On 21 – 23 August 2024 the 15th Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) will be held as a hybrid event, online and in Taipei, with the overarching theme ‘ Evolving Ecosystems, Enduring Principles: Shaping Responsible Internet Governance‘.
APrIGF serves as a platform for discussion, exchange and collaboration at a regional level, and also where possible to aggregate national IGF discussions, ultimately advance the Internet governance development in the Asia Pacific region.
LIVESTREAM https://aprigf.tw/live-streaming/
AGENDA https://aprigf.tw/program/
August 21 | Day 1 – ALL TIMES UTC+8
09:30 (201) – APrIGF & TWIGF Opening Remarks
Amrita Choudhury, Kenny Huang, Kuo-Wei Wu, Vint Cerf, Yennun Huang, Bi-khim Hsiao
10:05 (201) APrIGF & TWIGF Keynote
Jun Murai
10:20 (201) APrIGF & TWIGF Opening Plenary
Pavitra Ramanujam, Heather Adkins, Lisa Garcia, Kenny Huang, Jun Murai
11:30 (402) Roundtable – Charting the Path for a Regional Fact-Checking Coalition in the Asia-Pacific
Medelina K. Hendytio, Ratna Aini Hadi, Shita Laksmi, Jean-Jacques Sahel, Eve Chiu, Ellen Tordesillas
11:30 (301) Panel – Regulatory Resilience in the Age of Internet Fragmentation
Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Neeti Biyani, KS Park, William Lee, Victoria Hyde
12:30 (101) Talk – Unmasking Threat: Lunchtime with Google’s Cybersecurity Front Line
Heather Adkins
14:00 (301) Panel – Platform Accountability in South and Southeast Asia
Liza Garcia, Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, KS Park, Prateek Waghre, Grace Salonga
14:00 (402) Panel – Digital Leap- Enhancing Connectivity in South Asia
Omar Ansari, Lima Madomi, Amrita Choudhury, Waqas Hassan, Mohamed Shareef, Raj Singh, Mahesh Uppal, Aimal Marjan
14:00 (401) Panel – From Innovation to Impact: Responsible AI – challenges and opportunities to tackle online fraud and scams
Nicole Chan, Yi-jing Lin, Jean-Jacques Sahel, Jennifer Chan, Joanna Octavia, Edmon Chung
15:10 (301) Workshop – Defending against Digital Deception: Strategies for Preventing Online Scams and Identity Theft ?
Jasmine Ko, Mamta Siwakoti, Ummed Meel, Ben Cheung
15:10 (402) Panel – Securing Trust: Ethical Governance in Championing Children’s Digital Rights
Luke Teoh Rong Guang, Bea S. Guevarra, Omor Faruque, Hao-Tian Ted Lu, Agita Pasaribu, Ella Serry, Andy Ardian
16:00 (401) Panel – Shaping the Future: AI Policy and Governance in 2030
Jo-Fan Yu, Meg Chang, Anita Chan, George Chen, Tzong- Han Tsai, Isabel Hou
16:30 (301) Town Hall I
August 22 | Day 2 – ALL TIMES UTC+8
09:00 (101) Panel – BreaktheSilo: Streamlining Gender Safety in the Digital Space
Shruti Shreya, Liza Garcia, Rachel Judhistari, Jean-Jacques Sahel
09:00 (402) Workshop – Bottom-up Advocacy for a Resilient Internet
Neeti Biyani, Maristela Miranda, Jean F Queralt, Jessamine Joyce Pacis
09:00 (401) Panel – Introduction to a Technical Community Coalition for Multistakeholderism
Jordan Carter, Jo-Fan Yu, Vivien Maidaborne, Alishah Shariff
10:10 (101) Panel – Safeguarding Human Rights Defenders in the Cyber Age
Singing Li, JY Hoh, Michael Karimian, Frederick Rawski
