{"id":14633,"date":"2018-06-13T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/13\/en-italy-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:00:00","slug":"en-italy-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/13\/en-italy-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Italia 2018 \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-2018-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2018 \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-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2018 \u30ed\u30fc\u30de \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 10th IGF Italia met at LUISS University in Rome on 5\u20137 November 2018 \u2014 a &#39;Day 0&#39; training day for newcomers, then two days of main sessions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eight official themes ran from fake news, cybersecurity and data protection to cyberbullying, AI and web-based direct democracy; the resulting report went to the global IGF in Paris the following week.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The same year AgID became Italy&#39;s first member of the UN IGF&#39;s Multistakeholder Advisory Group, wiring the national debate directly into the global one.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF Italia 2018<\/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-2018-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2018 \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 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>10th edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>5\u20137 November 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>LUISS Guido Carli University, Viale Romania 32, Rome (5 November was Day 0, an introductory training day)<\/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>Promoted by AgID and organised by the LUISS School of Government with the programme committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>A report of proposals was presented at the global IGF in Paris, 12\u201314 November 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Milestone<\/td>\n<td>AgID joined the global IGF&#39;s 50-member Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) \u2014 a first for Italy<\/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-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2018 \u30ed\u30fc\u30de \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Day 0 Youth Training \u2014 How the Internet Works, from DNS to ICANN<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Day 0 (5 November, 10:00\u201316:30, LUISS, Viale Romania 32)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A one-day primer for youth and newcomers, from IP addresses, DNS and the web to ICANN&#39;s multistakeholder model [2]<\/li>\n<li>Taught by AgID&#39;s Francesco Pirro, ICANN&#39;s Andrea Beccalli, Registro.it&#39;s Gino Silvatici and University of Salerno researchers [2]<\/li>\n<li>Misinformation and Italy&#39;s internet governance institutions were covered too, priming participants for the main sessions [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Fake News and Elections \u2014 the Main Debate on Social Media Regulation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Main conference (6 November, Aula Toti)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disinformation, electoral campaign transparency and social media regulation topped the agenda, debated by the European Commission, the data protection authority, AGCOM and RAI [3]<\/li>\n<li>Dalila Rahmouni of the French foreign ministry presented France&#39;s multistakeholder internet governance model [3]<\/li>\n<li>Researcher Meryem Marzouki delivered the keynote, followed by open Q&amp;A [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Eight Official Themes \u2014 from Trust and Security to Digital Citizenship<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Parallel sessions (6\u20137 November)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Workshop proposals were selected across eight themes: trust and cybersecurity; digital inclusion and the right of access; emerging technologies; the evolution of internet governance; privacy, rights and digital citizenship; development, economic and legal issues; media and content; and technical\/operational matters [4][3]<\/li>\n<li>Panels had to meet UN IGF-style diversity standards \u2014 gender, regional and stakeholder balance, three to five speakers each [4][3]<\/li>\n<li>Parallel sessions ranged from education and STEM to online justice, algorithmic accountability and labour in the Industry 4.0 era [4][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Italy Joins the MAG \u2014 Wiring the National Forum into the UN<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Cross-cutting (announcements and outcomes)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AgID took a seat on the 50-member Multistakeholder Advisory Group that steers the global IGF \u2014 Italy&#39;s first [1]<\/li>\n<li>The IGF Italia 2018 report of proposals was presented at the global IGF in Paris on 12\u201314 November [1]<\/li>\n<li>The national forum&#39;s mission \u2014 sharing experience and identifying emerging issues in web governance \u2014 now fed directly into global agenda-setting [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did the meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 but the three days of debate were distilled into a report of proposals presented at the UN&#39;s global IGF in Paris the following week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What stood out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. A full &#39;Day 0&#39; devoted to teaching newcomers how the internet actually works \u2014 DNS, ICANN, governance institutions \u2014 before letting them loose on the main sessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Fake news and elections, cyberbullying, AI \u2014 the 2018 agenda reads like today&#39;s headlines, and the pipeline from national forum to UN debate is the model national IGFs still use.<\/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-2018-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2018 \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 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:\/\/www.agid.gov.it\/it\/agenzia\/stampa-e-comunicazione\/notizie\/2018\/11\/02\/al-igf-italia-2018-idee-proposte-governance-internet\">Al via IGF Italia 2018: idee e proposte per la Governance di Internet<\/a> \u2014 AgID\uff08\u30c7\u30b8\u30bf\u30eb\u30fb\u30a4\u30bf\u30ea\u30a2\u5e81\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sog.luiss.it\/it\/event\/2018\/11\/05\/internet-governance-forum-italia-2018\">Internet Governance Forum Italia 2018 &#8211; Day 0<\/a> \u2014 LUISS School of Government (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sog.luiss.it\/event\/2018\/11\/06\/internet-governance-forum-italia-2018\">Internet Governance Forum Italia 2018\uff08\u672c\u4f1a\u8b70 11\u67086\u65e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 LUISS School of Government (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetpolicyresearch.eu\/internet-governance-forum-italia-5-7-novembre-2018-luiss-roma\/1331\">Internet Governance Forum Italia \u2013 5-7 novembre 2018 \u2013 LUISS, Roma<\/a> \u2014 internetpolicyresearch.eu (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\u670812\u65e5 13\u664203\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 10th IGF Italia met at LUISS University in Rome on 5\u20137 November 2018 \u2014 a &#8216;Day 0&#8217; training day for newcomers, then two days of main sessi<\/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":[163,161,160,2537,162,164],"class_list":["post-14633","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-italyigf2018","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14633","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=14633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}