{"id":12970,"date":"2019-06-02T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/06\/02\/en-croatia-igf-2019-overview\/"},"modified":"2019-06-02T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T13:00:00","slug":"en-croatia-igf-2019-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/06\/02\/en-croatia-igf-2019-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"CRO-IGF 2019 (Croatian 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-croatia-igf-2019-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Croatia IGF 2019 \u30b6\u30b0\u30ec\u30d6 \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-croatia-igf-2019-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Croatia IGF 2019 \u30b6\u30b0\u30ec\u30d6 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The fifth CRO-IGF met on 13 December 2019 at FER in Zagreb with 70 participants, debating 5G network security and the strategic, legal, ethical and linguistic dimensions of artificial intelligence.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The 5G panel seated Ericsson and Huawei security officers side by side to discuss the EU&#39;s coordinated risk assessment and the forthcoming security &#39;Toolbox&#39;, while the AI panel argued for investing in language technologies to carry Croatian into the AI era.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its conclusions \u2014 absolute security is an illusion, and AI in autonomous weapons needs urgent regulation \u2014 capture Europe&#39;s late-2019 mood. The pandemic then interrupted the series; the next edition came only in 2023.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>CRO-IGF 2019 (Croatian 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<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-croatia-igf-2019-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Croatia IGF 2019 \u30b6\u30b0\u30ec\u30d6 \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>CRO-IGF 2019 (Croatian Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>5th edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>13 December 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), University of Zagreb, Zagreb<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>The CRO-IGF Organising Committee (chair: Nata\u0161a Glavor of CARNET), with the opening address by HAKOM Council President Tonko Obuljen<\/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-croatia-igf-2019-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Croatia IGF 2019 \u30b6\u30b0\u30ec\u30d6 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. 5G Security \u2014 Ericsson and Huawei at One Table, Europe&#39;s Risk Debate in Miniature<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Security of 5G Networks&#39; (moderated by Tamara Tafra, cyber diplomatic advisor at Croatia&#39;s EU Permanent Representation; with the Central State Office for the Development of the Digital Society, FER, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Huawei and HAKOM)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The EU-wide coordinated risk assessment and the security &#39;Toolbox&#39; due in early 2020 \u2014 including certification of vendors and networks \u2014 framed the debate, with panellists candid about the structural risk: vendors enjoy privileged access to network cores, and equipment stays in place for 10\u201315 years [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Huawei&#39;s representative described one-time access passwords issued only on the operator&#39;s justified request, while others argued that depositing source code would not increase security: trust cannot be tested, leaving standards (3GPP), security by design and disciplined operations as the only path [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>For Croatia, about to hold the EU Council presidency in the first half of 2020, 5G security was also a diplomatic file; domestically, spectrum assignment after the TV transition and legal obstacles to fibre deployment were named as preconditions for rollout [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. AI Strategy, Regulation and Language \u2014 Will Croatian Survive the AI Era?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Strategic, Legislative, Ethical and Linguistic Aspects of Artificial Intelligence&#39; (moderated by Tanja Ivan\u010di\u0107 of Ve\u010dernji list; with the State Secretary of the Ministry of the Economy, PWN Zagreb, and the Faculties of Law, Philosophy and FER)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government reported that Croatia&#39;s national AI strategy was being drafted for completion by end-2019, while the EU&#39;s AI ethics guidelines drew sharp criticism: most of the 52-member high-level expert group came from the IT industry, with civil society and academia barely present \u2014 &#39;the agenda is imposed on us by the industry itself and that is not good&#39; [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Some argued the time for ethics-only talk was over and regulation should now come, starting with autonomous vehicles and autonomous weapons; others countered that over-regulation scares off investors [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Croatian being the EU&#39;s 24th official language became a rallying point: with 50% of customers buying only in their own language, panellists urged that language technologies be written into the national AI strategy \u2014 fittingly, FER had just opened its Centre for Artificial Intelligence [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. &#39;Absolute Security Does Not Exist&#39; \u2014 Dividing the Burden Between Regulators, Vendors and Users<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Conclusions across both panels (as recorded in the official final report)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two threads ran through both panels: absolute security is an illusion because people build and run the systems, and the heaviest responsibility for 5G security falls on states and regulators, with individual users able to do little [1][2][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>Distinctively, the forum&#39;s written conclusions called for urgent regulation of AI uses that directly threaten human rights, naming autonomous weapons [1][2][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>Civil society remained under-represented among the 70 participants, but HAKOM \u2014 which had stepped back in 2017 \u2014 returned in the person of Council President Obuljen for the opening address, and RIPE NCC funding supported what proved to be the last edition before the pandemic pause [1][2][3][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did this meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 but weeks before the EU published its 5G security Toolbox, it put the regulator, Ericsson, Huawei, academia and government on one stage to talk risks and mitigations, a rare line-up at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. How far 5G vendors can be trusted. Panellists noted vendors hold privileged access to network cores for a decade or more; Huawei described its one-time-password controls; and the sober conclusion was that trust cannot be tested \u2014 only standards and security by design help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The 5G vendor-trust question shaped procurement policy across the world, and the plea to invest in language technology so smaller languages survive the AI era applies to every language community.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Croatia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-croatia-igf-2019-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Croatia IGF 2019 \u30b6\u30b0\u30ec\u30d6 \u2014 About Croatia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Croatia 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.carnet.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CRO-IGF-2019-final_report-en-1.pdf\">Croatian IGF 2019 \u2013 Final report (PDF)<\/a> \u2014 CRO-IGF\u7d44\u7e54\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\uff08CARNET\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u63b2\u8f09\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnet.hr\/odrzan-5-cro-igf\/\">Odr\u017ean 5. Hrvatski forum o upravljanju internetom (CRO-IGF)\uff08\u7b2c5\u56de\u958b\u50ac\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 CARNET (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hakom.hr\/hr\/odrzan-5-hrvatski-forum-o-upravljanju-internetom-692\/692\">Odr\u017ean 5. Hrvatski forum o upravljanju internetom\uff08\u7b2c5\u56de\u958b\u50ac\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 HAKOM\uff08\u30af\u30ed\u30a2\u30c1\u30a2\u30fb\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u7523\u696d\u898f\u5236\u5e81\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/igf-croatia\">IGF Croatia<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnet.hr\/zapocela-prijava-tema-za-peti-hrvatski-forum-o-upravljanju-internetom-cro-igf\/\">Prijavite teme za peti Hrvatski forum o upravljanju internetom (CRO-IGF)\uff08\u8b70\u984c\u516c\u52df\u306e\u544a\u77e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 CARNET (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnet.hr\/en\/projekt\/internet-governance-forum\/\">Forum o upravljanju internetom (CRO-IGF)\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ed\u30b8\u30a7\u30af\u30c8\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30fb\u6b74\u4ee3\u6700\u7d42\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 CARNET (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 2019, 15:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 17 July 2026, 12:32 (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 fifth CRO-IGF met on 13 December 2019 at FER in Zagreb with 70 participants, debating 5G network security and the strategic, legal, ethi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,3,11],"tags":[163,629,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-croatia-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-croatiaigf2019","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970","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=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}