{"id":12629,"date":"2018-06-11T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/11\/en-france-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T08:00:00","slug":"en-france-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/11\/en-france-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"FGI France 2018 (French 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-france-igf-2018-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2018 \u30d1\u30ea \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-france-igf-2018-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2018 \u30d1\u30ea \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 5 July 2018, FGI France returned after a two-year hiatus, drawing around 1,000 people to Universit\u00e9 Paris Descartes under the opening-plenary banner &quot;Regulation to take back control?&quot;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The heads of CNIL, ARCEP and the National Digital Council debated regulation with lawmakers, while 12 workshops in four tracks covered algorithms, infrastructure, disinformation and IoT ethics \u2014 preceded by a fake-news hackathon, the &quot;Fakathon&quot;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Weeks after GDPR took effect and months before Paris hosted the global IGF, the forum captured France&#39;s regulatory-comeback moment \u2014 a debate that resonates wherever platform regulation is on the table.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>FGI France 2018 (French 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<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-france-igf-2018-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2018 \u30d1\u30ea \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>FGI France 2018 (French Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>5 July 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Centre Universitaire des Saints-P\u00e8res, Universit\u00e9 Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saints-P\u00e8res, Paris (6th arr.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Format<\/td>\n<td>Opening plenary plus 12 workshops in four tracks (9:00\u201320:00), preceded by a &quot;Fakathon&quot; (29 June\u20131 July) and a series of preparatory workshops<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Multistakeholder organising committee led by ISOC France, co-chaired by Nicolas Chagny and Lucien Castex, with Afnic, ARCEP, Cap Digital and academic partners<\/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-france-igf-2018-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2018 \u30d1\u30ea \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Opening Plenary &quot;Regulation to Take Back Control?&quot; \u2014 Regulation in the Year of GDPR<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening plenary &quot;La R\u00e9gulation pour reprendre la main ?&quot;, moderated by Lucien Castex<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On stage were the very actors of French regulation: CNIL President Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, ARCEP President S\u00e9bastien Soriano, MP Paula Forteza and CNNum President Salwa Toko, with an opening address by digital minister Mounir Mahjoubi on the programme [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The timing \u2014 a month and a half after GDPR took effect on 25 May 2018 \u2014 was no accident; a preparatory workshop on 25 April had examined European data protection one month before application [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Can users and public authorities take back control from the platforms?&quot; was the through-line of French digital policy that year [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Twelve Workshops in Four Tracks \u2014 From Algorithms to IoT Ethics and Environmental Cost<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Ateliers de l&#39;Avenir Num\u00e9rique (all day, three workshops in each of four tracks)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Track 1, &quot;Reprendre la main&quot; (Taking back control): algorithms, personal control of one&#39;s internet, and data management [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Track 2, &quot;Cyber politique et Politique Cyber&quot;: cyber strategy, infrastructure and access (IPv6, fibre, transoceanic links) and the platformisation of the internet; Track 3, &quot;Humanit\u00e9s num\u00e9riques&quot;: digital heritage, education and disinformation [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Track 4, &quot;Responsabilit\u00e9s \u00e9thiques et soci\u00e9tales&quot;: solidarity, an open internet, the environmental cost of digital and IoT ethics \u2014 each workshop was designed to produce recommendations for internet governance [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Fakathon \u2014 A Hackathon Against Fake News<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Fakathon (29 June\u20131 July, co-organised with PSL University and Futurs.io, continuing through 5 July)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ahead of the forum, the &quot;Fakathon&quot; hackathon prototyped tools against disinformation, with results carried into the 5 July event [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>France&#39;s law against information manipulation was then before parliament (adopted that November), putting election-time disinformation at the top of the political agenda [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Together with the disinformation workshop in Track 3, it connected the technical community&#39;s building power to the policy debate [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Ramp-Up to the Global IGF in Paris \u2014 France&#39;s Position in 2018<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynotes and closing (Odile Ambry, Moez Chakchouk, Bertrand de La Chapelle, Olivier Schrameck and others)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four months later, in November 2018, the global IGF met at UNESCO in Paris; FGI France 2018 served as the domestic ramp-up, and the 2019 edition was explicitly framed as the bridge from the Paris IGF to Berlin [3][5][4]<\/li>\n<li>Keynote names \u2014 UNESCO&#39;s Moez Chakchouk, Internet &amp; Jurisdiction&#39;s Bertrand de La Chapelle, and CSA president Olivier Schrameck \u2014 signalled the convergence of broadcast and internet regulation [3][5][4]<\/li>\n<li>Reborn after the 2016\u20132017 hiatus, this edition launched the year-round &quot;Ateliers de l&#39;Avenir Num\u00e9rique&quot; format, putting FGI France on an annual footing [3][5][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the theme?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. In a word: regulation. Weeks after GDPR took effect, the opening plenary asked &quot;Regulation to take back control?&quot; \u2014 with the heads of CNIL and ARCEP, France&#39;s data and telecom regulators, debating it in person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Anything unusual on the programme?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The &quot;Fakathon&quot; \u2014 a weekend hackathon building anti-disinformation tools, feeding straight into the forum while France&#39;s anti-fake-news law was before parliament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. &quot;Can regulation rein in the big platforms?&quot; became the defining question of the following years \u2014 from the EU&#39;s DSA\/DMA to platform-transparency laws elsewhere. This forum caught that turn as it happened, four months before Paris hosted the global IGF.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is France IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-france-igf-2018-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2018 \u30d1\u30ea \u2014 About France IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>France 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 2018 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:\/\/www.isoc.fr\/fgi-france-2018\/\">Le Forum sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet France aura lieu le 5 juillet 2018 \u00e0 Paris<\/a> \u2014 Internet Society France (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isoc.fr\/forum-gouvernance-de-linternet-france-devoile-programme-ateliers-de-lavenir-numerique-2018\/\">Le Forum sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet France d\u00e9voile le programme des Ateliers de l&#39;Avenir Num\u00e9rique 2018<\/a> \u2014 Internet Society France (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frenchweb.fr\/le-forum-sur-la-gouvernance-de-linternet-france\/329536\">Le Forum sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet France<\/a> \u2014 FrenchWeb.fr (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igf-france.fr\/\">Forum sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet France\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u30fb\u6cbf\u9769\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf-france.fr (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isoc.fr\/fgi-france-2019-le-4-juillet-2019-a-paris\/\">FGI France 2019, le 4 juillet 2019 \u00e0 Paris\uff082018\u5e74\u4e16\u754cIGF\u30d1\u30ea\u958b\u50ac\u3068\u306e\u63a5\u7d9a\u306b\u8a00\u53ca\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Internet Society France (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 11 June 2018, 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>On 5 July 2018, FGI France returned after a two-year hiatus, drawing around 1,000 people to Universit\u00e9 Paris Descartes under the opening-ple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,91,3,11],"tags":[163,161,160,2347,162,164],"class_list":["post-12629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-france-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-franceigf2018","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629","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=12629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}