{"id":15048,"date":"2021-06-02T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/06\/02\/en-estonia-igf-2021-overview\/"},"modified":"2021-06-02T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T12:00:00","slug":"en-estonia-igf-2021-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/06\/02\/en-estonia-igf-2021-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Interneti P\u00e4ev 2021 (Estonia&#8217;s Internet Day, held fully online) \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-2021-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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-2021-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 25 May 2021 Interneti P\u00e4ev went fully online under the theme &#39;Tomorrow&#39;s weather on the internet&#39; \u2014 weather forecasts run hourly, yet nobody forecasts the internet&#39;s weather, on which daily life increasingly depends.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Three debates filled the morning: how to handle disinformation that now endangers public health \u2014 and whether the internet needs a responsible editor; whether a green internet is reality or greenwashing; and what &#39;sovereign internets&#39; being built by states mean for Estonian users.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Held amid the pandemic and its vaccine-disinformation wave, with the NATO cyber-defence centre&#39;s legal chief and fact-checkers on screen, it stands as a working example of a national IGF under COVID conditions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Interneti P\u00e4ev 2021 (Estonia&#39;s Internet Day, held fully online)<\/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; Catalogue location is &#39;Virtual&#39; \u2014 there was no physical venue; the official page states the event took place &#39;entirely via live stream&#39;<\/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\/08\/en-estonia-igf-2021-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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 2021 (Estonia&#39;s Internet Day, held fully online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>25 May 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Fully online (live stream via Zoom and media portals; recordings published on YouTube and Delfi TV)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Theme: &#39;Homne ilm internetis&#39; (Tomorrow&#39;s weather on the internet)<\/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, Birgy Lorenz, Heiki Sibul, Andres Tarto 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-2021-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Little Lies, Big Lies, Internet Lies \u2014 Does the Net Need a Responsible Editor?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Little lie, big lie, internet lie?&#39; (10:10\u201311:00; attorney Karmen Turk of Triniti, TL\u00dc participatory-culture professor Katrin Tiidenberg, police web constable Andero Sepp and Delfi fact-checker Martin Laine, moderated by Henrik Roonemaa)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The starting point: falsehoods on the Estonian internet have moved beyond soft topics to claims whose believers risk public health \u2014 the pandemic&#39;s disinformation squarely in view [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Social platforms have reporting procedures, ordinary websites do not: is the path from spotting a clear &#39;e-lie&#39; to its removal good enough for citizens, and could simple methods improve it? [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The provocative question \u2014 could the internet have a responsible editor? \u2014 was debated with the explicit caveat that freedom of opinion and expression must stand [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The Green Internet \u2014 Reality or Greenwashing?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;The environmentally sustainable internet \u2014 reality or greenwashing?&#39; (11:10\u201312:00; SEI Tallinn senior expert Harri Moora, Telia Eesti CTO Andre Visse and environment-ministry climate adviser Ivo Krustok, moderated by Henrik Roonemaa)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which part of the internet, taken apart, is the most environmentally harmful \u2014 and would greening it change the bigger picture? An environmental scientist, a telco CTO and a climate adviser dug in [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The panel asked what Estonia&#39;s ISPs, web operators and end users can do to shrink the footprint, while openly warning against greenwashing &#39;with the scent of premium detergent&#39; [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>An early case of a national IGF taking up the environment \u2014 parallel to the global IGF&#39;s contemporaneous embrace of digital-environmental agendas [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Whose Internet Is Most Sovereign of All? \u2014 Fragmentation and Estonia<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Little Google on the table, whose internet is the most sovereign of all?&#39; (12:20\u201313:10; Kadri Kaska, head of the law branch at NATO CCDCOE, and IT visionary Linnar Viik, moderated by Henrik Roonemaa; the official page also lists national cybersecurity director Raul Rikk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#39;Every state forges its own truth and casts its own internet&#39; \u2014 with the single, free, common-rules internet receding, the panel contrasted Western notions of sovereignty with the nets Russia and China dream of [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>How far should governments steer digital responsibility, is protectionism growing under sovereignty&#39;s cover, and what does advancing fragmentation mean for the Estonian user? [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Featuring the head of the law branch of the Tallinn-based NATO CCDCOE, the line-up reflected Estonia&#39;s front-line position in cyber security [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 2021 edition of the .ee registry&#39;s annual dialogue, forced fully online by the pandemic but published afterwards on YouTube and Delfi TV, widening its reach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Disinformation. Asking whether the internet could have a &#39;responsible editor&#39; was a deliberate provocation, weighed against free expression \u2014 urgent while vaccine falsehoods endangered lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Internet fragmentation became brutally concrete after Russia&#39;s invasion of Ukraine the following year, and the internet&#39;s environmental footprint now confronts every country hosting data centres.<\/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-2021-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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 2021 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\/2021\">Interneti P\u00e4ev 2021\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30fb\u300c25. mail 2021 kl 10-13.10 \u5b8c\u5168\u30e9\u30a4\u30d6\u914d\u4fe1\u3067\u958b\u50ac\u300d\u306e\u4e8b\u5f8c\u8a18\u9332\u30fb\u9332\u753b\u516c\u958b\u5148\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\/20210513142656\/https:\/\/xn--pev-qla.internet.ee\/2021\">2021 \u2014 Interneti p\u00e4ev\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u76f4\u524d\u306e\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30fb\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u3068\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u3001Zoom\/\u914d\u4fe1\u8996\u8074\u306e\u544a\u77e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Eesti Interneti SA\uff08Wayback 2021-05-13\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\u30fb2021\u5e74\u5e74\u6b21\u5831\u544a\u30ea\u30f3\u30af\u63b2\u8f09\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\u67084\u65e5 19\u664213\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 25 May 2021 Interneti P\u00e4ev went fully online under the theme &#8216;Tomorrow&#8217;s weather on the internet&#8217; \u2014 weather forecasts run hourly, yet nob<\/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":[163,161,160,852,162,164],"class_list":["post-15048","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-estoniaigf2021","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048","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=15048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}