{"id":12781,"date":"2018-06-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/19\/en-uk-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:00:00","slug":"en-uk-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/19\/en-uk-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Internet Governance Forum 2018 \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-uk-igf-2018-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"UK IGF 2018 \u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\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-uk-igf-2018-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"UK IGF 2018 \u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>UK IGF 2018 &#8211; the 11th edition, with over 110 participants &#8211; met on 22 November at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London under the theme &#39;Solutions for The Digital Age&#39;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Digital Minister Margot James set out the Online Harms White Paper and Digital Charter; the day centred on regulation, from GDPR&#39;s first year and IoT &#39;security by design&#39; to reports from the Paris IGF and the ITU Plenipotentiary.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The &#39;duty of care&#39; model got its first serious airing here &#8211; a stepping stone to the UK&#39;s Online Safety Act, and a case study for platform regulation debates worldwide.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>UK Internet Governance Forum 2018<\/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-uk-igf-2018-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"UK IGF 2018 \u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\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>UK Internet Governance Forum 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>22 November 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Cavendish Conference Centre, 22 Duchess Mews, Marylebone, London W1G 9DT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Solutions for The Digital Age<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>Over 110 participants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Keynote<\/td>\n<td>Margot James MP, Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Official report &#39;Messages from London&#39;; all sessions recorded and published<\/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-uk-igf-2018-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"UK IGF 2018 \u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Towards the Online Harms White Paper &#8211; Designing the &#39;Safest Place to Be Online&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote by Margot James MP, a DCMS briefing, and the goldfish-bowl panel &#39;Making the UK the safest place to be online&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minister James presented the Digital Charter and said the forthcoming white paper must protect freedom of expression, promote growth by protecting SMEs, and support people&#39;s adaptation to technological change [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>DCMS&#39;s Andrew Honeyman traced the path from the 2017 green paper to the government response of May 2018; a joint Home Office-DCMS white paper was due that winter, weighing legislative options including a duty of care on social media platforms [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The seven-strong goldfish-bowl panel &#8211; including LSE&#39;s Sonia Livingstone, Index on Censorship and ARTICLE 19 &#8211; warned &#39;hate speech&#39; was being applied too widely and insisted on distinguishing illegal speech from speech that is legal but harmful [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. GDPR Year One &#8211; The Fightback Against Data Exploitation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Mapping the progress of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018&#39; panel and the &#39;Countering Data Exploitation&#39; conversation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The panel called 2018 the year GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 transformed how industry and individuals treat data; the UK aims for an EU adequacy decision after Brexit, with Minister James noting 75% of cross-border data flows are within the EU [1]<\/li>\n<li>Privacy International&#39;s Ailidh Callander said Snowden and Cambridge Analytica had exposed mass data exploitation and hollowed-out consent, reporting complaints filed with the ICO against seven companies &#8211; including Oracle, Equifax and Experian &#8211; over behavioural advertising and cross-device tracking [1]<\/li>\n<li>She hoped the most data-exploitative business models &#39;would now be put to an end&#39; &#8211; met with some audience scepticism about enforcement [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. IoT Security by Design &#8211; Regulation Sets Only the Floor<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Cybersecurity and the internet of things: security by design&#39;, with ISOC, ARM, Privacy International and Chatham House<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panellists backed the UK&#39;s 2018 &#39;Secure by Design&#39; report and Code of Practice, and the government&#39;s push to align internationally via the ETSI technical specification [1]<\/li>\n<li>One study cited said 50% of consumers see security as a key barrier to using IoT devices &#8211; yet cost is the other big barrier, posing the challenge of raising security and trust without raising prices [1]<\/li>\n<li>The consensus: a code of practice is necessary but not sufficient. Regulation can set a minimum bar, but industry must move at hackers&#39; pace, building security cultures and tackling supply-chain risk [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Lessons from Paris and Dubai &#8211; Defending the Multistakeholder Model<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Lessons learnt from Paris and Dubai&#39; with Global Partners Digital, DCMS and ISOC UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The previous week&#39;s Paris IGF was the first ever addressed by the UN Secretary-General and the host head of state; President Macron made controversial remarks on governments&#39; role in protecting citizens, rejecting the dominance of both the &#39;Californian&#39; and &#39;Chinese&#39; models [1]<\/li>\n<li>From the ITU Plenipotentiary in Dubai came the sobering estimate that roughly 50% of states worldwide firmly reject the multistakeholder approach &#8211; though resolutions on OTT services, cybersecurity and internet regulation were largely defeated, making Dubai a success on that score [1]<\/li>\n<li>DCMS&#39;s Mark Carvell reported momentum &#8211; led by France and Germany, the 2019 host &#8211; for IGF reform focused on outputs and tangible recommendations [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. AI and Algorithms &#8211; A Gen-Z Challenge and &#39;Faux-tomation&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;AI Explainer&#39; by Kari Lawler (founder, Youth4AI) and &#39;Algorithm Explainer&#39; by Ansgar Koene (University of Nottingham)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kari Lawler, one of the UK&#39;s youngest start-up founders, argued mainstream media overstate AI and paint dystopias, creating needless fear among Generation Z &#8211; and called for education to help her generation plan AI-era careers [1]<\/li>\n<li>Ansgar Koene explained how algorithmic content prioritisation trades user control for convenience, with implications for bias, transparency and human agency [1]<\/li>\n<li>He flagged &#39;faux-tomation&#39; &#8211; organisations portraying human decisions or human-created content as machine outputs to look cutting-edge [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. So what did the meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding, but the discussions became the &#39;Messages from London&#39; report. The centrepiece was the forthcoming Online Harms White Paper &#8211; the duty-of-care idea debated here went on to shape the UK&#39;s Online Safety Act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious point?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Where to draw the line on &#39;harm&#39;. Free-expression groups warned that stretching the concept of hate speech risks suppressing legitimate speech, and insisted illegal speech and lawful-but-harmful speech need different treatment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. GDPR&#39;s first year, the IoT security code of practice, and platform duty of care &#8211; the 2018 UK debates previewed regulatory battles that most democracies, from the EU to Japan, have fought since.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is UK IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-uk-igf-2018-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"UK IGF 2018 \u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\u30f3 \u2014 About UK IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>UK 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:\/\/ukigf.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/UK-IGF-2018-report.pdf\">UK Internet Governance Forum Report &#8211; Messages from London\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u5831\u544a\u66f8PDF\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UK IGF (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ukigf.org.uk\/events\/2018-events\/\">2018 UK IGF\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UK IGF\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/isoc-e.org\/ukigf18\/\">UK Internet Governance Forum 2018 session recordings now available\uff08\u53c2\u52a0\u8005\u6570\u30fb\u7b2c11\u56de\u306e\u6839\u62e0\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ISOC UK England\uff08\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30bd\u30b5\u30a8\u30c6\u30a3\u82f1\u56fd\u652f\u90e8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DSVAzCGCj_s\">UK IGF 2018 &#8211; Sum up by Olivier Crepin Leblond, Chair of the Internet Society UK Chapter<\/a> \u2014 YouTube\uff08Internet Society\uff09 (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 19 June 2018, 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>UK IGF 2018 &#8211; the 11th edition, with over 110 participants &#8211; met on 22 November at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London under the theme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,11,38],"tags":[163,161,160,162,164,724],"class_list":["post-12781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-uk-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-ukigf2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781","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=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}