{"id":12654,"date":"2014-06-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2014\/06\/07\/en-germany-igf-2014-overview\/"},"modified":"2014-06-07T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T08:00:00","slug":"en-germany-igf-2014-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2014\/06\/07\/en-germany-igf-2014-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"VI. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland (IGF-D 2014) \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-germany-igf-2014-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2014 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\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-germany-igf-2014-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2014 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The sixth German IGF (IGF-D 2014) met on 11 June 2014 at Berlin&#39;s Factory start-up campus, opening an &#39;internet governance week&#39; that continued with EuroDIG in the same city.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In the first full edition after the Snowden disclosures, the UN-affiliated academic network GigaNet ran a session on state surveillance, and a panel dissected the outcome of Brazil&#39;s NETmundial conference.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>State Secretary Stefan Kapferer presented the government&#39;s Digital Agenda, and members of the Bundestag&#39;s new Digital Agenda committee took the stage \u2014 a snapshot of surveillance politics meeting governance reform.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>VI. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland (IGF-D 2014)<\/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 during the opening week of the Factory start-up campus; EuroDIG 2014 followed in Berlin on 12\u201313 June, with international speakers attending both<\/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-germany-igf-2014-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2014 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\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>VI. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland (IGF-D 2014)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>11 June 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Factory, Berlin (start-up campus)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&quot;The Future of the Internet&quot;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Purpose<\/td>\n<td>Germany&#39;s national meeting in the year of the 9th UN IGF in Istanbul, connecting the post-NETmundial governance debate to Germany<\/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-germany-igf-2014-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2014 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The NETmundial Legacy \u2014 Vetting the S\u00e3o Paulo &#39;Roadmap&#39; in Berlin<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &quot;The Brazilian Roadmap on the Future of the Internet&quot; (12:00\u201313:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The outcome of April 2014&#39;s NETmundial conference \u2014 convened by Brazil&#39;s President Rousseff and ICANN after the Snowden disclosures \u2014 was vetted by insiders, including WZB professor Jeanette Hofmann, civil-society co-chair at NETmundial [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Ambassador Dirk Brengelmann (foreign office cyber envoy), ICANN VP Europe Jean-Jacques Sahel, the economics ministry&#39;s GAC representative Hubert Sch\u00f6ttner and eco chairman Michael Rotert debated governance reform caught between multilateralism and multistakeholderism [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Coming weeks after the US announced it would relinquish IANA stewardship (March 2014), the panel put the post-US-primacy internet on a national IGF agenda for the first time [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. State Surveillance on the Internet \u2014 A GigaNet Research Session<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &quot;State Surveillance on the Internet&quot; (13:45\u201315:15, hosted by GigaNet, moderated by Prof. Rolf Weber)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GigaNet, the UN IGF&#39;s academic network, plugged directly into the national IGF \u2014 chair Milton Mueller (Syracuse University) and IETF researcher Avri Doria presented two research papers [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The papers tackled the cutting edge of 2014: the IETF&#39;s post-Snowden drive to &#39;harden&#39; internet standards through encryption, and DPI surveillance programmes run by ISPs in cooperation with national security agencies [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>SWP&#39;s Annegret Bendiek (also advising the foreign office&#39;s policy staff) and GigaNet&#39;s John Laprise joined the discussion; surveillance then dominated EuroDIG the next day [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Government&#39;s Digital Agenda and the Bundestag&#39;s New Committee<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening speech by State Secretary Stefan Kapferer (10:10) and panel &quot;A Different Digital Agenda?&quot; (15:30\u201317:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>State Secretary Kapferer presented the federal Digital Agenda then in preparation (adopted August 2014), putting industrial net policy at the top of the day [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The closing panel brought three members of the Bundestag&#39;s Digital Agenda committee, created in February 2014 \u2014 von Notz (Greens), Wawzyniak (Left) and Jarzombek (CDU\/CSU) \u2014 to debate the committee&#39;s powers and role [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>According to a participant report, MPs candidly admitted they could not use encrypted email in parliament, and that only NSA-inquiry rapporteurs had been issued SecuSmart crypto phones [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Beginning and End of Privacy \u2014 Youth in Dialogue with a Data-Protection Commissioner<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &quot;The Beginning and End of Privacy&quot; (10:30\u201311:30, Hamburg data-protection commissioner Prof. Johannes Caspar with youth representatives)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof. Johannes Caspar \u2014 Hamburg&#39;s data-protection commissioner, known for enforcement against Facebook \u2014 debated on equal terms with youth representatives: deputy Juso chair Johannes Gorges, UN youth delegate Celina Greppler and graduate student Laura Montag [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Per a participant report, Greppler reframed the media-literacy question: digitalisation affects every generation, so it is the older generations at risk of being left behind who need support, not the digital natives [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Reporters Without Borders delivered an opening address, threading press-freedom concerns through the day [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What kind of meeting was this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Germany&#39;s sixth national IGF, hosted at Berlin&#39;s Factory start-up campus on the eve of EuroDIG in the same city \u2014 day one of an internet-governance week that drew international researchers and officials to both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the main issue?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. State surveillance after Snowden. The UN IGF&#39;s academic network GigaNet presented research on the IETF&#39;s encryption drive and on DPI surveillance programmes run jointly by ISPs and security agencies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The governance reforms debated here \u2014 NETmundial&#39;s roadmap, the IANA transition \u2014 went on to define how the global internet is run today.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Germany IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-germany-igf-2014-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2014 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 About Germany IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Germany 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 2014 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:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200910193826\/https:\/\/www.igf-d.de\/igf-d-2014\/\">IGF-D 2014 \u2014 VI. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland\uff08\u516c\u5f0fHistorie\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u3001\u5168\u30a2\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c0\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF-D e.V.\uff082020\u5e74\u7248\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u3001Wayback Machine\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190723004235\/https:\/\/www.weyhmueller.de\/internet-governance-in-deutschland-und-europa\/\">Internet Governance in Deutschland und Europa\uff08Oliver Weyhm\u00fcller, 2014-06-15\u3001IGF-D 2014\u3068EuroDIG 2014\u306e\u53c2\u52a0\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 weyhmueller.de\uff08\u500b\u4eba\u30d6\u30ed\u30b0\u3001Wayback Machine\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurodigwiki.org\/wiki\/EuroDIG_2014\">EuroDIG 2014\uff082014\u5e746\u670812\u301c13\u65e5\u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3\u958b\u50ac\u306e\u516c\u5f0f\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 EuroDIG Wiki (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/internet-governance-forum-deutschland\">Internet Governance Forum Deutschland\uff08IGF-D\u8a2d\u7acb\u7d4c\u7def\u30fbMessages from Berlin\u306e\u4ed5\u7d44\u307f\uff09<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (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 7 June 2014, 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>The sixth German IGF (IGF-D 2014) met on 11 June 2014 at Berlin&#8217;s Factory start-up campus, opening an &#8216;internet governance week&#8217; that contin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,72,3,11],"tags":[163,161,160,2361,162,164],"class_list":["post-12654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-germany-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-germanyigf2014","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654","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=12654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}