{"id":12976,"date":"2024-10-09T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/10\/09\/en-czech-igf-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T10:00:00","slug":"en-czech-igf-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/10\/09\/en-czech-igf-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Czechia 2024 Annual Meeting \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-czech-igf-2024-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Czech IGF 2024 \u30d7\u30e9\u30cf \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-czech-igf-2024-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Czech IGF 2024 \u30d7\u30e9\u30cf \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 6 September 2024, IGF Czechia held its first annual meeting in Prague \u2014 the first full national internet-governance dialogue in Czechia, run by an NRI recognised by the UN IGF Secretariat in November 2023.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its agenda pillars are cybersecurity, personal-data protection and the challenges of AI. Researcher Nat\u00e1lie Ter\u010dov\u00e1 chairs the initiative, with government, the technical community, civil society, academia and youth on the organising team.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is a textbook case of a mid-sized EU country building an NRI from scratch \u2014 a channel for national voices just as the DSA and the AI Act enter implementation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF Czechia 2024 Annual Meeting<\/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-czech-igf-2024-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Czech IGF 2024 \u30d7\u30e9\u30cf \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 Czechia 2024 Annual Meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>6 September 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Prague, Czechia (venue not named in public records)<\/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 Czechia (coordinator: Nat\u00e1lie Ter\u010dov\u00e1), in cooperation with CZ.NIC, EURid and the Youth Standing Group<\/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-czech-igf-2024-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Czech IGF 2024 \u30d7\u30e9\u30cf \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Birth of an &#39;Emerging NRI&#39; \u2014 From Recognition to First Annual Meeting<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The annual meeting (Prague, 6 September 2024) and the initiative&#39;s founding<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;That situation was limiting, because we could not follow the multistakeholder approach (translated from Czech: &#39;Tato situace byla limituj\u00edc\u00ed, proto\u017ee jsme tak nemohli n\u00e1sledovat multistakeholder p\u0159\u00edstup&#39;)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Nat\u00e1lie Ter\u010dov\u00e1 (Chair, IGF Czechia)<\/strong> [1][2][4][5]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF Czechia was recognised by the UN IGF Secretariat in November 2023 and presented as an emerging NRI (alongside Ireland) at the EuroDIG 2024 NRI Assembly in Vilnius [1][2][4][5]<\/li>\n<li>Its first annual meeting took place in Prague on 6 September 2024, registered in the UN IGF&#39;s official NRI calendar [1][2][4][5]<\/li>\n<li>The organising team spans government, the technical community, civil society, academia and youth \u2014 leadership diversity being a condition of NRI recognition [1][2][4][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The Agenda \u2014 Cybersecurity, Data Protection and AI<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: IGF Czechia&#39;s programme of multistakeholder events, its Academy, and international representation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF Czechia&#39;s stated focus is cybersecurity, personal-data protection and current AI challenges, pursued through offline and online multistakeholder events [3][4]<\/li>\n<li>Its two other pillars are the IGF Czechia Academy \u2014 school workshops and public education \u2014 and carrying national positions into EuroDIG and the global IGF [3][4]<\/li>\n<li>The official site lists cooperation with CZ.NIC (the .cz registry), EURid (.eu) and the Youth Standing Group [3][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What is this meeting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The first annual meeting of Czechia&#39;s national IGF. IGF Czechia, recognised by the UN in 2023, brought government, business, civil society and researchers into one room to discuss internet policy for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why was 2024 the first \u2014 was there nothing before?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. No. Official records date the Czech NRI to 2023; no national IGF existed earlier. The initiative was born precisely from the recognition that the absence of such a forum was a limitation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The EU&#39;s DSA and AI Act get implemented through national conversations like this one. Watching how a mid-sized EU country channels stakeholders&#39; voices is useful anywhere platform and AI rules are being written.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Czech IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-czech-igf-2024-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Czech IGF 2024 \u30d7\u30e9\u30cf \u2014 About Czech IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Czech 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 2024 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:\/\/intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/czechia-igf-0\">Czechia IGF \u2014 Annual meeting in Prague on 6 September 2024\uff08NRI\u4f1a\u5408\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 intgovforum.org (accessed 2026-07-16)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/czechia-igf\">Czechia IGF\uff08NRI\u8a18\u9332\uff1a2023\u5e74\u8a2d\u7acb\u30fb\u30b3\u30fc\u30c7\u30a3\u30cd\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc\u60c5\u5831\uff09<\/a> \u2014 intgovforum.org (accessed 2026-07-16)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igfczechia.eu\/\">IGF Czechia \u2013 Internet Governance Forum Czechia\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF Czechia (accessed 2026-07-16)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/atrium.fss.muni.cz\/veda-a-vyzkum\/cesko-je-diky-doktorandce-soucasti-osvetove-iniciativy-o-sprave-internetu\">\u010cesko je d\u00edky doktorandce sou\u010d\u00e1st\u00ed osv\u011btov\u00e9 iniciativy o spr\u00e1v\u011b internetu\uff08\u535a\u58eb\u8ab2\u7a0b\u5b66\u751f\u306e\u5c3d\u529b\u3067\u30c1\u30a7\u30b3\u304c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u5553\u767a\u30a4\u30cb\u30b7\u30a2\u30c1\u30d6\u306b\u53c2\u52a0\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u010casopis Atrium\uff08\u30de\u30b5\u30ea\u30af\u5927\u5b66\u793e\u4f1a\u79d1\u5b66\u90e8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-16)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurodigwiki.org\/wiki\/NRI_Assembly_%E2%80%93_Pre_01_2024\">NRI Assembly \u2013 Pre 01 2024\uff08EuroDIG 2024\u30d3\u30ea\u30cb\u30e5\u30b9\u3002\u65b0\u8208NRI\u3068\u3057\u3066\u306e\u30c1\u30a7\u30b3\u7d39\u4ecb\uff09<\/a> \u2014 EuroDIG Wiki (accessed 2026-07-16)<\/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 9 October 2024, 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>On 6 September 2024, IGF Czechia held its first annual meeting in Prague \u2014 the first full national internet-governance dialogue in Czechia, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,3,11],"tags":[163,863,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-12976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-czechigf2024","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976","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=12976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}