{"id":14629,"date":"2016-06-09T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/06\/09\/en-italy-igf-2016-overview\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T10:00:00","slug":"en-italy-igf-2016-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/06\/09\/en-italy-igf-2016-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Italia 2016 (Internet Governance Forum Italia 2016) \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-2016-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2016 \u30f4\u30a7\u30cd\u30c4\u30a3\u30a2 \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-2016-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2016 \u30f4\u30a7\u30cd\u30c4\u30a3\u30a2 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The eighth IGF Italia met on 14\u201315 November 2016 at Ca&#39; Dolfin, Ca&#39; Foscari University of Venice \u2014 a university-organised edition under the patronage of the Chamber of Deputies and Venice&#39;s IT company VENIS.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Debate spanned net neutrality, cybersecurity, Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, the digital divide and rights online; a cybersecurity working group produced nine proposals to the Italian government, delivered to the UN IGF in Guadalajara in December.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The forum faced Italy&#39;s divide squarely \u2014 38 million connected, more than 20 million not \u2014 and, with a video message from Vint Cerf, showed how a national IGF can turn talk into concrete recommendations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF Italia 2016 (Internet Governance Forum Italia 2016)<\/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-2016-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2016 \u30f4\u30a7\u30cd\u30c4\u30a3\u30a2 \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 2016 (Internet Governance Forum Italia 2016)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>8th edition (VIII edizione)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>14\u201315 November 2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, Ca&#39; Dolfin, Ca&#39; Foscari University of Venice (Dorsoduro)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&quot;The Future of the Internet: Rules, Economy and Society&quot; \u2014 net neutrality, cybersecurity, Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, the digital divide and rights online<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Organised by Ca&#39; Foscari University of Venice under the patronage of VENIS and the Chamber of Deputies, in collaboration with ISOC Italia; contributors included Google, MIX (Milan Internet eXchange) and ISACA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>A cybersecurity working group adopted nine proposals to the Italian government, with the results carried to the UN IGF in Guadalajara (6\u20139 December 2016)<\/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-2016-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2016 \u30f4\u30a7\u30cd\u30c4\u30a3\u30a2 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. A University in the Floating City Plays Host \u2014 An Opening That Began with Kobe 1992<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening session (14 November): welcome by Rector Michele Bugliesi; opening address by Laura Abba (CNR)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;(What we seek is) a stable and secure global internet, to the benefit of all the world&#39;s citizens&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Laura Abba (CNR; IGF Italia promoter)<\/strong> [4][1][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Ca&#39; Foscari University organised the eighth edition, with VENIS and the Chamber of Deputies as patrons \u2014 the series returning to a university campus after two years inside parliament [4][1][3]<\/li>\n<li>In her opening address Abba reached back to Kobe 1992, when \u2014 with only a million computers online \u2014 she had witnessed the founding of the Internet Society alongside CNR and INFN colleagues, and argued the keys remain dialogue, cooperation and mutual respect [4][1][3]<\/li>\n<li>With the IGF&#39;s UN mandate renewed ten years after its founding, Italy&#39;s own numbers set the stage: 38 million people connected, more than 20 million still not [4][1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Nine Cybersecurity Proposals \u2014 From Talking Shop to Policy Engine<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Cybersecurity working group (rapporteur Riccardo Focardi, University of Venice; with Cisco, Google and Yarix participating and contributions from Prof. Roberto Baldoni)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the close, a working group with Prof. Riccardo Focardi as rapporteur issued nine proposals to the Italian government: clear technical and legal frameworks for data ownership, national support for research in cryptography, IoT and SCADA security, and a certification body for hardware, software and firmware used in public administration [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>On education, it urged school-level programmes to raise privacy awareness, new university cybersecurity courses and specialist recruitment, plus qualified emergency-response capacity, citizen participation and a wider public debate on digital security [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>The proposals travelled to the UN IGF in Guadalajara in December and fed Italy&#39;s gathering debate on national cyber capacity \u2014 Prof. Baldoni later became the first head of Italy&#39;s National Cybersecurity Agency [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Industry 4.0 and the IoT \u2014 Internet Governance for a Manufacturing Nation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Thematic debates: net neutrality \/ cybersecurity \/ Industry 4.0 \/ IoT \/ digital divide \/ rights online<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fitting Europe&#39;s second manufacturing nation, Industry 4.0 and the IoT appeared for the first time as headline themes \u2014 governance for an era when factories and machines go online [1][3][5]<\/li>\n<li>Perennials continued alongside: net neutrality, the digital divide and rights online (extending the previous year&#39;s Declaration), with the forum reaffirming the value of confronting government, institutions, business, research and civil society with one another [1][3][5]<\/li>\n<li>Sessions were built around interactive dialogue, with registration open and free and any participant able to intervene in any session [1][3][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. A Video Message from Vint Cerf \u2014 Results Bound for Guadalajara<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall: video message from Vint Cerf; outcomes submitted to the UN IGF in Guadalajara<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vint Cerf contributed a video message underlining the IGF&#39;s role as a reference point for internet policy-making through collaborative, multistakeholder problem-solving \u2014 his second appearance in the series after the 2012 Turin keynote [3][1][5]<\/li>\n<li>The two days&#39; results went to the 11th UN IGF in Guadalajara, hosted by Mexico on 6\u20139 December, as Italy&#39;s national input [3][1][5]<\/li>\n<li>Stefano Rodot\u00e0 coordinated the programme committee once more \u2014 his ninth edition since Cagliari 2008; with his death the following year, Venice proved the last completed forum of the Rodot\u00e0 era [3][1][5]<\/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 eighth Italian national IGF: two days at Ca&#39; Foscari University in Venice covering net neutrality, Industry 4.0, the IoT and cybersecurity, with the results delivered to the UN IGF in Mexico that December.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the main outcome?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nine cybersecurity proposals to the Italian government \u2014 frameworks for data ownership, national support for cryptography research, a certification body for publicly procured hardware and software, privacy education in schools \u2014 a national IGF refusing to stop at talk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care today?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Securing IoT devices, factories and public-sector technology is now everyone&#39;s economic-security agenda; Italy put it through a citizens&#39; forum in 2016, and one of the contributors went on to lead the country&#39;s National Cybersecurity Agency.<\/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-2016-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2016 \u30f4\u30a7\u30cd\u30c4\u30a3\u30a2 \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 2016 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\/20210619022924\/https:\/\/www.igf-italia.it\/edizioni\/igf-italia-2016\/\">IGF Italia 2016 \u2014 Venezia, 14\u201315 Novembre\uff08\u65e7\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff1a\u4f1a\u5834\u30fb\u5f8c\u63f4\u30fb\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30fb\u5354\u8cdb\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.venis.it\/it\/notizie\/cybersecurity-le-9-proposte-dell%E2%80%99internet-governance-forum-al-governo-italiano\">Cybersecurity: le 9 proposte dell&#39;Internet Governance Forum al Governo italiano\uff089\u63d0\u8a00\u306e\u5168\u6587\u3068Focardi\u5831\u544a\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 VENIS S.p.A. \u2014 VENezia Informatica e Sistemi (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unive.it\/pag\/14024\/?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=1660&#038;cHash=bc4caa3669f8f44063e7e503245287ae\">A Ca&#39; Foscari il forum italiano sul futuro di Internet\uff08\u4e3b\u50ac\u5927\u5b66\u306e\u8a18\u4e8b\uff1aCa&#39; Dolfin\u4f1a\u5834\u3001Cerf\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u3001\u30b0\u30a2\u30c0\u30e9\u30cf\u30e9\u3078\u306e\u63d0\u51fa\uff09<\/a> \u2014 unive.it (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isoc.it\/node\/2199\">Internet Society Italia apre i lavori di IGF a Venezia\uff08Laura Abba\u958b\u4f1a\u6328\u62f6\u5168\u6587\uff1a\u795e\u62381992\u306e\u56de\u60f3\u3001\u63a5\u7d9a3,800\u4e07\u30fb\u672a\u63a5\u7d9a2,000\u4e07\u8d85\uff09<\/a> \u2014 isoc.it (accessed 2026-07-17)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isoc.it\/internet-governance-forum-italia-2016\">Internet Governance Forum Italia 2016\uff08ISOC Italia\u306e\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff1a\u4e3b\u50ac\u4f53\u5236\u30fb\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\u30fb\u6700\u7d42\u5831\u544a\u66f8\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\u670813\u65e5 17\u664220\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 eighth IGF Italia met on 14\u201315 November 2016 at Ca&#8217; Dolfin, Ca&#8217; Foscari University of Venice \u2014 a university-organised edition under the <\/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":[163,161,160,2536,162,164],"class_list":["post-14629","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-italyigf2016","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629","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=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}