{"id":14912,"date":"2018-06-19T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/19\/en-spain-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:00:00","slug":"en-spain-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/19\/en-spain-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2018, 10th anniversary) \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-2018-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2018 \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-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2018 \u30de\u30c9\u30ea\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 29-30 October 2018, the 8th IGF Spain annual meeting marked the forum&#39;s 10th anniversary at the SEAD auditorium in Madrid, gathering government, business, academia and civil society.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Debates covered fake news, AI ethics, cybercrime and digital democracy; a special session was also held at ICANN63 in Barcelona, the first ICANN general meeting hosted by Spain.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The state secretary&#39;s line \u2014 the Internet is a mirror of the world, and the world is not a perfect place \u2014 captured the case for governance built on trust, equality and knowledge.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>8th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2018, 10th anniversary)<\/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-spain-igf-2018-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2018 \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>8th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2018, 10th anniversary)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>8th Annual Meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>29\u201330 October 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Auditorium of the State Secretariat for Digital Advancement (SEAD), 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>Over 100 participants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>7 (Seven roundtables (the archive page counts eight); a special 10th-anniversary session was also held during ICANN63 in Barcelona (20-25 October))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Coordinated by Jorge P\u00e9rez; supported by UPM, Telef\u00f3nica, Vodafone, Google, Orange and the ministry; opened by State Secretary for Digital Advancement Francisco Polo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Note<\/td>\n<td>10th anniversary of the forum&#39;s founding in 2008<\/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-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2018 \u30de\u30c9\u30ea\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Ten Years of IGF Spain \u2014 &#39;The Internet Is a Mirror of the World&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening session (29 October, State Secretary Francisco Polo)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;While there are people, organisations and groups pursuing the dream of a better world thanks to the Internet, the network also contains fraud, lies and crime. The Internet is a mirror of the world \u2014 and the world, as we know, is not a perfect place&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Francisco Polo (State Secretary for Digital Advancement)<\/strong> [1][2][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The meeting took stock of ten years since 2008, with an anniversary session held during ICANN63 in Barcelona \u2014 the first ICANN general meeting hosted by Spain [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<li>Speakers noted Spain&#39;s advanced fibre and smartphone base while urging modernised legislation, digitalisation support for SMEs and coordinated digital taxation [1][2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Fake News and Digital Democracy \u2014 The Decide Madrid Experiment<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;Digital democracy&#39; and related sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guaranteeing trustworthy information against fake news and protecting fundamental rights ran through the whole meeting [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Madrid&#39;s participation platform Decide Madrid was showcased as a working example of digital citizen participation [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Panellists urged transparency, user control over data and narrowing digital divides including the gender gap [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. AI Ethics \u2014 Comprehensible, Ethical, Rights-Aligned AI<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;Are we ready for artificial intelligence?&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panellists agreed AI must be comprehensible, ethical and aligned with human rights and the UN SDGs [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Separate roundtables declared &#39;blockchain is already here&#39; and examined what technological change means for human capital [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Cybercrime and Teenagers \u2014 Between Myth and Reality<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtables &#39;Cybercrime: between myth and reality&#39; and &#39;Teenagers and the Internet&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speakers sorted hype from reality in cybercrime, with the government urged to stay alert to proliferating threats [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A session asked teenagers how they live the Internet today and want it tomorrow \u2014 a forerunner of the forum&#39;s youth-participation track [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 on its 10th anniversary the forum affirmed a net governed by trust, equality and knowledge, and set out the next decade&#39;s challenges from fake news to AI ethics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What made the anniversary special?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Spain hosted an ICANN general meeting for the first time (ICANN63 in Barcelona), which included a special IGF Spain session \u2014 national forum and global institution visibly joined up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Decide Madrid became a global reference for municipal digital democracy, and the AI-ethics principles debated here fed the wave of national AI strategies that followed.<\/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-2018-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2018 \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 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:\/\/igfspain.org\/igf-spain-2018\/\">IGF Spain 2018 \u2013 10 a\u00f1os IGF Spain<\/a> \u2014 igfspain.org (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igfspain.org\/conclusiones-igf-spain-2018\/\">Mensajes del 8\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:\/\/www.zonamovilidad.es\/foro-gobernanza-internet-espana-igf-spain-celebra-decimo-aniversario\">El Foro de Gobernanza de Internet en Espa\u00f1a celebra su d\u00e9cimo aniversario<\/a> \u2014 Zonamovilidad.es (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<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igfspain.org\/pre-igf-spain\/\">Eventos Previos IGF 2008-2010\uff08\u8a2d\u7acb\u304b\u3089\u306e\u6b69\u307f\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igfspain.org (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\u670817\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>On 29-30 October 2018, the 8th IGF Spain annual meeting marked the forum&#8217;s 10th anniversary at the SEAD auditorium in Madrid, gathering gove<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,2661],"class_list":["post-14912","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-spainigf2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912","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=14912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}