{"id":12637,"date":"2022-06-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/06\/06\/en-france-igf-2022-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:00:00","slug":"en-france-igf-2022-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/06\/06\/en-france-igf-2022-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"FGI France 2022 (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-2022-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2022 \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-2022-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2022 \u30d1\u30ea \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 5 December 2022, FGI France returned to a full in-person format at the Centre International de Conf\u00e9rences in Paris (with online access), gathering regulators, government, civil society, academia and the technical community.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The opening plenary on the future of digital governance featured ambassador Henri Verdier&#39;s three-layer model and voices from Arcom, CNIL, UNESCO and the Human Rights League; workshops covered European regulation, interconnection and net neutrality, internet fragmentation and responsible digital training, before a closing plenary on the environment and remarks by minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It was a citizen-level audit of Europe&#39;s regulatory wave \u2014 from the GDPR to the DSA, DMA and AI Act \u2014 with arguments that echo platform-regulation debates worldwide.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>FGI France 2022 (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-2022-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2022 \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 2022 (French Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>5 December 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Centre International de Conf\u00e9rences, 4 place Jussieu, Paris 5e, and online<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>FGI France organising committee (a multistakeholder coalition including Internet Society France, Afnic and Renaissance Num\u00e9rique)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Published synthesis of the opening plenary, &#39;What future for digital governance?&#39; (Afnic \/ Renaissance Num\u00e9rique)<\/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-2022-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2022 \u30d1\u30ea \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Future of Digital Governance \u2014 Three Layers and the Limits of Legal Borders<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening plenary &#39;What future for digital governance?&#39; (10:00, moderated by Lucien Castex, Afnic, and Jessica Galissaire, Renaissance Num\u00e9rique)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The Internet pre-exists regulation, and the borders of the Internet are not the borders of laws&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Beno\u00eet Loutrel (Arcom)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Where are the young people in the room? For whom are we governing the Internet?&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Tawfik Jelassi (UNESCO Assistant Director-General)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>France&#39;s digital ambassador Henri Verdier argued that governance must distinguish the infrastructure, protocol and application layers rather than conflating them [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Gilles Br\u00e9gant (ANFR) flagged satellite constellations as the internet&#39;s &#39;third dimension&#39;, with some 50,000 low-orbit satellites expected by 2028 and governance of ownership and access still open [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Maryse Artiguelong of the Human Rights League criticised the lack of upstream civil-society involvement in decision-making, placing hopes in France&#39;s National Council for Digital Refoundation [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Europe&#39;s Regulatory Arc \u2014 From the GDPR to the DSA, DMA and AI Act<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening plenary and workshop &#39;What digital future for Europe?&#39; (13:45\u201315:00)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;It is one of the first European regulations to apply even to companies located outside the European Union&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Thomas Dautieu (CNIL)<\/strong> [3][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting from the GDPR&#39;s extraterritorial reach, participants asked whether the European wave \u2014 DSA, DMA, AI Act \u2014 can amount to &#39;open regulation&#39;, noting that European regulators increasingly coordinate through networks rather than isolated national frameworks [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>Speakers repeatedly grounded internet governance in European values: human rights, openness, accessibility and multistakeholder participation [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Interconnection, Neutrality and Fragmentation \u2014 &#39;An Internet Still Under Construction&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshops &#39;Interconnection and net neutrality&#39; (11:20\u201312:35, moderated by Samih Souissi, ANSSI) and &#39;Internet fragmentation&#39; (13:45\u201315:00, moderated by Julien Rossi, Universit\u00e9 Paris 8)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samih Souissi (ANSSI) led the interconnection and net-neutrality workshop while Julien Rossi (Universit\u00e9 Paris 8) led the fragmentation workshop, unpacking the technical and political drivers of a splintering internet [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Afnic&#39;s post-event review summed up the forum as examining &#39;an internet still under construction&#39;, arguing that avoiding fragmentation requires sustained multistakeholder dialogue [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Environment and Digital \u2014 A New Agenda, With Art on the Side<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Closing plenary &#39;Environment: towards a new digital agenda&#39; (16:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speakers stressed that multi-disciplinary skills are essential to reconcile the digital and ecological transitions; former digital minister Axelle Lemaire argued for innovation paired with simplicity and frugality [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, France&#39;s minister for digital transition and telecommunications, delivered the closing governmental remarks [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>&#39;Les arts d&#39;\u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9&#39; displayed more than twenty original artworks, including drawings by the artist Placide, translating internet governance into citizen-facing art [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What is this forum for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It is France&#39;s national IGF: government, regulators, business, civil society and researchers debate internet governance as equals, feeding into the UN&#39;s global IGF. The 2022 edition was the first full in-person forum after the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious point?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Who governs which layer. Arcom&#39;s remark that &#39;the borders of the Internet are not the borders of laws&#39; captured the dilemma of applying national rules to a borderless network, while civil society protested being left out of upstream decisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The DSA, DMA and AI Act discussed here now shape how the platforms and AI services you use every day operate \u2014 and topics like satellite mega-constellations and digital sustainability have since gone global.<\/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-2022-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2022 \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 2022 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\/pre-programme-du-forum-sur-la-gouvernance-ce-linternet-france-2022-le-5-decembre-a-paris-et-en-ligne\/\">Programme du Forum sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet France 2022 : le 5 d\u00e9cembre \u00e0 Paris et en ligne<\/a> \u2014 Internet Society France (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afnic.fr\/en\/observatory-and-resources\/expert-papers\/an-internet-still-under-construction-back-to-the-french-internet-governance-forum-2022\/\">Un internet en construction : retours sur le FGI France 2022\uff08\u82f1\u8a9e\u7248: An internet still under construction\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Afnic\uff08\u4e8b\u5f8c\u30ec\u30dd\u30fc\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.renaissancenumerique.org\/en\/publications\/the-future-of-digital-technologies-governance\/\">Quel futur pour les gouvernances du num\u00e9rique ?\uff08\u958b\u5e55\u30d7\u30ec\u30ca\u30ea\u30fc\u30fb\u30b5\u30de\u30ea\u30fc\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Renaissance Num\u00e9rique (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isoc.fr\/fgi-france-2022\/\">FGI France 2022 : 5 d\u00e9cembre 2022 \u00e0 Paris et en ligne<\/a> \u2014 Internet Society France (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afnic.fr\/en\/observatory-and-resources\/agenda\/french-internet-governance-forum-2022\/\">French Internet Governance Forum 2022\uff08\u30a2\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c0\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Afnic (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igf-france.fr\/\">FGI France \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08\u6cbf\u9769\u30fb\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf-france.fr (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 6 June 2022, 11:00 (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 December 2022, FGI France returned to a full in-person format at the Centre International de Conf\u00e9rences in Paris (with online access),<\/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":[163,161,160,977,162,164],"class_list":["post-12637","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-franceigf2022","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637","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=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}