{"id":15047,"date":"2018-06-20T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/20\/en-estonia-igf-2018-overview\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T14:00:00","slug":"en-estonia-igf-2018-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2018\/06\/20\/en-estonia-igf-2018-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Interneti P\u00e4ev 2018 (Estonia&#8217;s 4th Internet Day) \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-estonia-igf-2018-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2018 \u30bf\u30ea\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-estonia-igf-2018-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2018 \u30bf\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 4th Interneti P\u00e4ev met on 29 March 2018 at Tallinn&#39;s Kultuurikatel under the theme &#39;Young people vs robots \u2014 out of the fairy tale!&#39;, asking whether IoT, bitcoin, self-driving cars, blockchain, AI and Generation Z are real or a blend of marketing, tech-euphoria and wishful thinking.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Funderbeam founder Kaidi Ruusalepp and peers reality-checked the buzzwords; the government&#39;s digital-innovation adviser Marten Kaevats and lawyers tackled robot law \u2014 what is allowed to humans but not to robots; and a schoolteacher, a 10th-grader and Estonia&#39;s web constable dissected the &#39;like&#39; economy, with a crypto party to close the night.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Robot taxes and automation-versus-jobs were the global arguments of 2018 \u2014 and putting an actual student on stage anticipated the youth-participation push national IGFs everywhere now pursue.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Interneti P\u00e4ev 2018 (Estonia&#39;s 4th Internet Day)<\/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-estonia-igf-2018-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2018 \u30bf\u30ea\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>Interneti P\u00e4ev 2018 (Estonia&#39;s 4th Internet Day)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>The official page states this was &#39;already the fourth&#39; edition (the first was 2015); the catalogue&#39;s former &#39;first edition&#39; tag was wrong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>29 March 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Terrace Hall of the Kultuurikatel (Tallinn Creative Hub), P\u00f5hja pst 29, Tallinn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Theme: &#39;Noored vs robotid \u2013 muinasjutust v\u00e4lja!&#39; (Young people vs robots \u2014 out of the fairy tale!)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Organised by the Estonian Internet Foundation (Eesti Interneti SA); programme curated by Karmen Turk, Peeter Marvet, Linnar Viik, Henrik Roonemaa, Anto Veldre, Birgy Lorenz, Heiki Sibul, Maarja Kirtsi and the EIS team<\/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-estonia-igf-2018-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2018 \u30bf\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. IoT, Bitcoin, AI \u2014 Fairy Tale or Today&#39;s Reality?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;IoT, bitcoins, self-driving cars, blockchain, AI \u2014 a fairy tale?!&#39; (10:05\u201311:25; Funderbeam founder and CEO Kaidi Ruusalepp, IT visionary Linnar Viik and TT\u00dc network-software professor Tanel Tammet, moderated by Henrik Roonemaa of Geenius.ee)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are the technologies said to change the world &#39;100% and now&#39; real, or a blend of marketing, tech-euphoria and wishful thinking? A fintech founder, a visionary and a computer scientist sorted hype from substance [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Holding a sober reality-check at the height of the crypto\/blockchain bubble \u2014 hosted by the national domain registry \u2014 captured the edition&#39;s character [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Robot Law \u2014 What Is Allowed to Humans but Not to Robots?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;What is allowed to humans is not allowed to robots!&#39; (11:30\u201312:45; State Chancellery digital-innovation adviser Marten Kaevats, state-aid and competition-law expert Evelin P\u00e4rn-Lee and Omniva chairman Joona Saluveer, moderated by attorney Karmen Turk of Triniti)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is software a robot? Do robots need holidays? Tax the company that replaces workers \u2014 or the robot itself? A government adviser, a competition-law scholar and the postal chief mapped the legal space robotics demands [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The parable of the virus-ridden fridge-bot attacking the prime minister&#39;s smart toaster \u2014 and who decides to switch it off \u2014 exposed the gaps in jurisdiction and liability [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Fears of job losses were addressed head-on, answered by the company (Omniva) actually automating logistics [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The &#39;Like&#39; Economy and the Young \u2014 The New Currency of the Information Society<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;To