{"id":2786,"date":"2013-09-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2013\/09\/04\/en-aprigf-2013-seoul-overview\/"},"modified":"2013-09-04T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T00:00:00","slug":"en-aprigf-2013-seoul-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2013\/09\/04\/en-aprigf-2013-seoul-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"AprIGF 2013 Seoul \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-2013-seoul-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2013 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \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-2013-seoul-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2013 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 4th APrIGF \u2014 the &#39;Seoul&#39; meeting \u2014 convened on 4\u20136 September 2013 at SUNY Korea in Songdo, Incheon, with 315 participants and 105 presenters across 20 sessions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Under the theme &#39;Towards a Better Internet&#39;, four tracks mirrored the global IGF in Bali: multistakeholder cooperation, access, openness and security \u2014 with ICANN CEO Fadi Chehad\u00e9 attending and large-scale IPv6 deployment, human rights and privacy topping the agenda.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With Korea&#39;s science-and-ICT ministry as host, it was the most government-backed APrIGF to date, feeding the region&#39;s views into IGF 2013 in Bali the following month.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>AprIGF 2013 in Seoul<\/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<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; Officially the &#39;2013 APrIGF Seoul&#39;; the venue, SUNY Korea, is in Songdo International City, Incheon \u2014 not in Seoul itself<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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-2013-seoul-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2013 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \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>4th APrIGF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>4\u20136 September 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>SUNY Korea (State University of New York, Korea), Songdo International City, Incheon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Towards a Better Internet: A more Secured, Convenient, Vibrant, Equivalent, and Desirable Internet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>315<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participation detail<\/td>\n<td>315 participants (77 overseas, 238 domestic); government representatives from 8 countries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Presenters<\/td>\n<td>105<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tracks<\/td>\n<td>Four tracks aligned with IGF 2013 Bali: Multistakeholder &amp; Enhanced Cooperation; Access; Openness; Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Hosted by Korea&#39;s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) and the Korea Internet Governance Alliance (KIGA); local secretariat: KISA; APrIGF secretariat: DotAsia<\/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-2013-seoul-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2013 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. ICANN and the Asia Pacific \u2014 CEO Fadi Chehad\u00e9 Face to Face<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;ICANN Engagement with the Asia Pacific Community&#39; (4 September, 16:30) and the opening ceremony<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ICANN President &amp; CEO Fadi Chehad\u00e9 spoke at the opening ceremony and joined a dedicated session with ICANN board members and regional vice-presidents on how ICANN should engage the Asia Pacific community [1]<\/li>\n<li>Regional engagement and fostering a better environment for IDN TLDs were core questions of the multistakeholder track&#39;s seven workshops [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Large-Scale IPv6 Deployment \u2014 &#39;From Millions to Billions&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Extended session &#39;Large-Scale IPv6 Technology Deployment \u2013 From Millions to Billions&#39; and &#39;IPv6 Deployment Plan of Government in Asia Pacific Region Countries&#39; (5 September)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With IPv4 unable to sustain the Internet&#39;s rapid growth, a double-length session dug into the key technical challenges of deploying IPv6 at scale [1]<\/li>\n<li>A companion session had governments across the Asia Pacific share their national IPv6 deployment plans [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Human Rights, Privacy and Anonymity \u2014 the Openness Track<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Openness track: human rights and democracy; APEC privacy principles; user identity and anonymity; network neutrality (4\u20135 September)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Civil-society voices from across Asia \u2014 including Korea&#39;s Jinbonet \u2014 tackled Internet governance for human rights and democracy [1]<\/li>\n<li>Panels weighed privacy protection built on the APEC Privacy Principles and the balance between user identity and anonymity online, with Korean and Japanese scholars and industry at the table [1]<\/li>\n<li>Japan&#39;s Izumi Aizu moderated the network neutrality session, with Prof. Toshiya Jitsuzumi of Kyushu University among the panellists [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Giga Internet and &#39;Kompu Gacha&#39; \u2014 Topics of the Moment<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Broader World of Network \u2013 Giga Internet&#39; double session (6 September) and &#39;Trade Issues Arising from the 2012 Kompu Gacha Ban&#39; (5 September)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A double session on &#39;Giga Internet&#39; examined national plans for ultra-high-bandwidth networks \u2014 fitting for broadband powerhouse Korea [1]<\/li>\n<li>The &#39;Kompu Gacha&#39; session used Japan&#39;s 2012 ban on gacha-style monetisation of virtual goods to explore its cross-border trade and consumer implications [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. A Growing Regional IGF \u2014 Feeding into Bali<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Track summary sessions and closing plenary (6 September)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The latest APrIGF demonstrated continuous growth and improvement in terms of both content and participation, reflecting the increasing importance of Internet Governance issues in our region&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Paul Wilson (Director General of APNIC; Chair, APrIGF Program Committee \u2014 Letter from the Chair in the conference report)<\/strong> [1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Track summaries fed the region&#39;s discussions into the matching tracks of IGF 2013 in Bali the following month [1]<\/li>\n<li>The security track included a joint session with Youth IGF participants, who presented the outcomes of a multistakeholder role-play exercise [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. So what did it decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 it&#39;s the region&#39;s annual multistakeholder forum. Its four tracks were summarised and carried into the global IGF in Bali the following month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Was the &#39;Seoul&#39; meeting really not in Seoul?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Correct \u2014 the venue, SUNY Korea, is in Songdo International City, Incheon. Conferences often carry the big-city name while meeting nearby.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it still matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The questions it framed \u2014 IPv6 at scale, identity versus anonymity, privacy rules across borders \u2014 are exactly the ones regulators are still working through today.<\/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-2013-seoul-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2013 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \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 2013 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:\/\/ap.rigf.asia\/documents\/reports\/Conference_Report_APrIGF_2013_Seoul.pdf\">Report of 2013 APrIGF Seoul\uff08\u5927\u4f1a\u5831\u544a\u66f8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 2013 APrIGF\u30bd\u30a6\u30eb\u958b\u50ac\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\uff08IGF Seoul\u30fb\u97d3\u56fd\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u632f\u8208\u9662=KISA\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/2013.rigf.asia\/\">2013 APrIGF Seoul \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8<\/a> \u2014 APrIGF (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/2013.rigf.asia\/venue-and-transportation\/\">Venue (SUNY) | 2013 APrIGF Seoul\uff08\u4f1a\u5834\u6848\u5185: \u4ec1\u5ddd\u30fb\u677e\u5cf6\u306e\u4f4f\u6240\u3092\u8a18\u8f09\uff09<\/a> \u2014 APrIGF (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ap.rigf.asia\/events\/\">APrIGF \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08\u904e\u53bb\u5927\u4f1a\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\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 4 September 2013, 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 4th APrIGF \u2014 the &#8216;Seoul&#8217; meeting \u2014 convened on 4\u20136 September 2013 at SUNY Korea in Songdo, Incheon, with 315 participants and 105 presen<\/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":[163,302,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aprigf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-aprigf2013","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","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=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}