending on any single institution is a pragmatic model for keeping a national dialogue alive.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Panama IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-panama-igf-2022-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Panama IGF 2022 \u30d1\u30ca\u30de\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3 \u2014 About Panama IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Panama 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 2022 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:\/\/upinforma.com\/nuevo\/info.php?cat=noticias&#038;s=universidad-de-panam-organiza-v-foro-gobernanza-de-internet-en-panam\">Universidad de Panam\u00e1 organiza V Foro Gobernanza de Internet en Panam\u00e1\uff08\u5927\u5b66\u5e83\u5831\u306e\u958b\u50ac\u5831\u9053: 8\u670831\u65e5\u30fb\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30fb7\u6a5f\u95a2\u30fb\u30a2\u30eb\u30e0\u30a8\u30b8\u30a7\u30b9\u767a\u8a00\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UP Informa\uff08\u30d1\u30ca\u30de\u5927\u5b66\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aig.gob.pa\/aspectos-tecnologicos-se-debaten-en-v-foro-de-gobernanza-de-internet-de-panama\/\">Aspectos tecnol\u00f3gicos se debaten en V Foro de Gobernanza de Internet de Panam\u00e1\uff08\u653f\u5e9cAIG\u306e\u958b\u50ac\u5831\u9053: \u30b5\u30a6\u30bb\u30c9\u30fb\u30a2\u30f3\u30ea\u30a2\u30fb\u30e0\u30f3\u30c9\u30a5\u30a2\u30c6\u5404\u6c0f\u306e\u767b\u58c7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 AIG\uff08\u30d1\u30ca\u30de\u653f\u5e9c\u30a4\u30ce\u30d9\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u5e81\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ipandetec.org\/gobernanza-de-internet\/igf-panama-2022\/\">IGF Panam\u00e1 2022\uff08\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40IPANDETEC\u306e\u958b\u50ac\u6848\u5185: \u5b9a\u54e1150\u540d\u30fb\u5354\u8cdb\u30fb\u30b3\u30fc\u30c7\u30a3\u30cd\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IPANDETEC (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 21\u664203\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 fifth Internet Governance Forum of Panama ran all day on 31 August 2022 at Ciudad del Saber in Panama City, led by the University of Pan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,131,11],"tags":[163,161,160,162,2749,164],"class_list":["post-15136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-panama-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-panamaigf2022","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136","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=15136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}