{"id":12661,"date":"2017-06-15T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/06\/15\/en-germany-igf-2017-overview\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T13:00:00","slug":"en-germany-igf-2017-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/06\/15\/en-germany-igf-2017-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF-D 2017 (9th German Internet Governance Forum \/ IX. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland) \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-2017-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2017 \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-2017-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2017 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 9th German IGF (IGF-D 2017) met in the Wappensaal of Berlin&#39;s Rotes Rathaus on 15 November 2017, gathering politics, business, academia and civil society for a full day on internet regulation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Framed by the question of how to preserve the public good online, the agenda covered state-sponsored hacking, the practical impact of the EU&#39;s GDPR on the eve of its application, and governing the Internet of Things.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Public interest in the platform era, surveillance versus fundamental rights, and data-protection compliance \u2014 the 2017 agenda anticipated debates that soon went global.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF-D 2017 (9th German Internet Governance Forum \/ IX. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland)<\/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-germany-igf-2017-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2017 \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>IGF-D 2017 (9th German Internet Governance Forum \/ IX. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>15 November 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Wappensaal, Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall), Berlin, Germany<\/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>IGF-D multistakeholder steering committee (established February 2016); secretariat hosted at the time by Reporter ohne Grenzen (RSF Germany)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>&quot;Messages from Berlin&quot; summarising the debates, fed into the UN IGF process<\/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-2017-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2017 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Public Good Online \u2014 Preserving &quot;Gemeinwohl&quot; in the Platform Era<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Framing question &quot;Wie soll das Gemeinwohl im Internet bewahrt bleiben?&quot; (How should the public good be preserved online?)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With large platforms shaping public discourse and the economy, how to secure the public interest online was the forum&#39;s framing question [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The debate was organised by the multistakeholder steering committee (established February 2016) treating politics, government, the IT community, academia, business and civil society as equals [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. State-Sponsored Hacking \u2014 More Security, or a Threat to Fundamental Rights?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session on state hacking (Staatstrojaner)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The forum asked head-on whether state hacking of devices (the so-called Staatstrojaner) enhances security or endangers fundamental rights [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Germany had just significantly expanded investigators&#39; powers to monitor messengers in 2017, making this the country&#39;s hottest surveillance controversy at the time [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. GDPR on the Doorstep, and the IoT \u2014 Regulation Gets Practical<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Sessions on EU data-protection rules and IoT governance<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the EU General Data Protection Regulation due to apply from May 2018, the forum discussed its practical consequences for consumers and companies [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>It also took up the governance challenges the spreading Internet of Things poses for businesses [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was this meeting about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Germany&#39;s national internet governance forum. The 2017 edition spent a full day on preserving the public good online, the pros and cons of state hacking, GDPR compliance and governing the IoT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was most contentious?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The Staatstrojaner. Germany had just expanded investigators&#39; powers to hack messengers, so &quot;security&quot; and &quot;fundamental rights&quot; collided head-on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. GDPR went on to bind companies worldwide, and the question of how far state surveillance powers should reach is one every democracy keeps facing.<\/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-2017-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2017 \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 2017 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.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de\/index.php\/veranstaltungen\/260\/9-internet-governance-forum-deutschland\">9. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland\uff08\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u544a\u77e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Reporter ohne Grenzen\uff08\u56fd\u5883\u306a\u304d\u8a18\u8005\u56e3 \u30c9\u30a4\u30c4\u652f\u90e8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dgvn.de\/aktivitaeten\/einzelansicht\/9-internet-governance-forum-deutschland\/\">9. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland<\/a> \u2014 Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr die Vereinten Nationen e.V.\uff08\u30c9\u30a4\u30c4\u56fd\u9023\u5354\u4f1a\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/internet-governance-forum-deutschland\">Internet Governance Forum Deutschland<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/germany-igf\">Germany IGF\uff08NRI\u7d39\u4ecb\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (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 15 June 2017, 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>The 9th German IGF (IGF-D 2017) met in the Wappensaal of Berlin&#8217;s Rotes Rathaus on 15 November 2017, gathering politics, business, academia <\/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":[163,161,160,2368,162,164],"class_list":["post-12661","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-germanyigf2017","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12661","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=12661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}