{"id":13132,"date":"2010-10-09T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2010\/10\/09\/en-uk-igf-2010-overview\/"},"modified":"2010-10-09T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T14:00:00","slug":"en-uk-igf-2010-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2010\/10\/09\/en-uk-igf-2010-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"UK IGF 2010 \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-uk-igf-2010-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"UK IGF 2010 \u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\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-uk-igf-2010-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"UK IGF 2010 \u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 7 July 2010, the fifth UK IGF \u2014 &#39;Messages for Vilnius&#39; \u2014 met at One Whitehall Place in London to hammer out the positions the UK delegation would carry to the UN IGF in Lithuania that September.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With the IGF&#39;s UN mandate up for renewal in December, speakers warned bluntly that the forum risked being absorbed into UN machinery, while new minister Ed Vaizey used his first internet-policy speech to reject top-down regulation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Workshops on consumer protection and digital inclusion sketched what became the spine of UK digital policy for the next decade: holding freedom and safety in tension, and refusing to leave 10 million offline Britons behind.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>UK IGF 2010<\/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-uk-igf-2010-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"UK IGF 2010 \u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\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>UK IGF 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>The Fifth Meeting of the UK Internet Governance Forum (per the official meeting report)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>7 July 2010 (lunch 12:30; sessions 13:30\u201317:30)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>One Whitehall Place, Westminster, London<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Purpose<\/td>\n<td>To formulate the &#39;UK Messages&#39; the UK delegation would take to the UN IGF in Vilnius, Lithuania, that September<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Secretariat by Nominet (the UK ccTLD registry); chaired by Rt Hon Alun Michael MP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Two workshops (protecting the consumer; digital inclusion) reported back to plenary and fed the UK Messages; plenary video was published on Nominet&#39;s site<\/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-uk-igf-2010-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"UK IGF 2010 \u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Fight over the IGF&#39;s Future \u2014 &#39;Absorbed into the UN Machinery&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening session: reports from Emily Taylor (IGF MAG member) and former ambassador Nick Thorne CMG<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The bad news is that the report lays the foundations for the IGF to be absorbed into the UN machinery, with a bureau and budget, and more formal outcomes.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Emily Taylor (member, IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group)<\/strong> [3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The IGF is a multi-stakeholder organisation, but unfortunately only one stakeholder will have a say in its future, and that is governments.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Nick Thorne CMG (former UK Ambassador to the UN, Geneva)<\/strong> [3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Taylor challenged the UN Secretary-General&#39;s preparatory note \u2014 which suggested over 60% of respondents wanted change \u2014 with her own analysis that some 87% were happy for the IGF to continue unchanged [3]<\/li>\n<li>&#39;The winners would be countries which want a firmer regulatory hand; the losers would be business and the technical community&#39; \u2014 hence her call for business funding to keep the secretariat independent [3]<\/li>\n<li>Thorne predicted &#39;we will win on the IGF, but we will not win on money&#39;, mapping the General Assembly dynamics of China and the G-77 and naming China as the state keenest to impose regulation on the net [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The Road to Vilnius \u2014 Kummer&#39;s Report and the &#39;UK Remote Hub&#39; Idea<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening session: Markus Kummer, Executive Co-ordinator of the IGF Secretariat<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;If Vilnius is a disaster, it will have an impact on the general assembly \u2013 and if a success, as I hope and believe, it will also have an impact.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Markus Kummer (Executive Co-ordinator, IGF Secretariat)<\/strong> [2][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Kummer contrasted the treaty-based, top-down route of climate policy with the IGF&#39;s bottom-up route, arguing that for a borderless internet &#39;the sharing of ideas, and the sharing of best practices, seems to represent the best approach&#39; [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Answering complaints about the 106 parallel workshops at Sharm el-Sheikh, he confessed 102 were already planned for Vilnius \u2014 &#39;and the Lithuanians want some more: as hosts, we cannot deny them&#39; \u2014 offering instead to feed workshop topics back into the main sessions [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>His parting suggestion \u2014 &#39;Why not create a remote hub in the UK?&#39; \u2014 prefigured the remote-participation hubs that later spread worldwide [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Opening the day, Nominet chair Baroness Rennie Fritchie had noted that &#39;criminals can be innovative too&#39;, urging responses in harmony with the net&#39;s global nature and capacity for positive innovation [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. A New Minister&#39;s First Speech \u2014 &#39;No Top-Down Approach to Internet Regulation&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Ministerial address (5:00 pm): Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We do not want a top-down approach to Internet regulation, though of course we must recognise legitimate interests of governments in such areas as law enforcement.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Ed Vaizey MP (Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries)<\/strong> [2][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;I do not see, for example, why government or Brussels should, as some advocate, need to impose so-called &#39;Net Neutrality&#39; legislation.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Ed Vaizey MP<\/strong> [2][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>It was Vaizey&#39;s first ministerial speech on internet issues under the two-month-old Cameron coalition government [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Against blanket ISP blocking he set the &#39;UK model&#39;: self-regulation through the Internet Watch Foundation and giving users the tools to make their own choices [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>He criticised the belief &#39;within parts of some organisations \u2013 such as the ITU&#39; that naming, addressing, cybersecurity and child protection are for governments alone, warning of an ITU &#39;land grab&#39; and of two internets emerging from such a confrontation [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>He committed the UK to backing a five-year extension of the IGF mandate at the UN General Assembly in December [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Workshop 1: Protecting the Consumer \u2014 Frustration at a &#39;Glacial Pace&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Parallel workshop 1 (3:00\u20134:45 pm), with Lisa Horner, John Carr and Lucinda Fell; summed up by chair Alun Michael<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;(The IGF process and the UN&#39;s processes in general are moving) at a glacial pace, while the internet is changing at a much faster pace.