{"id":14635,"date":"2019-06-05T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/06\/05\/en-italy-igf-2019-overview\/"},"modified":"2019-06-05T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:00:00","slug":"en-italy-igf-2019-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2019\/06\/05\/en-italy-igf-2019-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Italia 2019 \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-2019-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2019 \u30c8\u30ea\u30ce \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-2019-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2019 \u30c8\u30ea\u30ce \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 11th IGF Italia met at Politecnico di Torino on 29\u201331 October 2019 \u2014 ARPANET&#39;s 50th-anniversary year \u2014 with over 300 participants, 4 plenaries and 46 parallel sessions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Five pillars framed the debate: trust and security, digital rights and inclusion, emerging technologies, socio-economic development, and media and content \u2014 from DNS-over-HTTPS centralisation risks to AI ethics and disinformation rules.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>EC DG-Connect chief Roberto Viola urged the forum to move &#39;from words to deeds&#39;; results went to the global IGF in Berlin, and EuroDIG 2020 in Italy was announced.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF Italia 2019<\/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-2019-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2019 \u30c8\u30ea\u30ce \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 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>11th edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>29\u201331 October 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Politecnico di Torino main campus, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Turin<\/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>300 (Over 300 participants and more than 100 speakers; 30% of participants were women and 175 attended for the first time (official report figures))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>50 (4 plenaries plus 46 parallel sessions; more than 10 of the 46 were organised by young people)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Politecnico di Torino with a 27-member programme and organising committee including AgID<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>A Politecnico di Torino delegation presented the results at the global IGF in Berlin, 25\u201329 November 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Note<\/td>\n<td>Held in the 50th-anniversary year of ARPANET<\/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-2019-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2019 \u30c8\u30ea\u30ce \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Opening \u2014 EC&#39;s Viola: From Words to Deeds<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening session (29 October, 9:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rector Guido Saracco opened the forum, pledging the Politecnico&#39;s support across research, teaching and outreach [1]<\/li>\n<li>In a video address, EC DG-Connect director general Roberto Viola thanked AgID and the Politecnico but pressed the IGF to move &#39;from words to deeds&#39; and deliver tangible, operational results [1]<\/li>\n<li>MP Mattia Fantinati called for enforceable norms for social platforms and autonomous vehicles, and for academia-industry-government cooperation [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Italy&#39;s Internet Bill of Rights and the Contract for the Web \u2014 Toward a New Manifesto<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 2 &#39;The Internet Bill of Rights and A Contract for the Web&#39; (29 October, 10:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ICANN&#39;s Andrea Beccalli, MIX&#39;s Joy Marino and the Web Foundation&#39;s Emily Sharpe compared Italy&#39;s 2015 parliamentary Internet Bill of Rights with Tim Berners-Lee&#39;s Contract for the Web [1]<\/li>\n<li>Both were praised as pioneering but dated: the session called for a new, expanded manifesto and a common global framework of ethical principles protecting human rights online [1]<\/li>\n<li>Preventing internet fragmentation was named as the framework&#39;s explicit goal [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Trust and Security \u2014 From DNS-over-HTTPS Centralisation to Cyberbullying<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Trust and Security&#39; track sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speakers warned that DNS-over-HTTPS turns DNS into a browser-run application service, shifting users from ISP nameservers to a few centralised resolvers; BGP vulnerabilities and ISP mitigations were also examined [1]<\/li>\n<li>Blockchain-based identity (the European ESSIF framework) and the security-versus-rights balance in 5G and IoT were debated, with self-regulation judged insufficient to protect consumers and human rights [1]<\/li>\n<li>School cyberbullying programmes and the CyberChallenge.IT university competition anchored the educational side [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. AI Ethics and Emerging Tech \u2014 White Papers, EU Guidelines and the IO App<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Challenges of Emerging Technologies&#39; track sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AgID&#39;s AI White Paper, the economy ministry&#39;s national AI strategy and the EU&#39;s Trustworthy AI guidelines were compared, endorsing indicator-based assessment of AI systems&#39; ethical compliance [1]<\/li>\n<li>Italy&#39;s public-services app &#39;IO&#39; was showcased as a citizen-facing digital service built on security, transparency and data privacy [1]<\/li>\n<li>Panellists noted GDPR struggles in smart-home IoT, risking fundamental rights, and highlighted AI&#39;s potential for disability accessibility [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Disinformation and Democracy \u2014 Four Regulatory Models, and EuroDIG 2020 Comes to Italy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Media and Content&#39; track sessions and the EuroDIG panel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disinformation was framed as damaging everyday opinion-forming, not just elections; four responses were mapped \u2014 new legislation, EU-style co-regulation (run by AGCOM in Italy), human-rights-based rules from international bodies, and platform self-regulation [1][4]<\/li>\n<li>Speakers pressed for stronger statutory duties on platforms such as Facebook and Google, citing the EBU&#39;s 2019 news report [1][4]<\/li>\n<li>The panel announced that EuroDIG 2020, the pan-European dialogue of 47 countries, would be held in Italy at ICTP Trieste on 10\u201312 June 2020 [1][4]<\/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, but the five-pillar, 46-session debate was distilled into an official report that a delegation carried to the global IGF in Berlin that November.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. How to regulate disinformation: new laws, EU-style co-regulation, human-rights-based rules or platform self-regulation \u2014 the forum mapped all four camps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The DNS-over-HTTPS debate concerns the browser you use every day, and the AI-ethics and IoT-privacy arguments previewed rules now landing worldwide.<\/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-2019-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Italy IGF 2019 \u30c8\u30ea\u30ce \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 2019 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\/sites\/default\/files\/repository_files\/brochure_igf_ita_report_finale_2019.pdf\">IGF Italia 2019 Report finale\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u6700\u7d42\u5831\u544a\u66f8PDF\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30c8\u30ea\u30ce\u5de5\u79d1\u5927\u5b66\u30fbAgID\uff08Anna Carbone \/ Concettina Cassa\u7de8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agid.gov.it\/it\/agenzia\/stampa-e-comunicazione\/notizie\/2019\/10\/21\/internet-governance-forum-italia-2019\">Internet Governance Forum Italia 2019<\/a> \u2014 AgID\uff08\u30c7\u30b8\u30bf\u30eb\u30fb\u30a4\u30bf\u30ea\u30a2\u5e81\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igfitalia2019.polito.it\/en\/\">Internet Governance Forum Italia October 29th-31st, 2019<\/a> \u2014 IGF Italia 2019\uff08\u30c8\u30ea\u30ce\u5de5\u79d1\u5927\u5b66\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csigivreatorino.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Programma_tascabile.pdf\">Programma Internet Governance Forum Italia \u2014 Politecnico di Torino\uff08\u30dd\u30b1\u30c3\u30c8\u7248\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0PDF\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Centro Studi di Informatica Giuridica Ivrea-Torino (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\u670820\u65e5 17\u664234\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 11th IGF Italia met at Politecnico di Torino on 29\u201331 October 2019 \u2014 ARPANET&#8217;s 50th-anniversary year \u2014 with over 300 participants, 4 ple<\/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":[163,161,160,1008,162,164],"class_list":["post-14635","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-italyigf2019","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14635","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=14635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}