{"id":14686,"date":"2015-06-26T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/26\/en-ukraine-igf-2015-overview\/"},"modified":"2015-06-26T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T09:00:00","slug":"en-ukraine-igf-2015-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/26\/en-ukraine-igf-2015-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"6th Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum (IGF-UA 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-ukraine-igf-2015-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine IGF 2015 \u30ad\u30fc\u30a6 \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-ukraine-igf-2015-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine IGF 2015 \u30ad\u30fc\u30a6 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 6th Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum met at the Kyiv College of Communications on 30 September 2015, drawing 120+ participants \u2014 industry, parliament, the Presidential Administration, seven ministries and agencies, the regulator, and experts from eight countries.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Five panels covered global internet governance and Ukraine&#39;s position on critical resources, users&#39; human rights, e-democracy, cybersecurity and trust, and &#39;Ukraine&#39;s contribution to the next billion internet users&#39;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>On the eve of the IANA stewardship transition, the forum staked out a mid-sized country&#39;s position and echoed the global IGF&#39;s &#39;next billion&#39; flagship theme \u2014 while keeping cross-ministry dialogue alive in the second year of the conflict.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>6th Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum (IGF-UA 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-ukraine-igf-2015-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine IGF 2015 \u30ad\u30fc\u30a6 \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>6th Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum (IGF-UA 2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>30 September 2015 (one day)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Kyiv College of Communications, Kyiv<\/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>Over 120 participants including experts from eight countries, with many more joining remotely<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Internet Association of Ukraine (InAU), the joint EU\u2013Council of Europe project &#39;Strengthening the Information Society in Ukraine&#39;, the Commission on Science and IT of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and the Kyiv College of Communications<\/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-ukraine-igf-2015-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine IGF 2015 \u30ad\u30fc\u30a6 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Global Internet Governance and Ukraine&#39;s Position \u2014 On the Eve of the IANA Transition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Internet governance at the global level, critical network resources and infrastructure, and Ukraine&#39;s position&#39; (30 September)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The opening panel squarely addressed &#39;Ukraine&#39;s position&#39; on global internet governance and critical network resources \u2014 held amid the international debate over the IANA stewardship transition completed the following year [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>With the Presidential Administration, parliament and seven ministries and agencies (interior, economy, information policy, justice, education, the SBU and the special communications service) in the room, the cast matched the ambition [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The Internet and Human Rights \u2014 User Protection Becomes a Fixture<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;The internet and human rights; protecting the rights of internet users&#39; (30 September)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Human rights and user protection had a panel of their own, and with the joint EU\u2013Council of Europe project among the organisers, the forum connected European human-rights standards to Ukrainian internet policy [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Making the topic a fixture laid the ground for the Multistakeholder Declaration on online human rights adopted at the 2016 edition [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Cybersecurity and Trust, E-Democracy \u2014 Twin Pillars in Wartime<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panels &#39;Cybersecurity and trust&#39; and &#39;E-democracy&#39; (30 September)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the conflict in the east ongoing, the cybersecurity panel framed the issue around trust as much as defence [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The e-democracy panel carried forward the post-Maidan democratisation agenda of digitising government and politics [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Ukraine&#39;s Contribution to the &#39;Next Billion&#39; \u2014 A National Take on the Global Agenda<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Ukraine&#39;s contribution to the next billion internet users: problems and tasks&#39; (30 September)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The closing panel, &#39;Ukraine&#39;s contribution to the next billion internet users&#39;, echoed the &#39;Connecting the Next Billion&#39; priority then being advanced by the global IGF&#39;s Jo\u00e3o Pessoa cycle [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>It is a textbook case of a national IGF translating the global agenda into a national context \u2014 visible in the panel title itself [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did this meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 five panels where state and non-state actors compared notes. What stood out was government presence: the Presidential Administration plus seven ministries and agencies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the highlight?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The closing panel on &#39;Ukraine&#39;s contribution to the next billion internet users&#39;, which mapped the global IGF&#39;s connectivity agenda onto a country at war.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Translating global agendas into national context is exactly what every national IGF \u2014 Japan&#39;s included \u2014 does. And cross-ministry dialogue surviving a second year of conflict says much about institutional resilience.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Ukraine IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-ukraine-igf-2015-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine IGF 2015 \u30ad\u30fc\u30a6 \u2014 About Ukraine IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine 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:\/\/2015.igf-ua.org\">IGF-UA 2015 \u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff08\u30d8\u30c3\u30c0\u306b\u300c6th Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum IGF-UA 2015 Kyiv September 30, 2015\u300d\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF-UA\u7d44\u7e54\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/2015.igf-ua.org\/news\/30-veresnia-2015-roku-vidbuvsia-6-i-ukrainskyi-forum-z-upravlinnia-internetom-igf-ua\">30 \u0432\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0441\u043d\u044f 2015 \u0440\u043e\u043a\u0443 \u0432\u0456\u0434\u0431\u0443\u0432\u0441\u044f 6-\u0439 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0444\u043e\u0440\u0443\u043c \u0437 \u0443\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043b\u0456\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0406\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u043d\u0435\u0442\u043e\u043c IGF-UA\uff08\u7b2c6\u56de\u958b\u50ac\u5831\u544a\u30fb5\u30d1\u30cd\u30eb\u3068\u4e3b\u50ac\u8005\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF-UA\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/old.inau.org.ua\/146.3416.0.0.1.0.phtml\">\u0406\u043d\u0410\u0423 \u0437 \u043f\u0430\u0440\u0442\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043b\u0430 6-\u0439 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0444\u043e\u0440\u0443\u043c \u0437 \u0443\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043b\u0456\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0406\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u043d\u0435\u0442\u043e\u043c IGF-UA\uff08InAU\u958b\u50ac\u5831\u544a\u30fb\u53c2\u52a0120\u4eba\u8d85\u3068\u7701\u5e81\u4e00\u89a7\u3002\u65e7\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u306e\u305f\u3081Internet Archive\u7d4c\u7531\u3067\u5185\u5bb9\u78ba\u8a8d\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30a6\u30af\u30e9\u30a4\u30ca\u30fb\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u5354\u4f1a\uff08InAU\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/filedepot_download\/3568\/179\">VII Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum IGF-UA \u2014 Annual report\uff08\u7b2c6\u56de\u3068\u7b2c7\u56de\u306e\u9593\u306e\u5e38\u8a2d\u7d44\u7e54\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\u6d3b\u52d5\u3092\u8a18\u9332\u30fb\u7cfb\u5217\u306e\u7d99\u7d9a\u6027\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF-UA\u7d44\u7e54\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\uff08\u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\u63d0\u51fa\u5e74\u6b21\u5831\u544a\u66f8\uff09 (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 20\u664257\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 6th Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum met at the Kyiv College of Communications on 30 September 2015, drawing 120+ participants \u2014 indu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,11,110],"tags":[163,161,160,162,164,595],"class_list":["post-14686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-ukraine-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-ukraineigf2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14686","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=14686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}