{"id":15127,"date":"2023-06-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/26\/en-netherlands-igf-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T08:00:00","slug":"en-netherlands-igf-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/06\/26\/en-netherlands-igf-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"NL IGF Event 2023 \u2014 Future-Proof Internet Governance \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-netherlands-igf-2023-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2023 \u30e6\u30c8\u30ec\u30d2\u30c8 \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-netherlands-igf-2023-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2023 \u30e6\u30c8\u30ec\u30d2\u30c8 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 12 September 2023, &#39;NL IGF Event 2023&#39; met in Utrecht, where over 80 participants debated &#39;Future-Proof Internet Governance&#39; in the run-up to the IGF in Kyoto that October.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Waag&#39;s Marleen Stikker opened by insisting society \u2014 citizens included \u2014 must set technology&#39;s direction, with sessions on implementing the DSA, Internet standards, the EU AI Act and the UN&#39;s Global Digital Compact.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With ICANN&#39;s Adam Peake previewing the Kyoto meeting, the event tied directly to Japan \u2014 and, by moving from The Hague to Utrecht, showed the national IGF need not have a fixed home.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>NL IGF Event 2023 \u2014 Future-Proof Internet Governance<\/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; Held in Utrecht, not The Hague \u2014 evidence that the NL IGF event does not have a fixed host city<\/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-netherlands-igf-2023-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2023 \u30e6\u30c8\u30ec\u30d2\u30c8 \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>NL IGF Event 2023 \u2014 Future-Proof Internet Governance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>12 September 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Utrecht (venue name not stated in the sources)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Future-Proof Internet Governance: The Power of Multistakeholder Collaboration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>Over 80 representatives from government, business, civil society and academia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, SIDN and ECP \u2014 the NL IGF consortium<\/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-netherlands-igf-2023-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2023 \u30e6\u30c8\u30ec\u30d2\u30c8 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Keynote \u2014 Who Decides Where Technology Goes?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening keynote by Marleen Stikker (founder of Waag Futurelab)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stikker addressed technology&#39;s role in society and the direction of digitalisation, stressing the inclusion of citizens in the debate and the embedding of public values in technical design [1]<\/li>\n<li>The event&#39;s premise: governance is &#39;future-proof&#39; only when civil society and academia sit as equals beside government and business [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Implementing the DSA \u2014 Commission, Industry and Justice Ministry at One Table<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session &#39;Digital Platforms&#39; with Menno Cox (European Commission, DG CNECT), Michiel Steltman (DINL) and Eleonora van Hoorn (Ministry of Justice and Security)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the DSA newly applicable to very large platforms as of August 2023, the European Commission, the Dutch digital-infrastructure association and the Justice Ministry worked through implementation [1]<\/li>\n<li>In a parallel session, Niels ten Oever (University of Amsterdam) used an interactive quiz to make Internet standards \u2014 and their power \u2014 visible as a governance topic [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The AI Act and the Global Digital Compact \u2014 Rule-Making on Two Fronts<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Sessions &#39;Artificial Intelligence &amp; AI Act&#39; (Lisa Vermeer, Ministry of Economic Affairs; Jord Goudsmit, Considerati; Ari\u00ebn Voogt, Stichting Algorithm Audit) and &#39;Future of Internet Governance&#39; (Alisa Heaver; Jacco-Pepijn Baljet, Foreign Ministry)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Policy officials, consultants and an algorithm-audit NGO assessed the EU AI Act, then in final negotiation, anticipating regulation and auditing in the year generative AI exploded [1]<\/li>\n<li>A UN-focused session covered the Global Digital Compact and the IGF&#39;s future mandate, and ICANN&#39;s Adam Peake previewed the Kyoto IGF (8\u201312 October), wiring the national debate into the international process [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did the meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 it was the preparatory forum whose discussion became the shared Dutch brief for the UN IGF in Kyoto the following month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the core question?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Whether the multistakeholder model can survive an era of hard law \u2014 with the DSA in force and the AI Act closing, dialogue-based governance had to argue for its own future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It fed directly into the Kyoto IGF hosted by Japan, and its DSA and AI Act implementation debates prefigure regulatory design questions in every jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Netherlands IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-netherlands-igf-2023-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2023 \u30e6\u30c8\u30ec\u30d2\u30c8 \u2014 About Netherlands IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Netherlands 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 2023 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:\/\/ecp.nl\/agenda\/nligf-future-proof-event\/\">NL IGF event 2023 &#8211; &#39;Future-Proof Internet Governance; The Power of Multistakeholder Collaboration&#39;\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u30fb\u4e8b\u5f8c\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ECP | Platform voor de InformatieSamenleving (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ecp.nl\/project\/nl-internet-governance-forum\/\">NL Internet Governance Forum\uff08\u30d7\u30ed\u30b8\u30a7\u30af\u30c8\u516c\u5f0f\u30da\u30fc\u30b8: 2023\u5e74\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u3068\u5e74\u6b21\u5831\u544a\u306e\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ECP | Platform voor de InformatieSamenleving (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\u67089\u65e5 14\u664253\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 12 September 2023, &#8216;NL IGF Event 2023&#8217; met in Utrecht, where over 80 participants debated &#8216;Future-Proof Internet Governance&#8217; in the run-u<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,44,11],"tags":[163,161,160,162,2744,164],"class_list":["post-15127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-netherlands-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-netherlandsigf2023","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127","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=15127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}