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>John Carr (Secretary, UK Children&#39;s Charities&#39; Coalition on Internet Safety)<\/strong> [3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s not just about responding to the risks, it&#39;s also about championing the great things that young people can do online&#8230; Empowering the user is absolutely key to enabling them to protect themselves.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Lucinda Fell (Policy and Communications Manager, Childnet International)<\/strong> [3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Carr asked why IWF-style filtering of child-abuse images was replicated only in Nordic countries, North America and Australia, and why ICANN had deemed verified registrant details &#39;too controversial&#39; \u2014 gaps that, he said, undermine confidence in governance arrangements [3]<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Horner of Global Partners pressed a human-rights framing of internet governance, while a delegate countered that rights language &#39;politicises the debate and plays straight into the hands of those who want to regulate&#39; \u2014 a genuine clash of approaches [3]<\/li>\n<li>Philip Virgo&#39;s proposal for paid trusted-registrar verification services was rebuffed by Nominet&#39;s Lesley Cowley as a barrier to entry that would raise registration costs [3]<\/li>\n<li>Chair Alun Michael closed by quoting a young speaker&#39;s &#39;I want to be totally free and I want to be safe&#39; \u2014 two priorities to be held in tension, not traded away [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Workshop 2: Digital Inclusion \u2014 Not Leaving 10 Million Offline Behind<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote by Graham Walker (Race Online 2012) and parallel workshop 2 with Ian Clifford, Ellen Ferguson, Andrea Saks and others<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We&#39;ll all be better off if we&#39;re all online.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Graham Walker (Director of Policy, Office of the UK Digital Champion \/ Race Online 2012)<\/strong> [3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Kids hate having websites blocked, but they want to be safe.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Ellen Ferguson (Education Manager, Childnet International)<\/strong> [3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Walker put the numbers on the table: 10 million Britons never online, four million of them among the most socially vulnerable; moving one government contact per person online would save \u00a31bn a year, with at least \u00a322bn in total benefits [3]<\/li>\n<li>UK Online Centres&#39; Ian Clifford quoted a Bristol centre manager: the hardest part is &#39;the part that happens in the car park \u2014 getting them to walk through the door for the first time&#39; [3]<\/li>\n<li>The ITU&#39;s Andrea Saks insisted &#39;one size does not fit all&#39; for disabled users, demanding interoperability and universal-design education, while BCS&#39;s Dr Louise Bennett declared herself &#39;appalled by the quality of legislation in this area&#39; [3]<\/li>\n<li>Manoraj Sivantharajah, a 15-year-old work-experience student at Childnet, told the room young people want to be trusted \u2014 his school blocked even Google Images \u2014 a voice preserved in the official report [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was this meeting for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A &#39;messaging&#39; session to settle what the UK would argue at the UN IGF in Vilnius that September. Government, Parliament, business and civil society spent an afternoon distilling the &#39;UK Messages&#39; the delegation carried to Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Where was the real tension?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Over the IGF&#39;s own survival. With the UN mandate review due in December, a MAG member and a former UK ambassador warned bluntly that the forum could be absorbed into UN machinery \u2014 to the benefit of states wanting a firmer regulatory hand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Ed Vaizey&#39;s first internet speech \u2014 self-regulation and user choice over top-down rules, scepticism of net-neutrality legislation \u2014 set a policy line whose echoes ran through UK digital policy for a decade, and the digital-inclusion arguments apply to every ageing, unevenly connected society.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is UK IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-uk-igf-2010-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"UK IGF 2010 \u30ed\u30f3\u30c9\u30f3 \u2014 About UK IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>UK 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 2010 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:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100716131749\/http:\/\/www.ukigf.org.uk\/Events.htm\">UKIGF Events \u2014 7 July 2010\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u544a\u77e5\uff08One Whitehall Place\u30fb\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30d7\u69cb\u6210\u30fb\u8da3\u65e8\u3002Wayback Machine\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UK IGF\uff08ukigf.org.uk\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-16)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111024021206\/http:\/\/ukigf.org.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/downloads-manager\/upload\/7_Jul_2010_UK_IGF_agenda.pdf\">7 Jul 2010 UK IGF agenda\uff08\u8b70\u4e8b\u6b21\u7b2cPDF\u3002Wayback Machine\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UK IGF\uff08ukigf.org.uk\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-16)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111024022701\/http:\/\/ukigf.org.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/downloads-manager\/upload\/7_July_2010_UK_IGF_report.pdf\">UK Internet Governance Forum Summer Session \u2013 &#39;Messages for Vilnius&#39; Meeting Report\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u4f1a\u5408\u5831\u544a\u66f8PDF\u30fb13\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u3002Wayback Machine\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Nominet\uff0fUK IGF\uff08\u57f7\u7b46\uff1aDan Jellinek, Headstar\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-16)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/united-kingdom-igf\">United Kingdom IGF\uff08NRI\u8a18\u9332\uff1a\u82f1\u56fd\u56fd\u5225IGF\u306e\u6027\u683c\u3068\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\uff09<\/a> \u2014 intgovforum.org (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 2010, 14:00 (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 7 July 2010, the fifth UK IGF \u2014 &#8216;Messages for Vilnius&#8217; \u2014 met at One Whitehall Place in London to hammer out the positions the UK delegati<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,38],"tags":[163,161,160,162,164,2486],"class_list":["post-13132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-uk-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-ukigf2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132","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=13132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}