Time: 2:15- 6:00 UTC
Date: 11th – 14th October 2025
The Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) serves as a regional platform for dialogue, collaboration, and exchange on Internet governance. Bringing together national IGF discussions and fosters progress in Internet governance throughout the Asia Pacific region.
By 2010, while the global IGF was already in its fifth year and regional IGFs had been established in regions like Africa, Europe, and Latin America, Asia had yet to see a similar forum for regional discussions on Internet governance. The first APrIGF was convened in Hongkong, SAR China to fill this gap, aiming to promote awareness and encourage stakeholder participation across the region on issues related to Internet governance. It’s already completed the 15 editions successfully and the 16th edition is being held this October in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Local Bots, Global Norms: Discussing content moderation and chatbots in the APAC region
- This Fireside Chat explores the issue of how content moderation practices of LLM-powered chatbots may be shaping content governance norms across the APAC region. Deployed predominantly by companies based in the Global North, these technologies have been flagged for importing Anglocentric norms and values into moderation frameworks, potentially suppressing legitimate content and offering users limited mechanisms for grievance redressal. In doing so, they pose a fundamental challenge to the future of multistakeholder and inclusive governance of these technologies: Who gets to define their moderation policies? And how — and if at all — are regional languages and cultural contexts accounted for?
CDT Featured Speaker
- Aliya Bhatia, Senior Policy Analyst