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IGF 2024 Launch / Award Event #100 IGF 2023 in Kyoto - UN Conference in Internet Governance

    CFIEC
    Junko Kawauchi, Director, Digital Society Research Institute, CFIEC, Private sector, Asia
    Keisuke Kamimura, Head, internet Governance Research Group, CFIEC, Private sector, Asia
     

    Speakers

    Junko Kawauchi, Director, Digital Society Research Institute, CFIEC, Private sector, Asia
    Masanobu Katoh, Head, Digital Society Research Institute, CFIEC, Private sector, Asia

    Onsite Moderator

    Keisuke Kamimura

    Online Moderator

    Junko Kawauchi

    SDGs

    17.16

    Targets: To enhance policy coherence for sustainable development, government and people need to recognize the issues and global discussions on internet governance.

    Format

    Theater

    Moderator and speaker will introduce the report, and get questions/comments from audience.

    Duration (minutes)
    30
    Description

    IGF 2023 in Kyoto was held really successfully with onsite participants 6,279 plus online participants more than 3,000 from 178 countries, which is the biggest numer of participants ever. However, IGF has not been known much yet in Japan domestically, nor the importance of internet governance known enough. To let many Japanese people recognized its importance, Digital Society Research Institute of CFIEC issued a report of IGF 2023 and distribute them to many people. As one of the country to use the Internet, we need to be recognize the impact and influence of global Internet governance discussion. To develop the post WSIS+20 discussion, we would like to facilitate the domestic discussion first. We are now proofreading the report and will be finalized in Japanese soon. We will issue an summarized English translation later.

    Online moderator will manage the online acrtivities including online speakers and comments through chat to support the onsite moderator, and will enable hybrid meeting.

    Key Takeaways (* deadline at the end of the session day)
    -Explained the key objective of the publication - to let the local community in the host country to know about the significance of IGF.
    -Attracted interests of attendees in the report with colored pictures.
    -Received a suggestion from the audience to talk to IGF secretariat to publish the link to the digital copy of the report on the IGF website.
    Call to Action (* deadline at the end of the session day)
    -The report is exected to be to utilized to develop domestic IGF activities further.
    -Stakeholders in the future host countries are encouraged to make similar reports to develop their domestic IGF activities.