{"id":14916,"date":"2020-06-25T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/06\/25\/en-spain-igf-2020-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-06-25T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T10:00:00","slug":"en-spain-igf-2020-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/06\/25\/en-spain-igf-2020-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"10th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2020, online) \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-2020-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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-2020-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 22-23 October 2020, the 10th IGF Spain annual meeting went online for the first time, opened by two state secretaries with over 50 speakers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eight roundtables tackled contact-tracing apps and privacy, post-COVID digitalisation, US-China tech geopolitics, AI ethics, and digitalisation and the SDGs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its closing verdict \u2014 the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation; the opportunity is to complete it in an orderly, equitable way \u2014 distilled the era&#39;s digital policy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>10th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2020, online)<\/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; Online due to COVID-19; the official page lists &#39;formato online&#39; with ETSIT UPM, Madrid, as the base. Resolves the catalogue&#39;s TBD: online, based in Madrid, 22-23 October 2020<\/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-2020-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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>10th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2020, online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>10th Annual Meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>22\u201323 October 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Held online (based at ETSIT-UPM, Madrid)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;Digitalisation, sustainability and the post-COVID-19 world&#39;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>8 (Eight roundtables over two online days; an annual report was also published)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Speakers<\/td>\n<td>Over 50 speakers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Coordinated by Jorge P\u00e9rez; opened with State Secretaries Carme Artigas (digitalisation and AI) and Roberto S\u00e1nchez (telecommunications and digital infrastructure)<\/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-2020-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Contact-Tracing Apps and Privacy \u2014 Trust as the Precondition<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;Technology in the fight against COVID-19&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tracing apps were framed as complements, not substitutes, for manual contact tracing, effective only with citizen uptake and links to testing and isolation capacity [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Spain&#39;s Radar COVID choice of a decentralised, voluntary, Bluetooth-based design without geolocation was credited with protecting public trust [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Guaranteed anonymity, limited data retention and transparent management were set as conditions of that trust [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Tech Geopolitics \u2014 The &#39;Digital Cold War&#39; and Europe&#39;s Strategic Autonomy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;The geopolitics of technology and communications&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panellists described a new &#39;digital cold war&#39; as the US and China contest AI, biotech and semiconductors \u2014 and with them standards, regulation and infrastructure [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>With Europe barely present among global AI and cloud leaders, they prescribed better research-to-startup transfer and completing the digital single market [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The principle that data belongs to the citizens who generate it was stressed as the basis of a digital-rights architecture [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. AI Ethics \u2014 The Case for Algorithmic Audits<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;Ethics and artificial intelligence&#39; (moderated by Pilar Bernat, Zona Movilidad)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The session argued ethics must not be delegated to statistics but owned by the people who build the technology, tracing how social biases transfer into algorithms (per the session record; no speaker named) [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Algorithmic audits \u2014 applying the precautionary principle as in medicine or food safety, assessing social, legal and ethical impact before deployment \u2014 emerged as the key prescription [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Speakers warned of a &#39;space of impunity&#39; where unregulated algorithms already shape decisions on benefits, risk scores and employment [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Post-COVID Digitalisation \u2014 Five Years of Change in Weeks<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;The Internet&#39;s role in the post-COVID world&#39; (moderated by Ignacio del Castillo, Expansi\u00f3n) and closing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teleworking, online education and digital government planned on five-year horizons were deployed in weeks, breaking cultural as well as technical resistance [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Yet the crisis exposed chronic weaknesses \u2014 basic digital-skills gaps, under-digitalised SMEs and unequal connectivity \u2014 prompting calls for inclusion policies [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Rather than returning to the 2019 model, Spain should use digitalisation to diversify its economy and build technological sovereignty, panellists argued [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 in the middle of the pandemic it audited the full crisis-digital agenda, from tracing apps to the EU data strategy, and published an annual report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. AI ethics: the principle that ethics must not be outsourced to statistics, set against the reality of unregulated algorithms already deciding benefits and jobs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The decentralised, voluntary tracing-app design endorsed here was the same choice made across democracies, and the exposed gaps in digital government drove reform agendas worldwide.<\/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-2020-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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 2020 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-2020-1\/\">IGF Spain 2020 \u2013 Digitalizaci\u00f3n, Sostenibilidad, y mundo post COVID-19<\/a> \u2014 igfspain.org (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igfspain.org\/conclusiones-igf-spain-2020\/\">Conclusiones del 10\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:\/\/igfspain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/programa-jornadas-igf-spain-22-23-de-octubre-2020-vs-25-9-2020-2.pdf\">Programa Jornadas IGF Spain 22-23 de octubre 2020\uff08\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0PDF\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\u670810\u65e5 14\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 22-23 October 2020, the 10th IGF Spain annual meeting went online for the first time, opened by two state secretaries with over 50 speake<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,2663],"class_list":["post-14916","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-spainigf2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916","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=14916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}