{"id":15252,"date":"2025-08-14T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2025\/08\/14\/en-trinidad-igf-2025-overview\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:00:00","slug":"en-trinidad-igf-2025-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2025\/08\/14\/en-trinidad-igf-2025-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"TTIGF 2025 \u2014 Ninth Annual Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum \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-2025-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Trinidad IGF 2025 \u30dd\u30fc\u30c8\u30aa\u30d6\u30b9\u30da\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-2025-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Trinidad IGF 2025 \u30dd\u30fc\u30c8\u30aa\u30d6\u30b9\u30da\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 30\u201331 January 2025 the ninth TTIGF ran as a hybrid event under the theme &#39;Building Our Multistakeholder Digital Future&#39;, with new Internet Society CEO Sally Wentworth keynoting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>AI in education, cybersecurity, financial inclusion, AI for disaster resilience and a youth forum on cyberbullying were joined by a CTU-led session gathering Caribbean ccTLD managers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The UN&#39;s Global Digital Compact and WSIS+20 were debated first-hand by ISOC&#39;s chief at a small state&#39;s national IGF \u2014 a live example of national forums plugging into global governance reform.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>TTIGF 2025 \u2014 Ninth Annual Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum<\/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-2025-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Trinidad IGF 2025 \u30dd\u30fc\u30c8\u30aa\u30d6\u30b9\u30da\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 2025 \u2014 Ninth Annual Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>Thursday 30 \u2013 Friday 31 January 2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Hybrid event (based in Port of Spain) (The official report describes it only as a two-day hybrid event without naming the physical venue; &#39;Port of Spain&#39; follows the organisers&#39; base and the GRULAC record)<\/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>Hosted by TTMAG (chair Jacqueline Morris)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Theme &#39;Building Our Multistakeholder Digital Future&#39;, inspired by the 2024 UN IGF theme; the ninth annual edition, with a 30-page meeting report published in February 2026<\/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-2025-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Trinidad IGF 2025 \u30dd\u30fc\u30c8\u30aa\u30d6\u30b9\u30da\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Straight Talk on the GDC and WSIS+20 \u2014 Keynote by ISOC&#39;s New CEO<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote addresses (30 Jan; Sally Wentworth, CEO of ISOC and the ISOC Foundation, alongside Permanent Secretary Cory Belfon and others)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wentworth noted the Global Digital Compact recognises the IGF as the primary multistakeholder platform, yet said ISOC &#39;cannot fully endorse&#39; the GDC because it was not developed in a truly multistakeholder manner \u2014 while pledging to work toward its objectives [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>With 2025 the WSIS+20 review year, she stressed that local action shapes the internet&#39;s future, hence ISOC&#39;s support for national and regional IGFs [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>LACNIC&#39;s AI legal-policy consultant Javed Sajad noted 2.6 billion people remain offline, mostly in developing countries, and proposed AI regulatory sandboxes for the Caribbean [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. AI in Education \u2014 with Arizona State&#39;s CIO on Learning Beyond the Classroom<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;AI in Education: Navigating the Future&#39; (30 Jan, 9:30\u201311:00; moderator Jacqueline Morris)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ASU CIO Lev Gonick showed learning escaping the classroom \u2014 recorded, transcribed, AI-summarised lectures and the avatar-based &#39;Dreamscape Learn&#39; with a personal AI tutor [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>NIHERST chairman Andrew Hunte outlined UWI&#39;s approach: student-, teacher- and system-facing AI, plus citation rules that keep AI use from becoming plagiarism [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>Q&amp;A pressed on data privacy and on being innovators, not just consumers, of AI [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Financial Inclusion by the Numbers \u2014 Connected 80%, Fluent 40%<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Digital Transformation and Financial Inclusion&#39; (31 Jan, 13:10\u201314:40; moderator Ajmal Nazir, TTMAG director)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TTIFC CEO John Outridge quantified the gap: ~80% have internet access, yet a 2023 study found ~60% don&#39;t know how to use digital financial apps, and 60% of transactions remain cash [3]<\/li>\n<li>Paywise&#39;s founder and Pinaka&#39;s Shiva Bissessar discussed India&#39;s UPI team visiting in December 2024 and simplified-KYC wallets for the unbanked [3]<\/li>\n<li>Permanent Secretary Belfon cited 292 government e-services (145 transactional) and pledged to feed the forum&#39;s ideas into the 2024\u20132027 national DX strategy [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Rallying Caribbean ccTLDs \u2014 the CTU Session, Disaster-Resilience AI and the Youth Forum<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: CTU session &#39;Accelerating the involvement of Caribbean ccTLDs within the global ccTLD community&#39; (31 Jan, 15:30\u201316:45) and other sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Under CTU secretary-general Rodney Taylor, ccNSO chair Alejandra Reynoso and registry managers from Anguilla, Cura\u00e7ao, Haiti and Canada&#39;s CIRA filled three back-to-back panels; the Caribbean&#39;s 33 ccTLDs shared small-registry struggles of staffing and revenue [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>UWI&#39;s Letetia Addison mapped AI for disaster resilience \u2014 digital-twin simulations and better emergency coordination \u2014 in a hurricane-belt context [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>The youth forum on &#39;Bullying in the Cyber Age&#39;, run with an AI avatar named Diana, tackled bullying that now follows victims home, 24\/7 [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Is nine straight years a big deal?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Yes \u2014 every January since 2017 without a gap, the Caribbean&#39;s steadiest national IGF, now drawing ISOC&#39;s new CEO as keynote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. The most candid moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. ISOC CEO Sally Wentworth saying ISOC &#39;cannot fully endorse&#39; the UN&#39;s Global Digital Compact because of how it was made \u2014 international-document dissent voiced plainly at a national IGF.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The &#39;connected but not fluent&#39; financial-inclusion gap, disaster-resilience AI and the WSIS+20 debate are live issues in most countries \u2014 here compressed into a two-day national forum.<\/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-2025-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Trinidad IGF 2025 \u30dd\u30fc\u30c8\u30aa\u30d6\u30b9\u30da\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 2025 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\/category\/ttigf2025\/\">TTIGF 2025\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30ab\u30c6\u30b4\u30ea\u30da\u30fc\u30b8: \u30a2\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c0\u30fb\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u30fb\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u7b49\u306e\u8a18\u4e8b\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf.tt (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.tt\/ttigf-2025-agenda\/\">TTIGF 2025 Agenda\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c0: 2\u65e5\u9593\u306e\u5168\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30fb\u767b\u58c7\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf.tt (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igf.tt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TTIGF-25-Report-Final.pdf\">TTIGF 25 Report Final\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u4f1a\u5408\u5831\u544a\u66f8PDF: \u7b2c9\u56de\u30fb\u30cf\u30a4\u30d6\u30ea\u30c3\u30c9\u30fb\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30fb\u5168\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u8a73\u5831\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf.tt (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.tt\/tgif-2025-report\/\">TTGIF 2025 Report (Final)\uff08\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u516c\u958b\u544a\u77e5\u30012026\u5e742\u670812\u65e5\u4ed8\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\u67085\u65e5 11\u664242\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 30\u201331 January 2025 the ninth TTIGF ran as a hybrid event under the theme &#8216;Building Our Multistakeholder Digital Future&#8217;, with new Interne<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,2794],"class_list":["post-15252","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-trinidadigf2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252","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=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}