IGF Greece 2022 (2nd Internet Governance Forum Greece) — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

On 5–6 November 2022 the second IGF Greece met in hybrid form at OTEAcademy in Maroussi, greater Athens, under the theme 'Decentralization of Power' — energy, Web 3.0 and the giant platforms.
Panels such as 'Information as Power', 'The Power of Policy Making' and 'Financial Power' probed concentrations of power through media, civic participation and decentralised finance, with digital-rights NGO Homo Digitalis on stage.
That same month its Greek-script IDN website won 'Best of IDNs' at the .eu Web Awards — a working showcase of the multilingual internet.

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📍 Listed under Athens; the OTEAcademy venue is in Maroussi, in the northern Athens metropolitan area

Conference at a Glance (from official records)

Item	Detail
Official name	IGF Greece 2022 (2nd Internet Governance Forum Greece)
Dates	5–6 November 2022
Venue	OTEAcademy, Maroussi (Athens metropolitan area); hybrid with parallel livestream
Theme	'Decentralization of Power' — the future of energy, Web 3.0 and the giant platforms
Award	The igfgreece.eu site won 'Best of IDNs' at the 2022 .eu Web Awards (17 November 2022, Mechelen, Belgium), for the IDN domain 'φορουμδιακυβερνησησδιαδικτυου-ελ.ευ'
Host	Institute for the Internet and the Just Society (IGF Greece)

(See the source list at the end of this article.)

Discussion Digest — from the Session Records

Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.

1. Decentralising Power — Energy, Web 3.0 and the Platforms

Sessions: Conference theme across both days

One question — how to decentralise power — tied together the future of energy, Web 3.0 and the giant platforms [2]
Framed as an invitation to 'create together the largest Internet community in Greece', run in hybrid form (translated from the Greek publicity) [2]

2. Information as Power — The Dynamics of Media and Speech

Sessions: Panel 'Information as Power' (moderated by Stefanos Vitoratos, Homo Digitalis)

Framed control over information flows as a modern form of power, examining media, platforms and users [1]
Digital-rights NGO Homo Digitalis moderated, giving civil society a hand on the agenda [1]

3. The Power of Policy Making — Can Citizens Take Part?

Sessions: Panel 'The Power of Policy Making' (moderated by Vassilis Vassilopoulos; with Elpida Vamvaka, president of Homo Digitalis)

Discussed how citizens can participate in emerging models of internet governance [1]
Homo Digitalis summed up its participation afterwards with thanks 'for the wonderful hospitality' (from its English post) [1]

4. Financial Power — Promise and Peril of DeFi

Sessions: Panel 'Financial Power' (with Dr Alexandra Giannopoulou)

Used decentralised finance to weigh technologies that redistribute financial power against their risks [1]
Held in the very days of the FTX collapse, with crypto trust as live context [1]

5. An Award for a Greek-Script Domain — The Multilingual Internet in Practice

Sessions: .eu Web Awards 2022 (17 November 2022, Mechelen)

The Greek-script IDN 'φορουμδιακυβερνησησδιαδικτυου-ελ.ευ' won 'Best of IDNs', judged on accessibility, UX and UI design [3]
A working non-Latin domain deployment, significant for the multilingual-internet agenda [3]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. What was this?

A. The second edition of Greece's national IGF — November 2022 at OTEAcademy near Athens, built around 'Decentralization of Power': information, policy-making and finance.

Q. A memorable detail?

A. The same month, its Greek-script domain won 'Best of IDNs' at the .eu Web Awards — recognition for a genuinely multilingual web presence.

Q. Why care?

A. Platform power and DeFi were debated here in the very week of the FTX collapse, and the IDN award speaks to anyone promoting non-Latin-script domains.

What Is Greece IGF? (for first-time readers)

Greece IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.

Why It Matters to You

What was discussed here becomes the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years. The principles confirmed at the 2022 meeting are the foundation of the "next rules" for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.