{"id":14625,"date":"2014-06-25T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2014\/06\/25\/en-italy-igf-2014-overview\/"},"modified":"2014-06-25T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T11:00:00","slug":"en-italy-igf-2014-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2014\/06\/25\/en-italy-igf-2014-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Italia 2014 (Internet Governance Forum Italia 2014) \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-italy-igf-2014-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2014 \u30ed\u30fc\u30de \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-italy-igf-2014-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2014 \u30ed\u30fc\u30de \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>After a year&#39;s hiatus, the sixth IGF Italia met on 25 November 2014 in the Chamber of Deputies&#39; parliamentary-groups hall in Rome \u2014 opened by Chamber President Laura Boldrini and Minister Marianna Madia, with Stefano Rodot\u00e0 delivering the keynote report: a national IGF hosted by parliament itself.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two themes framed the day: the future architecture of internet governance in Italy, and the draft Declaration of Internet Rights written by the Chamber&#39;s study commission and then under public consultation \u2014 set against the IANA transition, NETmundial and Brazil&#39;s Marco Civil.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&quot;The absence of rules is not a synonym for freedom,&quot; Boldrini argued \u2014 the moment Italy took the lead in the global movement to codify rights online, an origin point for today&#39;s platform-regulation debates.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF Italia 2014 (Internet Governance Forum Italia 2014)<\/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-italy-igf-2014-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2014 \u30ed\u30fc\u30de \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 Italia 2014 (Internet Governance Forum Italia 2014)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>6th edition (VI edizione) \u2014 resuming after no edition was held in 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>25 November 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Aula del Palazzo dei Gruppi parlamentari, Chamber of Deputies, Via di Campo Marzio 78, Rome<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Opening<\/td>\n<td>Opened by Chamber President Laura Boldrini and Minister for Simplification and Public Administration Marianna Madia, with the introductory report by Stefano Rodot\u00e0; streamed live on the Chamber&#39;s WebTV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Promoted by the Chamber of Deputies with the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID), the Ministry of Economic Development, the parliamentary intergroup for technological innovation, the Lazio Region, the CNR and ISOC Italia<\/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-italy-igf-2014-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2014 \u30ed\u30fc\u30de \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. A National IGF Hosted by Parliament \u2014 Restarting in the Legislature after a Year Off<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening from 09:30 (Chamber President Laura Boldrini and Minister Marianna Madia), introductory report by Stefano Rodot\u00e0; streamed live on the Chamber&#39;s WebTV<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After skipping 2013, IGF Italia restarted with the Chamber of Deputies itself among the promoters: the parliamentary-groups hall as venue, AgID, the economic-development ministry, the Lazio Region, the CNR and ISOC Italia as co-promoters, and proceedings streamed live on the Chamber&#39;s WebTV [1][2][4]<\/li>\n<li>Chamber President Boldrini and Minister Madia opened the day, and Rodot\u00e0 \u2014 the series&#39; founding figure \u2014 delivered the keynote report: a visible shift of the centre of gravity from executive- and research-led editions to a parliament-led one [1][2][4]<\/li>\n<li>The programme committee, coordinated by Rodot\u00e0, spanned academia, government, industry and the press \u2014 from journalist Luca De Biase to Tiscali founder Renato Soru [1][2][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. &quot;No Rules Does Not Mean Freedom&quot; \u2014 Boldrini&#39;s Case for Rights Online<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening address by Chamber President Laura Boldrini<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The internet is not just one medium among many \u2014 it is something unique&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Laura Boldrini (President of the Chamber of Deputies)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The absence of principles and reference points is not the same thing as freedom&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Laura Boldrini (President of the Chamber of Deputies)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;If the internet is by definition supranational, the rules of &#39;digital citizenship&#39; will have to be supranational too&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Laura Boldrini (President of the Chamber of Deputies)<\/strong> [3][1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Noting that life itself now runs through the net, Boldrini flatly rejected the equation of &quot;no rules&quot; with freedom, casting the drafting of principles as parliament&#39;s job [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Because the net is supranational, she argued, national law alone cannot suffice: the rules of digital citizenship must be built internationally \u2014 the Declaration conceived as a tool for international comparison and advocacy [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Hence the framing of the Declaration as a statement of principles rather than a statute \u2014 a foundational text guaranteeing access, neutrality, data protection, anonymity and the right to be forgotten [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Draft Declaration of Internet Rights \u2014 The Public-Consultation Experiment<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session on rights online, debating the draft of the study commission established at the Chamber by Boldrini in July 2014 and chaired by Rodot\u00e0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Declaration was drafted by the study commission installed at the Chamber in July 2014 under Rodot\u00e0, setting out principles of guarantees, rights and duties online and aiming to serve as a reference for future law-making, national and international [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The draft was under online public consultation at the time, on the premise that only the input and endorsement of all stakeholders could give it the broad consensus needed for substantive application \u2014 the forum itself a key consultation venue [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Every session paired scheduled interventions with open floor debate, bringing multistakeholder deliberation physically inside the legislature [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. IANA, NETmundial and the Marco Civil \u2014 Rebuilding National Governance amid Global Shifts<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session on the present and future set-up of internet governance in Italy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Against the tectonic shifts of 2014 \u2014 the ICANN\/IANA stewardship transition, Brazil&#39;s NETmundial conference and its Marco Civil internet law \u2014 the forum re-examined how Italy organises internet governance at home [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Speakers repeatedly urged that roles scattered across central and local institutions be gathered into an organic, durable, inclusive and participatory framework [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>That institutional thread carried into the 2015 edition&#39;s call for an Italian &#39;costituente&#39; for internet governance, and ultimately foreshadowed AgID&#39;s later consolidation as Italy&#39;s NRI focal point [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was this meeting, exactly?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The sixth Italian national IGF \u2014 exceptionally hosted inside the Chamber of Deputies, opened by the Chamber&#39;s president and a serving minister, and devoted to Italy&#39;s governance architecture and the draft Declaration of Internet Rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What is the Declaration of Internet Rights?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A statement of principles \u2014 access, net neutrality, data protection, anonymity, the right to be forgotten \u2014 drafted by a parliamentary study commission chaired by Stefano Rodot\u00e0 and put to public consultation; its final 2015 text became a global reference in digital-rights debates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Boldrini&#39;s argument that the absence of rules is not freedom frames today&#39;s platform-regulation debates everywhere, and a parliament hosting its national IGF to draft principles with citizens remains a model worth copying.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Italy IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-italy-igf-2014-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2014 \u30ed\u30fc\u30de \u2014 About Italy IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Italy 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 2014 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\/20240301210748\/https:\/\/www.igf-italia.it\/edizioni\/igf-italia-2014\/\">IGF Italia 2014 \u2014 Camera dei Deputati, 25 Novembre 2014\uff08\u65e7\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff1a\u4e3b\u50ac\u30fb\u958b\u4f1a\u8005\u30fb\u4e8c\u5927\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30fb\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF Italia\uff08igf-italia.it\u3001ISOC Italia\u904b\u55b6\u3001Wayback Machine\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camera.it\/leg17\/537?shadow_mostra=23998\">Internet Governance Forum Italia 2014 \u2014 XVII Legislatura\uff08\u4e0b\u9662\u516c\u5f0f\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff1a\u4f1a\u5834\u30fb\u751f\u4e2d\u7d99\u30fb\u8b70\u984c\uff09<\/a> \u2014 camera.it (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corrierecomunicazioni.it\/digital-economy\/internet-boldrini-assenza-di-regole-non-e-sinonimo-di-liberta\/\">Internet, Boldrini: &quot;Assenza di regole non \u00e8 sinonimo di libert\u00e0&quot;\uff08\u958b\u4f1a\u6328\u62f6\u306e\u76f4\u63a5\u5f15\u7528\uff09<\/a> \u2014 CorCom \u2014 Corriere delle Comunicazioni\uff082014-11-25\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isoc.it\/internet-governance-forum-italia-2014\">Internet Governance Forum Italia 2014\uff08\u7b2cVI\u56de\u306e\u4e3b\u50ac\u4f53\u5236\u30fb\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\u30fb\u4e0b\u9662WebTV\u9332\u753b\u3078\u306e\u6848\u5185\uff09<\/a> \u2014 isoc.it (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\u670822\u65e5 18\u664250\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>After a year&#8217;s hiatus, the sixth IGF Italia met on 25 November 2014 in the Chamber of Deputies&#8217; parliamentary-groups hall in Rome \u2014 opened b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,130,11],"tags":[163,161,160,2534,162,164],"class_list":["post-14625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-italy-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-italyigf2014","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625","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=14625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}