{"id":14920,"date":"2022-06-14T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/06\/14\/en-spain-igf-2022-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:00:00","slug":"en-spain-igf-2022-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/06\/14\/en-spain-igf-2022-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"12th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2022) \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-2022-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2022 \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-2022-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2022 \u30de\u30c9\u30ea\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 16-17 November 2022, the 12th IGF Spain annual meeting ran as a hybrid at ETSIT-UPM in Madrid, seating Google, Meta, Netflix and the telecom operators at one table.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It debated the &#39;fair share&#39; question of OTT contributions to network costs, digital sovereignty and Internet fragmentation, hybrid conflict and cybercrime, and the metaverse.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The meeting staged Europe&#39;s heated fair-share controversy among its protagonists, and crowned the Youth IGF Spain debating competition.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>12th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2022)<\/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-2022-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2022 \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>12th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2022)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>12th Annual Meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>16\u201317 November 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Hybrid: ETSIT-UPM (Madrid) and online<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;Technology and people, more united than ever&#39;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>5 (Five main sessions per the conclusions page (the archive counts seven roundtables, including interviews with former state secretaries and the Youth IGF award))<\/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 Secretary Carme Artigas and UPM rector Guillermo Cisneros; supported by Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica, Fundaci\u00f3n Vodafone Espa\u00f1a, Google, Orange and the ministry<\/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-2022-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2022 \u30de\u30c9\u30ea\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. OTTs and Network Costs \u2014 Europe&#39;s &#39;Fair Share&#39; Battle in Miniature<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;The contribution of OTTs to financing European telecommunications infrastructure&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The panel tackled &#39;fair share&#39; head-on \u2014 whether large content providers generating most traffic should help fund networks, a question the European Commission itself took up in 2022 [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>With Google, Telef\u00f3nica, Vodafone, Meta, Orange and Netflix at the table, participants agreed at least on the need for sustainability and cooperation among platforms, operators and users [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Digital Sovereignty and Fragmentation \u2014 Co-Regulation as a Third Way<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtables &#39;Digital sovereignty and Internet fragmentation&#39; and &#39;Towards co-regulation or co-governance of the Internet?&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panellists examined how tightening state control risks fragmenting the Internet, and how Europe&#39;s digital-sovereignty agenda relates to that risk [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The opening session proposed moving beyond both state-only regulation and pure self-regulation towards co-regulation and co-governance [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Hybrid Conflict and Cybercrime \u2014 In the Year of the Ukraine War<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;From Internet vulnerabilities to hybrid conflict and cybercrime&#39; (17 November)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the year Russia&#39;s invasion of Ukraine fused cyber and physical attack into real hybrid conflict, public- and private-sector experts audited the Internet&#39;s vulnerabilities [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The discussion confirmed cybersecurity&#39;s elevation from a corporate concern to a matter of national and societal security [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Metaverse and the Next Generation \u2014 Advance or Inflection Point?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;Challenges and opportunities of the metaverse&#39; and the Youth IGF Spain award<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amid the metaverse boom, panellists asked whether virtual worlds represent an advance or an inflection point for governance, safety and the economy [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The Youth IGF Spain debating prize (RETO DigitalES) went to Tom\u00e1s Ridruejo, cementing institutionalised youth participation [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Interviews with former state secretaries traced Spain&#39;s digitalisation journey and international standing [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 it put telecom operators and Google, Meta and Netflix at one table over who pays for the pipes, a rare open dialogue in Europe&#39;s fair-share fight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. OTT network-cost contributions. Operators demanded big platforms pay their share; platforms countered they already invest heavily \u2014 the standoff that reached the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Fair-share debates spread worldwide, and the meeting&#39;s framing of cybersecurity as national security in the Ukraine-war year matched the strategic shift in most democracies.<\/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-2022-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2022 \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 2022 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-2022\/\">IGF Spain 2022 \u2013 Tecnolog\u00eda y personas m\u00e1s unidos que nunca<\/a> \u2014 igfspain.org (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igfspain.org\/conclusiones-igf-spain-2022\/\">Conclusiones del 12\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\/2025\/10\/programa_jornadas_igfspain2022.pdf\">Programa Jornadas IGF Spain 2022\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\u670815\u65e5 11\u664229\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 16-17 November 2022, the 12th IGF Spain annual meeting ran as a hybrid at ETSIT-UPM in Madrid, seating Google, Meta, Netflix and the tele<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,502],"class_list":["post-14920","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-spainigf2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920","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=14920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}