{"id":15077,"date":"2021-06-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/06\/26\/en-greece-igf-2021-overview\/"},"modified":"2021-06-26T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:00:00","slug":"en-greece-igf-2021-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/06\/26\/en-greece-igf-2021-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Greece 2021 (1st Internet Governance Forum Greece) \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n

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  1. On 13\u201314 November 2021, Greece's first national IGF met at the University of Athens' informatics department, drawing more than 800 free participants in hybrid format with 35 speakers.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Under the question 'How and who governs the Internet in Greece?', it covered security, accessibility, data protection, digital transformation, the circular economy and e-waste, and AI.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. A civil-society-led, university-hosted, free-of-charge launch \u2014 the origin of a series that would later rebrand as the Digital World Summit Greece.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on IGF Greece 2021 (1st Internet Governance Forum Greece)<\/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

    Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n

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    Item<\/th>\nDetail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Official name<\/td>\nIGF Greece 2021 (1st Internet Governance Forum Greece)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n13\u201314 November 2021 (The UN IGF NRI page announced the first annual meeting for 2\u20133 October 2021, but the meeting actually took place on 13\u201314 November 2021 (NKUA, TEE and Papaki records concur; one university notice says 12\u201314). The October dates appear to have been postponed)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nDepartment of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; hybrid with livestream<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\n'How and who governs the Internet in Greece 2021?'<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Participants<\/td>\n800 (More than 800 attended free of charge (per sponsor Papaki's post-event report); 35 speakers and 8 workshops (per the Technical Chamber of Greece))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nOrganised by the Institute for the Internet and the Just Society, under the auspices of the Ministry of Digital Governance, the Municipality of Athens and the UN, with support from EURid, ISOC and ICANN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    (See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n

    Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n

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    Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n

    1. Who Governs the Internet? \u2014 The Founding Question<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: Overall theme across the two days and 8 workshops<\/p>\n