{"id":13084,"date":"2020-06-17T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/06\/17\/en-northmacedonia-igf-2020-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T10:00:00","slug":"en-northmacedonia-igf-2020-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/06\/17\/en-northmacedonia-igf-2020-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF MKD 2020 (North Macedonia IGF) \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-northmacedonia-igf-2020-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"North Macedonia IGF 2020 \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-northmacedonia-igf-2020-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"North Macedonia IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 15 December 2020 the fourth IGF MKD convened as a Zoom webinar \u2014 the forum&#39;s first fully online edition, forced by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Short talks and discussions covered digitalising education in a crisis, protecting consumers&#39; online rights, intellectual property and ISP liability, and artificial intelligence as &#39;the new kid on the block&#39;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is the record of a small national IGF that kept the dialogue alive in the pandemic year \u2014 the same online pivot forums worldwide, Japan&#39;s included, were making.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF MKD 2020 (North Macedonia IGF)<\/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-northmacedonia-igf-2020-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"North Macedonia IGF 2020 \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 MKD 2020 (North Macedonia IGF)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>4th annual meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>15 December 2020 (The official agenda states &#39;Tuesday, 15.12.2020&#39;)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Online (Zoom webinar, advance registration required)<\/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 MKD \u2014 the first annual meeting after its legal registration was completed in May 2020<\/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-northmacedonia-igf-2020-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"North Macedonia IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Digitalising Education in a Crisis \u2014 Lessons from Remote Schooling<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Talk: &#39;The digitalization of the educational process in times of crisis&#39; (11:30\u201311:45, Dr Aleksandra Nakeva Ruzin)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the year the country&#39;s schools went remote, education digitalisation led the substantive agenda as a first-hand account [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Gaps in connectivity and devices translating into gaps in learning \u2014 the universal pandemic lesson \u2014 was worked through in a small-country context [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Consumers&#39; Online Rights and IP \u2014 E-Commerce Booms, Problems Follow<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Talks: &#39;Protecting consumers and their online rights in times of crisis&#39; (11:45\u201312:00, Prof. Neda Zdraveva) and following<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With lockdown shopping surging online, law professor Neda Zdraveva examined consumer protection on the internet [1]<\/li>\n<li>Bojan Stefkovski followed with intellectual-property protection and the liability of internet service providers \u2014 the counterfeit and piracy questions of a booming e-commerce year [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Artificial Intelligence \u2014 Thirty Minutes on &#39;The New Kid on the Block&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Talk: &#39;Artificial intelligence \u2013 &quot;The new kid on the block?&quot;&#39; (12:30\u201313:00, Ilijanco Gagovski)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The programme&#39;s longest slot \u2014 30 minutes \u2014 went to &#39;Artificial intelligence \u2013 &quot;The new kid on the block?&quot;&#39;, a pre-generative-AI-boom national-forum treatment of AI&#39;s social impact [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>AI had been on the forum&#39;s menu since 2018&#39;s &#39;AI and GDPR&#39; talk; the 2020 slot thickened that thread [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Going Online, Becoming an Entity \u2014 Institutionalisation in the COVID Year<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening remarks (11:00\u201311:10, coordinator Aleksandar Ichokjaev) and regional retrospective (11:10\u201311:30)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;IGF MKD accepted the recommendation of the IGF Secretariat and the IGF SA aimed to increase transparency and accountability and began preparations for the establishment of a legal entity. The administrative procedures were completed by the end of 2019, but due to the corona crisis, the registration ended in May 2020 (from the IGFSA statement)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Aleksandar Icokaev (founding coordinator, 2023 IGFSA statement)<\/strong> [3][1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Predrag Tasevski, Marko Paloski and regional IG expert Olga Kyryliuk opened with a retrospective on regional and global governance in the pandemic [3][1][2]<\/li>\n<li>An English voice-over video was later published \u2014 the forum reporting itself out to the international community [3][1][2]<\/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 formal \u2014 it was a dialogue webinar auditing the pandemic year through online education, consumer protection and AI, open to anyone who registered on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Was an online-only edition worth holding?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Yes. The forum also completed its legal registration that year, and unbroken annual continuity is precisely what keeps a UN-recognised national IGF credible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Remote-schooling gaps, e-commerce consumer disputes and ISP liability were 2020&#39;s issues everywhere \u2014 this is how a small country talked them through.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is North Macedonia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-northmacedonia-igf-2020-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"North Macedonia IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 About North Macedonia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>North Macedonia 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 2020 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:\/\/igfmkd.mk\/en\/agenda-2020\/\">Agenda 2020\uff08IGF MKD 2020 \u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u3002Zoom\u958b\u50ac\u30fb2020\u5e7412\u670815\u65e5\u3068\u660e\u8a18\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF MKD\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xaxJwCdBvYs\">IGF-MKD 2020 ENG Voice Over\uff08\u82f1\u8a9e\u30ca\u30ec\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u4ed8\u304d\u516c\u5f0f\u6620\u50cf\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF MKD\uff08YouTube\u30c1\u30e3\u30f3\u30cd\u30eb\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igfsa.org\/assets\/candidate-statements\/2023\/nov2023\/SOI-Aleksandar-Icokaev.pdf\">Aleksandar Icokaev &#8211; Statement of Interest\uff08\u521d\u4ee3\u30b3\u30fc\u30c7\u30a3\u30cd\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc\u306eIGFSA\u63d0\u51fa\u58f0\u660e\u3002\u6cd5\u4eba\u5316\u306e\u7d4c\u7def\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Internet Governance Forum Support Association (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/north-macedonia-igf-0\">North Macedonia IGF\uff08NRI\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u3002\u76f4\u63a5\u30a2\u30af\u30bb\u30b9\u306f403\u306e\u305f\u3081\u691c\u7d22\u30b9\u30cb\u30da\u30c3\u30c8\u7d4c\u7531\u3067\u78ba\u8a8d\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (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 17 June 2020, 12:00 (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 15 December 2020 the fourth IGF MKD convened as a Zoom webinar \u2014 the forum&#8217;s first fully online edition, forced by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,11],"tags":[163,161,160,162,619,164],"class_list":["post-13084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-northmacedonia-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-northmacedoniaigf2020","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084","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=13084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}