{"id":14921,"date":"2023-06-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/22\/en-spain-igf-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T08:00:00","slug":"en-spain-igf-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/22\/en-spain-igf-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"13th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2023) \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-2023-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2023 \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-2023-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2023 \u30de\u30c9\u30ea\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 26-27 September 2023, the 13th IGF Spain annual meeting, &#39;Connecting rights, forging futures&#39;, convened at ETSIT-UPM in Madrid.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With the EU AI Act in final negotiation, it asked whether there was still time to govern AI, alongside OTT network-cost contributions, net neutrality, disinformation and youth digital rights.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Experts from OdiseIA, TikTok, Google and Meta debated balanced AI regulation, and a Youth IGF Spain roundtable on the connected generation closed the meeting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>13th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2023)<\/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; Resolves the catalogue&#39;s TBD: ETSIT-UPM, Madrid, 26-27 September 2023 \u2014 held just before the UN IGF in Kyoto (October 2023)<\/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-2023-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2023 \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>13th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum Spain (IGF Spain 2023)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>13th Annual Meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>26\u201327 September 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>ETSIT-UPM (Higher Technical School of Telecommunications Engineering, Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid), Madrid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;Connecting rights, forging futures&#39;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>5 (Five main sessions per the conclusions page (the archive counts nine roundtables, including the Youth IGF Spain panel))<\/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 UPM, Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica, Fundaci\u00f3n Vodafone, 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-2023-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2023 \u30de\u30c9\u30ea\u30fc\u30c9 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Is There Still Time to Govern AI? \u2014 The AI Act&#39;s Endgame<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;Are we still in time to govern artificial intelligence?&#39; (27 September)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the first annual meeting after ChatGPT&#39;s release, panellists debated balanced AI regulation and its ethical and social impact amid the generative-AI surge [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Specialists from AI-ethics group OdiseIA, Adigital, TikTok, Google and the Asociaci\u00f3n de Internautas took part, with the EU AI Act \u2014 politically agreed that December \u2014 in clear view [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Spain then held the EU Council presidency (H2 2023), brokering the AI Act&#39;s final negotiations [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. OTT Contributions and Net Neutrality \u2014 Balancing Big Platforms and Networks<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtables on OTT contributions to infrastructure financing and on net neutrality (26 September)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continuing from 2022, the fair-share debate returned with Google, Meta, Telef\u00f3nica, Orange and Vodafone discussing regulation, sustainability and the operator-content balance [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>How to secure network investment while preserving net-neutrality principles was treated as the twin question [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Free Expression and Disinformation \u2014 Platform and Media Responsibility<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Roundtable &#39;Freedom of expression and disinformation online&#39; (27 September)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The panel weighed protecting free expression online against curbing disinformation, addressing both platform responsibility and the role of the media [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The EU&#39;s Digital Services Act, applying to very large platforms from August 2023, framed the practical context [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Digital Rights for the Connected Generation \u2014 Youth Close the Meeting<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Youth IGF Spain roundtable on the connected generation (27 September, closing)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protecting young people&#39;s digital rights anchored the theme &#39;Connecting rights, forging futures&#39;, with Youth IGF Spain running the closing session [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Opening the meeting, State Secretary Artigas and rector Cisneros stressed the IGF&#39;s value as a space for thinking through a more sustainable Internet [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 with Spain then chairing the EU Council and brokering the AI Act, it stress-tested the question &#39;is there still time to govern AI?&#39; weeks before the UN IGF in Kyoto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. How hard to regulate AI. Facing the generative-AI explosion, industry feared stifling innovation while civil society and academia demanded ethical safeguards \u2014 the fight was over where &#39;balance&#39; lies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The AI Act finalised under Spain&#39;s presidency became the world&#39;s first comprehensive AI law, shaping regulatory debates from Washington to Tokyo.<\/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-2023-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Spain IGF 2023 \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 2023 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-2023\/\">IGF Spain 2023 \u2013 Conectando Derechos, Forjando Futuros<\/a> \u2014 igfspain.org (accessed 2026-07-22)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igfspain.org\/conclusiones-igf-spain-2023\/\">Mensajes del 13\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<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igfspain.org\/acerca-de\/\">Acerca de IGF Spain\uff08\u30d5\u30a9\u30fc\u30e9\u30e0\u6982\u8981\u30fb\u30b3\u30fc\u30c7\u30a3\u30cd\u30fc\u30bf\u30fc\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\u670811\u65e5 17\u664217\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 26-27 September 2023, the 13th IGF Spain annual meeting, &#8216;Connecting rights, forging futures&#8217;, convened at ETSIT-UPM in Madrid.<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,2665],"class_list":["post-14921","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-spainigf2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921","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=14921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}