{"id":11841,"date":"2024-06-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/17\/en-eurodig-2024-vilnius-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T06:00:00","slug":"en-eurodig-2024-vilnius-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/17\/en-eurodig-2024-vilnius-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroDIG 2024 Vilnius \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-eurodig-2024-vilnius-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"EuroDIG 2024 \u30f4\u30a3\u30ea\u30cb\u30e5\u30b9 \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-eurodig-2024-vilnius-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"EuroDIG 2024 \u30f4\u30a3\u30ea\u30cb\u30e5\u30b9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>EuroDIG 2024, Europe&#39;s regional IGF, met in Vilnius, Lithuania on 17\u201319 June 2024 under the theme &quot;Balancing innovation and regulation,&quot; drawing 822 registrations together with the co-located Baltic Domain Days; President Gitanas Naus\u0117da and Prime Minister Ingrida \u0160imonyt\u0117 opened the event.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The agenda paired the EU AI Act with the Council of Europe&#39;s AI Framework Convention, and covered the Global Digital Compact, cybersecurity cooperation extending to wartime, and disinformation in a year of elections. The Messages from Vilnius went to the UN IGF.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>One practical takeaway travelled well beyond Europe: AI-detection tools are unreliable \u2014 watermarking and content certification are the more dependable way to authenticate content.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>EuroDIG 2024 in Vilnius<\/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<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-eurodig-2024-vilnius-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"EuroDIG 2024 \u30f4\u30a3\u30ea\u30cb\u30e5\u30b9 \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>17\u201319 June 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Vilnius, Lithuania<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Balancing innovation and regulation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Registrations<\/td>\n<td>822 (Combined registrations for EuroDIG and the co-located Baltic Domain Days 2024, per the official EuroDIG site)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Communications Regulatory Authority of Lithuania (RRT), in cooperation with Lithuania&#39;s Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Transport and Communications, and Economy and Innovation, GoVilnius and the Information Society Development Committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Messages from Vilnius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-eurodig-2024-vilnius-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"EuroDIG 2024 \u30f4\u30a3\u30ea\u30cb\u30e5\u30b9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. AI Governance \u2014 Linking the EU AI Act and the First AI Treaty<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Main Topic sessions on Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI innovation requires multistakeholder governance to minimise bias and serve societal interests [1]<\/li>\n<li>The Council of Europe&#39;s AI Framework Convention was framed as complementing the EU AI Act [1]<\/li>\n<li>AI-detection systems remain unreliable; watermarking and content certification are the more dependable authentication methods [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Global Digital Compact \u2014 Build on WSIS, Don&#39;t Duplicate It<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Main Topic sessions on the Global Digital Compact<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participants backed a stronger multistakeholder model and an enhanced role for the UN IGF in implementing Global Digital Compact commitments [1][5]<\/li>\n<li>The Messages call for building on existing WSIS foundations rather than creating duplicate mechanisms [1][5]<\/li>\n<li>With the UN Summit of the Future weeks away, the GDC and WSIS+20 processes ran through the whole programme [1][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Opening \u2014 A Rare Welcome from Both President and Prime Minister<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening ceremony (17 June, joint with Baltic Domain Days)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Balancing Innovation and Regulation captures the essence of our journey&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Ingrida \u0160imonyt\u0117 (Prime Minister of Lithuania)<\/strong> [5][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>President Gitanas Naus\u0117da and Prime Minister Ingrida \u0160imonyt\u0117 both took the opening stage, signalling a whole-of-government commitment by host Lithuania [5][2]<\/li>\n<li>RRT Council Chair J\u016brat\u0117 \u0160ovien\u0117 stressed that the essence of digital transformation is people, not technology [5][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Cybersecurity \u2014 Cooperation Mechanisms That Work Even in Wartime<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Cybersecurity sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Messages from Vilnius call for coordinated cross-sectoral collaboration built on trust, including cooperation mechanisms for crises such as wartime [1]<\/li>\n<li>Training and inclusive security measures were flagged as essential complements [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Information Spaces in an Election Year \u2014 Disinformation and Deepfakes<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Main Topic sessions on the Evolution of Media Spaces, and YOUthDIG<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sessions examined how information disorder affects voting dynamics, pointing to critical thinking and media literacy education, voter-friendly communication and electoral transparency as remedies [4][1]<\/li>\n<li>The YOUthDIG cohort called for mandatory deepfake labelling and explicit opt-in consent for the use of personal data in AI training [4][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did the conference actually decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 it&#39;s a dialogue. But the points of consensus were distilled into the Messages from Vilnius and sent to the UN IGF and European policymakers. The headline act: working out how the EU AI Act and the Council of Europe&#39;s AI treaty fit together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the highlight?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Both the President and the Prime Minister of Lithuania opened the event \u2014 a small state bordering Russia treating internet governance as national strategy. The Messages even speak of cooperation mechanisms for crises such as wartime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The practical verdict that AI-detection tools are unreliable \u2014 watermarking and content certification work better \u2014 is directly usable anywhere. And the election-year deepfake debate is coming to every democracy&#39;s doorstep.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is EuroDIG? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-eurodig-2024-vilnius-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"EuroDIG 2024 \u30f4\u30a3\u30ea\u30cb\u30e5\u30b9 \u2014 About EuroDIG\"><\/p>\n<p>EuroDIG is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2024 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurodig.org\/eurodig-2024\/messages-from-vilnius\/\">Messages from Vilnius<\/a> \u2014 eurodig.org (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurodig.org\/eurodig-2024\/\">EuroDIG 2024\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30fb\u767b\u9332\u7d71\u8a08\uff09<\/a> \u2014 eurodig.org (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurodigwiki.org\/wiki\/EuroDIG_2024\">EuroDIG 2024<\/a> \u2014 eurodigwiki.org (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/eurodig-2024\">EuroDIG 2024<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/eurodig-2024\/opening-of-the-eurodig2024-baltic-domain-days\">Opening of the EuroDIG2024 and Baltic Domain Days\uff08\u958b\u4f1a\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurodig.org\/eurodig-news-30-2024\/\">EuroDIG News 30\/2024\uff08\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u516c\u8868\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 eurodig.org (accessed 2026-07-10)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Revision History<\/h2>\n<p>Rev. 1 \u2014 published 17 June 2024, 15:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 10 July 2026, 14:28 (Fully revised into the in-depth edition: added the 3-line summary, minutes digest, short talk, source list and diagrams (all quotes verified against the listed sources))<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EuroDIG 2024, Europe&#8217;s regional IGF, met in Vilnius, Lithuania on 17\u201319 June 2024 under the theme &#8220;Balancing innovation and regulation,&#8221; dra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,11],"tags":[163,161,160,424,162,164],"class_list":["post-11841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-eurodig2024","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}