{"id":15277,"date":"2018-08-15T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/08\/15\/en-uruguay-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-08-15T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:00:00","slug":"en-uruguay-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/08\/15\/en-uruguay-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Third IGF Uruguay \u2014 &#8216;Uruguay habla de Internet&#8217; (Uruguay Talks About the Internet) \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-uruguay-igf-2018-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Uruguay IGF 2018 \u30e2\u30f3\u30c6\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa \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-uruguay-igf-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Uruguay IGF 2018 \u30e2\u30f3\u30c6\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 9 October 2018 the third IGF Uruguay \u2014 &#39;Uruguay habla de Internet&#39; \u2014 ran all day at UdelaR&#39;s Information and Communication faculty (FIC) in Montevideo.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Four themes structured the day: the internet for development, data ethics, communication and media in the internet era, and cybersecurity \u2014 with &#39;data ethics&#39; a notably early flag for 2018.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It proved to be the last edition before a four-year gap through the health emergency, until the 2022 revival \u2014 a candid data point on how hard national IGF continuity is.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Third IGF Uruguay \u2014 &#39;Uruguay habla de Internet&#39; (Uruguay Talks About the Internet)<\/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-uruguay-igf-2018-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Uruguay IGF 2018 \u30e2\u30f3\u30c6\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa \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>Third IGF Uruguay \u2014 &#39;Uruguay habla de Internet&#39; (Uruguay Talks About the Internet)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>9 October 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Sal\u00f3n 408, Facultad de Informaci\u00f3n y Comunicaci\u00f3n (FIC), Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica, San Salvador 1944, Montevideo<\/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>A multistakeholder organising committee anchored by the ISOC Uruguay chapter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>A full day across four themes \u2014 internet for development, data ethics, communication and media in the internet era, and cybersecurity; the last edition before the series&#39; 2019\u20132021 gap<\/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-uruguay-igf-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Uruguay IGF 2018 \u30e2\u30f3\u30c6\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Data Ethics \u2014 an Early Flag for a National IGF in 2018<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Data ethics&#39; theme session (within the 8:30\u201317:00 programme)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#39;Data ethics&#39; stood among the four official themes \u2014 a national dialogue responding in real time to the year of Cambridge Analytica [1]<\/li>\n<li>&#39;Communication and media in the internet era&#39; as its own theme resonated with the host faculty&#39;s specialism [1]<\/li>\n<li>Cybersecurity and the internet-for-development strand carried over from 2016 [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Hosted at the FIC \u2014 Year Three of the Rotating University Venue<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The event as a whole<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The venue \u2014 UdelaR&#39;s FIC \u2014 extended the rotating-university pattern begun with Engineering (2016) and the Universidad Cat\u00f3lica (2017) [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>The title &#39;Uruguay talks about the internet&#39; pitched the event as a national conversation, not an expert meeting [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>The ISOC Uruguay chapter continued as the de facto secretariat [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Doorway to the Gap \u2014 Four Years Until the Fourth Edition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The edition in series context<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The fourth edition only came in November 2022, which organisers billed as a return &#39;after years of the health emergency&#39; \u2014 there were no forums in 2019\u20132021 [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>The 2022 notice explicitly calling that event &#39;the 4th edition&#39; corroborates 2018 as the third [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Thin volunteer-based operations likely contributed to the gap, though the only official explanation is the health emergency [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the day like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A &#39;national conversation&#39; from 8:30 to 17:00 at the national university&#39;s communication faculty, across development, data ethics, media and cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What made it special?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Putting &#39;data ethics&#39; on a national IGF agenda in 2018 \u2014 the year of Cambridge Analytica \u2014 was strikingly prompt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Also for what followed: a four-year gap. National IGFs do not sustain themselves \u2014 a lesson relevant to every IGF community.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Uruguay IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-uruguay-igf-2018-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Uruguay IGF 2018 \u30e2\u30f3\u30c6\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa \u2014 About Uruguay IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Uruguay 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:\/\/nic.uy\/Registrar\/noticias.htm\">3ra edici\u00f3n del IGF local: &quot;Uruguay habla de Internet&quot;\uff082018\u5e7410\u67084\u65e5\u4ed8\u516c\u5f0f\u544a\u77e5: \u65e5\u4ed8\u30fb\u4f1a\u5834\u30fb4\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\uff09<\/a> \u2014 nic.uy (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/isoc.live\/16031\/\">WEBCAST 15-16 NOV \u2014 Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Uruguay 2022\uff08\u300cEsta ser\u00e1 la 4ta edici\u00f3n\u300d\u306e\u660e\u8a18=2018\u5e74\u7b2c3\u56de\u306e\u508d\u8a3c\uff09<\/a> \u2014 isoc.live (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/uruguay-national-igf\">Uruguay national IGF\uff08NRI\u516c\u5f0f\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (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 12\u664239\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 9 October 2018 the third IGF Uruguay \u2014 &#8216;Uruguay habla de Internet&#8217; \u2014 ran all day at UdelaR&#8217;s Information and Communication faculty (FIC) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,11,138],"tags":[163,161,160,162,164,2804],"class_list":["post-15277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","category-uruguay-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-uruguayigf2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277","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=15277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}