{"id":15081,"date":"2024-06-23T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/23\/en-greece-igf-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-06-23T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:00:00","slug":"en-greece-igf-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/23\/en-greece-igf-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital World Summit Greece 2024 \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-2024-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Greece IGF 2024 \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-2024-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Greece IGF 2024 \u30a2\u30c6\u30cd \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 28 May 2024, at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, Greece&#39;s national IGF held its first summit under a new name \u2014 Digital World Summit Greece 2024 \u2014 on &#39;Shaping the future of A.I.&#39;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Round tables on balancing AI innovation with regulation, cybersecurity and citizen safety, and Europe&#39;s digital future fed a policy-recommendations report sent to national and international bodies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It marks a rare NRI rebrand: the grassroots IGF Greece reborn as a ministerial-level, AI-focused summit, still counted as Greece&#39;s IGF on the UN roster.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Digital World Summit Greece 2024<\/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-greece-igf-2024-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Greece IGF 2024 \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>Digital World Summit Greece 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>28 May 2024 (10:00\u201316:30) (dig.watch lists 18 May 2024, but both the government (National Coalition for Digital Skills) notice and the official site&#39;s retrospective give 28 May; 18 May appears to be an error)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens; hybrid format<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;Shaping the future of A.I.&#39; \u2014 the governance of artificial intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Speakers<\/td>\n<td>22 (22 speakers listed on the official site, including Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou and Prof. Lilian Mitrou)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Organised by the non-profit civil company Digital Dialogues (\u03a8\u03b7\u03c6\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03af \u0394\u03b9\u03ac\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03b9), under the auspices of the UN, the Ministry of Digital Governance and the City of Athens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>A policy-recommendations report shared with national and international policymaking bodies; the official site posts a 2024 report and accounts<\/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-2024-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Greece IGF 2024 \u30a2\u30c6\u30cd \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. AI Innovation versus Regulation \u2014 Finding the Balance<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Round table &#39;AI: Balance between innovation &amp; regulation&#39; (12:00\u201313:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Held just as the EU AI Act was adopted, the debate focused on implementing regulation without stifling innovation in the Greek context [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Information-law scholar Prof. Lilian Mitrou joined government and industry speakers [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Cybersecurity and Citizen Safety in the AI Era<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Round table &#39;Cybersecurity, Citizen Safety &amp; Artificial Intelligence&#39; (13:15\u201314:30)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Examined how AI reshapes both attack and defence, framed around citizen safety [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>A lightning talk by Digital Governance Minister Papastergiou set out the government&#39;s priorities [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Europe&#39;s Digital Future \u2014 Where Greece Stands<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Round table &#39;Europe&#39;s digital future&#39; (15:30\u201316:30)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Positioned Greece within European digital policy on the eve of the 2024 European Parliament elections [1]<\/li>\n<li>The summit was designed to turn &#39;dialogue between recognised experts&#39; into recommendations for national and international policymakers (translated from the Greek notice) [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. From IGF to Summit \u2014 An NRI Rebranding Experiment<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The summit&#39;s positioning<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF Greece, born in 2021 as a free university-hosted forum, re-emerged as a ministerial-level summit under the Digital World Summit Greece banner [3][4]<\/li>\n<li>Run by the non-profit Digital Dialogues, it remains &#39;Greece IGF&#39; within the UN&#39;s NRI network [3][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Did the forum change its name?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Yes. IGF Greece, launched in 2021, relaunched in 2024 as the Digital World Summit Greece \u2014 still Greece&#39;s national IGF within the UN&#39;s NRI network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was discussed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. AI, wall to wall: balancing innovation and regulation right after the EU AI Act passed, cybersecurity and citizen safety, and Europe&#39;s digital future \u2014 distilled into a policy report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It shows a national IGF rebranding itself to reach ministers and mainstream audiences \u2014 a playbook other countries&#39; IGF communities are quietly studying.<\/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-2024-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Greece IGF 2024 \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 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:\/\/www.nationalcoalition.gov.gr\/event\/digital-world-summit-greece-2024-shaping-the-future-of-a-i\/\">Digital World Summit Greece 2024: Shaping the future of A.I.\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u544a\u77e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ae\u30ea\u30b7\u30e3\u56fd\u5bb6\u30c7\u30b8\u30bf\u30eb\u30b9\u30ad\u30eb\u9023\u5408\uff08nationalcoalition.gov.gr\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/2024.digitalworldsummit.gr\/\">Shaping the future of AI | Digital World Summit Greece 2024\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u30fb\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u3068\u767b\u58c7\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Digital World Summit Greece (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalworldsummit.gr\/events\">\u039a\u03cd\u03c1\u03b9\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b4\u03c1\u03ac\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2\uff08\u4e3b\u8981\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u4e00\u89a7\u30fb2024\u5e74\u5927\u4f1a\u306e\u4e8b\u5f8c\u63b2\u8f09\u3068\u5831\u544a\u66f8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Digital World Summit Greece (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/digital-world-summit-greece\">Digital World Summit Greece 2024<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (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\u670813\u65e5 15\u664214\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 28 May 2024, at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, Greece&#8217;s national IGF held its first summit under a new name \u2014 Digit<\/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":[163,161,160,2729,162,164],"class_list":["post-15081","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-greeceigf2024","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081","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=15081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}