{"id":15143,"date":"2018-08-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/08\/15\/en-paraguay-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-08-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:00:00","slug":"en-paraguay-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/08\/15\/en-paraguay-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (IGFpy5, 2018) \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-2018-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2018 \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-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2018 \u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The fifth Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (IGFpy5) met 5\u20137 November 2018 at the Universidad Americana in Asunci\u00f3n, stacking evening panels across three days.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Topics ranged from electronic voting and data protection under the GDPR&#39;s shadow to democracy and ICT and the games industry \u2014 headlined by an e-voting panel mixing a senator, the electoral tribunal and an Argentine expert.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With Paraguay then debating a move away from paper ballots, the forum stress-tested election technology across stakeholders. Post-event records are thin; this entry is a lightweight one built on announcements and official session pages.<\/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 Paraguay (IGFpy5, 2018)<\/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\/verification claim of a 30 October 2018 meeting mistook the publication date of TEDIC&#39;s announcement for the event date; the forum was scheduled for 5\u20137 November 2018, consistent with TEDIC&#39;s per-panel schedule and the official site&#39;s session pages<\/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-2018-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2018 \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>Fifth Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (IGFpy5, 2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>Fifth edition (&#39;5ta edici\u00f3n&#39; per TEDIC, &#39;IGFpy5&#39; per the organising committee), consistent with 2019 being the sixth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>5\u20137 November 2018 (based on organiser announcements)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Universidad Americana, 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>Organising committee of the ISOC Paraguay chapter and allied organisations including TEDIC and APADIT<\/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-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2018 \u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Electronic Voting \u2014 Should Paper Ballots Give Way?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Electronic voting: replacing the traditional in-person paper ballot&#39;, 6 November 19:30, moderated by Maricarmen Sequera (TEDIC)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senator Georgia Mar\u00eda Arr\u00faa (Patria Querida), Fausto Von Streber of the electoral tribunal TSJE, Enrique Chaparro of Argentina&#39;s Fundaci\u00f3n V\u00eda Libre, independent specialist Marcelo Elizeche, Camilo Fil\u00e1rtiga (Universidad Cat\u00f3lica) and Martha Ferrara (Semillas para la Democracia) took the stage [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>The panel examined e-voting types and mechanics, pros and cons, and regional case studies \u2014 a rare table seating legislators, election administrators, technologists and civil society together [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>V\u00eda Libre, known for demonstrating e-voting vulnerabilities across Latin America, injected Argentina&#39;s critical experience straight into Paraguay&#39;s adoption debate [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Personal Data Protection \u2014 The GDPR Wave and Paraguay&#39;s Gap<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Data-protection challenges in Paraguay&#39;, 6 November 20:10, moderated by Adriana Marecos (APADIT)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The panel weighed the GDPR&#39;s impact on Paraguay months after it took effect, comparing regional, US and European experience, and asking how personal information is valued and handled by state and business [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>It re-framed the absence of a comprehensive data-protection law as a human-rights gap \u2014 a midpoint in the legislative movement running from the 2017 forum toward the later data-protection coalition [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>TEDIC also led panels on democracy and ICT (&#39;principles for an open, democratic Internet&#39;, 5 November 19:10) and the video-game industry (20:00), with Access Now&#39;s Ver\u00f3nica Arroyo among the announced speakers [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the biggest topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Electronic voting: whether to retire the paper ballot, debated jointly by a senator, the electoral tribunal, an Argentine expert who has exposed e-voting flaws, and civil-society groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why do sources disagree on the dates?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. TEDIC&#39;s announcement was published on 30 October, and that article date was mistaken for the event date in some records. The announcement itself and the official session pages support a 5\u20137 November run at the Universidad Americana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Putting election officials, legislators, technologists and citizens at one table to stress-test voting technology maps directly onto online-voting debates elsewhere \u2014 and the panel on the GDPR shows how EU rules drive legal debates far beyond Europe.<\/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-2018-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2018 \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 2018 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\/5ta-edicion-del-foro-de-gobernanza-del-internet\/\">5ta edici\u00f3n del Foro de Gobernanza del Internet\uff08\u5171\u50ac\u56e3\u4f53TEDIC\u306e\u4e8b\u524d\u544a\u77e5: 11\/5\u301c7\u30fb\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab\u30fc\u30ca\u5927\u5b66\u30fbTEDIC\u4e3b\u5c0e4\u30d1\u30cd\u30eb\u306e\u65e5\u6642\u3068\u767b\u58c7\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 TEDIC (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.org.py\/voto-electronico-en-reemplazo-del-medio-tradicional-presencial-en-papel\/\">Voto electr\u00f3nico: en reemplazo del medio tradicional presencial en papel\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u306e\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30012018-11-01\u516c\u958b: \u767b\u58c7\u80056\u540d\u3068\u30e2\u30c7\u30ec\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGFPy\uff08igf.org.py\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.org.py\/desafios-de-la-proteccion-de-datos-en-paraguay\/\">Desaf\u00edos de la protecci\u00f3n de datos en Paraguay\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u306e\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30012018-10-31\u516c\u958b: GDPR\u5f71\u97ff\u30fb\u30e2\u30c7\u30ec\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc\u3068\u8ad6\u70b9\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGFPy\uff08igf.org.py\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tedic.org\/6ta-edicion-del-foro-de-gobernanza-de-internet-py\/\">6ta edici\u00f3n del Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Py\uff08\u7fcc2019\u5e74\u306e\u7b2c6\u56de\u544a\u77e5 = 2018\u5e74\u7b2c5\u56de\u958b\u50ac\u306e\u9023\u756a\u508d\u8a3c\uff09<\/a> \u2014 TEDIC (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 18\u664219\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 Paraguay (IGFpy5) met 5\u20137 November 2018 at the Universidad Americana in Asunci\u00f3n, stacking evening panel<\/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":[163,161,160,162,2752,164],"class_list":["post-15143","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-paraguayigf2018","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143","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=15143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}