{"id":5362,"date":"2018-08-20T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/08\/20\/en-argentina-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T17:00:00","slug":"en-argentina-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/08\/20\/en-argentina-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Argentina 2018 \u2014 Third Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Argentina \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-argentina-igf-2018-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Argentina IGF 2018 \u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4\u30ec\u30b9 \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-argentina-igf-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Argentina IGF 2018 \u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4\u30ec\u30b9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 30 July 2018 the third IGF Argentina drew 200+ people to Universidad de San Andr\u00e9s in Buenos Aires, opening a &#39;governance week&#39; that continued with the regional LACIGF11.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>One packed day covered free expression and intermediary liability, cybersecurity and cybercrime, AI ethics, critical infrastructure, gender and the digital economy; the first Youth IGF Argentina ran the day before.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Stacking national, youth and regional forums into one week made Buenos Aires a model of how the IGF ecosystem&#39;s layers can interlock.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF Argentina 2018 \u2014 Third Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Argentina<\/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-argentina-igf-2018-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Argentina IGF 2018 \u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4\u30ec\u30b9 \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>IGF Argentina 2018 \u2014 Third Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Argentina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>30 July 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Universidad de San Andr\u00e9s, Capital campus, 25 de Mayo 586, Buenos Aires<\/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>200 (Official post-event release: &#39;more than 200 local referents and interested people&#39;; 10 travel scholarships (C\u00f3rdoba, Misiones, R\u00edo Negro, Chubut, Mendoza))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>The Comit\u00e9 Multisectorial, with NIC Argentina, APC and ISOC supporting the wider week<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Held in the same week as LACIGF11 (31 Jul\u20132 Aug), feeding national debates into the regional forum; the first Youth IGF Argentina ran the day before with YouthLACIGF<\/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-argentina-igf-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Argentina IGF 2018 \u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4\u30ec\u30b9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Free Expression and Intermediary Liability \u2014 Handling Blocking Orders<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Free expression and the role of technology intermediaries&#39; (11:00\u201312:30; moderator Esteban Lescano, CABASE)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intermediary liability limits and judicial blocking\/takedown orders \u2014 still unlegislated in Argentina \u2014 were tackled head-on [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Fundaci\u00f3n V\u00eda Libre, CETyS, OLX and government body SeTIC represented the four sectors [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>The same issue carried into LACIGF11 that week, a concrete case of national-to-regional agenda flow [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. AI Ethics and Algorithmic Accountability \u2014 Ahead of the Curve in 2018<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Artificial intelligence and its implications&#39; (11:00\u201312:30; moderator Javier Pallero, Access Now)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four sub-themes: labour automation, AI in public and private settings, algorithmic ethics and accountability, and SMEs with emerging tech (IoT, big data, AI) [2]<\/li>\n<li>UdeSA&#39;s Micaela Mantegna \u2014 later internationally known in AI governance \u2014 spoke for academia [2]<\/li>\n<li>Putting AI ethics on a national IGF&#39;s standing agenda five years before the generative-AI boom is worth the record [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Gender, Cybercrime and Critical Infrastructure \u2014 Parallel Roundtables<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable track (1:30\u20134:30 pm)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The gender roundtable (moderated by ISOC Argentina&#39;s Anabel Cisneros) covered online gender violence and pending legislation, with feminist groups, UNLP and SeTIC [2]<\/li>\n<li>The cybersecurity roundtable brought UFECI&#39;s Azzolin, the Security ministry, a judge and Argentina Cibersegura together on public-private cooperation and international norms [2]<\/li>\n<li>Critical infrastructure covered IPv6 uptake and infrastructure-sharing regulation, with LACNIC&#39;s Guillermo Cicileo on the technical side [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Governance Week \u2014 Three Layers from Youth IGF to LACIGF11<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The full week: Youth IGF Argentina + YouthLACIGF (29 Jul), IGF Argentina (30 Jul), LACIGF11 (31 Jul\u20132 Aug)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first Youth IGF Argentina ran with the third YouthLACIGF at NIC Argentina&#39;s auditorium the day before, feeding young participants into the main event [1][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>The official release framed the goal as &#39;raising national particularities into a discussion with a regional perspective&#39; [1][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>Sponsor funds brought 10 scholars from five provinces, easing the capital-centric tilt [1][3][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Why only one day?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Because the regional LACIGF11 ran the next three days in the same city. The &#39;governance week&#39; design handed national debates straight to the regional forum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was contested?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Judicial blocking and takedown orders versus free expression, with intermediary-liability legislation still missing in Argentina.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. In the very same year, site blocking sparked a national fight in Japan over piracy measures \u2014 the same question, debated multistakeholder-style in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Argentina IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-argentina-igf-2018-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Argentina IGF 2018 \u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4\u30ec\u30b9 \u2014 About Argentina IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Argentina 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 2018 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:\/\/nic.ar\/es\/enterate\/novedades\/buenos-aires-sede-foros-gi\">Buenos Aires ser\u00e1 sede de los Foros de Gobernanza de Internet\uff08IGF Argentina\u30fbLACIGF\u30fbYouth IGF\u5408\u540c\u544a\u77e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 NIC Argentina (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191206023638\/https:\/\/www.igfargentina.org\/?page_id=924\">IGF Argentina 2018\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8: \u8a73\u7d30\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u30fb\u5968\u5b66\u751f\u540d\u7c3f\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF Argentina \u65e7\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08Wayback Machine\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191206023638\/https:\/\/www.igfargentina.org\/?p=968\">Tercera edici\u00f3n del Foro de Gobernanza de Internet en Argentina\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u4e8b\u5f8c\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9: 200\u4eba\u8d85\u30fb\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30fb\u5968\u5b66\u91d1\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF Argentina \u65e7\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08Wayback Machine\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/argentina-igf-0\">Argentina IGF\uff082018\u5e74\u5e74\u6b21\u4f1a\u5408\u306eNRI\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\u67084\u65e5 10\u664250\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 30 July 2018 the third IGF Argentina drew 200+ people to Universidad de San Andr\u00e9s in Buenos Aires, opening a &#8216;governance week&#8217; that cont<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,3,19,11],"tags":[163,377,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argentina-igf","category-igf","category-lacigf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-argentinaigf2018","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","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=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}