{"id":14627,"date":"2015-06-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/17\/en-italy-igf-2015-overview\/"},"modified":"2015-06-17T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:00:00","slug":"en-italy-igf-2015-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/17\/en-italy-igf-2015-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Italia 2015 (Internet Governance Forum Italia 2015) \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-2015-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2015 \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-2015-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2015 \u30ed\u30fc\u30de \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The seventh IGF Italia met on 12 October 2015 in the Sala della Regina of Rome&#39;s Palazzo Montecitorio \u2014 with Chamber President Laura Boldrini joined at the opening by the European Commission&#39;s Roberto Viola and ICANN president and CEO Fadi Chehad\u00e9.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Four sessions covered the just-completed Declaration of Internet Rights and its international launch, the IANA transition and ICANN accountability, Italy&#39;s &#39;digital comeback&#39;, and a proposed Italian &#39;costituente&#39; \u2014 a constituent process for national internet governance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With over 150 participants and a third of them speaking from the floor, it modelled radical participation; its results fed the UN IGF in Jo\u00e3o Pessoa and the WSIS+10 review of the IGF&#39;s own mandate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF Italia 2015 (Internet Governance Forum Italia 2015)<\/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-2015-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2015 \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 2015 (Internet Governance Forum Italia 2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>7th edition (VII edizione)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>12 October 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Sala della Regina, Palazzo Montecitorio, Chamber of Deputies, Rome<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>150 (Over 150 participants, about a third of whom spoke from the floor (per Stefano Trumpy&#39;s review); floor interventions capped at three minutes)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Opening<\/td>\n<td>Institutional greetings by Chamber President Laura Boldrini, Roberto Viola (Director-General, DG Connect, European Commission), Antonio Samaritani (Director-General, AgID) and Fadi Chehad\u00e9 (President &amp; CEO, ICANN)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Purpose<\/td>\n<td>To define Italy&#39;s contribution to the UN IGF in Jo\u00e3o Pessoa (November 2015, &quot;Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development&quot;), weeks before the UN&#39;s WSIS+10 decision on the IGF mandate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Hosted by the Chamber of Deputies and organised by ISOC Italia, with some 25 promoting bodies incl. AgID, ICANN, CNR-IIT, the Ministry of Economic Development, Registro.it, Telecom Italia, Tiscali and W3C 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-2015-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2015 \u30ed\u30fc\u30de \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. ICANN&#39;s Chief at the Opening \u2014 A National IGF at the Crossroads<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Institutional greetings (from 09:30): Chamber President Laura Boldrini; Roberto Viola (DG Connect, European Commission); Antonio Samaritani (AgID); Fadi Chehad\u00e9 (President &amp; CEO, ICANN)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alongside Boldrini, the Commission&#39;s Viola and AgID&#39;s Samaritani, ICANN president and CEO Fadi Chehad\u00e9 addressed the opening \u2014 a rare appearance for the head of the global domain-name body at a national IGF, reflecting the tensions of the IANA-transition period [2][3][1]<\/li>\n<li>The meeting came roughly two months before the UN&#39;s WSIS+10 review would decide whether the IGF process itself would continue \u2014 a gathering consciously held at the crossroads [2][3][1]<\/li>\n<li>Sessions combined scheduled speakers with three-minute floor interventions, and about a third of the 150-plus participants actually took the microphone [2][3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The Declaration of Internet Rights Goes Global \u2014 Bound for Jo\u00e3o Pessoa<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 1, &quot;The Declaration of Internet Rights&quot; (from 10:30, moderated by Anna Masera): Stefano Rodot\u00e0, Guido Scorza, Giovanna De Minico, Oreste Pollicino<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Declaration of Internet Rights \u2014 a year&#39;s work by the Chamber&#39;s study commission installed in July 2014 \u2014 had been approved and published on 28 July 2015; this session was its first national debate since publication [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>It was confirmed the Declaration would be presented for international comparison at the UN IGF in Jo\u00e3o Pessoa in November, with Rodot\u00e0 and jurists Scorza, De Minico and Pollicino dissecting the text across generations [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The shared starting point: treating the internet as just another medium is reductive and improper \u2014 and as a parliamentary document the Declaration was a near-first worldwide [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The IANA Transition and WSIS+10 \u2014 Mapping a Turbulent Year in Global Governance<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 2, &quot;International scenarios of internet governance&quot; (from 12:00, moderated by Stefano Trumpy): Rita Forsi (ISCOM, Ministry of Economic