10:10 (402) Panel – A Multistakeholder Approach to Safeguarding Information Integrity through Advancing Internet Governance in Asia and the Pacific
Raman Jit Singh, Joyce Wu, Michael Caster, Fitriani PhD, Rachel Judhistari
11:00 (401) Panel – Towards a Resilient Internet in Taiwan: Defining, Measuring, and Enhancing Network Robustness
Kuo-Wei Wu, Joy Chan, Po-Yi Li, Tsu-Yao Lu, Shan-Cheng Pei, Junwei Tsai
11:30 (101) Panel – Multistakeholderism in the post-GDC era
Keisuke Kamimura, Junko Kawauchi, Amrita Choudhury, Chris Buckridge, Yoichi Iida, Masanobu Katoh
11:30 (402) Panel – Is Asia-Pacific Ready for AI? Balancing Innovation, Ethical Governance, and Marginalized Needs
Jasmine Ko, Rupam, Jenna Manhau Fung, Karlina Octaviany, Poren Chiang, Ruth Schmidt
APrIGF
12:30 (101) Talk – RightsCon: A Global Convening of Human Rights in the Digital Age
14:00 (101) Workshop – Digital Bill of Rights: A Systematic Bottom-Up Approach Towards Freedom in the Digital Age
JRF’s Digital Lawyers Network
14:00 (402) Roundtable – Striving for EcoInternet, towards a resilient Internet
Jasmine Ko, Edmon Chung, Toshiaki Tateishi
14:30 (402) Fireside Chat – Health Data Governance through AI Booming Age: A Journey in Taiwan
Kuan-Ju, Chou, Wang, Bow-Yaw, Yu-Yin, Tu
14:00 (401) Panel – Navigating the Complex Terrain of Internet Intermediaries Liability and Online Frauds
Dr. Shun-Ling Chen, Jean-Jacques Sahel, Raman Jit Singh, Dr. Hsin-Hsuan Lin, Dr. Seongmin Jeon
15:10 (101) Panel – Messaging scam and combatting to protect human rights and democracy
Kazuhiro Kitamura, Kuo-Wei Wu, Christiane Gillespie-Jones, Hung-Chang Hsu, Alpana Kaushal, Koji Yasukagawa
15:10 (402) Panel – Gendered Disinformation – Deepening understanding and exploring countermeasures
Pavitra Ramanujam, Cho Thazin Aung, Liza Garcia, Bishakha Datta, Asma Shirazi, Mia Møhring Larsen
16:15 (401) Artificial Intelligence and the Environment ─ The Path to a Sustainable Earth
Yi-fan Gao, Yen-haw Chen, Mavis Hsu, I-chun Hsiao
16:30 (101) Town hall II
August 23 | Day 3 – ALL TIMES UTC+8
09:00 (101) Panel – Building Holistic Resilience to Address Emerging Ethical and Social Challenges in the Digital and AI Age
Ashirwad Tripathy, Saud Paracha, Prof. Salma Abbasi, Izumi Aizu, Resercher, Sri Chandrasekaran, Charles Mok
09:00 Making AI responsible for financial inclusion –
Shyam Krishnakumar, Titiksha Vashist, Chandni Gupta, Shelley Anderson, Dr. Rachel Gong, Edoardo Totolo, Monami Dasgupta
10:10 (101) Panel – Infrastructures of repression: Cybersecurity and Human Rights in the Asia Pacific
Michael Caster, Lulu Keng, Tanka Aryal, Darika Bamrubgchok, Helani Galpaya, Charles Mok
10:10 (402) Panel – Internet infrastructure resilience during disaster event – Case Study for the 0403 Taiwan Earthquake, and others
Joyce Chan, Ching-Heng Ku, Crystal Pu, Andrew Molivurae, Joy Chan
11:30 (101) Roundtable – Freedom Online Coalition Regional Dialogue – Asia-Pacific
Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Luca Kuiper
11:30 (402) Workshop – Enhancing Internet and Web Standards to address DNS Tampering
Siti Nurliza Samsudin
13:30 (101) ShhorAI: Combating Hate Speech and Fostering an Inclusive Digital Space
