{"id":4105,"date":"2022-09-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/09\/12\/en-aprigf-2022-singapore-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T01:00:00","slug":"en-aprigf-2022-singapore-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/09\/12\/en-aprigf-2022-singapore-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"AprIGF 2022 Singapore \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-2022-singapore-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2022 \u30b7\u30f3\u30ac\u30dd\u30fc\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-2022-singapore-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2022 \u30b7\u30f3\u30ac\u30dd\u30fc\u30eb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 13th APrIGF met at the Grand Hyatt Singapore on 12\u201314 September 2022, hybrid and co-located for the first time with APNIC 54 and APSIG, debating 25 sessions under &quot;People at the Centre: Envisioning a Community-led Internet.&quot;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>South Korea&#39;s network-usage-fee proposals as a fragmentation risk, the criminalisation of election disinformation, cyber attacks on healthcare, and including the region&#39;s estimated 650 million persons with disabilities topped the agenda; outcomes fed the Synthesis Document published in November.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With 2.9 billion people (37%) still offline \u2014 92% Internet use in Singapore against 22.9% in Afghanistan \u2014 the meeting&#39;s message was that the Internet&#39;s next phase must be community-led, not imposed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>AprIGF 2022 in Singapore<\/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; The 13th APrIGF, preceded by a Day 0 capacity-building day on 11 September. Co-located for the first time with APNIC 54 and APSIG 2022, with APNIC as co-host of the hybrid event, within a combined conference week (8\u201315 September) that included technical workshops<\/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-2022-singapore-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2022 \u30b7\u30f3\u30ac\u30dd\u30fc\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>Dates<\/td>\n<td>12\u201314 September 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Grand Hyatt Singapore (hybrid)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>People at the Centre: Envisioning a Community-led Internet that is Inclusive, Sustainable and Trusted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tracks<\/td>\n<td>Three high-level thematic tracks \u2014 Inclusion, Sustainability and Trust \u2014 continuing the format introduced in 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Hosted by the APrIGF Multistakeholder Steering Group with APNIC as co-host; Secretariat run by DotAsia Organisation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Synthesis Document (final version published 25 November 2022)<\/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-2022-singapore-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2022 \u30b7\u30f3\u30ac\u30dd\u30fc\u30eb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Network Usage Fees \u2014 Will Korea-Style &quot;Sender Pays&quot; Fragment the Internet?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Sustainability track (Internet interoperability and resilience discussions)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Network-usage-fee proposals like South Korea&#39;s &quot;Sending Party Network Pays&quot; policy and the data-delivery costs considered by the European Commission add costs to network and data accessibility and could potentially fragment the Internet [1]<\/li>\n<li>Policymakers should weigh unintended consequences for the workings of the Internet when developing new regulation \u2014 keeping the network interoperable comes first [1]<\/li>\n<li>Resilience tools for typhoon- and earthquake-prone economies \u2014 Locally Accessible Cloud Systems (LACS) and LEO satellite constellations \u2014 were examined as ways to keep people connected through disasters [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Elections and Disinformation \u2014 Does Criminalisation Protect Democracy?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &quot;Social Media Regulation during Elections: Expanding or Limiting Digital Democracy?&quot; and &quot;Combating Disinformation from COVID-19 to the General Election&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An unfortunate Asian trend toward more government regulation and criminal punishment for misinformation was flagged as especially problematic for political and election-related content [1]<\/li>\n<li>Targeted political advertising should be clearly identifiable and categorised as info-advertisements, and election bodies should deploy &quot;digital election observers&quot; to monitor such content [1]<\/li>\n<li>The broader fix is digital literacy \u2014 fact-checking and critical thinking taught in schools \u2014 combined with government\u2013civil society collaboration, industry self-regulation and community-based transparency [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Protecting Hospitals \u2014 Cyber Attacks on Healthcare and Their Human Cost<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &quot;Protecting the Healthcare Sector from Cyber Harm&quot; (Trust track)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hospitals already strained by the pandemic faced increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, in a number of cases directly delaying or postponing patient treatment \u2014 framed as a matter of potentially devastating humanitarian consequences [1]<\/li>\n<li>Since attackers ignore borders: share information across sectors and countries, train healthcare workers in cyber hygiene, normalise two-factor authentication, and break down organisational silos in IT security [1]<\/li>\n<li>Governments should establish Disaster Recovery Centres and national or sector-specific CERTs, strengthen confidence-building measures across APAC, and hold healthcare system vendors accountable for security holes in their products [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. 