{"id":10429,"date":"2024-06-16T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/16\/en-finland-igf-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T14:00:00","slug":"en-finland-igf-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/16\/en-finland-igf-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Internet Forum 2024 \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n

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  1. On 3 April 2024 the Finnish Internet Forum convened at Pikkuparlamentti as guests of the Committee for the Future, under the theme of AI and the crisis resilience of digital everyday life \u2014 nearly 100 experts in the room and 199 on the webcast.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Three pillars: a panel asking whether the just-agreed EU AI Act was outdated on arrival, a cybersecurity panel spanning quantum-era encryption and human error, and briefings on the UN's Global Digital Compact and WSIS+20. Closing the day, Timo Harakka called AI 'the most important political question of our time'.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Practitioners' scepticism about AI regulation and the reminder that the weakest link is human speak to every country then drafting its AI rulebook.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on Finnish Internet Forum 2024<\/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

    Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n

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    Item<\/th>\nDetail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Official name<\/td>\nFinnish Internet Forum 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n3 April 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nAuditorium of Pikkuparlamentti, Arkadiankatu 3, Helsinki<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nTheme: 'Artificial intelligence and the crisis resilience of the internet-enabled digital everyday'<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nHosted by Parliament's Committee for the Future (opened by chair Aino-Kaisa Pekonen MP, closed by vice-chair Timo Harakka MP); organised by a group including the MFA, the Ministry of Transport and Communications, ISOC Finland, TIVIA and EFFI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    (See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n

    Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n

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    Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n

    1. The EU AI Act \u2014 Outdated on Arrival?<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: Panel I 'The EU AI Act \u2014 obsolete before completion?' (moderated by Tommi Karttaavi, with Prof. Petri Myllym\u00e4ki, MP Aura Salla, Save the Children's Anna-Maija Ohlsson and EFFI's Tapani Tarvainen; comments by Technology Industries' Joonas Mikkil\u00e4 and MEP Miapetra Kumpula-Natri remotely)<\/p>\n

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    "Metaverse business has been done for years in Silicon Valley-type places. Realism has been forgotten \u2014 there is a huge amount of regulation, overlapping lengthwise, crosswise and diagonally (translated from Finnish)"
    \n\u2014 Aura Salla, MP<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    "(AI) is the most important political question of our time (translated from Finnish)"
    \n\u2014 Timo Harakka, vice-chair of the Committee for the Future, in his closing summary<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n