{"id":15051,"date":"2024-06-16T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/16\/en-estonia-igf-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T13:00:00","slug":"en-estonia-igf-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/16\/en-estonia-igf-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Interneti P\u00e4ev 2024 (Estonia&#8217;s 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-2024-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2024 \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-2024-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2024 \u30bf\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 10 April 2024 Interneti P\u00e4ev convened at PoCo Lab, a freshly opened culture-and-technology venue in Tallinn&#39;s Rotermann quarter, under the slogan &#39;Is this the internet we wanted?&#39;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ahead of the European Parliament elections the day examined data-driven voter manipulation \u2014 with Cambridge Analytica as the case study \u2014 asked who still commands trust on an oversaturated internet and whether it is time to move towards decentralisation, and closed with how AI could make everyone a winner, alongside reports from the foundation&#39;s youth cyber-education grants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In the year generative AI and election disinformation dominated worldwide, Estonia&#39;s registry foundation took its citizens back to first principles; the 2024 edition is also logged in the UN&#39;s NRI annual-report records.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Interneti P\u00e4ev 2024 (Estonia&#39;s 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-2024-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2024 \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 2024 (Estonia&#39;s Internet Day)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>10 April 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>PoCo Lab, a culture-and-technology venue at Rotermanni 14 in Tallinn&#39;s Rotermann quarter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Slogan: &#39;Kas sellist interneti me tahtsimegi?&#39; (Is this the internet we wanted?)<\/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, Linnar Viik, Henrik Roonemaa, Birgy Lorenz, Heiki Sibul, Mare Vahtre and the foundation&#39;s 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-2024-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2024 \u30bf\u30ea\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Does Data Win Elections? \u2014 Influence Operations before the European Elections<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Data leads to election victory!?&#39; (10:10\u201311:00; civic activist Tarmo J\u00fcristo of the research group Salk and TL\u00dc participatory-culture professor Katrin Tiidenberg)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cambridge Analytica&#39;s use of Facebook data to micro-target voters in the 2016 US election and the Brexit referendum served as the anatomy lesson in election influencing [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Speakers noted that organisations of various worldviews have deployed similar techniques in Estonia, and examined how anonymous voices move opinion in echo chambers \u2014 and how fear of cancellation weighs on debate [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The session doubled as voter education, with experts sharing practical advice on recognising manipulation ahead of the European Parliament elections [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Is This the Internet We Wanted? \u2014 Locating Trust, Weighing Decentralisation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Is this the internet we wanted?&#39; (11:10\u201312:00; TL\u00dc media-innovation professor Indrek Ibrus, Dreamgrow founder Priit Kallas and social-media editor B\u00e4rbel Moros)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With content oversaturated and its makers \u2014 AI, influencers, self-styled experts or scholars \u2014 indistinguishable, the panel asked who holds the credit of trust online and whether it can be restored [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Abrupt turns in the platforms&#39; ownership and principles prompted the question of stepping back towards a decentralised internet \u2014 and whether that is realistic [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Who will shape the future of social media and the internet was the session that gave the year&#39;s slogan its edge [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. World Champions with AI? \u2014 Launching the Digital Tiger onto the AI Wave<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;To world champions with AI&#39;s help?&#39; (12:30\u201313:20; TalTech IT dean Gert Jervan, Askly founder-CEO Sandra Roosna and Net Group AI lead Olari T\u00f5nison)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Framing 2024 as &#39;the year with AI&#39;s face&#39;, the panel explored how ever-more-accessible AI personalises services and learning and helps solve personal and global problems [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>What must be done so that everyone wins with AI \u2014 and can Estonia&#39;s &#39;digital tiger&#39; ride the AI wave? A university dean, a startup CEO and a systems-integrator AI lead mapped the way [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Growing the Cyber-Talent Base \u2014 Reports from the Foundation&#39;s Youth Grants<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;CyberTalents and the teachers who support them&#39; (11:00\u201311:10; Birgy Lorenz, TalTech) and &#39;CyberTigers: girls&#39; motivation and achievements in cyber education&#39; (12:20\u201312:30; Iiris Tuvi, University of Tartu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The foundation-funded &#39;CyberTalents&#39; project reported cybersecurity training for youths and their teachers, the K\u00fcberPuuring competition, and top performers representing Estonia internationally [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Tartu&#39;s &#39;CyberTigers&#39; studies what motivates girls to enter the cyber field \u2014 and which programmes, run by whom, work best [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A registry channelling revenue into talent grants and reporting the results at Internet Day is a distinctive sustainability model for a national-IGF-style event [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 2024 edition of the .ee registry foundation&#39;s annual dialogue, asking &#39;Is this the internet we wanted?&#39; across elections, trust and AI in half a day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Data-driven voter manipulation. With Cambridge Analytica as the case study and similar methods observed in Estonia, experts coached citizens on spotting influence operations before the European elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. AI-fuelled election disinformation became a live issue in democracies everywhere from 2024 on, and the question of retreating from platform dependence towards decentralisation confronts every online society.<\/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-2024-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Estonia IGF 2024 \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 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:\/\/xn--pev-qla.internet.ee\/2024\">Interneti P\u00e4ev 2024\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30fb\u65e5\u4ed8\u30fb\u4f1a\u5834\u30fb\u30b9\u30ed\u30fc\u30ac\u30f3\u30fb\u5168\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u3068\u767b\u58c7\u8005\u3001\u4e8b\u5f8c\u7dcf\u62ec\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\/20240417055703\/https:\/\/xn--pev-qla.internet.ee\/2024\">2024 \u2014 Interneti p\u00e4ev\uff08\u958b\u50ac1\u9031\u9593\u5f8c\u306e\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30fb\u904e\u53bb\u5f62\u3067\u306e\u958b\u50ac\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Eesti Interneti SA\uff08Wayback 2024-04-17\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\u30fb2024\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\u67088\u65e5 17\u664243\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 10 April 2024 Interneti P\u00e4ev convened at PoCo Lab, a freshly opened culture-and-technology venue in Tallinn&#8217;s Rotermann quarter, under th<\/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":[163,161,160,959,162,164],"class_list":["post-15051","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-estoniaigf2024","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051","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=15051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}