{"id":15128,"date":"2024-06-23T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/23\/en-netherlands-igf-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-06-23T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T14:00:00","slug":"en-netherlands-igf-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/06\/23\/en-netherlands-igf-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet in Beeld: Past, Present &#038; Future (NL IGF&#8217;s 2024 national event) \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-2024-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2024 \u30a2\u30e0\u30b9\u30c6\u30eb\u30c0\u30e0 \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-2024-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2024 \u30a2\u30e0\u30b9\u30c6\u30eb\u30c0\u30e0 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 10 October 2024, &#39;Internet in Beeld: Past, Present &amp; Future&#39; filled the historic Felix Meritis in Amsterdam \u2014 some 400 people convened jointly by ISOC NL, the Platform Internetstandaarden and NL IGF.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Marking 25 years of ISOC NL, 10 of internet.nl and nearly 20 of the IGF, it heard Marietje Schaake on technology and democracy and Waag&#39;s Marleen Stikker on the independent Internet&#39;s origins, followed by nine breakouts and an evening programme.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With video messages from Vint Cerf and ISOC&#39;s Sally Wentworth and lifetime achievement awards, it doubled as a festival edition of the national IGF, uniting the Dutch Internet&#39;s pioneers with the next generation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Internet in Beeld: Past, Present &amp; Future (NL IGF&#39;s 2024 national event)<\/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 Amsterdam (not The Hague); NL IGF&#39;s Jaaroverzicht 2024 lists this as its 2024 national event<\/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-2024-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2024 \u30a2\u30e0\u30b9\u30c6\u30eb\u30c0\u30e0 \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>Internet in Beeld: Past, Present &amp; Future (NL IGF&#39;s 2024 national event)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>10 October 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Felix Meritis, Amsterdam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>Around 400 attendees (381 registrations per the ISOC NL chair&#39;s report)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>A plenary programme plus nine breakout sessions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>A joint initiative of the Internet Society Netherlands (ISOC NL), the Platform Internetstandaarden and NL IGF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Note<\/td>\n<td>Marking 25 years of ISOC NL, 10 years of internet.nl and almost 20 years of the IGF<\/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-2024-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2024 \u30a2\u30e0\u30b9\u30c6\u30eb\u30c0\u30e0 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Technology and Democracy \u2014 Schaake on Tech Power<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary: Marietje Schaake (Stanford, former MEP) in conversation with Marjolijn Bonthuis-Krijger; the government&#39;s role by Jos de Groot (Ministry of Economic Affairs)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Schaake, author of &#39;The Tech Coup&#39;, addressed technology&#39;s impact on democracy and democratic control of corporate power, while the ministry&#39;s Jos de Groot set out government&#39;s role in digital innovation [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>The &#39;Past&#39; breakout traced the Netherlands&#39; independent Internet culture with Marleen Stikker; the &#39;Present&#39; breakout debated digital autonomy with VNO-NCW&#39;s Focco Vijselaar and a panel moderated by Geert-Jan Bogaerts [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Three Milestones \u2014 25 Years of ISOC NL, 10 of internet.nl, 20 of the IGF<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: The anniversary programme and closing plenary (video messages from Vint Cerf and Sally Wentworth; lifetime achievement awards)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vint Cerf and ISOC CEO Sally Wentworth sent video messages, and lifetime achievement awards honoured Dutch Internet pioneers including Lousewies van der Laan, Marleen Stikker and Kees Neggers [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Celebrating 10 years of the standards-testing site internet.nl, the &#39;Future&#39; breakout&#39;s lightning talks (Menno Weij, Geert Lovink, Melanie Rieback and others) sketched the next decade [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Road to Riyadh \u2014 Linking the National Event to IGF 2024<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: (Context of NL IGF&#39;s 2024 activities)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NL IGF&#39;s annual overview lists the event as its 2024 national gathering with about 400 attendees, alongside an 80-person &#39;digital human rights&#39; special session in April and a youth session at EuroDIG in Vilnius [1]<\/li>\n<li>At IGF 2024 in Riyadh (&#39;Building our Multistakeholder Digital Future&#39;), the Dutch delegation joined more than 15 sessions, defending the multistakeholder model ahead of the WSIS+20 review [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 \u2014 it was a celebration and dialogue: some 400 people marking ISOC NL&#39;s 25th anniversary with a day on the Dutch Internet&#39;s past, present and future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the highlight?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Marietje Schaake, author of &#39;The Tech Coup&#39;, confronting Big Tech power and democracy head-on \u2014 plus a video message from Vint Cerf.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. internet.nl&#39;s decade of standards-testing is a model other countries copy, and merging a national IGF with an anniversary festival shows how to widen its audience.<\/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-2024-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2024 \u30a2\u30e0\u30b9\u30c6\u30eb\u30c0\u30e0 \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 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:\/\/ecp.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Jaaroverzicht-NL-IGF-2024.pdf\">Jaaroverzicht 2024 \u2013 NL IGF\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u5e74\u6b21\u5831\u544a: 10\u670810\u65e5\u958b\u50ac\u30fb400\u4eba\u30fb\u5171\u50ac3\u8005\uff09<\/a> \u2014 NL IGF\uff08ecp.nl\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/isoc.nl\/nieuws\/internet-in-beeld-verleden-heden-toekomst-een-persoonlijk-verslag-van-ruben-brave-voorzitter-van-internet-society-nederland\/\">Internet in Beeld: verleden, heden, toekomst \u2013 een persoonlijk verslag van Ruben Brave<\/a> \u2014 Internet Society Nederland\uff08ISOC NL\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\u670811\u65e5 11\u664240\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 October 2024, &#8216;Internet in Beeld: Past, Present &#038; Future&#8217; filled the historic Felix Meritis in Amsterdam \u2014 some 400 people convened jo<\/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":[163,161,160,162,415,164],"class_list":["post-15128","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-netherlandsigf2024","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128","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=15128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}