{"id":15201,"date":"2021-09-18T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/09\/18\/en-rwanda-igf-2021-overview\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T13:00:00","slug":"en-rwanda-igf-2021-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/09\/18\/en-rwanda-igf-2021-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Internet Governance Forum 2021 \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n

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  1. Rwanda IGF 2021 met in person at Kigali's LEMIGO Hotel on 30 November 2021, with 101 participants drawing lessons from the pandemic under the theme 'Internet in the Post Covid-19 era'.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Three tracks \u2014 public service delivery, child online safety and e-commerce \u2014 turned Rwanda's 2019 Child Online Protection policy into an implementation checklist: school content filtering, the 771 hotline, ISP obligations.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. UNICEF's keynote a year later credited this forum's child-protection discussions as an IGF-driven outcome \u2014 and the official record corrects a persistent misreporting of this edition as virtual.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on Rwanda Internet Governance Forum 2021<\/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

    Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n

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    Item<\/th>\nDetail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Official name<\/td>\nRwanda Internet Governance Forum 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n30 November 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nLEMIGO Hotel, Kigali, Rwanda (in person)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nInternet in Post Covid-19 era \u2014 Lessons learned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Participants<\/td>\n101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nHosted by RICTA with GIZ, RURA, the ICT Chamber, the Rwanda National Police, RBC, REB, iPosita, BSC, the University of Rwanda and others<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    (See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n

    Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n

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    Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n

    1. The Pandemic and Public Services \u2014 Government, Media and Mental Health under Lockdown<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: First panel on public service delivery, moderated by RBA's Egidie Ingabire, with Police Spokesperson CP John Bosco Kabera, ICT Chamber CEO Alex Ntale, I&M Bank and RBC<\/p>\n