{"id":15250,"date":"2022-08-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/08\/23\/en-trinidad-igf-2022-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:00:00","slug":"en-trinidad-igf-2022-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/08\/23\/en-trinidad-igf-2022-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"TTIGF 2022 \u2014 Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum 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-trinidad-igf-2022-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Trinidad IGF 2022 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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-trinidad-igf-2022-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Trinidad IGF 2022 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 27\u201328 January 2022, TTIGF 2022 ran fully online under the theme &#39;The Future of the Internet \u2026 WHAT&#39;S NEXT?&#39; \u2014 446 registrants, four panels, 20 speakers, and &#39;father of the internet&#39; Vint Cerf as keynote.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Framing the goal as moving from adapting to thriving in a digital society, the two days covered digital competency in education, internet research and measurement, the internet and the law, and the government&#39;s digital transformation journey.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It was the pandemic-era online format perfected \u2014 with the outgoing UN IGF MAG chair and the digital transformation minister also on the bill, showing how a small state stacks world-class speakers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>TTIGF 2022 \u2014 Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum 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-trinidad-igf-2022-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Trinidad IGF 2022 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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>TTIGF 2022 \u2014 Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>27\u201328 January 2022 (8 am \u2013 1 pm daily)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Online (simulcast via YouTube Live, ISOC channels and Zoom) (The official report&#39;s format field lists only streaming channels, with no physical venue; the catalogue&#39;s &#39;Port of Spain&#39; reflects the organisers&#39; base, not a verified venue)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>446 (446 Eventbrite registrants (official report); YouTube Live views 463 (day 1) and 334 (day 2), Facebook reach 957; four panels, 20 speakers)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Hosted by TTMAG (chair Anita Sohan)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Theme &#39;The Future of the Internet \u2026 WHAT&#39;S NEXT?&#39;, with Vint Cerf giving both the opening and closing keynotes; a 27-page official report was published<\/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-trinidad-igf-2022-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Trinidad IGF 2022 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Vint Cerf, Opening and Closing \u2014 Asking &#39;What&#39;s Next?&#39; Head-On<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynotes (opening 27 Jan, closing 28 Jan; with Anriette Esterhuysen, outgoing UN-IGF MAG chair, and Senator Hassel Bacchus, Minister of Digital Transformation)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TCP\/IP co-designer and Google VP Vint Cerf opened the forum and kicked off the open forum on &#39;what&#39;s next&#39; for Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Anriette Esterhuysen, who chaired the UN IGF&#39;s MAG in 2019\u20132021, wired the forum into the global governance debate [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Senator Hassel Bacchus of the newly created Ministry of Digital Transformation gave the government keynote [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. A Digitally Competent Society \u2014 &#39;ICT Is Like Salt: It&#39;s in Everything&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 1 &#39;Building a Digitally Competent Society&#39; (27 Jan; moderator Dr. Sanjay Bahadoorsingh, TTMAG director)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Educators, industry and parents together examined ICT competency&#39;s absence from mainstream schooling and primary-level curriculum reform (with UK examples) [2]<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft&#39;s panellist cited LinkedIn data that 149 million digital-skill jobs would be created by 2025, with the pandemic accelerating the fourth industrial revolution [2]<\/li>\n<li>Parents reported the household costs of remote schooling first-hand: multiple devices, learning environments at home, and online-safety training [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. No Policy Without Measurement \u2014 Research, Data and the Law<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panels &#39;Enhancing Internet Research, Data and Measurement for Development&#39; (27 Jan) and &#39;The Internet and the Law&#39; (28 Jan)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A dedicated panel on research, data and measurement addressed the evidence base for connectivity policy [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>&#39;The Internet and the Law&#39; mapped where legal frameworks lag digitisation \u2014 e-transactions, cybercrime, data protection [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The closing panel on the government&#39;s digital transformation journey turned the conference theme into a sector-by-sector progress review [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Online Format Perfected \u2014 446 Registrants Across Simulcast Channels<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The event&#39;s format and participation statistics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The official report lists the format purely as a YouTube\/ISOC\/Zoom simulcast \u2014 no physical venue \u2014 the in-person series&#39; pandemic adaptation [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>446 Eventbrite registrants, 797 YouTube views over two days and a Facebook reach of 957 far exceeded earlier in-person editions [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>The series returned to in-person from 2023, but simulcasting remained standard [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Vint Cerf, really?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Yes \u2014 the TCP\/IP co-designer keynoted both the opening and the closing. The IGF network is how a nation of 1.4 million gets the &#39;father of the internet&#39; on its programme.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Where was the venue?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. There wasn&#39;t one: the official report lists only the YouTube\/ISOC\/Zoom simulcast. Fully online, with 446 registrants \u2014 bigger than the in-person years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Digital competency in schools and a ministry-level DX progress review are agendas most countries share, and the online format shows how to book global names cheaply.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Trinidad IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-trinidad-igf-2022-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Trinidad IGF 2022 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 About Trinidad IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Trinidad 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:\/\/igf.tt\/trinidad-and-tobago-internet-governance-forum-2022\/\">Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum 2022\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8: \u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30fb\u57fa\u8abf\u30fb\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30fb\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30ea\u30f3\u30af\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf.tt (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igf.tt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/TTIGF-2022-Report.pdf\">TTIGF 2022 Event Report\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u5831\u544a\u66f8PDF: \u5f62\u5f0f\u30fb\u767b\u9332446\u4eba\u30fb\u8996\u8074\u7d71\u8a08\u30fb4\u30d1\u30cd\u30eb20\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u30fb\u8a0e\u8b70\u8a73\u7d30\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf.tt (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=32CAxTENk4E\">TTIGF 2022 Day 1\uff08\u914d\u4fe1\u9332\u753b\uff09<\/a> \u2014 YouTube (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.tt\/\">TTIGF \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08\u5e74\u6b21\u958b\u50ac\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf.tt (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\u670813\u65e5 9\u664202\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>On 27\u201328 January 2022, TTIGF 2022 ran fully online under the theme &#8216;The Future of the Internet \u2026 WHAT&#8217;S NEXT?&#8217; \u2014 446 registrants, four panel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,11,104],"tags":[163,161,160,162,164,788],"class_list":["post-15250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-trinidad-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-trinidadigf2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15250","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=15250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}