{"id":12665,"date":"2019-06-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/06\/21\/en-germany-igf-2019-overview\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T09:00:00","slug":"en-germany-igf-2019-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/06\/21\/en-germany-igf-2019-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF-D 2019 (11th German Internet Governance Forum \/ XI. 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-2019-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2019 \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-2019-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2019 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 11th German IGF (IGF-D 2019) met at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy on 11 September 2019 \u2014 two months before the UN IGF came to Berlin \u2014 with a keynote by Economics Minister Peter Altmaier.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sessions covered citizen-oriented AI, 5G security and data protection, platform-economy regulation and hate speech; the first Youth IGF Germany the day before delivered nine youth demands to the main forum.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With its outcomes feeding straight into &quot;One World. One Net. One Vision.&quot;, 2019 became the model case of a national IGF plugging into the global one.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF-D 2019 (11th German Internet Governance Forum \/ XI. 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-2019-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2019 \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 2019 (11th German Internet Governance Forum \/ XI. Internet Governance Forum Deutschland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>11 September 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Conference area of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), Berlin (entrance Invalidenstra\u00dfe 48)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Keynote<\/td>\n<td>Keynote by Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>IGF-D multistakeholder steering committee, hosted at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>&quot;Messages from Berlin&quot; fed into the UN IGF 2019 in Berlin two months later<\/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-2019-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2019 \u30d9\u30eb\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Minister Altmaier&#39;s Keynote \u2014 The Gap between Politics and the Net Community<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote by Federal Minister Peter Altmaier<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;It is a fallacy to believe that everything you discuss here is already on the radar of every single member of parliament, every single minister (original German: &quot;Es ist ein Trugschluss zu glauben, dass all das, was Sie hier diskutieren, in der Politik bereits jedem einzelnen Abgeordneten, jedem einzelnen Minister bewusst ist&quot;)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Peter Altmaier, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy (translated from German)<\/strong> [1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Altmaier frankly conceded that internet-governance debates had not yet fully reached politics and urged the community to keep pushing them into parliament [1]<\/li>\n<li>A cabinet minister keynoting the national IGF underscored how seriously the German government took the run-up to hosting the UN IGF [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. AI, 5G and Platforms \u2014 The Three Tech-Policy Debates of 2019<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panels and workshops<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sessions explored how Germany and Europe could deploy artificial intelligence in a citizen-oriented, public-interest way, including its ethical dimensions [1]<\/li>\n<li>Data protection and security of the emerging 5G networks \u2014 debated amid the Huawei controversy \u2014 were a headline topic [1]<\/li>\n<li>Regulating platforms such as Facebook and Google, tackling hate speech effectively, and the sustainability of digital infrastructure rounded out the agenda [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The First Youth IGF Germany \u2014 Nine Demands from the Young<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth IGF Germany (10 September, BMWi) and its presentation to the main forum<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 10 September, some 30 politically engaged people under 30 distilled nine demands across five themes: ecological and social sustainability of digitalisation, human rights and non-discrimination online, digital education and data literacy, fair debate culture, and open government, software and data [2]<\/li>\n<li>The youth joined the main IGF-D the next day with sessions, workshops and posters; coordinator Elisabeth Schauermann (Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Informatik) presented their priorities from the main stage right after Minister Altmaier&#39;s address [2]<\/li>\n<li>The outcomes fed directly into the global Youth IGF on 24 November 2019 [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Two Months to Berlin \u2014 A National IGF Wired into the Global One<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall context: run-up to the UN IGF 2019 in Berlin<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF-D 2019 was positioned as the domestic springboard for the 14th UN IGF in Berlin (25\u201329 November, &quot;One World. One Net. One Vision.&quot;), with its &quot;Messages from Berlin&quot; carried into the global meeting [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>Noticeably younger participation and broad stakeholder mobilisation marked the community&#39;s preparation for the world event [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What made this year special?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The UN&#39;s global IGF came to Berlin just two months later, so this national meeting doubled as the dress rehearsal \u2014 with a cabinet minister keynoting and the first Youth IGF Germany attached.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Most memorable line?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Minister Altmaier admitting it is &quot;a fallacy&quot; to think politicians already grasp what the community debates \u2014 a minister conceding the gap between politics and the net community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The pattern shown here \u2014 national debate distilled into messages for the UN IGF, with youth built in \u2014 is the template national IGF initiatives elsewhere, including Japan&#39;s, still copy.<\/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-2019-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2019 \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 2019 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.politik-digital.de\/news\/internet-governance-forum-deutschland-2019-156717\/\">IGF Deutschland \u2013 &quot;f\u00fcr die St\u00e4rkung des globalen, sicheren, freien, interoperablen Internets&quot;<\/a> \u2014 politik-digital.de (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gi.de\/meldung\/das-war-das-jugend-igf-deutschland-2019\">Das war das Jugend IGF Deutschland 2019<\/a> \u2014 Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Informatik e.V.\uff08\u30c9\u30a4\u30c4\u60c5\u5831\u5b66\u4f1a\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/german-igf-2019\">German IGF 2019<\/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 21 June 2019, 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>The 11th German IGF (IGF-D 2019) met at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy on 11 September 2019 \u2014 two months before the UN<\/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":[163,161,160,2370,162,164],"class_list":["post-12665","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-germanyigf2019","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665","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=12665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}