{"id":12564,"date":"2021-06-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/06\/06\/en-australia-igf-2021-overview\/"},"modified":"2021-06-06T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:00:00","slug":"en-australia-igf-2021-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/06\/06\/en-australia-igf-2021-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"NetThing 2021 (Australia’s Internet Governance Forum) \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. NetThing 2021, Australia's national IGF, ran online for a second straight year on 4\u20135 November 2021 under the theme 'Building Bridges', organised around four topics: health, inclusion, environment and trust.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Cyber Ambassador Tobias Feakin opened by warning that the bottom-up multistakeholder model is under growing pressure from advocates of state control; sessions covered vaccine passports and digital rights, DNS abuse and more.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. With open captions and AUSLAN interpretation throughout, it also modelled accessible event design \u2014 a national IGF bridging policy and technology in pandemic year two.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on NetThing 2021 (Australia's Internet Governance Forum)<\/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>\nNetThing 2021 (Australia's Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n4\u20135 November 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nBuilding Bridges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nNetThing Steering Committee (ten partner organisations including auDA, GoDaddy Registry, APNIC, Linux Australia, ACCAN and ICANN)<\/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. Pressure Toward State Control \u2014 Ambassador Feakin's Opening Keynote<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: Day 1 opening keynote by Dr Tobias Feakin, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology<\/p>\n