{"id":14951,"date":"2015-06-25T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/25\/en-austria-igf-2015-overview\/"},"modified":"2015-06-25T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T12:00:00","slug":"en-austria-igf-2015-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/25\/en-austria-igf-2015-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Austria 2015 (1st Internet Governance Forum Austria) \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-austria-igf-2015-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Austria IGF 2015 \u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\u30f3 \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-austria-igf-2015-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Austria IGF 2015 \u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Austria&#39;s first national IGF met at TU Wien on 17 September 2015 under the theme &#39;What happens to all of our data?&#39;, with five workshops and panel discussions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Findings on digital skills, access to information, data protection and transparency, copyright and net neutrality were consolidated into a position paper tabled at the UN IGF in Jo\u00e3o Pessoa that November.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Launched with the candid admission that &#39;many countries have long had this forum&#39;, it captured Europe&#39;s pre-Schrems-ruling data-protection fever \u2014 with Max Schrems himself on the panel line-up.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF Austria 2015 (1st Internet Governance Forum Austria)<\/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\/08\/en-austria-igf-2015-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Austria IGF 2015 \u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\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>IGF Austria 2015 (1st Internet Governance Forum Austria)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>17 September 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), Vienna<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>General theme: &#39;What happens to all of our data?&#39;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>A multistakeholder organising team of government, business, civil society, academia and the technical community; opened by State Secretary Sonja Ste\u00dfl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Positions were consolidated into the IGF Austria position paper, tabled at the 10th UN IGF in Jo\u00e3o Pessoa, Brazil (November 2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Note<\/td>\n<td>Austria&#39;s first national IGF, following a 2014 kick-off event<\/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\/08\/en-austria-igf-2015-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Austria IGF 2015 \u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. What Happens to All of Our Data? \u2014 Trust, Transparency, Data Protection<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Was geschieht mit unseren Daten?&#39; and Workshops I (&#39;Data as a business model&#39;) and IV (&#39;Digital user rights and commercial surveillance&#39;)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The position paper affirmed every individual&#39;s right to decide whether and how their personal data is used; governments should support users in making informed decisions independently [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Everyone must be able to report suspected data-protection violations to an agency offering advice even on minor incidents, plus affordable legal protection [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Consumer advocates demanded transparency of commercial data collection using profiles and algorithms, consumer choice over non-essential data use, and preference in public procurement for privacy-compliant products [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Digital Skills \u2014 Learning How to Learn as the Core Competence<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop III &#39;Digital skills for all&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pace of development demands new education models; the crucial ability is learning how to learn properly \u2014 the key to acquiring all other competencies [2]<\/li>\n<li>Media competencies taught in schools should not be linked solely to economic requirements but also to social issues such as democracy and critical thinking, with e-skills and coding included [2]<\/li>\n<li>Comprehensive media-competence training is needed for the entire population \u2014 from kindergartens to adult education \u2014 supported by periodic studies and self-evaluation tools for teachers and students [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Net Neutrality \u2014 Telecoms Versus Civil Society<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop II &#39;Net neutrality&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Safeguarding Europe&#39;s open internet was undisputed \u2014 how open it should be was not [2]<\/li>\n<li>Telecom companies saw no need for new net-neutrality rules, arguing European competition is sufficiently strong and specialised services diversify the market without threatening the open internet [2]<\/li>\n<li>Civil society came out clearly for strict net-neutrality regulation, holding that best-effort internet guarantees continued innovation; ISPs conceded the scope and definition of special services needed debate [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Copyright and the Right to Remix \u2014 What Young Users Demanded<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop V &#39;Copyright and data protection&#39; and the 16 September side event<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To eliminate grey areas, representatives of young users stressed that non-commercial distribution and modification of existing cultural property \u2014 the right to remix \u2014 should be legal, as it benefits society [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Repositories of public knowledge \u2014 archives, libraries, media libraries, museums \u2014 sought legal certainty for modern presentation of cultural property, especially out-of-print and orphaned works [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Rights holders underlined that creativity requires appropriate rewards and adequate IP protection; collective licensing and compensative measures were proposed to modernise access to knowledge [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. &#39;Many Countries Have Long Had This&#39; \u2014 A Latecomer&#39;s Launch<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Founding context (2014 kick-off) and stakeholder video statements published on the official site<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;It is five to twelve \u2014 high time to discuss internet governance together in Austria. Many countries have long had this forum. Internet administration faces major upheavals, and regardless of Austria&#39;s size, our voice counts and should be heard&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Richard Wein (Managing Director, nic.at) \u2014 official video statement, translated from German<\/strong> [1][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We are very critical of control by states. We call for a free, global internet and unrestricted access. The internet is a fundamental right, and human rights must also be guaranteed online&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Maximilian Schubert (Secretary General, ISPA Austria) \u2014 official video statement, translated from German<\/strong> [1][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>After a 2014 kick-off (with a keynote by Wolfgang Kleinw\u00e4chter), the first annual meeting materialised in 2015 \u2014 opened by State Secretary Ste\u00dfl, with keynotes by Sarah Spiekermann (&#39;The Ethical Machine&#39;) and Raphael Schneeberger (&#39;No apps without data&#39;) [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>The panel &#39;What happens to our data?&#39; listed Max Schrems \u2014 whose case against Facebook was weeks from judgment \u2014 alongside ISPA&#39;s Schubert and Research Institute&#39;s Christof Tschohl, capturing Europe&#39;s pre-Schrems-ruling mood [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>A transparency report on funds and sponsors was announced for after the event \u2014 transparency built in from the founding [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did it decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 but five fields of debate were distilled into a position paper tabled at the UN IGF in Brazil two months later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Highlight?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The speaker list: Max Schrems, three weeks before the ruling that struck down Safe Harbour, debating &#39;what happens to our data&#39;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Young users&#39; demand to legalise non-commercial remixing prefigured fan-culture copyright debates in many countries.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Austria IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-austria-igf-2015-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Austria IGF 2015 \u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\u30f3 \u2014 About Austria IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Austria 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 2015 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:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150722093454\/https:\/\/www.igf-austria.at\/teilnahme2015\/\">Teilnahme am IGF 2015\uff08\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u30fb\u72ec\u8a9e\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF Austria\uff08Wayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf-austria.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/igf-position-paper-v2.pdf\">IGF Austria position paper for discussion at the 10th IGF in Joao Pessoa, Brazil<\/a> \u2014 IGF Austria (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf-austria.at\/videos\/\">Die Stimmen der \u00f6sterreichischen Stakeholder\uff082015\u5e74\u5927\u4f1a\u306e\u6620\u50cf\u58f0\u660e\u30fb\u57fa\u8abf\u8b1b\u6f14\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf-austria.at (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260217071529\/https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/western-european-and-others-regional-group-weog\">National IGFs \u2014 WEOG\uff08Austria IGF\u300cestablished in 2015\u300d\u306e\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\uff08Wayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/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\u5e748\u67084\u65e5 8\u664225\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>Austria&#8217;s first national IGF met at TU Wien on 17 September 2015 under the theme &#8216;What happens to all of our data?&#8217;, with five workshops and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,17,3,11],"tags":[163,2677,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-14951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austria-igf","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-austriaigf2015","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14951","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=14951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}