{"id":15141,"date":"2017-08-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/08\/11\/en-paraguay-igf-2017-overview\/"},"modified":"2017-08-11T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:00:00","slug":"en-paraguay-igf-2017-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/08\/11\/en-paraguay-igf-2017-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (4to Foro de Gobernanza de Internet, IGFPY 2017) \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-paraguay-igf-2017-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2017 \u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\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-paraguay-igf-2017-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2017 \u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The fourth Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (IGFPY) ran over two days, 29\u201330 November 2017, at the World Trade Center in Asunci\u00f3n.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sessions covered state surveillance and privacy, health-database interoperability, blockchain, e-commerce and DNS practice, with international guests including EFF&#39;s Katitza Rodr\u00edguez; the mayor of Asunci\u00f3n and the SENATICs minister opened the event.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It became the stage where civil-society group TEDIC pressed its surveillance research onto government \u2014 and the push that grew into Paraguay&#39;s personal-data-protection coalition. A turning point toward real policy dialogue.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Fourth Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (4to Foro de Gobernanza de Internet, IGFPY 2017)<\/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 had the venue unconfirmed (Asunci\u00f3n presumed); TEDIC and Asunci\u00f3n municipal records fix it as the World Trade Center Asunci\u00f3n<\/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-paraguay-igf-2017-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2017 \u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\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>Fourth Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (4to Foro de Gobernanza de Internet, IGFPY 2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>Fourth edition (&#39;4to Foro&#39; per TEDIC), in the annual run started in 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>29\u201330 November 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>World Trade Center Asunci\u00f3n, Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Co-organised by ISOC Paraguay, the National Computing Centre (CNC), SENATICs, TEDIC, CAPACE, APADIT, Universidad Columbia del Paraguay and CONACYT, with sponsors including the carrier Personal, Tecknos, Sapena y Asociados and Capitolio<\/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-paraguay-igf-2017-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2017 \u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. State Surveillance of Communications \u2014 &#39;Who Defends Your Data?&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;State surveillance of communications&#39;, led by TEDIC<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TEDIC presented findings from its &#39;Qui\u00e9n Defiende Tus Datos&#39; project, showing domestic ISPs sharing call metadata without judicial orders [1]<\/li>\n<li>The espionage case against a journalist of the daily ABC Color grounded the surveillance-versus-rights debate in a concrete national incident [1]<\/li>\n<li>Katitza Rodr\u00edguez, the EFF&#39;s international rights director, brought global communications-privacy standards to the stage [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Health Databases and Privacy \u2014 The Pitfalls of Interoperability<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Database interoperability and privacy: a health case study&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TEDIC reported joint research with Privacy International on personal-data protection in public institutions, using health databases as the case study for interoperability risks [1]<\/li>\n<li>In a Paraguay then lacking a comprehensive data-protection law, the panel exposed the public sector&#39;s data-governance gap \u2014 groundwork for the later legislative push and data-protection coalition [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. From Blockchain to E-Commerce \u2014 The Two-Day Tech and Economy Track<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panels and hands-on workshops, including the DNS industry<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beyond privacy, the two days spanned blockchain, communications infrastructure, e-commerce, digital signatures and electronic court records, cybersecurity and digital entrepreneurship [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A practical DNS-industry workshop ran alongside the policy panels, pairing training with debate [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Business, government, academia and civil society filled the WTC Asunci\u00f3n, with private sponsors such as the carrier Personal underwriting the two-day format [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Opened by the Mayor and the Minister \u2014 City and State Digital Agendas<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening ceremony, 29 November \u2014 Asunci\u00f3n mayor Mario Ferreiro, SENATICs minister David Ocampos and others<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The opening drew mayor Ferreiro and minister Ocampos alongside COPACO president Eduardo Gonz\u00e1lez, ISOC&#39;s Raquel Gatto, ICANN&#39;s Daniel Fink and the IDB&#39;s country representative Eduardo Almeida [2]<\/li>\n<li>On smart cities, mayor Ferreiro argued technology should be judged above all by whether it serves the people \u2014 a residents-first framing of urban digitalisation [2]<\/li>\n<li>ICANN and ISOC regional figures present since 2014 returned for the fourth edition, showing the forum&#39;s sustained international anchoring [2]<\/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. The headline was state surveillance and privacy \u2014 warrantless sharing of call metadata and the spying case against a journalist \u2014 alongside blockchain, e-commerce, health-data handling and hands-on DNS training over two days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Who showed up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The mayor of Asunci\u00f3n and the SENATICs minister opened it; the EFF, ISOC, ICANN and the Inter-American Development Bank sent speakers, plus the head of state carrier COPACO. Civil-society group TEDIC drove the agenda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It shows a civil-society research project confronting government and industry inside a national IGF, then feeding a data-protection law movement \u2014 a replicable loop of research, public debate and legislative push.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Paraguay IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-paraguay-igf-2017-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2017 \u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\u30f3 \u2014 About Paraguay IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Paraguay 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 2017 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:\/\/www.tedic.org\/se-realizo-el-4to-foro-de-gobernanza-de-internet-en-paraguay\/\">Se realiz\u00f3 el 4to Foro de Gobernanza de Internet en Paraguay\uff08\u5171\u50ac\u56e3\u4f53TEDIC\u306e\u4e8b\u5f8c\u5831\u544a: 11\/29-30\u30fbWTC\u30fb\u76e3\u8996\/\u533b\u7642\u30c7\u30fc\u30bf\u30d1\u30cd\u30eb\u30fbEFF\u767b\u58c7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 TEDIC (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asuncion.gov.py\/intendencia\/se-inicio-4to-foro-gobernanza-internet-del-paraguay\">Se inici\u00f3 el 4to. Foro de Gobernanza de Internet del Paraguay\uff08\u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\u30f3\u5e02\u516c\u5f0f\u306e\u958b\u4f1a\u5831\u9053: \u958b\u4f1a\u5f0f\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u30fb\u5e02\u9577\u767a\u8a00\u30fb\u4e3b\u50ac\u56e3\u4f53\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Municipalidad de Asunci\u00f3n\uff08\u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\u30f3\u5e02\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.org.py\/internet-governance-forum\/\">Internet Governance Forum\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u306e\u7cfb\u5217\u6cbf\u9769: 2014\u5e74\u521d\u958b\u50ac\u30fb\u6bce\u5e74\u958b\u50ac\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGFPy\uff08igf.org.py\uff09 (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\u67081\u65e5 16\u664230\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 fourth Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (IGFPY) ran over two days, 29\u201330 November 2017, at the World Trade Center in Asunci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,139,11],"tags":[163,161,160,162,2751,164],"class_list":["post-15141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-paraguay-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-paraguayigf2017","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141","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=15141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}