{"id":13128,"date":"2017-06-15T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/06\/15\/en-slovenia-igf-2017-overview\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T10:00:00","slug":"en-slovenia-igf-2017-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/06\/15\/en-slovenia-igf-2017-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"SloIGF 2017 (Slovenian 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-slovenia-igf-2017-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Slovenia IGF 2017 \u30ea\u30e5\u30d6\u30ea\u30e3\u30ca \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-slovenia-igf-2017-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Slovenia IGF 2017 \u30ea\u30e5\u30d6\u30ea\u30e3\u30ca \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Slovenia&#39;s second national IGF, SloIGF 2017, met on 17 October 2017 at Hotel Slon in central Ljubljana, opened by National Assembly President Dr Milan Brglez as honorary patron.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Three pillars framed the day \u2014 open technologies and open society, countering online extremism while safeguarding human rights, and privacy and security for the Internet&#39;s future \u2014 with ISOC, ICANN and SEEDIG representatives attending.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The forum doubled as the launch event for SEEDIG 2018, the South-East European dialogue held in Slovenia the following spring \u2014 a model of a national IGF feeding a regional one.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>SloIGF 2017 (Slovenian 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-slovenia-igf-2017-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Slovenia IGF 2017 \u30ea\u30e5\u30d6\u30ea\u30e3\u30ca \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>SloIGF 2017 (Slovenian Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>Second edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>17 October 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Best Western Premier Hotel Slon, Kavarna II hall, Ljubljana, Slovenia<\/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>In\u0161titut Digitas and Arnes; honorary patron Dr Milan Brglez, President of the National Assembly; main sponsor the Internet Society, with IGFSA, ICANN and RIPE NCC<\/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-slovenia-igf-2017-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Slovenia IGF 2017 \u30ea\u30e5\u30d6\u30ea\u30e3\u30ca \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Open Technologies, Open Society \u2014 What Keeps the Internet Open<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: SloIGF 2017 discussion session (Kavarna II hall, Hotel Slon)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participants from government, academia and the technical community discussed the role of open technologies and standards in an open society (per dig.watch&#39;s record) [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Few national IGFs are opened by the speaker of parliament \u2014 Brglez&#39;s patronage gave the dialogue parliamentary endorsement [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Countering Online Extremism While Protecting Rights and Freedoms<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: SloIGF 2017 discussion session<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the forum&#39;s headline topics was &#39;countering online extremism and ensuring human rights and freedom in the digital space&#39; \u2014 the tension between content policy and free expression [2]<\/li>\n<li>With European legislatures then racing to regulate terrorist content, even Slovenia&#39;s national forum confronted the balance between takedowns and freedoms head-on [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Privacy and Security for the Internet&#39;s Future<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: SloIGF 2017 discussion session<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Privacy and security were framed as preconditions for the Internet&#39;s future, covering data protection and network security (per dig.watch) [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Meeting seven months before the GDPR took effect, privacy practice was a shared concern across every stakeholder group in the room [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Launching SEEDIG 2018 \u2014 From National Forum to Regional Host<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: SEEDIG 2018 launch (within SloIGF 2017)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SloIGF 2017 served as the launch event for SEEDIG 2018, the South-East European Dialogue on Internet Governance held in Slovenia the following spring [2]<\/li>\n<li>With ISOC, ICANN and SEEDIG representatives in attendance, the forum modelled how a national IGF can anchor and attract a regional meeting [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. So what did the meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 it was the second annual forum where Slovenian stakeholders debate Internet policy as equals, this time opened by the President of the National Assembly as honorary patron.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the hottest topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Countering online extremism without sacrificing rights. As European lawmakers moved against terrorist content, the forum tackled the takedowns-versus-freedoms dilemma that is still with us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The content-regulation debate is universal, and SloIGF&#39;s role in launching SEEDIG 2018 shows how a national forum can bootstrap regional cooperation \u2014 a play other countries can copy.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Slovenia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-slovenia-igf-2017-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Slovenia IGF 2017 \u30ea\u30e5\u30d6\u30ea\u30e3\u30ca \u2014 About Slovenia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Slovenia 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 2017 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:\/\/sloigf.si\/slo-igf-2017\/\">SLO IGF 2017\uff08\u7b2c2\u56de\u5927\u4f1a\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 SloIGF\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 sloigf.si\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/slovenian-internet-governance-forum-2017\">Slovenian Internet Governance Forum 2017<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sloigf.si\/o-sloigf\/\">O SloIGF\uff08SloIGF\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066\uff09<\/a> \u2014 SloIGF\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 sloigf.si\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/slovenia-igf-0\">Slovenia IGF\uff08NRI\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40 (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 15 June 2017, 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>Slovenia&#8217;s second national IGF, SloIGF 2017, met on 17 October 2017 at Hotel Slon in central Ljubljana, opened by National Assembly Presiden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,50],"tags":[163,161,160,162,752,164],"class_list":["post-13128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-slovenia-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sloveniaigf2017","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13128","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=13128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}