{"id":15280,"date":"2023-08-23T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/08\/23\/en-uruguay-igf-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:00:00","slug":"en-uruguay-igf-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/08\/23\/en-uruguay-igf-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth IGF Uruguay \u2014 Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Uruguay 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-uruguay-igf-2023-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Uruguay IGF 2023 \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-2023-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Uruguay IGF 2023 \u30e2\u30f3\u30c6\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On the afternoon of 22 November 2023 the fifth IGF Uruguay met in hybrid form at the Casa de Internet \u2014 LACNIC&#39;s headquarters \u2014 in Montevideo, with an eight-member organising committee from AGESIC to Youth IGF Uruguay.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two community-voted themes made the programme: mobile internet (access, equity, inclusion and the digital divide) and technology&#39;s impact across society, with ISOC, LACNIC and AGESIC experts on stage.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Holding a national IGF inside the regional internet registry&#39;s own house, and letting the community vote the agenda, are two distinctly Uruguayan touches worth copying.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Fifth IGF Uruguay \u2014 Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Uruguay 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-uruguay-igf-2023-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Uruguay IGF 2023 \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>Fifth IGF Uruguay \u2014 Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Uruguay 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>22 November 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Casa de Internet de Latinoam\u00e9rica y el Caribe (LACNIC headquarters), Montevideo; hybrid format<\/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>Organising committee: AGESIC, ISOC Uruguay, IoT CyberSecLac, LACNIC, SeCIU (UdelaR), Universidad Cat\u00f3lica, UTEC and Youth IGF Uruguay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Two panels on the community&#39;s top-voted themes, preceded by a preparatory webinar co-hosted with UTEC<\/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-2023-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Uruguay IGF 2023 \u30e2\u30f3\u30c6\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Mobile Internet and the Divide \u2014 the Community&#39;s Top-Voted Theme<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Internet m\u00f3vil: acceso, equidad, inclusi\u00f3n y brecha digital&#39; (moderator Nicol\u00e1s Fiumarelli)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ISOC&#39;s Juan Peirano, LACNIC CTO Carlos Mart\u00ednez and AGESIC&#39;s Karime Ruibal discussed mobile quality, affordability and rural gaps [1]<\/li>\n<li>Even in fixed-broadband-strong Uruguay, the divide has shifted to quality and effective use \u2014 the panel&#39;s core frame [1]<\/li>\n<li>The theme was one of the community&#39;s two top-voted picks, wiring public interest directly into the programme [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Technology&#39;s Impact Across Society \u2014 Universities and ISOC Compare Notes<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Impacto de la tecnolog\u00eda en los diversos \u00e1mbitos de la sociedad&#39; (moderator Mat\u00edas Dodel)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UTEC&#39;s Mauro Carlevaro, Universidad Cat\u00f3lica&#39;s Carolina Aguerre \u2014 a leading regional internet-governance scholar \u2014 and ISOC Uruguay co-founder Mauro D. R\u00edos took the panel [1]<\/li>\n<li>New technologies&#39; effects on work, education and public services were treated as social diagnosis prior to any regulatory debate [1]<\/li>\n<li>Moderator Mat\u00edas Dodel, a digital-inequality researcher, anchored the discussion in evidence [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Meeting at LACNIC \u2014 a National Dialogue in the Regional Registry&#39;s House<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The event as a whole (opened by Laura Margolis, ISOC Uruguay, and Paula Oteguy, LACNIC)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Casa de Internet is LACNIC&#39;s headquarters and a hub of Latin American internet operations \u2014 a home-turf advantage unique to Montevideo [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>First announced for 6 September, the forum ultimately ran on 22 November; of four candidate themes (inclusion, cybercrime and online safety, AI and advanced tech, sustainability), the two most-voted were staged [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>A preparatory webinar with UTEC primed newcomers on governance basics [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Can a half-day forum matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Yes \u2014 two community-voted themes, a handful of true experts, and three focused hours with ISOC, LACNIC and the e-government agency in one room.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Is the venue really special?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It is LACNIC&#39;s headquarters, the Casa de Internet \u2014 the operational heart of Latin America&#39;s internet, which happens to sit in Montevideo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Voting the agenda is a directly reusable programming method, and the &#39;quality divide&#39; in mobile access mirrors rural connectivity debates everywhere.<\/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-2023-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Uruguay IGF 2023 \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 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:\/\/isoc.live\/17070\/\">TRANSMISI\u00d3N WEB NOV 22 \u2014 el Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Uruguay 2023\uff08\u8a73\u7d30\u544a\u77e5: \u7d44\u7e54\u59d48\u56e3\u4f53\u30fb\u5168\u30d1\u30cd\u30eb\u30fb\u767b\u58c7\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 isoc.live (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.org.uy\/\">Foro de Gobernanza de Internet \u2014 Uruguay\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8: 11\u670822\u65e5\u958b\u50ac\u30fbCasa de Internet\u30fb\u6295\u7968\u4e0a\u4f4d2\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf.org.uy (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231002171342\/https:\/\/igf.org.uy\/temas2023\/\">Temas 2023\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30da\u30fc\u30b8: 4\u5019\u88dc\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u3068\u5f53\u521d9\u67086\u65e5\u4e88\u5b9a\u306e\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF Uruguay\uff08Wayback Machine 2023\u5e7410\u67082\u65e5\u30b9\u30ca\u30c3\u30d7\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30c8\uff09 (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\u67088\u65e5 10\u664216\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 the afternoon of 22 November 2023 the fifth IGF Uruguay met in hybrid form at the Casa de Internet \u2014 LACNIC&#8217;s headquarters \u2014 in Montevide<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,1994],"class_list":["post-15280","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-uruguayigf2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15280","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=15280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}