{"id":12663,"date":"2018-06-02T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/02\/en-germany-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-06-02T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T14:00:00","slug":"en-germany-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/02\/en-germany-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF-D 2018 (10th German Internet Governance Forum \/ X. 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-2018-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2018 \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-2018-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2018 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 10th German IGF (IGF-D 2018) met at Berlin&#39;s Rotes Rathaus on 27 November 2018, drawing about 100 participants under the motto &quot;Digitale Teilhabe&quot; (digital participation).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A future-of-work debate with unions, employers, the Federal Labour Ministry and the ILO, a one-year review of the NetzDG platform law, and cyber-peace initiatives topped the agenda; Chancellery Minister Helge Braun addressed the forum.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>One year before hosting the global IGF in Berlin, Germany consolidated its domestic debate \u2014 and its pioneering review of the world&#39;s first big social-media enforcement law still informs regulators elsewhere.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF-D 2018 (10th German Internet Governance Forum \/ X. 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-2018-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2018 \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 2018 (10th German Internet Governance Forum \/ X. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>27 November 2018<\/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>Digital Participation (Digitale Teilhabe)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>IGF-D multistakeholder steering committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>&quot;Messages from Berlin&quot; compiled by rapporteurs, fed into the UN IGF and EuroDIG<\/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-2018-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2018 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. &quot;Digital Participation&quot; \u2014 Governance Arrives at the Centre of Politics<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening and speech by the Head of the Chancellery<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chancellery Minister Helge Braun argued that internet governance had become a key political question, no longer just a matter for specialists, and framed Germany&#39;s hosting of the 2019 UN IGF as a catalyst for domestic digitalisation [1]<\/li>\n<li>He pointed to major fibre-optic investment, school digitalisation funding and 100 new AI professorships as measures to close Germany&#39;s digital gap [1]<\/li>\n<li>Braun stressed unified European regulatory approaches as a counterweight to the &quot;large blocs&quot; of the USA and China [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The Future of Work \u2014 Unions, Employers, the Labour Ministry and the ILO at One Table<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Debate on the digital, co-determined future of work<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business and trade-union representatives debated the digital future of work and co-determination together with the Federal Ministry of Labour (BMAS) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) [2]<\/li>\n<li>With automation and platform work spreading, safeguarding workers&#39; participation tied directly into the forum&#39;s &quot;digital participation&quot; motto [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. One Year of the NetzDG \u2014 Auditing the World&#39;s First Big Social-Media Law<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session reviewing one year of the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stakeholders reviewed the first year of the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG, fully in force since January 2018), which obliges platforms to remove illegal content [2]<\/li>\n<li>The debate revisited the law&#39;s effectiveness against hate speech versus the risk of over-blocking legitimate speech [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Cyber Peace \u2014 Stability Instead of an Arms Race<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session on cyber-peace initiatives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With state-backed cyberattacks becoming routine, the forum discussed the opportunities and international preconditions of cyber-peace initiatives [2]<\/li>\n<li>The debate coincided with a landmark month for international cyber norms \u2014 the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace had just been launched [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. The Road to Berlin 2019 \u2014 The German Community&#39;s Run-Up<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Related session at IGF 2018 in Paris: &quot;Strengthening the IGF: The German community invites to a discussion&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two weeks before IGF-D 2018, the German IGF community hosted an open forum at the UN IGF 2018 in Paris, where officials from the economics and foreign ministries, Prof. Wolfgang Kleinw\u00e4chter and eco&#39;s Michael Rotert discussed strengthening the IGF \u2014 from a year-round process to funding for developing-country participation [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Daniela Br\u00f6nstrup (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs) explained that Germany applied to host the 2019 IGF out of genuine support for the multistakeholder approach, tightly linking the national IGF-D to the global process [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was discussed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Under the motto &quot;digital participation&quot;: the future of work with unions, employers and the ILO; a one-year review of the NetzDG platform law; and cyber peace. The Chancellery Minister spoke at this milestone 10th edition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the highlight?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The NetzDG review. One year into the world&#39;s first major social-media enforcement law, stakeholders audited whether it curbed hate speech or induced over-blocking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Platform laws worldwide \u2014 from the EU&#39;s DSA to Japan&#39;s own rules \u2014 drew on the NetzDG experience, and the habit of reviewing such laws after year one started here.<\/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-2018-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2018 \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 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.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/Internet-Governance-Forum-soll-deutsche-Digitalpolitik-ein-bisschen-befluegeln-4233370.html\">Internet Governance Forum soll deutsche Digitalpolitik ein bisschen befl\u00fcgeln<\/a> \u2014 heise online (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denic.de\/aktuelles\/news\/artikel\/digitale-teilhabe-zentrales-thema-beim-10-internet-governance-forum-deutschland\/\">\u201eDigitale Teilhabe\u201c zentrales Thema beim 10. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland<\/a> \u2014 DENIC eG (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/13th-internet-governance-forum\/strengthening-igf-german-community-invites-discussion\">IGF 2018 \u2013 Strengthening the IGF: The German community invites to a discussion<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (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<\/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 2 June 2018, 16:00 (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 10th German IGF (IGF-D 2018) met at Berlin&#8217;s Rotes Rathaus on 27 November 2018, drawing about 100 participants under the motto &#8220;Digitale<\/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":[163,161,160,990,162,164],"class_list":["post-12663","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-germanyigf2018","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663","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=12663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}