{"id":14908,"date":"2016-06-13T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/06\/13\/en-spain-igf-2016-overview\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T14:00:00","slug":"en-spain-igf-2016-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/06\/13\/en-spain-igf-2016-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"6th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 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-spain-igf-2016-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2016 \u30de\u30c9\u30ea\u30fc\u30c9 \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-spain-igf-2016-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2016 \u30de\u30c9\u30ea\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 13-14 October 2016, the 6th IGF Spain annual meeting gathered some 150 participants at the SETSI headquarters in Madrid for eight roundtables and an open forum.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The IANA transition completed two weeks earlier \u2014 ending direct US oversight of the domain-name system \u2014 dominated, alongside IoT and smart cities, AI and big data, and encryption.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The coordinator&#39;s remark that the Internet is a social space we naturally want to put in order foreshadowed the coming era of platform regulation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>6th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 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<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; The official page lists the venue as the SETSI headquarters; from this edition the meeting moved from May to autumn<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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-spain-igf-2016-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2016 \u30de\u30c9\u30ea\u30fc\u30c9 \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 Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2016)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>6th Annual Meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>13\u201314 October 2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Headquarters of the State Secretariat for Telecommunications and the Information Society (SETSI), Madrid<\/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>Around 150 participants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>8 (Eight roundtables and expert presentations over two days, plus an open forum on the IANA transition)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Directed by Jorge P\u00e9rez; supported by UPM, Telef\u00f3nica, Vodafone, Google, Orange and red.es<\/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-spain-igf-2016-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2016 \u30de\u30c9\u30ea\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The IANA Transition Completed \u2014 The End of US Oversight, Seen from Europe<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote &#39;The European vision of Internet governance&#39; by Jes\u00fas Villasante (European Commission) and the open forum<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The Internet belongs to everyone and is for everyone \u2014 that is why we all have something to say, and that is how Europe wants it&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Jes\u00fas Villasante (European Commission)<\/strong> [1][2][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>A European Commission expert explained the historic weight of 30 September 2016, when the NTIA&#39;s IANA contract expired and ultimate authority over the DNS left US government hands [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The open forum examined post-transition global governance, its political impact and Spain&#39;s role [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The EU&#39;s Next Generation Internet initiative towards 2030 was also presented [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. IoT and Smart Cities \u2014 Who Owns the Sensors&#39; Data?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;The Internet of Things and smart cities: whose data do the sensors collect?&#39; (13 October)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We must distinguish between personal data, which belongs to the individual, and the non-personal data captured by sensors&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Jos\u00e9 Luis Pi\u00f1ar (professor, CEU San Pablo University; former head of the Spanish DPA)<\/strong> [1][2][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Panellists agreed a smart city is defined not by connections but by using data to improve residents&#39; lives [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Integrating transport, lighting, sanitation, health and security systems requires interoperability, common standards and clear governance [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. AI, Big Data and Jobs \u2014 Complementing or Displacing Human Work<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;AI and big data in new personalised services: implications for the labour market&#39; (14 October)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The panel weighed how AI and big data complement human work as personalised services expand, and what that means for the labour market [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>The same day&#39;s roundtables tackled the difficulty of applying national laws to a global Internet and the need for secure encryption of communications [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. &#39;Putting the Social Space of the Net in Order&#39; \u2014 A Portent of Regulation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening session (13 October)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The Internet is a social space of human relations, and it is only logical that we concern ourselves with putting it in order&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Jorge P\u00e9rez (Director, IGF Spain)<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>State Secretary Calvo-Sotelo stressed the Internet&#39;s importance as infrastructure essential to economic and social development [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Other roundtables covered fintech and blockchain, social media and the robotisation and personalisation of news, and technology at school including cyberbullying [1][2]<\/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 coming two weeks after ultimate authority over the domain-name system left US government hands, it was where Spanish society digested that shift.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the headline topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The IANA transition. US oversight dating from 1998 ended on 30 September 2016, completing the move to ICANN&#39;s multistakeholder model \u2014 and Europe&#39;s reading of that independence took centre stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The IANA transition was a global process, and the question &#39;who owns sensor data?&#39; debated here now sits at the heart of every country&#39;s data-economy policy.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Spain IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-spain-igf-2016-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2016 \u30de\u30c9\u30ea\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 About Spain IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Spain 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:\/\/igfspain.org\/igf-spain-2016\/\">IGF Spain 2016 \u2013 VI Jornada anual<\/a> \u2014 igfspain.org (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igfspain.org\/vi-jornadas-anuales-igf-spain-2016-2\/\">VI Jornadas Anuales IGF Spain 2016\uff08\u5f53\u6642\u306e\u8a73\u7d30\u5831\u544a\u30fb\u767a\u8a00\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igfspain.org (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igfspain.org\/conclusiones-igf-spain-2016\/\">Mensajes del 6\u00ba Foro de la Gobernanza de Internet en Espa\u00f1a\uff08\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u5225\u7d50\u8ad6\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igfspain.org (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jornadasigfspain.es\/2018\/10\/25\/historia-de-los-10-anos-del-foro-de-gobernanza-de-internet-spain\/\">Historia de los 10 a\u00f1os del Foro de Gobernanza de Internet Spain<\/a> \u2014 IGF Spain\uff0810\u5468\u5e74\u53f2, jornadasigfspain.es\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/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\u670816\u65e5 12\u664238\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>On 13-14 October 2016, the 6th IGF Spain annual meeting gathered some 150 participants at the SETSI headquarters in Madrid for eight roundta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,11,85],"tags":[163,161,160,162,164,2660],"class_list":["post-14908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-spain-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-spainigf2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908","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=14908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}