{"id":12000,"date":"2016-05-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/05\/17\/en-seedig-2016-belgrade-overview\/"},"modified":"2016-05-17T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T14:00:00","slug":"en-seedig-2016-belgrade-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/05\/17\/en-seedig-2016-belgrade-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"SEEDIG 2016 Belgrade \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-seedig-2016-belgrade-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"SEEDIG 2016 \u30d9\u30aa\u30b0\u30e9\u30fc\u30c9 \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-seedig-2016-belgrade-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"SEEDIG 2016 \u30d9\u30aa\u30b0\u30e9\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 22 April 2016 the second SEEDIG met in Belgrade, Serbia, hosted by the country&#39;s ccTLD registry RNIDS: 116 participants from 22 countries under the theme &#39;Can we SEE Internet governance.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Debate ran along four pillars \u2014 Internet governance in the region, digital divides and literacy, cybersecurity, and human rights online \u2014 distilled into the SEEDIG 2016 Messages.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its framing of multistakeholderism as &#39;a set of (good) practices and behaviours&#39; rather than a single model became a guiding idea for how regional IGFs value substance over form.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>SEEDIG 2016 in Belgrade<\/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-seedig-2016-belgrade-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"SEEDIG 2016 \u30d9\u30aa\u30b0\u30e9\u30fc\u30c9 \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>22 April 2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Belgrade, Serbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Can we SEE Internet governance (The theme is a wordplay on SEE (South Eastern Europe) and &#39;see&#39;)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>116 (116 in-person participants from 22 countries; 91% from within SEE, 9% from beyond the region)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Hosted by RNIDS (Serbian National Internet Domain Registry), with the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications and the Directorate for E-government as institutional partners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>SEEDIG 2016 Messages and annual report<\/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-seedig-2016-belgrade-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"SEEDIG 2016 \u30d9\u30aa\u30b0\u30e9\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Maturing Regional IG \u2014 Multistakeholderism as a Set of Practices<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Internet governance sessions (22 April)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internet governance evolves through dialogue and collaboration, with consensus as a fundamental principle [2]<\/li>\n<li>Multistakeholderism was framed as &#39;a set of (good) practices and behaviours&#39; rather than a single model [2]<\/li>\n<li>Bottom-up layering \u2014 national to regional to global \u2014 strengthens global IG debates, and legitimacy flows from open, inclusive processes rather than perfect representativeness [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Digital Divides \u2014 Mobile-Only Access Is Only a Stopgap<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 2, &#39;Bridging digital divide(s) with a #SEEchange in digital literacy&#39; (22 April, 11:30\u201313:00), with Megan Richards (European Commission), Jan \u017dor\u017e (Internet Society), Vojislav Rodi\u0107 (RNIDS) and Valentin Negoi\u021b\u0103 (APDETIC); moderated by Du\u0161an Stoji\u010devi\u0107<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deploying infrastructure alone is insufficient \u2014 education and local content development matter just as much [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Mobile-only Internet access was called a temporary solution; fibre networks are needed, especially in rural areas [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>IPv6 adoption requires greater government and private-sector effort, while local-language digital literacy and IDNs were framed as keys to inclusion [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Cybersecurity \u2014 From State Duty to Shared Responsibility<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Cybersecurity sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stakeholders in the region lack harmonised cybersecurity definitions and clarity of roles [2]<\/li>\n<li>Responsibility is shifting from a state-only duty to a shared responsibility across all actors [2]<\/li>\n<li>Accountability of governments and security services was called a precondition for multistakeholder solutions, with human rights to be built into strategies &#39;by design&#39; [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Human Rights Online \u2014 Privacy Underpins Freedom<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Human rights sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Privacy was affirmed as the foundation that enables protections for freedom of expression and assembly [2]<\/li>\n<li>Access to information ensures equality online [2]<\/li>\n<li>Remedies for violations and a clearer allocation of responsibility between government and the private sector were flagged as open questions [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. So what did the meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. SEEDIG doesn&#39;t decide \u2014 it&#39;s the regional forum where SEE governments, companies and civil society talk as equals. The takeaways were distilled into the SEEDIG 2016 Messages and circulated to national and international policy processes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the biggest issue?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. How to connect the unconnected. Mobile-only access was called a stopgap; the real fix is fibre plus local-language content plus digital literacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The meeting&#39;s framing of multistakeholderism as a set of practices, not a fixed model, is a portable idea for anyone designing policy dialogues \u2014 well beyond the Balkans.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is SEEDIG? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-seedig-2016-belgrade-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"SEEDIG 2016 \u30d9\u30aa\u30b0\u30e9\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 About SEEDIG\"><\/p>\n<p>SEEDIG 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 2016 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:\/\/seedig.net\/seedig2016\/\">SEEDIG 2016 meeting<\/a> \u2014 SEEDIG\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/seedig.net\/seedig2016-messages\/\">Messages from SEEDIG 2016<\/a> \u2014 SEEDIG\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/seedig.net\/seedig-2016-session-2\/\">SEEDIG 2016: Session 2 \u2014 Bridging digital divide(s) with a #SEEchange in digital literacy<\/a> \u2014 SEEDIG\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giswatch.org\/en\/internet-governance\/south-eastern-european-dialogue-internet-governance-seedig\">South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIG)<\/a> \u2014 APC (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Eastern_European_Dialogue_on_Internet_Governance\">South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance<\/a> \u2014 Wikipedia\uff08\u82f1\u8a9e\u7248\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/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 May 2016, 16:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 11 July 2026, 02:14 (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>On 22 April 2016 the second SEEDIG met in Belgrade, Serbia, hosted by the country&#8217;s ccTLD registry RNIDS: 116 participants from 22 countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,21],"tags":[163,161,160,162,1002,164],"class_list":["post-12000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-seedig","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-seedig2016","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000","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=12000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}