650 Million Voices \u2014 Persons with Disabilities as Internet Governance Stakeholders<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &quot;Strengthening the disability voice in Internet Governance&quot; and other disability and accessibility sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An estimated 650 million persons with disabilities live in Asia Pacific, yet digital disparities greatly inhibit their digital rights \u2014 their voices must be integrated into Internet governance discussions if no one is to be left behind [1]<\/li>\n<li>Accessibility of both online and onsite capacity-building sessions should follow the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (DCAD) guidelines [1]<\/li>\n<li>Pandemic-era remote learning hit students with disabilities in higher education hard; public and private initiatives should provide connectivity, learning-management tools and assistive technology \u2014 with inclusion in the ICT job sector also on the table [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. First Co-location with APNIC \u2014 Technical and Policy Communities Under One Roof<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Meeting-wide (held in the same venue and week as APNIC 54 and APSIG 2022)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the first time APrIGF was co-located with APNIC 54 and APSIG, with APNIC as co-host; the combined conference week drew 558 on-site and 635 online participants from 69 economies (per APNIC) [1][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>2.9 billion people \u2014 37% of the world&#39;s population \u2014 remain unconnected, and the regional gap is stark: 92% Internet use in Singapore versus 22.9% in Afghanistan [1][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>Fellowship pathways for emerging voices and a youth statement drafted by Asia Pacific yIGF participants embodied the &quot;People at the Centre&quot; theme of a community-led Internet [1][3][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. So what did the conference actually decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 it&#39;s the Asia-Pacific edition of the IGF. In 2022 it shared a venue with the technical community&#39;s APNIC 54 for the first time, and its discussions were distilled into a Synthesis Document feeding the global IGF in Addis Ababa that November and wider UN processes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Network usage fees. South Korea&#39;s &#39;Sending Party Network Pays&#39; approach \u2014 making big content providers pay ISPs for traffic \u2014 was flagged as well-intentioned regulation that could undermine interoperability and fragment the Internet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Because the fights aired here went global: network-fee bills echoed into the EU&#39;s &#39;fair share&#39; debate, hospitals worldwide faced ransomware, and the 650-million-strong disability community&#39;s claim to a seat at the Internet governance table concerns every connected society.<\/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-2022-singapore-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"AprIGF 2022 \u30b7\u30f3\u30ac\u30dd\u30fc\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 2022 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\/APrIGF_2022_SG-Hybrid_Synthesis_Document_FINAL.pdf\">Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum 2022 Synthesis Document (PDF)<\/a> \u2014 APrIGF Secretariat (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ap.rigf.asia\/news\/2022\/its-official-aprigf-2022-will-be-held-in-singapore-this-september\/\">It&#39;s Official: APrIGF 2022 will be held in Singapore this September!<\/a> \u2014 APrIGF.Asia\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.apnic.net\/2022\/06\/16\/register-now-for-apnic-54-aprigf-2022-and-apsig-2022-singapore\/\">Register now for APNIC 54, APrIGF 2022 and APSIG 2022, Singapore<\/a> \u2014 APNIC Blog (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.apnic.net\/2022\/09\/16\/apnic-54-thank-you-and-farewell\/\">APNIC 54: Thank you and farewell<\/a> \u2014 APNIC Blog (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apc.org\/en\/news\/apc-2022-asia-pacific-regional-igf-promoting-community-led-internet\">APC at the 2022 Asia Pacific Regional IGF: Promoting a community-led internet<\/a> \u2014 Association for Progressive Communications (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ap.rigf.asia\/news\/2022\/aprigf-2022-synthesis-document\/\">APrIGF 2022 Synthesis Document<\/a> \u2014 APrIGF.Asia\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (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 12 September 2022, 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 13th APrIGF met at the Grand Hyatt Singapore on 12\u201314 September 2022, hybrid and co-located for the first time with APNIC 54 and APSIG, <\/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":[163,342,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aprigf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-aprigf2022","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","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=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}