{"id":12669,"date":"2021-10-16T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/10\/16\/en-germany-igf-2021-overview\/"},"modified":"2021-10-16T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T12:00:00","slug":"en-germany-igf-2021-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/10\/16\/en-germany-igf-2021-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF-D 2021 (13th German Internet Governance Forum \/ XIII. Deutsches 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-germany-igf-2021-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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-2021-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 13th German IGF (IGF-D 2021) met online on 14 September 2021, days before the federal election, asking what rules should govern the internet this decade.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Highlights included public broadcasters&#39; embrace of free licences proven with Wikipedia, the debut agenda of &quot;F5&quot; \u2014 a new alliance of five civil-society organisations for public-interest digital policy \u2014 and calls for globally harmonised rules.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Opening up public content and public-interest digital policy: debates that map directly onto open-data and public-broadcasting discussions elsewhere.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF-D 2021 (13th German Internet Governance Forum \/ XIII. Deutsches 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<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; Held as an online conference due to COVID-19; speakers convened at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin, from where the event was broadcast<\/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-2021-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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 2021 (13th German Internet Governance Forum \/ XIII. Deutsches Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>14 September 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Online<\/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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Outcomes fed into the UN IGF 2021 in Katowice, Poland (December 2021)<\/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-2021-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Public Broadcasters and Free Licences \u2014 ZDF, ARD and Wikipedia<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel on Creative Commons and open licensing with Bernd Fiedler (Wikimedia Deutschland), Dr. Kirsten Bode (ZDF Terra X) and Thomas Laufersweiler (ARD)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Heartfelt thanks to the many volunteers of Wikipedia! (original German: &quot;Herzlichen Dank an die vielen Ehrenamtlichen der Wikipedia!&quot;)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Dr. Kirsten Bode (ZDF Terra X), original German<\/strong> [1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>ZDF&#39;s science strand Terra X releases clips under Creative Commons, and the panel showcased how these are reused across Wikimedia projects [1]<\/li>\n<li>Broadcasters and Wikimedians alike affirmed the value of freeing licence-fee-funded public content for society [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The New &quot;F5&quot; Alliance \u2014 An Agenda for Public-Interest Digital Policy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Presentation of the F5 alliance&#39;s agenda<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>F5 \u2014 the new alliance of Wikimedia Deutschland, AlgorithmWatch, Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Freiheitsrechte, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland and Reporter ohne Grenzen \u2014 presented its agenda for renewing digital policy [1]<\/li>\n<li>On the eve of the federal election it pressed for public-interest digitalisation and for topics underrepresented in the policy debate [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Harmonising Rules Globally \u2014 Away from Outsourcing Investigations to Private Actors<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Contributions from the technical community, including Dirk Krischenowski (dotBERLIN)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dirk Krischenowski (dotBERLIN) advocated a globally harmonised legal framework and technical standards, enabling cross-border law enforcement and reducing the delegation of investigative tasks to private service and infrastructure providers [2]<\/li>\n<li>Under the framing question of what rules should govern online interaction this decade, outcomes were carried to the UN IGF in Katowice that December [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What kind of meeting was it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. An online edition in the second COVID year, broadcast from the economics ministry, held days before Germany&#39;s federal election \u2014 asking what rules the internet needs this decade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. The highlight?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A ZDF editor thanking Wikipedia&#39;s volunteers from the (virtual) stage: licence-fee-funded footage released under Creative Commons now lives on in the encyclopedia \u2014 a working model of opening public content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Anywhere public broadcasters and governments debate opening their archives \u2014 Japan included \u2014 the ZDF\/ARD\u2013Wikimedia collaboration shown here is the concrete precedent.<\/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-2021-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Germany IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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 2021 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:\/\/blog.wikimedia.de\/2021\/09\/17\/fuer-gemeinwohlorientierte-digitalisierung-wikimedia-deutschland-beim-deutschen-internet-governance-forum\/\">F\u00fcr gemeinwohlorientierte Digitalisierung: Wikimedia Deutschland beim deutschen Internet Governance Forum<\/a> \u2014 Wikimedia Deutschland\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d6\u30ed\u30b0\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dot.berlin\/das-deutsche-internet-governance-forum-2021\/\">Das deutsche Internet-Governance-Forum 2021<\/a> \u2014 dotBERLIN GmbH &amp; Co. KG (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<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 16 October 2021, 12:00 (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 13th German IGF (IGF-D 2021) met online on 14 September 2021, days before the federal election, asking what rules should govern the inte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,3,11],"tags":[163,161,160,2371,162,164],"class_list":["post-12669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-germanyigf2021","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669","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=12669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}