{"id":15079,"date":"2022-06-07T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/06\/07\/en-greece-igf-2022-overview\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T11:00:00","slug":"en-greece-igf-2022-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2022\/06\/07\/en-greece-igf-2022-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF Greece 2022 (2nd Internet Governance Forum Greece) \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-greece-igf-2022-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Greece IGF 2022 \u30a2\u30c6\u30cd \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-greece-igf-2022-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Greece IGF 2022 \u30a2\u30c6\u30cd \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 5\u20136 November 2022 the second IGF Greece met in hybrid form at OTEAcademy in Maroussi, greater Athens, under the theme &#39;Decentralization of Power&#39; \u2014 energy, Web 3.0 and the giant platforms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Panels such as &#39;Information as Power&#39;, &#39;The Power of Policy Making&#39; and &#39;Financial Power&#39; probed concentrations of power through media, civic participation and decentralised finance, with digital-rights NGO Homo Digitalis on stage.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>That same month its Greek-script IDN website won &#39;Best of IDNs&#39; at the .eu Web Awards \u2014 a working showcase of the multilingual internet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF Greece 2022 (2nd 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<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; Listed under Athens; the OTEAcademy venue is in Maroussi, in the northern Athens metropolitan area<\/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-greece-igf-2022-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Greece IGF 2022 \u30a2\u30c6\u30cd \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 Greece 2022 (2nd Internet Governance Forum Greece)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>5\u20136 November 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>OTEAcademy, Maroussi (Athens metropolitan area); hybrid with parallel livestream<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;Decentralization of Power&#39; \u2014 the future of energy, Web 3.0 and the giant platforms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Award<\/td>\n<td>The igfgreece.eu site won &#39;Best of IDNs&#39; at the 2022 .eu Web Awards (17 November 2022, Mechelen, Belgium), for the IDN domain &#39;\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03c5\u03b2\u03b5\u03c1\u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7\u03c3\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03c4\u03c5\u03bf\u03c5-\u03b5\u03bb.\u03b5\u03c5&#39;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Institute for the Internet and the Just Society (IGF Greece)<\/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-greece-igf-2022-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Greece IGF 2022 \u30a2\u30c6\u30cd \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Decentralising Power \u2014 Energy, Web 3.0 and the Platforms<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Conference theme across both days<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One question \u2014 how to decentralise power \u2014 tied together the future of energy, Web 3.0 and the giant platforms [2]<\/li>\n<li>Framed as an invitation to &#39;create together the largest Internet community in Greece&#39;, run in hybrid form (translated from the Greek publicity) [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Information as Power \u2014 The Dynamics of Media and Speech<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Information as Power&#39; (moderated by Stefanos Vitoratos, Homo Digitalis)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Framed control over information flows as a modern form of power, examining media, platforms and users [1]<\/li>\n<li>Digital-rights NGO Homo Digitalis moderated, giving civil society a hand on the agenda [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Power of Policy Making \u2014 Can Citizens Take Part?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;The Power of Policy Making&#39; (moderated by Vassilis Vassilopoulos; with Elpida Vamvaka, president of Homo Digitalis)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discussed how citizens can participate in emerging models of internet governance [1]<\/li>\n<li>Homo Digitalis summed up its participation afterwards with thanks &#39;for the wonderful hospitality&#39; (from its English post) [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Financial Power \u2014 Promise and Peril of DeFi<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Financial Power&#39; (with Dr Alexandra Giannopoulou)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Used decentralised finance to weigh technologies that redistribute financial power against their risks [1]<\/li>\n<li>Held in the very days of the FTX collapse, with crypto trust as live context [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. An Award for a Greek-Script Domain \u2014 The Multilingual Internet in Practice<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: .eu Web Awards 2022 (17 November 2022, Mechelen)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Greek-script IDN &#39;\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03c5\u03b2\u03b5\u03c1\u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7\u03c3\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03c4\u03c5\u03bf\u03c5-\u03b5\u03bb.\u03b5\u03c5&#39; won &#39;Best of IDNs&#39;, judged on accessibility, UX and UI design [3]<\/li>\n<li>A working non-Latin domain deployment, significant for the multilingual-internet agenda [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The second edition of Greece&#39;s national IGF \u2014 November 2022 at OTEAcademy near Athens, built around &#39;Decentralization of Power&#39;: information, policy-making and finance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. A memorable detail?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The same month, its Greek-script domain won &#39;Best of IDNs&#39; at the .eu Web Awards \u2014 recognition for a genuinely multilingual web presence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Platform power and DeFi were debated here in the very week of the FTX collapse, and the IDN award speaks to anyone promoting non-Latin-script domains.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Greece IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-greece-igf-2022-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Greece IGF 2022 \u30a2\u30c6\u30cd \u2014 About Greece IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Greece 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 2022 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:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/posts\/tag\/igf-greece-en\/\">IGF Greece\uff08\u30bf\u30b0\u30da\u30fc\u30b8: 2022\u5e74\u5927\u4f1a\u3078\u306e\u53c2\u52a0\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Homo Digitalis\uff08\u30ae\u30ea\u30b7\u30e3\u306e\u30c7\u30b8\u30bf\u30eb\u6a29\u5229NGO\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nosos-notalone.gr\/internet-governance-forum-greece-2022-%CE%BF%CE%B9-%CE%B5%CE%B3%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%AD%CF%82-%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BE%CE%B1%CE%BD\/\">Internet Governance Forum Greece 2022: \u039f\u03b9 \u03b5\u03b3\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ad\u03c2 \u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03be\u03b1\u03bd!\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u6848\u5185\uff09<\/a> \u2014 nosos-notalone.gr (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/igf-greece-wins-best-of-idns-prize-at-2022-eu-web-awards\">IGF Greece wins Best of IDNs prize at 2022 .eu Web Awards<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/greece-igf\">Greece IGF\uff08NRI\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (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\u67083\u65e5 18\u664233\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 5\u20136 November 2022 the second IGF Greece met in hybrid form at OTEAcademy in Maroussi, greater Athens, under the theme &#8216;Decentralization o<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,121,3,11],"tags":[163,161,160,660,162,164],"class_list":["post-15079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-greece-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-greeceigf2022","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15079","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=15079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}