{"id":12568,"date":"2023-06-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/17\/en-australia-igf-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-06-17T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T23:00:00","slug":"en-australia-igf-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/17\/en-australia-igf-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"NetThing 2023 (Australia&#8217;s Internet Governance Forum) \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-australia-igf-2023-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Australia IGF 2023 \u30d6\u30ea\u30b9\u30d9\u30f3 \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-australia-igf-2023-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Australia IGF 2023 \u30d6\u30ea\u30b9\u30d9\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>NetThing 2023, Australia&#39;s national IGF, met in Brisbane on 28 August 2023 as a hybrid &#39;Day 0&#39; of the Asia Pacific Regional IGF (APrIGF 2023), which opened at the same venue the next day.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alongside a ministerial address by Michelle Rowland and a keynote by Cyber Ambassador Brendon Dowling, the forum launched an Indigenous Leaders Internet Governance Fellowship and debated AI governance, meaningful connectivity and the future of multistakeholderism.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Plugging a national forum directly into a regional one, days apart and under one roof, made 2023 a model of connecting domestic debate to the wider world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>NetThing 2023 (Australia&#39;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<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; Held as a &#39;Day 0&#39; event of APrIGF 2023 (29\u201331 August, same venue), alongside the Pacific IGF, Youth IGF and a Parliamentary Track<\/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-australia-igf-2023-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Australia IGF 2023 \u30d6\u30ea\u30b9\u30d9\u30f3 \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>Official name<\/td>\n<td>NetThing 2023 (Australia&#39;s Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>28 August 2023 (one-day event)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Cooperation and collaboration: Australia&#39;s commitment to supporting the future of Internet governance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>11 (Eleven programme segments from the Welcome to Country to closing remarks)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Format<\/td>\n<td>Hybrid (in-person and online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>NetThing Steering Committee, chaired by Annaliese Williams, with support from auDA, Internet Australia, APNIC, ICANN and others<\/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-australia-igf-2023-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Australia IGF 2023 \u30d6\u30ea\u30b9\u30d9\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. APrIGF&#39;s &#39;Day 0&#39; \u2014 Wiring National Debate into the Asia Pacific<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening (Welcome to Country; ministerial address by the Hon Michelle Rowland MP; keynote by Brendon Dowling, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Held the day before auDA-hosted APrIGF 2023 (&#39;Emerging Technologies \u2013 Is Asia Pacific Ready for the Next Phase of the Internet?&#39;) at the same venue, run jointly with the Pacific IGF, Youth IGF and a Parliamentary Track [2][3][4][5]<\/li>\n<li>Minister Rowland addressed the forum and Cyber Ambassador Brendon Dowling gave the keynote \u2014 unusually senior government presence for a national IGF [2][3][4][5]<\/li>\n<li>APNIC provided Zoom operations and the live stream, and full recordings were archived publicly by ISOC Live [2][3][4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Launching the Indigenous Leaders Fellowship \u2014 More Seats at the Governance Table<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Launch of the NetThing\u2013Identity Digital Indigenous Leaders Internet Governance Fellowship, with Senator Jana Stewart<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A fellowship to bring First Nations leaders into Internet governance debates and international meetings was launched with Senator Jana Stewart on stage [4][5]<\/li>\n<li>Having opened every edition since 2019 with a Welcome to Country, NetThing moved Indigenous participation a step beyond ceremony toward structure [4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. AI Governance \u2014 the &#39;Forging our Future&#39; Panel<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Forging our Future&#39; (Aurelie Jacquet, David Masters, Brendon Dowling, Professor Johanna Weaver; moderated by Dr Alexandra Caples)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With generative AI surging, AI-standards experts, industry, government and academia debated how Australia should approach AI governance [4][5]<\/li>\n<li>Discussion tracked the government&#39;s 2023 &#39;safe and responsible AI&#39; consultation, balancing domestic regulation with international norm-building [4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Meaningful Connectivity \u2014 Being Online Isn&#39;t Enough<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panels &#39;Meaningful Connectivity&#39; (Daniel Featherstone, Andrew Williams, Dr Paul Brooks; moderated by Holly Raiche) and &#39;Social and Economic Value of the Internet&#39; (Professor Julian Thomas, Dr Greg Adamson, Ken Walliss, Chandni Gupta; moderated by Keith Besgrove)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The global shift from &#39;is there a connection?