like or not to like, that is the question&#39; (13:30\u201314:40; teacher Astrid Sildnik of the Estonian Teachers&#39; Union, 10th-grader K\u00e4rt Heinvere of Pelgulinna Gymnasium and police web constable Maarja Punak, moderated by Dr Birgy Lorenz of TT\u00dc&#39;s cyber-education projects)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is online fame measured in likes the currency of young lives? Does a shortage of likes dent self-esteem? Is the person in the picture really that happy? A teacher, an actual 10th-grader and the police web constable debated it together [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Dangerous phenomena of the moment \u2014 &#39;Blue Whale&#39;-style communities, violent uploads, compulsive self-exposure \u2014 were examined concretely, without moral panic [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Data Experiment and the Crypto Party \u2014 Whose Data Is It Anyway?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Experiment ;)&#39; (14:40\u201315:10; Tanel M\u00e4llo of the MyData network \/ Aalto University and Peeter Marvet, zone.ee resident hacker and data-protection officer) plus the evening &#39;Internet Evening, a.k.a. Crypto Party&#39; at K-Space<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A live experiment asked: have you ever considered what data you have left with companies \u2014 and is it yours or theirs? \u2014 making data ownership tangible two months before the GDPR applied [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Pairing a MyData movement organiser with the registrar&#39;s resident hacker addressed data sovereignty from principle and practice at once [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The evening crypto party turned the rights debate into hands-on encryption skills [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did this meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 it was the fourth annual open dialogue day run by the .ee registry foundation, free and in Estonian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What stood out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. An actual 10th-grader debating the &#39;like&#39; economy alongside a teacher and the police web constable \u2014 talking with young people rather than about them, back in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Robot taxes, automation and jobs, and children&#39;s social-media pressures are still live controversies everywhere \u2014 and the sober sorting of crypto\/AI hype at bubble peak remains a model of level-headed debate.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Estonia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-estonia-igf-2018-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2018 \u30bf\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 About Estonia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Estonia 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 2018 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:\/\/xn--pev-qla.internet.ee\/2018\">Interneti P\u00e4ev 2018\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30fb\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30fb\u4f1a\u5834\u30fb\u5168\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u3068\u767b\u58c7\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Eesti Interneti SA\uff08p\u00e4ev.internet.ee\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20181229014233\/http:\/\/xn--pev-qla.internet.ee\/2018\">2018 \u2014 Interneti p\u00e4ev\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u5e74\u5f53\u6642\u306e\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30fb\u300c\u3082\u3046\u7b2c4\u56de\u300d\u306e\u660e\u8a18\u3068\u4e8b\u5f8c\u306e\u5fa1\u793c\u300c2019\u5e74\u306eInterneti P\u00e4ev\u3067\u4f1a\u3044\u307e\u3057\u3087\u3046\u300d\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Eesti Interneti SA\uff08Wayback 2018-12-29\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.internet.ee\/eis\">Eesti Interneti SA \u2013 Meist\uff08\u4e3b\u50ac\u8005\u6982\u8981\u30fb.ee\u30ec\u30b8\u30b9\u30c8\u30ea\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Eesti Interneti SA\uff08internet.ee\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250609230909\/https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/eastern-european-regional-group\">National IGF Initiatives \u2013 \u6771\u6b27\u30b0\u30eb\u30fc\u30d7\u8a73\u7d30\uff08\u30a8\u30b9\u30c8\u30cb\u30a2NRI\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40 (UN IGF Secretariat)\uff08Wayback 2025-06-09\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 19\u664247\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>The 4th Interneti P\u00e4ev met on 29 March 2018 at Tallinn&#8217;s Kultuurikatel under the theme &#8216;Young people vs robots \u2014 out of the fairy tale!&#8217;, as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,17,3,11],"tags":[163,161,160,745,162,164],"class_list":["post-15047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estonia-igf","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-estoniaigf2018","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047","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=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}