{"id":12015,"date":"2024-05-17T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/05\/17\/en-seedig-2024-online-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:00:00","slug":"en-seedig-2024-online-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/05\/17\/en-seedig-2024-online-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"SEEDIG 2024 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-2024-online-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"SEEDIG 2024 \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-2024-online-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"SEEDIG 2024 \u30d9\u30aa\u30b0\u30e9\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>SEEDIG 9 met on 25\u201326 November 2024 in hybrid format \u2014 at the Mona Plaza Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia, and online \u2014 under the theme &#39;SEE Potential: Digital Turning Points and Responsible Governance.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Headline topics: a 14th straight year of declining Internet freedom per Freedom House, AI misuse in a global election year, Serbia&#39;s gig-worker research, and the Western Balkans&#39; preparations for the EU&#39;s DSA and DMA.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its election-disinformation and platform-labour debates resonate globally, and its ability to convene the UN, OSCE and Council of Europe shows what a regional IGF can be.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>SEEDIG 2024 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<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; [Catalogue discrepancy] The catalogue id says &#39;online&#39;, but SEEDIG 9 was a hybrid meeting: in person at the Mona Plaza Hotel in Belgrade with online participation \u2014 not a purely virtual event<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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-2024-online-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"SEEDIG 2024 \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>Edition<\/td>\n<td>9th annual meeting (SEEDIG 9)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>25\u201326 November 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Mona Plaza Hotel, Cara Uro\u0161a 62-64, Belgrade, Serbia, and online<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>SEE Potential: Digital Turning Points and Responsible Governance<\/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-2024-online-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"SEEDIG 2024 \u30d9\u30aa\u30b0\u30e9\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Internet Freedom Down for a 14th Year \u2014 Censorship and Manipulation in an Election Year<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Internet Freedom: Lessons from Freedom on the Net 2024&#39; (25 Nov, 16:00, with Freedom House)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Freedom on the Net 2024 found Internet freedom declining for a 14th consecutive year as censorship and content manipulation combined to sway elections; Freedom House&#39;s Grant Baker, SEEDIG chair Olga Kyryliuk and researchers covering Armenia, Georgia and Serbia took the stage [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The next day, BIRN investigative journalists shared findings on digital-rights violations across the region, drawing on two years of monitoring and closing with a roadmap from activists and CSO leaders [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Preventing AI Misuse \u2014 A Regulatory Dialogue with Mediterranean Parliamentarians<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote dialogue &#39;AI &amp; Emerging Tech: Preventing Misuse and Advancing Regulation&#39; (26 Nov, 14:00, with PAM)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PAM&#39;s rapporteur on AI, Hon. Abdelouahab Yagoubi (Algeria), and Hon. Tijana Davidovac (Serbia) pressed the need for stronger national and international regulatory frameworks as criminal and terrorist groups exploit emerging technologies [2][3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Davidovac warned of AI-fuelled disinformation and deepfakes used to influence elections, incite unrest and undermine global efforts on issues such as climate change [2][3][1]<\/li>\n<li>A keynote by Isabel de Sola connected the Global Digital Compact to the SEE region, anchoring the debate in the UN framework [2][3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Inside the Gig Economy \u2014 Serbia&#39;s &#39;Gigmeter&#39; Platform-Worker Research<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Navigating Global Labor Markets: What Gigmeter Reveals about Serbian Platform Workers&#39; (26 Nov, 11:00, Public Policy Research Centre)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Host country Serbia is a heavyweight in online gig work; researchers and practitioners including Branka Andjelkovic and Tanja Jakobi unpacked what the &#39;Gigmeter&#39; index reveals about its platform workers [2]<\/li>\n<li>The session framed a universal question rising from the region: how to protect and regulate work plugged directly into global labour markets [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Western Balkans and EU Digital Rules \u2014 Gearing Up for the DSA and DMA<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Digital Regulation in Transition: Western Balkans Preparing for DSA and DMA&#39; (26 Nov, 16:15, NGO 35mm)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panellists examined how Western Balkan EU-candidate countries are adapting legislation and building regulatory capacity for the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act [2]<\/li>\n<li>Sessions on the Council of Europe&#39;s digital agenda and a public-private policy dialogue rounded out a live case study of the &#39;Brussels effect&#39; beyond EU borders [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Cyber Attacks on Civil Society and the Talent Pipeline \u2014 Shoring Up the Region&#39;s Base<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop &#39;Cyber Attacks Against Civil Society&#39; (CyberHUB) and panel &#39;Bridging Gender Gap in Cybersecurity Careers in SEE&#39; (26 Nov), among others<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A hands-on workshop covered digital resistance to state-sponsored hacking of civil society, alongside a report on the Cyber Pathways for Women project in North Macedonia and Serbia [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Technical-community items \u2014 a RIPE NCC panel on IPv6 uptake and EURid&#39;s IDN World Report 2024 \u2014 shared the stage, with the OSCE Mission to Serbia&#39;s Jan Braathu and the UN IGF Secretariat&#39;s Anja Gengo among the opening speakers [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Was SEEDIG 2024 an online event?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Half right. It was hybrid: an in-person meeting at a Belgrade hotel combined with online participation \u2014 confirming the return to physical annual meetings that began in Zagreb the year before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the main focus?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Elections and digital tech. In the world&#39;s biggest election year, Freedom House&#39;s latest findings and a dialogue with parliamentarians tackled censorship, content manipulation and AI-generated deepfakes distorting votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. AI-driven disinformation in elections, gig-worker protection and adapting to the EU&#39;s DSA\/DMA are the same battles playing out in most democracies right now \u2014 this region is simply living them at full intensity.<\/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-2024-online-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"SEEDIG 2024 \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 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:\/\/seedig.net\/seedig-9\/\">SEEDIG 9<\/a> \u2014 SEEDIG\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/seedig.net\/events\/seedig-9-program\/\">SEEDIG 9 Program<\/a> \u2014 SEEDIG\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pam.int\/pam-hosts-a-session-at-the-2024-seedig-annual-meeting\/\">PAM hosts a session at the 2024 SEEDIG Annual Meeting<\/a> \u2014 Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/intgovforum.org\/en\/filedepot_download\/21\/29532\">SEEDIG 9 | 25-26 November 2024 | Mona Plaza Hotel\uff08\u544a\u77e5\u30d5\u30e9\u30a4\u30e4\u30fcPDF\uff09<\/a> \u2014 intgovforum.org filedepot (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 2024, 13:00 (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>SEEDIG 9 met on 25\u201326 November 2024 in hybrid format \u2014 at the Mona Plaza Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia, and online \u2014 under the theme &#8216;SEE Potent<\/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":[163,161,160,162,723,164],"class_list":["post-12015","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-seedig2024","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015","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=12015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}