{"id":3844,"date":"2020-09-28T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/09\/28\/en-aprigf-2020-virtual-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:00:00","slug":"en-aprigf-2020-virtual-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/09\/28\/en-aprigf-2020-virtual-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"AprIGF 2020 Virtual \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n

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  1. The 11th Asia Pacific Regional IGF met fully online on 27\u201330 September 2020 \u2014 its planned meeting in Nepal cancelled by COVID-19 \u2014 debating 14 workshops under the theme "Internet Governance for Good: Norms, Standards and Mechanisms."<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Key threads: no encryption backdoors, fragmentation risks from the US TikTok ban and Clean Network programme, and how to handle cyber-attack attribution. The outcomes were distilled into a Synthesis Document published on 1 November.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. The Internet was called "the glue holding societies and economies together" through the pandemic \u2014 while the meeting warned that digital divides, cyber threats and online rights violations were growing just as fast.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on AprIGF 2020 in Virtual<\/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

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    📍 The 11th APrIGF. Originally planned as an in-person meeting in Nepal, it was moved fully online by the Multistakeholder Steering Group (MSG) amid COVID-19 uncertainty \u2014 the first fully virtual APrIGF, with a Day 0 capacity-building day on 27 September. The Nepal meeting was carried over to the 2021 Kathmandu hybrid edition<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n

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    Item<\/th>\nDetail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n27\u201330 September 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nFully virtual (held online via Zoom)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nInternet Governance for Good: Norms, Standards and Mechanisms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Tracks<\/td>\nFour sub-themes: Cybersecurity, Safety and Trust \/ Digital Inclusion, Gender Equality and Diversity \/ Human Rights and Ethics \/ Innovation and Development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nHosted by the APrIGF Multistakeholder Steering Group (MSG), executed by the APrIGF Secretariat and DotAsia Organisation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Outcome<\/td>\nSynthesis Document (published 1 November 2020)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    (See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n

    Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n

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    Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n

    1. The Internet in the Pandemic \u2014 "The Glue Holding Societies Together"<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: "Learn from Home During COVID-19", "The digital rights landscape in Asia Pacific after COVID-19" and others<\/p>\n