{"id":13673,"date":"2018-06-22T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/22\/en-ukraine-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T12:00:00","slug":"en-ukraine-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/22\/en-ukraine-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF-UA 2018 (9th Ukrainian 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-ukraine-igf-2018-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine IGF 2018 \u30ad\u30fc\u30a6 \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-ukraine-igf-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine IGF 2018 \u30ad\u30fc\u30a6 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 9th Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum (IGF-UA 2018) met at UBI HALL in Kyiv on 28 September 2018, opening with a plenary on &#39;Freedom and Security on the Internet&#39; and running parallel sections on cybersecurity, media, child safety, intellectual property and digital rights.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Child online protection had its own dedicated section, and the harmonisation of Ukrainian law with the EU&#39;s electronic-communications reform was on the table; the closing session took stock of how the global internet governance system is evolving.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A day earlier the first full Youth IGF-UA drew more than 110 participants to the same venue \u2014 the year Ukraine&#39;s unbroken national IGF series, running since 2010, reached the next generation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF-UA 2018 (9th Ukrainian 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-ukraine-igf-2018-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine IGF 2018 \u30ad\u30fc\u30a6 \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-UA 2018 (9th Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>9th edition (the series began in Kyiv in September 2010)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>28 September 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>UBI HALL, 8 Dorohozhytska Street, Kyiv, Ukraine<\/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>Internet Association of Ukraine (InAU), Commission on Science and IT of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP), RIPE NCC, Internews-Ukraine, Hostmaster Ltd and partners<\/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-ukraine-igf-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine IGF 2018 \u30ad\u30fc\u30a6 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Balancing Freedom and Security \u2014 The Opening Plenary Theme<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary &#39;Freedom and Security on the Internet&#39; (28 September, 9:30)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to reconcile freedom of expression with cybersecurity and protection from online threats framed the whole forum, set out in the opening plenary [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Parallel sections covered cybersecurity and media, internet-market risks and digital-rights protection, and a closing session on &#39;the evolution of the internet governance system&#39; reviewed global IG trends [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Child Online Safety \u2014 A Dedicated Section Born of a Civil-Society Proposal<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Section &#39;Child Online: Safety and Protection&#39; (12:10\u201313:20)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The organising committee adopted by consensus a proposal from the NGO Better Internet Centre to create a dedicated section on children&#39;s online safety [3]<\/li>\n<li>Grounded in the UN Human Rights Council principle that the same rights people have offline must be protected online, the section featured research including monitoring of educational institutions&#39; websites [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Intellectual Property and the EU&#39;s Electronic-Communications Reform<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Parallel sections on IP protection and European electronic-communications reform<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parallel sections addressed online intellectual-property protection and how Ukrainian law should respond to the EU&#39;s electronic-communications regulatory reform [1]<\/li>\n<li>DNS issues and the risks of the modern internet market were also on the agenda, tracing the direction of Ukraine&#39;s digital policy as it moved closer to the EU [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Institutionalising Youth Participation \u2014 The First Youth IGF-UA<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth IGF-UA (27 September 2018, UBI HALL)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The day before the main forum, the first full Youth IGF-UA gathered more than 110 participants at the same venue, moderated by Valeriya Dubytska (iNGO European Media Platform) [4]<\/li>\n<li>Young people themselves debated cyberthreats, social networks and child safety, blockchain, digital security for youth and net neutrality \u2014 the starting point of a youth series held every year since [4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What does this forum actually decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing is &#39;decided&#39; \u2014 it is Ukraine&#39;s national version of the UN&#39;s multistakeholder dialogue forum, where government, business and civil society talk as equals. Held annually since 2010, 2018 was the 9th edition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What made this year distinctive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Two things: child online safety got its own section thanks to an NGO proposal, and the first full Youth IGF-UA drew over 110 participants the day before, institutionalising youth participation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should outsiders care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The co-hosting model \u2014 industry association, NGOs and government sustaining a national IGF every year \u2014 is a reference point for other countries, and topics like child protection and EU regulatory alignment are universal.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Ukraine IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-ukraine-igf-2018-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine IGF 2018 \u30ad\u30fc\u30a6 \u2014 About Ukraine IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine 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 2018 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:\/\/2018.igf-ua.org\">IGF-UA 2018 \u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff089-\u0439 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0444\u043e\u0440\u0443\u043c \u0437 \u0443\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043b\u0456\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0406\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u043d\u0435\u0442\u043e\u043c IGF-UA 2018\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF-UA\u7d44\u7e54\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/2018.igf-ua.org\/programs\">IGF-UA 2018 \u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\uff08\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0430\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF-UA\u7d44\u7e54\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/betterinternetcentre.org\/?cat=27\">IGF\u30ab\u30c6\u30b4\u30ea\u8a18\u4e8b\uff08IGF-UA 2018\u300c\u0414\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u043e\u043d\u043b\u0430\u0439\u043d: \u0431\u0435\u0437\u043f\u0435\u043a\u0430 \u0442\u0430 \u0437\u0430\u0445\u0438\u0441\u0442\u300d\u30bb\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Better Internet Centre\uff08\u30a6\u30af\u30e9\u30a4\u30ca\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/filedepot_download\/3568\/1823\">Youth IGF-UA, Ubi Hall, 27 September 2018, Kyiv\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb\u30c7\u30dd\uff08Youth IGF-UA\u63d0\u51fa\u5831\u544a\u66f8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf-ua.org\/en\/\">IGF-UA \u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff082010\u301c2025\u5e74\u306e\u5168\u56de\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF-UA\u7d44\u7e54\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/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>\u66f4\u65b0\u5c65\u6b74<\/h2>\n<p>\u7b2c1\u7a3f\u6295\u7a3f 2026\u5e747\u670820\u65e5 15\u664208\u5206\uff08\u8a18\u4e8b\u30b3\u30f3\u30c6\u30f3\u30c4\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\uff09<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 9th Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum (IGF-UA 2018) met at UBI HALL in Kyiv on 28 September 2018, opening with a plenary on &#8216;Freedom a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,11,110],"tags":[163,161,160,162,164,753],"class_list":["post-13673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-ukraine-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-ukraineigf2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13673","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=13673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}