&#39; to meaningful connectivity \u2014 speed, devices, skills, affordability \u2014 was tested against remote and First Nations communities&#39; realities [4][5]<\/li>\n<li>A companion panel on the Internet&#39;s social and economic value brought researchers and consumer advocates together on how to measure digital inclusion [4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. What&#39;s Next for Multistakeholder Governance \u2014 Global Practitioners in Brisbane<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panels &#39;Multistakeholder governance for the future \u2013 where next and how to get there&#39; (Anriette Esterhuysen, Chris Buckridge, Jordan Carter, Lise Fuhr; moderated by Pablo Hinojosa) and &#39;Co-operation and Collaboration&#39; (Sandra Davey, Ian Sheldon, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Paul Wilson; moderated by Annaliese Williams)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>International practitioners led by former IGF MAG chair Anriette Esterhuysen debated how to renew the multistakeholder model ahead of WSIS+20 and the Global Digital Compact negotiations [3][4][5]<\/li>\n<li>The closing panel \u2014 founding NetThing chair Sandra Davey, APNIC Director General Paul Wilson, the government&#39;s Ian Sheldon and others \u2014 mapped Australia&#39;s contribution before chair Annaliese Williams closed the forum [3][4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Why Brisbane, and why together with the regional IGF?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Because APrIGF 2023 opened at the same venue the next day. Running the national forum as its &#39;Day 0&#39; piped domestic debate straight into the regional and global conversation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was unique to this edition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The launch of the Indigenous Leaders Internet Governance Fellowship, announced with a senator on stage \u2014 turning Indigenous participation from ceremony into structure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Two months later Japan hosted the global IGF in Kyoto. Australia&#39;s co-location model is one clear answer to a question every host country faces: how to connect national debate to international forums.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Australia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-australia-igf-2023-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Australia IGF 2023 \u30d6\u30ea\u30b9\u30d9\u30f3 \u2014 About Australia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Australia IGF 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 2023 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:\/\/auigf.au\/netthing-2023-1\">NetThing 2023<\/a> \u2014 auIGF\uff08\u65e7NetThing\uff09\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.auda.org.au\/events\/netthing-2023\">NetThing 2023\uff08\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u6848\u5185\uff09<\/a> \u2014 auDA\uff08\u8c6a\u5dde\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u7ba1\u7406\u6a5f\u69cb\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.apnic.net\/2023\/09\/26\/event-wrap-aprigf-2023-net-thing-2023-and-pacigf-2023\/\">Event Wrap: APrIGF 2023, Net Thing 2023, and PacIGF 2023<\/a> \u2014 APNIC Blog (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/isoc.live\/16820\/\">WEBCAST AUG 28 &#8211; Australian Internet Governance Forum (NetThing)<\/a> \u2014 ISOC Live\uff08\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30bd\u30b5\u30a8\u30c6\u30a3\u914d\u4fe1\u30ce\u30fc\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/netthing2023\">Australian Internet Governance Forum (NetThing) 2023\uff08\u516811\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u9332\u753b\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Internet Archive\uff08ISOC Live\u63d0\u4f9b\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 June 2023, 10:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 16 July 2026, 20:09 (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>NetThing 2023, Australia&#8217;s national IGF, met in Brisbane on 28 August 2023 as a hybrid &#8216;Day 0&#8217; of the Asia Pacific Regional IGF (APrIGF 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3,11],"tags":[163,889,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-australiaigf2023","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568","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=12568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}