{"id":11937,"date":"2020-06-07T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/06\/07\/en-eurodig-2020-virtual-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-06-07T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T11:00:00","slug":"en-eurodig-2020-virtual-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/06\/07\/en-eurodig-2020-virtual-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroDIG 2020 Virtual \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EuroDIG<\/p>\n

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

\"EuroDIG<\/p>\n

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  1. EuroDIG \u2014 Europe's regional IGF \u2014 met fully online for the first time ever on 10\u201312 June 2020, after COVID-19 forced the planned Trieste (ICTP) meeting onto the Internet; registrations roughly doubled to 1,200.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Under the theme 'Towards a sustainable governance of the Internet', sessions covered 5G and digital sovereignty, Europe's digital economy in the pandemic, DNS-over-HTTPS consolidation risks and the right to repair, distilled into the EuroDIG Messages 2020.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. With European network traffic up 40\u201370%, the Internet held \u2014 a fact the meeting verified while living it. The distributed-studio format pioneered here became a template for later virtual conferences.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on EuroDIG 2020 in Virtual<\/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

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    📍 Originally planned at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy; moved fully online in late March 2020 due to COVID-19, and run from a control studio in Leipzig with distributed studios in The Hague, Berlin and Trieste<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

    \"EuroDIG<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Item<\/th>\nDetail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n10\u201312 June 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nFully online (Zoom sessions with YouTube streaming)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nTowards a sustainable governance of the Internet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Registrations<\/td>\n1,200 (About double the usual level (secretariat report))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nThe Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), with ESOF, SISSA, the University of Trieste and Italy's Ministry for Technological Innovation and Digitalisation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Outcome<\/td>\nEuroDIG Messages 2020<\/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

    \"EuroDIG<\/p>\n

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

    1. The First Virtual EuroDIG \u2014 Inventing the Distributed-Studio Format<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: Overall meeting operations (secretariat report) and opening<\/p>\n

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    "ICTP is honoured to host the 2020 online edition of EuroDIG. While Europe and the whole world are facing an unprecedented situation, I believe it is important to continue the dialogue on Internet governance."
    \n\u2014 Atish Dabholkar (Director, ICTP)<\/strong> [5][6]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n