{"id":14957,"date":"2024-06-16T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/16\/en-austria-igf-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T12:00:00","slug":"en-austria-igf-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/16\/en-austria-igf-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Austria 2024 (4th Internet Governance Forum Austria \u2014 the relaunch after 2017) \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-2024-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Austria IGF 2024 \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-2024-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Austria IGF 2024 \u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 27 June 2024, after a six-and-a-half-year hiatus, IGF Austria relaunched at the Federal Chancellery in Vienna, moderated by Prof. Matthias C. Kettemann across four multistakeholder panels.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Minister Karoline Edtstadler warned of AI risks in the super election year and appealed for digital solidarity to close digital divides; debates ranged from renaming AI &#39;data-based systems&#39; to a proposed UN agency for such systems.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A national IGF reborn inside the seat of government, closing with the hope of meeting again in 2025 \u2014 a rare template for reviving a dormant NRI.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF Austria 2024 (4th Internet Governance Forum Austria \u2014 the relaunch after 2017)<\/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-2024-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Austria IGF 2024 \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 2024 (4th Internet Governance Forum Austria \u2014 the relaunch after 2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>27 June 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt), Vienna<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Theme: &#39;Austrian digital policy in global responsibility&#39; (\u00d6sterreichische Digitalpolitik in globaler Verantwortung)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>4 (Four panel discussions: challenges to an open information society; human rights in the digital space; AI and global values; global regulation)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Held at the Federal Chancellery, moderated by Prof. Matthias C. Kettemann (University of Innsbruck), with administration, business, academia and civil society represented<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Note<\/td>\n<td>Officially &#39;the first national Internet Governance Forum since 2017&#39;; opening address by Federal Minister Karoline Edtstadler<\/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-2024-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Austria IGF 2024 \u30a6\u30a3\u30fc\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Political Will to Relaunch \u2014 The First National IGF Since 2017, Inside the Chancellery<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening address by Europe Minister Karoline Edtstadler<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The official page records it plainly: on 27 June 2024 the Federal Chancellery hosted the first national Internet Governance Forum since 2017 \u2014 the venue itself signalling government commitment [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>In her opening address Minister Edtstadler flagged AI risks in the 2024 super election year and the amplification of global tensions through the internet, appealing for &#39;digital solidarity&#39; to close digital divides [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Moderated by legal scholar Matthias C. Kettemann (University of Innsbruck), the event brought administration, business, academia and civil society together, meeting the bar of a multistakeholder forum [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. &#39;Call It Data-Based Systems, Not AI&#39; \u2014 Naming, Framing and a UN Agency Proposal<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel on AI and global values<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof. Peter Kirchschl\u00e4ger argued for the term &#39;data-based systems&#39; instead of &#39;artificial intelligence&#39;, stressed that LLMs&#39; computational power is no substitute for emotional intelligence or moral capacity, and proposed a global regulator \u2014 a UN agency for data-based systems [1]<\/li>\n<li>Kirchschl\u00e4ger, Jeannette Gorzala (Act.AI.Now) and Isabell Claus (thinkers.ai) agreed European companies have enormous potential to serve niche markets with the concept of trustworthy AI [1]<\/li>\n<li>Helmut Leopold (AIT) called for rethinking public-sector procurement of data-management systems \u2014 choosing privacy-respecting European applications over the seemingly free offerings of big tech; Julia Fuith and Valerie Hafez (Federal Chancellery) reflected on the making and implications of the EU AI Act [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Human Rights in the Digital Space \u2014 Beyond the &#39;Dichotomy&#39; With Sustainable Development<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel on human rights in the digital space<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Lohninger (epicenter.works) singled out the apparent dichotomy in global forums that pits sustainable development against human rights [1]<\/li>\n<li>Mourad Mahidi of the Foreign Ministry (BMEIA) countered that the two approaches must be understood as complementary \u2014 development and rights are not a trade-off [1]<\/li>\n<li>Embedding human rights across technology development connected to the cross-cutting question \u2014 how regulation functions in digital times \u2014 debated by Susanne Lackner (KommAustria) and Julia Seitlinger (ISPA) [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. A Tribute to Multistakeholderism \u2014 and the Hope of Meeting Again in 2025<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Wrap-up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The wrap-up honoured the IGF as an expression of the multistakeholder approach for a free and open internet; the recurring cross-cutting theme was the handling of data [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>It closed with the hope that an IGF Austria 2025 would take place \u2014 a hope fulfilled in Innsbruck in April 2025 [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The University of Innsbruck&#39;s news report noted renowned experts had debated internet governance from many angles, and that Minister Edtstadler sits on the UN Secretary-General&#39;s IGF Leadership Panel [1][2]<\/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. The relaunch itself was the outcome: a national IGF dormant since 2017, restarted inside the Federal Chancellery with four panels on AI, human rights and regulation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Sharpest claim?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Stop saying &#39;AI&#39; \u2014 say &#39;data-based systems&#39;. Kirchschl\u00e4ger&#39;s renaming reframes regulation as accountability for data processing rather than magic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It is a working model of how government backing can revive a dormant multistakeholder forum \u2014 relevant to any country whose national IGF has stalled.<\/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-2024-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Austria IGF 2024 \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 2024 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:\/\/igf-austria.at\/igf-austria-2024\/\">IGF Austria 2024 \u2014 \u00d6sterreichische Digitalpolitik in globaler Verantwortung\uff08\u4e8b\u5f8c\u5831\u544a\u30fb\u72ec\u8a9e\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf-austria.at (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250323080205\/https:\/\/www.uibk.ac.at\/de\/zukunftsrecht\/uber-uns\/news\/matthias-kettemann-moderierte-das-igf-austria-2024\/\">Matthias C. Kettemann moderierte das IGF Austria 2024\uff08\u72ec\u8a9e\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30a4\u30f3\u30b9\u30d6\u30eb\u30c3\u30af\u5927\u5b66 \u7406\u8ad6\u30fb\u6cd5\u306e\u672a\u6765\u7814\u7a76\u6240\uff08Wayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20221205133427\/https:\/\/igf-austria.at\/\">IGF Austria \u30db\u30fc\u30e0\uff082022\u5e7412\u6708\u6642\u70b9\u3001\u300c\u76f4\u8fd1\u306e\u958b\u50ac=2017\u5e74\u300d\u306e\u8a18\u8f09\uff1d\u4f11\u6b62\u306e\u88cf\u4ed8\u3051\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF Austria\uff08Wayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (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\u306eNRI\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\u67086\u65e5 16\u664214\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 27 June 2024, after a six-and-a-half-year hiatus, IGF Austria relaunched at the Federal Chancellery in Vienna, moderated by Prof. Matthia<\/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":[163,828,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-14957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austria-igf","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-austriaigf2024","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957","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=14957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}