{"id":15145,"date":"2023-08-07T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/08\/07\/en-paraguay-igf-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:00:00","slug":"en-paraguay-igf-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/08\/07\/en-paraguay-igf-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (IGFpy7, 2023) \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-2023-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2023 \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-2023-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2023 \u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The seventh Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (IGFpy7) met 2\u20133 October 2023 at the Universidad Americana in Asunci\u00f3n, drawing over 370 participants on site and online \u2014 the restart after a three-year pandemic gap.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Under the theme &#39;a safer Internet&#39;, its eight-plus sessions spanned the data-protection bill, generative AI in the judiciary, hands-on MANRS routing-security and DNSSEC training, and community networks for rural areas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It landed as the data-protection movement begun in 2017 converged on the bill filed with Congress in 2021, with TEDIC convening the stock-taking session \u2014 a national IGF mature enough to run technology and legislation in the same hall.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Seventh Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (IGFpy7, 2023)<\/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-paraguay-igf-2023-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2023 \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>Seventh Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (IGFpy7, 2023)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>Seventh edition (official registration slug &#39;igfpy7&#39;), the restart after the 2020\u20132022 gap<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>2\u20133 October 2023<\/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>&#39;Internet m\u00e1s segura: desaf\u00edos y oportunidades para el Paraguay&#39; (A safer Internet: challenges and opportunities for Paraguay)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>Over 370 participants in person and online, per the official post-event thank-you notice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>More than eight sessions (panels and workshops)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>IGFpy organising committee (general coordinator Ricardo Aveiro, president of the ISOC Paraguay chapter), with the ISOC Paraguay chapter, Universidad Americana, TEDIC and APADIT among co-organisers<\/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-2023-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2023 \u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Toward a Comprehensive Data-Protection Law \u2014 Six Years of Movement, Audited<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Opportunities and challenges in the pursuit of a comprehensive personal-data-protection law in Paraguay&#39;, 3 October 16:00, main auditorium, with TEDIC co-director Eduardo Carrillo<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TEDIC framed the session as a collective multistakeholder stock-take of the data-protection coalition born within IGF Paraguay some six years earlier [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>Advancing the personal-data-protection bill filed with the Chamber of Deputies in 2021 was the declared goal \u2014 the national IGF working as an engine of the legislative process [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>Drafters, civil society and public- and private-sector actors debated enforcement design and the shape of a supervisory authority [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Generative AI in the Courts \u2014 &#39;Justice 4.0&#39; with a Gender Lens<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Generative AI in service of the judiciary, with a gender and inclusion perspective&#39; and workshop &#39;Artificial Intelligence: Justice 4.0&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sessions weighed the benefits and risks of bringing generative AI into court practice through a gender-and-inclusion lens, drawing on success stories worldwide [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>Less than a year after ChatGPT&#39;s release, this national IGF was an early mover in putting judicial AI adoption squarely on the agenda [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Hardening Routing and the DNS \u2014 The MANRS, DNSSEC and KINDNS Technical Track<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panels and workshops on MANRS, DNSSEC, KINDNS, DNS universal acceptance and IDNs, and Internet data security<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lectures and hands-on work on MANRS \u2014 the mutually agreed norms for routing security \u2014 aimed to raise the floor for domestic ISPs and IXP operators [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>DNSSEC deployment training, the KINDNS best-practice framework for DNS operators, and sessions on IDNs and universal acceptance carried the &#39;safer Internet&#39; theme into engineering practice [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Connecting the Countryside \u2014 Community Networks, Here and Now<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Community networks: Paraguay&#39;s experience and the future of solutions for rural and isolated areas&#39; and workshop &#39;How to build a community network&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Practitioners shared Paraguay&#39;s community-network experience and debated its future for rural and isolated areas, with a companion workshop on actually building one [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>The series&#39; founding theme since 2014 \u2014 a landlocked country&#39;s connectivity gap \u2014 matured into a practical agenda of residents building their own networks [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. A 370-Person Restart \u2014 Clearing the Three-Year Gap<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Closing and the official thank-you notice signed by general coordinator Ricardo Aveiro<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The official thank-you reported 370-plus participants across in-person and online attendance and more than eight sessions, spanning rural connectivity to AI under the safer-Internet theme [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>It was the restart after the 2020\u20132022 hiatus following the sixth edition in 2019, with ISOC Paraguay president Ricardo Aveiro rebuilding the effort as general coordinator [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Named thanks to host Universidad Americana, co-organisers TEDIC and APADIT, moderators, speakers and volunteers evidenced an intact multi-party operation [2][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. Under the banner of a &#39;safer Internet&#39;: how to pass the data-protection bill, how courts should use generative AI, how to harden routing and the DNS, and how villagers can build community networks \u2014 policy and engineering in tandem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why the four-year gap?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. After the sixth edition in 2019, the pandemic wiped out 2020\u20132022. The 2023 restart drew over 370 participants \u2014 among the series&#39; largest turnouts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The standout is using a national IGF to move legislation: a civil-society coalition took six years to get a bill filed, then audited its progress in public at the forum \u2014 a working model of policy dialogue.<\/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-2023-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Paraguay IGF 2023 \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 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:\/\/www.tedic.org\/internet-governance-forum-paraguay-2023\/\">Internet Governance Forum \u2013 Paraguay 2023\uff08\u5171\u50ac\u56e3\u4f53TEDIC\u306e\u544a\u77e5: 10\/2-3\u30a2\u30b9\u30f3\u30b7\u30aa\u30f3\u30fb\u30c7\u30fc\u30bf\u4fdd\u8b77\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u306e\u72d9\u3044\u30fb\u767b\u9332\u30ea\u30f3\u30afigfpy7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 TEDIC (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.org.py\/muchas-gracias\/\">\u00a1Muchas gracias!\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u306e\u9589\u4f1a\u5fa1\u793c: \u53c2\u52a0370\u4eba\u8d85\u30fb8\u8d85\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30fb\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30fb\u4f1a\u5834\u30fb\u8b1d\u8f9e\u3002\u30a2\u30d9\u30a4\u30ed\u7dcf\u5408\u30b3\u30fc\u30c7\u30a3\u30cd\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc\u540d\u7fa9\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGFPy\uff08igf.org.py\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.org.py\/panel-oportunidades-y-desafios-en-la-busqueda-de-una-ley-integral-de-proteccion-de-datos-personales-en-paraguay\/\">Panel: Oportunidades y desaf\u00edos en la b\u00fasqueda de una ley integral de protecci\u00f3n de datos personales en Paraguay\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u3002\u540c\u6642\u671f\u516c\u958b\u306e\u5404\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u306bMANRS\u30fbDNSSEC\u30fbKINDNS\u30fb\u53f8\u6cd5AI\u30fb\u30b3\u30df\u30e5\u30cb\u30c6\u30a3\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u7b49\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGFPy\uff08igf.org.py\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\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\u670810\u65e5 15\u664225\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 seventh Internet Governance Forum Paraguay (IGFpy7) met 2\u20133 October 2023 at the Universidad Americana in Asunci\u00f3n, drawing over 370 part<\/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":[163,161,160,162,2753,164],"class_list":["post-15145","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-paraguayigf2023","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15145","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=15145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}