{"id":2626,"date":"2012-07-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2012\/07\/18\/en-aprigf-2012-tokyo-overview\/"},"modified":"2012-07-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T00:00:00","slug":"en-aprigf-2012-tokyo-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2012\/07\/18\/en-aprigf-2012-tokyo-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"AprIGF 2012 Tokyo \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-aprigf-2012-tokyo-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2012 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-aprigf-2012-tokyo-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2012 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 3rd Asia Pacific Regional IGF met at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo on 18\u201320 July 2012: 278 participants from 28 economies, 105 presenters across 22 sessions, and nearly 20,000 remote views via Ustream.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Internet&#39;s role in disaster relief headlined the agenda alongside IPv6, cloud privacy and new gTLDs; each session&#39;s areas of agreement were fed into the global IGF in Baku that November.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It was Japan&#39;s first time hosting the regional forum, run by IGF Japan and the ISP association JAIPA \u2014 and a milestone in sharing the lessons of 3.11 with the wider Asia Pacific.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>AprIGF 2012 in Tokyo<\/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\/07\/en-aprigf-2012-tokyo-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2012 \u6771\u4eac \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>Edition<\/td>\n<td>3rd Asia Pacific Regional IGF (APrIGF); first held in Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>18\u201320 July 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Building No. 17, Aoyama Campus, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan<\/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>278<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>22 (22 sessions including a Youth IGF session; 105 presenters (excluding Youth IGF))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participation detail<\/td>\n<td>278 on-site participants (76 overseas, 202 domestic) from 28 countries; 19,762 remote viewers via Ustream<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Keynote<\/td>\n<td>Keynote by Prof. Jun Murai, Keio University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Hosted by the 2012 APrIGF Tokyo Host Committee (IGF Japan; local secretariat: Japan Internet Providers Association, JAIPA); APrIGF secretariat: DotAsia; Japan&#39;s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) among the sponsors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Areas of common agreement from each session were compiled and reported to the 7th global IGF in Baku in November 2012<\/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\/07\/en-aprigf-2012-tokyo-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2012 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Disaster Relief and the Internet \u2014 Sharing the Lessons of 3.11<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 1 &#39;Internet for Disaster Relief and Restoration&#39; and Session A1 &#39;Reports from Local Governments&#39; (18 July)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yahoo! Japan presented its 3.11 response as a possible model for disaster response, while Taiwan shared the experience of its Typhoon Morakot disaster information centre [1]<\/li>\n<li>Officials from the cities of Tagajo, Soma and Sendai reported first-hand; exploring ICT for disaster relief was named among the meeting&#39;s areas of common agreement [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. IPv6 Transition \u2014 Agreement on Its Criticality<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 4 &#39;Critical Internet Resources: IPv4\/IPv6&#39; (20 July)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Some new areas of common agreement were the criticality of IPv6, the need to work on privacy in order for cloud computing to take off, and the need to explore ways to use ICT for disaster relief&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Ang Peng Hwa (Chair, APrIGF Multi-stakeholder Steering Group \u2014 Report from the Chair)<\/strong> [1][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston, Japan&#39;s MIC and Google discussed the state of IPv6 deployment after IPv4 exhaustion and how to accelerate the transition [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>APNIC organised the session, opening the region&#39;s addressing-policy debate to a general audience [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Cloud Computing and Privacy \u2014 a Precondition for Take-off<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 2 &#39;Global Cloud Computing and its Challenges&#39; (19 July) and related sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderated by Microsoft Japan, panellists from NTT Communications, Fujitsu, GE Healthcare, MIC and the Wharton School debated cross-border cloud challenges from industry, government and academic perspectives [1]<\/li>\n<li>That privacy must be addressed for cloud computing to take off was recorded among the meeting&#39;s new areas of common agreement [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. New gTLDs \u2014 in the Year of 1,930 Applications<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session B1 &#39;The Impact of New gTLD&#39; (18 July)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the first-ever gTLD application round drawing 1,930 applications worldwide in 2012, ICANN board members and Japanese registry figures (JPRS, GMO Registry) debated the impact of the new domains [1][4]<\/li>\n<li>Applications from Japan meant new registries beyond .jp \u2014 including city domains \u2014 would soon emerge [1][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Keeping the IGF Alive \u2014 and Formalising the APrIGF<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening plenary, &#39;State of the IGF&#39; session and closing plenary<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The IGF is possibly the best example of a global multi-stakeholder forum, and we should keep it alive and ongoing&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Paul Wilson (Director General, APNIC)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The Number Resource Organization announced it had doubled its yearly contribution to the IGF process to USD 75,000 [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Formalisation of the APrIGF itself began this year \u2014 a programme committee endorsed by the AP* community and new transparency processes \u2014 with outcomes reported to the global IGF in Baku in November 2012 [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What is the APrIGF anyway?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It&#39;s the Asia Pacific edition of the UN&#39;s Internet Governance Forum \u2014 governments, business, civil society and engineers meeting as equals, with the results fed into the global IGF (held in Baku that year).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What stood out in Tokyo 2012?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Held a year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, its headline theme was the Internet&#39;s role in disaster relief \u2014 from Yahoo! Japan&#39;s 3.11 response to first-hand reports by affected cities such as Sendai.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. IPv6, declared &#39;critical&#39; here, now underpins everyday connectivity, and today&#39;s online disaster-information tools trace straight back to discussions like these.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is AprIGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-aprigf-2012-tokyo-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2012 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 About AprIGF\"><\/p>\n<p>AprIGF 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 2012 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:\/\/www.aprigf.asia\/documents\/reports\/Conference_Report_APrIGF_2012_Tokyo.pdf\">Report of 2012 APrIGF Tokyo\uff08\u5927\u4f1a\u5831\u544a\u66f8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 2012 APrIGF\u6771\u4eac\u958b\u50ac\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\uff08IGF Japan\u30fb\u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30d7\u30ed\u30d0\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\u5354\u4f1a\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/event.rigf.asia\/2012\/\">2012 APrIGF Tokyo \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8<\/a> \u2014 APrIGF (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conference.apnic.net\/news-archives\/2012\/aprigf-tokyo\/\">APNIC supports the regional IGF in Tokyo<\/a> \u2014 APNIC\uff08\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30b9\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaipa.or.jp\/about\/pdf\/report\/2012_houkoku.pdf\">2012\u5e74\u5ea6\u4e8b\u696d\u5831\u544a\uff08APrIGF\u6771\u4eac\u958b\u50ac\u306e\u5831\u544a\u3092\u542b\u3080\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30d7\u30ed\u30d0\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\u5354\u4f1a\uff08JAIPA\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nic.ad.jp\/ja\/materials\/igf\/20210520\/material3.html\">\u65e5\u672c\u306b\u304a\u3051\u308b\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u95a2\u9023\u6d3b\u52d5\u306e\u7d4c\u9a13\u3068\u8ab2\u984c\uff08\u8cc7\u65993\uff09<\/a> \u2014 JPNIC (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ap.rigf.asia\/\">APrIGF \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08\u6b74\u4ee3\u958b\u50ac\u5730\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 APrIGF (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/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>Revision History<\/h2>\n<p>Rev. 1 \u2014 published 18 July 2012, 09:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 10 July 2026, 23:16 (Fully revised into the in-depth edition: added the 3-line summary, minutes digest, short talk, source list and diagrams (all quotes verified against the listed sources))<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3rd Asia Pacific Regional IGF met at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo on 18\u201320 July 2012: 278 participants from 28 economies, 105 prese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,11],"tags":[163,300,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aprigf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-aprigf2012","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","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=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}