{"id":12972,"date":"2023-06-08T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/08\/en-croatia-igf-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-06-08T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T08:00:00","slug":"en-croatia-igf-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/08\/en-croatia-igf-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"CRO-IGF 2023 (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-2023-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Croatia IGF 2023 \u30aa\u30d1\u30c6\u30a3\u30e4 \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-2023-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Croatia IGF 2023 \u30aa\u30d1\u30c6\u30a3\u30e4 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The sixth CRO-IGF met on 25 May 2023 at the Grand Hotel Adriatic in Opatija, within the 46th MIPRO ICT conference \u2014 47 participants, and the first edition in roughly three and a half years, since December 2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two topics shared the day: the UN&#39;s Global Digital Compact (GDC) and the EU&#39;s Digital Services Act (DSA), with Croatia signalling that HAKOM would become its national Digital Services Coordinator.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With the AI association CroAI and the network-operators group NOG.hr joining the organising committee, this restart edition put the UN process and EU regulation on one table.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>CRO-IGF 2023 (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-2023-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Croatia IGF 2023 \u30aa\u30d1\u30c6\u30a3\u30e4 \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 2023 (Croatian Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>6th edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>25 May 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Grand Hotel Adriatic, Opatija \u2014 an independent event within the 46th MIPRO 2023 ICT conference<\/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>47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>The CRO-IGF Organising Committee (coordinator: Zdravko Juki\u0107 of HAKOM), opened 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-2023-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Croatia IGF 2023 \u30aa\u30d1\u30c6\u30a3\u30e4 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Global Digital Compact \u2014 Hopes and Doubts About the UN Process<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;GDC, Global Digital Compact&#39; (moderated by Desiree Milo\u0161evi\u0107, co-chair of the RIPE NCC Cooperation Group; introductions by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, CroAI and NOG.hr)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ahead of the UN Secretary-General&#39;s GDC and the 2024 Summit of the Future, the panel kept returning to one principle: the technical community gives the best advice on how policies can actually be implemented and must be part of policy-making [1]<\/li>\n<li>Scepticism was recorded too \u2014 can questions this big be resolved in the UN format alone? \u2014 alongside a concrete proposal to open seats in Croatia&#39;s Summit delegation to the private sector, academia and civil society [1]<\/li>\n<li>Framing AI as &#39;what the internet was for the last 30 years, AI will be for the next 30&#39;, panellists weighed the difficulty of regulating a technology without an agreed definition and the risk that regulation brakes small start-ups [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The Digital Services Act \u2014 HAKOM Prepares to Become Croatia&#39;s Coordinator<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;DSA, Digital Services Act&#39; (moderated by Domagoj Mari\u010di\u0107, head of legal at HAKOM; introduction by the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development; with A1 Hrvatska, Vukmir &amp; Partneri and AST Law)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panellists laid out the DSA&#39;s aim \u2014 a safe, predictable online space with special protection for minors \u2014 and its tiered obligations, and revealed Croatia&#39;s plan: several supervisory bodies sharing tasks, HAKOM as Digital Services Coordinator, and an implementing law in parliament by year-end [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Operators welcomed the DSA as balancing regulation long imposed on telecoms, then pressed the &#39;fair share&#39; case that large content providers should help fund infrastructure \u2014 citing the 170 billion euro needed for the EU&#39;s Gigabit Society [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Croatian intermediaries were reported to be turning to law firms over practical compliance, and the panel called for stronger horizontal coordination of digital policy within Croatia [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Back After Three and a Half Years \u2014 New Faces, Old Homework<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall proceedings (as recorded in the official final report and the CARNET\/HAKOM announcements)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CARNET&#39;s official report archive holds nothing for 2020\u20132022, and the 2023 report itself says &#39;the sixth Croatian IGF&#39; \u2014 documenting a restart after a gap of some three and a half years since December 2019 [1][2][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>The organising committee gained the AI association CroAI, the operators&#39; group NOG.hr and Telemach, while the venue returned to the 2016 formula: an independent event inside the MIPRO conference in Opatija [1][2][3][4]<\/li>\n<li>The digital divide was called a still-major challenge for Croatia, needing both regulation and subsidies to guarantee basic connectivity nationwide \u2014 and the report again logs the series&#39; oldest homework: civil society was a minority among the 47 participants [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 two live processes were explained and debated in public: Croatia&#39;s approach to the UN&#39;s Global Digital Compact, and the national DSA set-up that makes HAKOM the Digital Services Coordinator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Who pays for the network. Operators pushed the &#39;fair share&#39; argument that big content providers should contribute financially to infrastructure \u2014 and candid scepticism was voiced about whether the UN format alone can settle questions this large.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The DSA applies to any service reaching EU users, and each country&#39;s coordinator is where enforcement happens. The forum is also a case study in restarting a stalled dialogue after the pandemic.<\/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-2023-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Croatia IGF 2023 \u30aa\u30d1\u30c6\u30a3\u30e4 \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 2023 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\/2023\/10\/CRO-IGF-2023-Final-Report.pdf\">Croatian Internet Governance Forum CRO-IGF 2023 \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\/sesti-hrvatski-forum-o-upravljanju-internetom\/\">\u0160esti hrvatski Forum o upravljanju internetom\uff08\u7b2c6\u56de\u958b\u50ac\u544a\u77e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 CARNET (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hakom.hr\/hr\/sesti-hrvatski-forum-o-upravljanju-internetom\/10675\">\u0160esti hrvatski Forum o upravljanju internetom\uff08\u7b2c6\u56de\u958b\u50ac\u544a\u77e5\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:\/\/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 8 June 2023, 10:00 (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 sixth CRO-IGF met on 25 May 2023 at the Grand Hotel Adriatic in Opatija, within the 46th MIPRO ICT conference \u2014 47 participants, and the<\/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":[163,440,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-croatia-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-croatiaigf2023","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972","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=12972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}