{"id":13087,"date":"2024-06-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/12\/en-northmacedonia-igf-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T08:00:00","slug":"en-northmacedonia-igf-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/12\/en-northmacedonia-igf-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF MKD 2024 (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-2024-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"North Macedonia IGF 2024 \u30b9\u30b3\u30d4\u30a8 \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-2024-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"North Macedonia IGF 2024 \u30b9\u30b3\u30d4\u30a8 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 4 December 2024 the seventh IGF MKD met in Skopje, welcomed by GEANT CEO and UN IGF Leadership Panel member Lise Fuhr, with four panels plus a research presentation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The pillars: a national study on cyberbullying among youth, online safety in schools, the Cyber Pathways women-in-cyber programme, and AI as a legal and technological challenge.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The agenda&#39;s centre of gravity shifted to children, education and gender \u2014 internet governance closing in on everyday life, with obvious parallels for school and child-policy debates elsewhere.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF MKD 2024 (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-2024-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"North Macedonia IGF 2024 \u30b9\u30b3\u30d4\u30a8 \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 2024 (North Macedonia IGF)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>7th annual meeting (officially &#39;7th Annual Internet Governance Forum MKD 2024&#39;)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>4 December 2024 (The official agenda is titled &#39;7th Annual Internet Governance Forum MKD 2024 \u2013 04.12.2024&#39;)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Skopje (no venue named on the official agenda) (An in-person event (registration, coffee break, closing cocktail) with some speakers presenting online; the venue name is not identified in official materials)<\/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 (coordinator: Marko Paloski)<\/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-2024-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"North Macedonia IGF 2024 \u30b9\u30b3\u30d4\u30a8 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Cyberbullying Research \u2014 Talking from National Youth Data<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Research presentation: &#39;Cyberbullying: Characteristics, Consequences and Impact on Youth in Macedonia&#39; (12:10\u201312:25, Marina Dodevska and Nikola Janev)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Findings from a national study of cyberbullying among Macedonian youth were presented, grounding the education panel that followed [1]<\/li>\n<li>Starting the debate from home-grown data rather than abstract policy talk was the edition&#39;s most distinctive move [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Online Safety at School \u2014 Teachers and a Children&#39;s-Rights NGO on Stage<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 2: online safety in education (12:25\u201313:10)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teachers from two Skopje primary schools and a representative of First Children&#39;s Embassy in the World &#39;Megjashi&#39; debated classroom-level online safety [1]<\/li>\n<li>Milena Ignjatova of SmartUP Social Innovation Lab moderated, bridging schools, NGOs and the innovation sector [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Women in Cyber \u2014 Reporting the &#39;Cyber Pathways&#39; Results<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 3: &#39;Empowering Educators, Inspiring Women: Cyber Pathways Achievements and Talent Development&#39; (13:30\u201314:15)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liljana Pecova-Ilieska \u2014 the forum&#39;s 2018 GDPR speaker, now manager of Cyber Pathways for Women \u2014 moderated a report on training educators and developing female cyber talent [1]<\/li>\n<li>The global gender gap in cybersecurity was addressed through the concrete track record of a regional programme [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. AI \u2014 A Challenge on Legal and Technological Fronts<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel 4: &#39;Artificial Intelligence \u2013 a Legal and Technological Challenge&#39; (14:15\u201315:00, moderated by Prof. Boro Jakimovski)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Law professor Neda Zdraveva, FINKI&#39;s Riste Stojanov and AI researcher Svetlana Kordumova took stock of legal and technical challenges in the year the EU&#39;s AI Act was adopted [1]<\/li>\n<li>The latest instalment of an AI thread running since 2018, keeping lawyers and engineers on the same panel [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Digitalisation Trends and Global Links \u2014 A Welcome from GEANT&#39;s CEO<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening (11:00\u201311:05), ICANN address (11:05\u201311:25) and Panel 1: digitisation \u2014 Macedonia and global trends (11:25\u201312:10)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GEANT CEO Lise Fuhr, a UN IGF Leadership Panel member, sent the welcome, and ICANN&#39;s Andrea Beccalli spoke online on &#39;ICANN and the Internet landscape, preserving the global Internet&#39; [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Panel 1 put Makedonski Telekom&#39;s Stanislav Vasilkovski and Evrotrust&#39;s Kiro Burnazovski on domestic and global digitisation trends, moderated by founding coordinator Icokaev (AI LEGAL MK) [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 binding \u2014 the seventh annual round-table where government, schools, business and NGOs review the year&#39;s digital issues, this time anchored by a national cyberbullying study.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What stood out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. How everyday the agenda became: from national strategies and domains in earlier years to primary-school online safety and women&#39;s cyber careers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Cyberbullying and classroom online safety are frontline issues in every school system, and closing cybersecurity&#39;s gender gap is a shared global project.<\/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-2024-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"North Macedonia IGF 2024 \u30b9\u30b3\u30d4\u30a8 \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 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:\/\/igfmkd.mk\/en\/agenda-2024-2\/\">Agenda 2024\uff087th Annual Internet Governance Forum MKD 2024 \u2013 04.12.2024 \u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF MKD\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igfmkd.mk\/en\/starting_page\/\">IGF MKD \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08\u5e74\u6b21\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\u4e00\u89a7\u3002\u300c8th Annual IGF MKD 2026 \u2013 18.11.2026\u300d\u306e\u4e88\u544a\u306b\u3088\u308a2024=\u7b2c7\u56de\u306e\u56de\u6b21\u3092\u88cf\u4ed8\u3051\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF MKD (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<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\u7cfb\u5217\u53f2\u30fb\u56de\u6b21\u306e\u57fa\u6e96\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Internet Governance Forum Support Association (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 12 June 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 4 December 2024 the seventh IGF MKD met in Skopje, welcomed by GEANT CEO and UN IGF Leadership Panel member Lise Fuhr, with four panels p<\/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":[163,161,160,162,2474,164],"class_list":["post-13087","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-northmacedoniaigf2024","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087","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=13087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}