Development), Giacomo Mazzone (EBU), Giovanni Seppia (EURid), Andrea Beccalli (ICANN), Stefania Milan (ICANN GNSO)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Government, registry and ICANN insiders assessed the year&#39;s biggest global-governance file \u2014 the IANA stewardship transition from the US Commerce Department and the linked ICANN accountability reforms \u2014 and what they meant for Italy [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>The UN&#39;s WSIS+10 activities, the future of the IGF and the NETmundial Initiative were reviewed together, a stock-taking ahead of the UN General Assembly&#39;s high-level meeting at year&#39;s end [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>Findings fed Italy&#39;s interventions at Jo\u00e3o Pessoa the following month, continuing the series&#39; use of the national IGF as a preparation device for international negotiations [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The &quot;Digital Comeback&quot; and an Italian Costituente \u2014 Towards a Standing Governance Structure<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 3, &quot;La riscossa digitale&quot; (from 14:30, moderated by Riccardo Luna) and Session 4, &quot;The costituente for internet governance in Italy&quot; (from 16:00, moderated by Arturo Di Corinto): MEP Renato Soru, Joy Marino (MIX), Flavia Marzano and others<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;In April I announced the Ministry of Economic Development&#39;s commitment to promote an Italian constituent process within a year&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Antonello Giacomelli (Undersecretary for Communications, Ministry of Economic Development)<\/strong> [1][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Session 3 gathered CoderDojo, the startup association, Confindustria and others around Italy&#39;s belated digital comeback \u2014 the conditions for no longer being Europe&#39;s tail-light [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>Session 4 continued the previous year&#39;s call for an Italian costituente for internet governance: a standing advisory structure institutionalising the shared responsibility of government, research, business and citizens, debated by figures from Tiscali founder and MEP Renato Soru to the Pirate Party [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>The wrap-up confirmed the need for a permanent multistakeholder structure the government could consult on internet-related initiatives \u2014 the track that later led to AgID assuming Italy&#39;s NRI functions [1][3]<\/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 seventh Italian national IGF, again hosted by the Chamber of Deputies: one day on the newly finished Declaration of Internet Rights, the IANA transition, Italy&#39;s digital strategy and a standing governance structure \u2014 distilled for the UN IGF in Brazil the next month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the key outcome?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Confirmation that the Declaration of Internet Rights would be presented at the UN IGF in Jo\u00e3o Pessoa, plus a push for a permanent multistakeholder body the government could consult \u2014 with ICANN&#39;s CEO at the opening underscoring the stakes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A parliament-drafted rights charter taken to the world stage remains a template for digital-rights advocacy, and a forum where a third of attendees speak is a cure for the ritualism that plagues national consultations.<\/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-2015-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2015 \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 2015 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\/20240528011109\/https:\/\/www.igf-italia.it\/edizioni\/igf-italia-2015\/\">IGF Italia 2015 \u2014 Camera dei Deputati, 12 Ottobre 2015\uff08\u65e7\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff1a\u4f1a\u5834\u30fb\u8da3\u65e8\u30fb\u63a8\u9032\u56e3\u4f53\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.isoc.it\/sites\/default\/files\/programma-igfitalia2015_1.pdf\">IGF Italia 2015 \u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\uff08PDF\uff1a\u958b\u4f1a\u6328\u62f6\u8005\u30684\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u306e\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u5168\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 isoc.it (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agendadigitale.eu\/infrastrutture\/l-internet-governance-forum-a-un-bivio-dopo-l-edizione-2015-le-prospettive\/\">L&#39;Internet Governance Forum a un bivio, dopo l&#39;edizione 2015: le prospettive\uff08Stefano Trumpy\u306b\u3088\u308b\u7dcf\u62ec\uff1a\u53c2\u52a0150\u540d\u8d85\u30fb3\u5206\u306e1\u304c\u767a\u8a00\u30fbGiacomelli\u767a\u8a00\u30fb\u5e38\u8a2d\u6a5f\u69cb\u63d0\u6848\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Agenda Digitale (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240622200102\/https:\/\/www.igf-italia.it\/edizioni\/\">Edizioni IGF Italia\uff08\u7b2cVII\u56de\u30ed\u30fc\u30de\u3092\u542b\u3080\u56de\u6b21\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF Italia\uff08igf-italia.it\u3001Wayback Machine\u4fdd\u5b58\uff09 (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 12\u664246\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 seventh IGF Italia met on 12 October 2015 in the Sala della Regina of Rome&#8217;s Palazzo Montecitorio \u2014 with Chamber President Laura Boldrin<\/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":[163,161,160,2535,162,164],"class_list":["post-14627","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-italyigf2015","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14627","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=14627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}