{"id":14576,"date":"2025-10-13T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2025\/10\/13\/en-bosnia-igf-2025-overview\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:00:00","slug":"en-bosnia-igf-2025-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2025\/10\/13\/en-bosnia-igf-2025-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"BHIGF 2025 (Bosnia and Herzegovina Internet Governance Forum \/ BH 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-bosnia-igf-2025-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Bosnia IGF 2025 \u30b5\u30e9\u30a8\u30dc \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-bosnia-igf-2025-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Bosnia IGF 2025 \u30b5\u30e9\u30a8\u30dc \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The sixth Bosnia and Herzegovina IGF met at the Swissotel Sarajevo on 3 November 2025 \u2014 the third consecutive edition since the 2023 revival, settling into an annual rhythm.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>After UNESCO and OSCE keynotes, the agenda paired local IGF\u2013network operator collaboration and journalist safety in the Balkans with disinformation, media literacy, and alignment with the EU&#39;s Digital Services Act.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The centre of gravity is shifting from cybersecurity crisis talk to EU-accession-minded institution building \u2014 and DSA readiness is homework shared by every EU candidate country.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>BHIGF 2025 (Bosnia and Herzegovina Internet Governance Forum \/ BH 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-bosnia-igf-2025-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Bosnia IGF 2025 \u30b5\u30e9\u30a8\u30dc \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>BHIGF 2025 (Bosnia and Herzegovina Internet Governance Forum \/ BH IGF)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>Sixth edition \u2014 the third consecutive year since the revival<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>3 November 2025, 09:00\u201314:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Swissotel Sarajevo, Sarajevo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Supporters<\/td>\n<td>The Internet Society, the Internet Society Foundation, RIPE NCC, the OSCE and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (per the official site)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>An organising committee centred on BIRN BiH (Detektor), with the official site also listing the citizens&#39; association &#39;Za\u0161to ne?&#39; and the Content Moderation Coalition<\/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-bosnia-igf-2025-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Bosnia IGF 2025 \u30b5\u30e9\u30a8\u30dc \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. &#39;From Talk to Action&#39; \u2014 Wiring Local IGFs into the Network Operator Community<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;From Talk to Action&#39; on collaboration between local IGFs and network operators&#39; groups (NOGs), tied to SDGs 9 and 11, with speakers including Desiree Milo\u0161evi\u0107 and Zoran Perovi\u0107 of the Serbian IXP SOX<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The panel tackled a challenge common to the whole NRI movement: closing the gap between national IGFs as policy fora and the NOG communities that actually run the networks [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The discussion was framed around SDG 9 (industry, innovation and infrastructure) and SDG 11 (sustainable cities), situating infrastructure work within the development agenda [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Journalist Safety \u2014 In an Age of Online Harassment and Surveillance<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel on journalist safety, with listed speakers including Maja Sever of the European Federation of Journalists<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Online harassment, surveillance and threats against Balkan reporters headlined the panel \u2014 with the first-hand urgency of a forum organised by investigative outlet BIRN [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Prosecutors were among the listed speakers, putting the judicial response to online threats on the table [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Disinformation and Media Literacy \u2014 Repairing the Regional Media Environment<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel on disinformation in regional media<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The panel surveyed disinformation across Balkan media and the counter-toolkit: media literacy, fact-checking and platform governance [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The agenda picked up directly from the previous year&#39;s conclusion about under-investment in media literacy \u2014 a sign of the forum&#39;s year-on-year continuity [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Aligning with the EU Digital Services Act \u2014 Regulatory and Institutional Readiness<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session on digital regulation and DSA alignment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sessions examined how ready BiH&#39;s legal and regulatory framework \u2014 and the institutions meant to enforce it \u2014 are for alignment with the EU&#39;s Digital Services Act [1]<\/li>\n<li>For an EU candidate country, platform regulation is both a free-expression debate and part of the accession process, with cross-sector coordination flagged as the sticking point [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What kind of meeting was this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Bosnia and Herzegovina&#39;s sixth national IGF \u2014 a third straight year since the revival. After UNESCO and OSCE keynotes it covered technical-community collaboration, journalist safety, disinformation and the EU&#39;s Digital Services Act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was new this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. DSA alignment. For an EU candidate country, platform regulation is both a free-speech question and an accession requirement, so the forum probed how ready BiH&#39;s laws and institutions actually are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The DSA is reshaping platform regulation well beyond the EU&#39;s borders. Watching a small candidate country work through DSA readiness shows how Brussels&#39; rules ripple outward \u2014 a dynamic that reaches every market, including yours.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Bosnia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-bosnia-igf-2025-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Bosnia IGF 2025 \u30b5\u30e9\u30a8\u30dc \u2014 About Bosnia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Bosnia 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 2025 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:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/bosnia-and-herzegovina-igf-2025\">Bosnia and Herzegovina IGF 2025\uff08\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u8a18\u9332: 2025-11-03\u30fbSwissotel\u30fb\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u6982\u8981\uff09<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bhigf.ba\/en\/homepage\/\">BH IGF \u2013 BH Internet Governance Forum\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u82f1\u8a9e\u7248: 2025\u5e74\u5927\u4f1a\u306e\u30a2\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c0\u30fb\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u30fb\u4e3b\u50ac\/\u652f\u63f4\u7d44\u7e54\uff09<\/a> \u2014 BH IGF\uff08bhigf.ba\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bhigf.ba\/en\/about-us\/\">About us \u2013 BH IGF\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8: \u958b\u50ac\u53f2\u3068NRI\u3068\u3057\u3066\u306e\u4f4d\u7f6e\u3065\u3051\uff09<\/a> \u2014 BH IGF\uff08bhigf.ba\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/eastern-european-regional-group\">Eastern European Regional Group \u2014 NRI records\uff08BHIGF\u5e74\u6b21\u5831\u544a\u30ea\u30f3\u30af\u306b2025\u5e74\u7248\u3092\u63b2\u8f09\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>\u66f4\u65b0\u5c65\u6b74<\/h2>\n<p>\u7b2c1\u7a3f\u6295\u7a3f 2026\u5e747\u670816\u65e5 10\u664232\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 sixth Bosnia and Herzegovina IGF met at the Swissotel Sarajevo on 3 November 2025 \u2014 the third consecutive edition since the 2023 revival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,3,11],"tags":[163,2520,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-14576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bosnia-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-bosniaigf2025","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576","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=14576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}