{"id":12639,"date":"2023-06-14T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/14\/en-france-igf-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:00:00","slug":"en-france-igf-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/14\/en-france-igf-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"FGI France 2023 (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-2023-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2023 \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-2023-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2023 \u30d1\u30ea \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 6 July 2023, FGI France met at Sorbonne Universit\u00e9 in Paris (and online), using ICANN&#39;s 25th anniversary to ask what internet governance will look like in ten years, across six workshops and two plenaries.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sally Costerton, ICANN&#39;s interim CEO, concluded the opening plenary, and &#39;father of the internet&#39; Vint Cerf joined the closing session on &#39;Internet and vulnerability&#39;; workshops spanned AI and cybersecurity, fragmentation and privatisation, infrastructure geopolitics, anti-spam techniques and adtech.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In the first year of the generative-AI boom, the French forum put protecting vulnerable users at the centre \u2014 a debate that maps directly onto platform-accountability discussions elsewhere.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>FGI France 2023 (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-2023-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2023 \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 2023 (French Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>6 July 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Sorbonne Universit\u00e9, 91 boulevard de l&#39;H\u00f4pital, Paris 13e, and online<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Workshops<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Internet Society France (organising committee co-chaired by Nicolas Chagny, Internet Society France, and Lucien Castex, Afnic)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Note<\/td>\n<td>ICANN&#39;s 25th anniversary (theme of the opening plenary)<\/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-2023-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2023 \u30d1\u30ea \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. ICANN at 25 \u2014 Sketching Internet Governance Ten Years Out<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening plenary &#39;On ICANN&#39;s 25th anniversary, what internet governance in 10 years?&#39; (9:50\u201311:00, moderated by Emma Caner, OVHcloud)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Abramatic (INRIA), Bertrand de la Chapelle (Internet &amp; Jurisdiction), S\u00e9bastien Bachollet (EURALO) and practitioners from GoDaddy and Orange reviewed ICANN&#39;s first quarter-century and debated what the next decade of governance should look like [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Sally Costerton, ICANN&#39;s interim President and CEO, delivered the plenary&#39;s concluding remarks [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Lucien Castex (Afnic) opened the day with a primer, &#39;Internet governance in two words&#39;, to bring general audiences up to speed [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Internet and Vulnerability \u2014 A Closing Debate Joined by Vint Cerf<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Closing plenary &#39;Internet and vulnerability&#39; (16:00\u201317:00, moderated by Lucien Castex)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vint Cerf (Google), often called a father of the internet, joined Jean Cattan of France&#39;s National Digital Council, and officials from CNIL, the D\u00e9fenseur des droits and Arcom to discuss governing the internet for vulnerable users [2]<\/li>\n<li>With Shani Benoualid of DILCRAH (France&#39;s inter-ministerial anti-discrimination body) on the panel, the session took a characteristically French human-rights angle: hate speech, discrimination and accessibility [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. AI and Cybersecurity \u2014 Risks and Opportunities in Generative AI&#39;s Breakout Year<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop &#39;AI and cybersecurity&#39; (13:45\u201315:00, moderated by Samih Souissi, ANSSI)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alix Durand (ANSSI), Florent Della Valle (CNIL), Isabelle Ryl (INRIA) and Constant Bridon (HarfangLab) examined how AI reshapes both cyber offence and defence [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Held in generative AI&#39;s breakout year, the workshop put the data-protection regulator, the national cybersecurity agency, researchers and industry at one table to frame the issues [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Fragmentation, Privatisation and Infrastructure Geopolitics \u2014 Whose Internet Is It?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshops &#39;Internet fragmentation and privatisation&#39; (13:45\u201315:00) and &#39;Geopolitics of internet infrastructure&#39; (11:20\u201312:35)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pierre Bonis (Afnic CEO), Alain Durand (ICANN), Julien Nocetti (IFRI) and Francesca Musiani (CNRS) debated the twin centrifugal forces of state-driven fragmentation and platform-driven privatisation [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>A morning workshop with geopolitics scholars including Kevin Limonier covered infrastructure geopolitics, alongside a hands-on Afnic session on email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and a workshop on the future of adtech and privacy [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What made this edition special?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Timed to ICANN&#39;s 25th anniversary, it asked what internet governance will look like in ten years \u2014 and drew Vint Cerf, a father of the internet, to its closing debate. A strong line-up for a national IGF.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the central issue?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. &#39;Internet and vulnerability&#39;: how to govern the net for people exposed to hate, discrimination or digital exclusion \u2014 shifting the debate from technology to the most vulnerable users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The workshop topics \u2014 generative AI and cybersecurity, email anti-spoofing (SPF\/DKIM\/DMARC), the future of ad tracking \u2014 are exactly the problems internet users everywhere face daily.<\/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-2023-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"France IGF 2023 \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 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:\/\/www.isoc.fr\/fgi-france-2023\/\">Forum sur la gouvernance de l&#39;Internet France 2023 (FGI France)<\/a> \u2014 Internet Society France (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fgifrance.medium.com\/fgi-france-2023-programme-complet-2a8ae913f4dd\">FGI France 2023 \u2014 Programme complet<\/a> \u2014 FGI France\uff08Medium\u516c\u5f0f\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/next.ink\/1025\/fgi-2023-rendez-vous-gratuitement-a-paris-6-juillet-pour-dialoguer-sur-gouvernance-internet\/\">FGI 2023 : rendez-vous gratuitement \u00e0 Paris le 6 juillet pour dialoguer sur la gouvernance de l&#39;Internet<\/a> \u2014 Next\uff08next.ink\u3001\u65e7Next INpact\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.renaissancenumerique.org\/evenements\/renaissance-numerique-vous-donne-rendez-vous-au-fgi-france-2023\/\">Renaissance Num\u00e9rique vous donne rendez-vous au FGI France 2023<\/a> \u2014 Renaissance Num\u00e9rique (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\u30012023\u5e74\u7248\u30ea\u30d7\u30ec\u30a4\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 14 June 2023, 15:00 (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 6 July 2023, FGI France met at Sorbonne Universit\u00e9 in Paris (and online), using ICANN&#8217;s 25th anniversary to ask what internet governance <\/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":[163,161,160,2351,162,164],"class_list":["post-12639","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-franceigf2023","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639","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=12639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}