Aindriya Barua
13:30 (402) Fellows Presentation
14:00 (101) Tutorial – Contextualising Fairness: AI Governance in Asia
Tejaswita Kharel, Isabel Hou, Jason Grant Allen, Nidhi Singh
14:40 (101) Open Mic Townhall – NetMundial+10, GDC, WSIS+20 – what else is happening in the world of Internet governance
Jordan Carter, Yien Chyn Tan, Akinori Maemura, Amrita Choudhury, William Lee
14:40 (402) Panel – Strengthening the Digital Resilience of Taiwan: with Special Reference to Undersea Cables
Yachi Chiang, Charles Mok, Lucio Blanco Pitlo III
16:20 (101) Closing Plenary
Waqas Hassan, Rajnesh Singh, Audrey Tang, Prof Salma Abbasi, Michael Kariman
17:20 (101) Closing Remarks
Jo-Fan Yu, Edmon Chung, Sameer Gahlot, Aris Irisgo, Ananda Gautam
August 23 | TWIGF – ALL TIMES UTC+8
09:30 From Long-term Cultivation to Active Participation: Taiwan’s Practical Strategies in Global Internet Governance
Yi-Shan Chen, Jason Kuo, Paul Peng, Manju Chen, Pablo Hinojosa, Yien Chyn Tan
09:30 (401) Digital Basic Law: Building Digital Rights and Sustainable Resilience from the Bottom Up
林俊宏, TBD
10:50 (301) The Exercise of Data Protection Rights: Emperor’s New Clothes or the Armor of AI Development
Kuan-Ju Chou, Shun-Ling Chen, Bow-Yaw Wang, Chieh Tseng
10:50 (401) How Open Source Communities Promote the Development of Resilient Networks: Open Government, Environmental Monitoring, and Media Literacy
Eileen Chu, Wu-Long Hsu, Billion Lee, Wei-Chen Lin
13:30 (301) Intermediary Liability: Would Holding Internet Platforms Accountable for Content Lead to Better Internet Governance?
Alban Kwan, Jofan Lin, Ruby Pang, 周宇修
13:30 (401) Digital Censoring Tools and Democracy
Syed Mohammad Haroon, Usama Khilji, Jenna Fung, Gyan Prakash Tripathi, Jean-Jacques Sahel
14:50 (301) Resilience of the Internet’s network infrastructure
Kenny Huang, Seiichi Kawamura, Noelle Francesca De Guzman, Che-Hoo Cheng
14:50 (401) Current Situation and Future Prospects of Internet Safety for Children in Taiwan: The Joint Efforts of Multi-Stakeholders
June Liu, Eric Huang, Jofan Li, Evonne Lai, Candice Keng
16:10 (301) Multiple legal thinking on algorithmic governance under fair trust – philosophy of justice, fair competition, governance
林常青, Ron Kuo, Hung-Yu Chuang, Shao-Man Lee, Wan-Ju Yeh
16:10 (401) The role of individual end users and civil society in Internet governance: the challenges of At-Large Community and ALAC
Henry Tsai, Kuo-Wei Wu, Manju Chen, Ron Lee, Ting-Yun Chi
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On 24 February, 2025, Adrian Wan, Senior Policy and Advocacy Manager, Internet Society gave remarks ‘Community Networks Mapping in Asia and the Pacific‘ at the ‘Empowering Communities: Connectivity Initiatives for Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific‘ session, an associated event at the 12th Asia-Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development in-Bangkok, Thailand. Adrian took the opportunity to present the results of a joint APC/ISEA/ISOC study on Community-Centered Connectivity Initiatives (CCCIs) in the region.
On 29 – 31 August 2023 the 
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