{"id":15131,"date":"2025-06-15T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2025\/06\/15\/en-netherlands-igf-2025-overview\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T09:00:00","slug":"en-netherlands-igf-2025-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2025\/06\/15\/en-netherlands-igf-2025-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"NL IGF Event 2025 \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-2025-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2025 \u30cf\u30fc\u30b0 \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-2025-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2025 \u30cf\u30fc\u30b0 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On the afternoon of 5 June 2025, &#39;NL IGF Event 2025&#39; met in The Hague \u2014 the IGF&#39;s 20th year and the year of the WSIS+20 review \u2014 to prepare for the IGF in Oslo later that month.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Former diplomat Jochem de Groot keynoted on &#39;Bots, blocs and allies: the new geopolitics of technology&#39;, and Mari\u00eblle Wijermars on Russia&#39;s authoritarian threat to the free Internet, followed by four breakouts from cloud sovereignty to content moderation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its through-line \u2014 with the US drifting, Europe and the Netherlands must now act \u2014 captured the current state of a European national IGF, reaching from Global South perspectives to the policy-technology bridge.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>NL IGF Event 2025<\/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; Organiser ECP&#39;s recap states the event took place in The Hague, while the UN IGF NRI record (WEOG, as of Feb 2026) lists &#39;5 June 2025, Amsterdam&#39; \u2014 a discrepancy; The Hague is adopted per the organiser&#39;s primary source<\/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-2025-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2025 \u30cf\u30fc\u30b0 \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 2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>Thursday 5 June 2025 (12:00\u201318:00)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>The Hague (venue name not stated in the sources)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Preparation for IGF 2025 in Norway \u2014 the WSIS+20 negotiations and digital autonomy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>The Ministry of Economic Affairs, SIDN and ECP \u2014 the NL IGF consortium; opened by Marjolijn Bonthuis (ECP)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Note<\/td>\n<td>Held in the IGF&#39;s 20th year, ahead of the WSIS+20 review<\/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-2025-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2025 \u30cf\u30fc\u30b0 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The New Geopolitics of Technology \u2014 Europe Must Choose Strategic Digital Autonomy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote by Jochem de Groot (Humanative), &#39;Bots, blocs and allies&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>De Groot, a former diplomat and tech lobbyist, contrasted the deep historical entanglement of US Big Tech with defence (Microsoft, Amazon, Palantir and the Pentagon) with China&#39;s civil-military fusion and data-as-state-asset model [1]<\/li>\n<li>He argued Europe must pursue strategic digital autonomy \u2014 investing in its own cloud and AI capacity and exporting values-driven legislation \u2014 concluding that only conscious choices about values and infrastructure keep Europe geopolitically relevant [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The Authoritarian Threat \u2014 &#39;Now It Is Europe&#39;s Turn to Act&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Keynote by Mari\u00eblle Wijermars (Maastricht University), &#39;Russia&#39;s authoritarian threat: is there a future for the free Internet?&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wijermars warned of authoritarian states&#39; ongoing erosion of human-rights norms and of the hollowing-out of the multistakeholder model through sham NGOs (&#39;GONGOs&#39;) [1]<\/li>\n<li>With the US \u2014 until recently a defender of the open global Internet \u2014 turning inward, she argued Europe and especially the Netherlands must now act, treating the Oslo IGF as the moment to confirm and build coalitions [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Four Breakouts \u2014 From Cloud Sovereignty to the Global South<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Everything in the Cloud?&#39; (moderated by Bjorn Hakansson, TNO, with the ministry, Leiden University, Leaseweb and Microsoft); a content-moderation debate (Ministry of Justice); an interview with Payal Arora (Utrecht University); and the policy-technology bridge (moderated by Cristian Hesselman, SIDN, with Olaf Kolkman and others)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cloud breakout probed hyperscaler power against public values and transparency, listing policy levers for digital autonomy \u2014 procurement requirements, standardisation policy, legislation \u2014 and fed into the &#39;Everything in the Cloud?&#39; session at the Oslo IGF [1]<\/li>\n<li>Other tracks debated online content moderation, heard Global South perspectives from Payal Arora, and bridged policy-makers and technologists; a closing panel moderated by Lousewies van der Laan (Transparency International NL) with cyber ambassador Ernst Noorman drew the threads together [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 built the shared Dutch platform for the UN IGF in Oslo and the WSIS+20 negotiations at year&#39;s end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the deepest worry?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. That the free Internet is losing its defenders: alongside Russia&#39;s erosion of norms, speakers described a changing United States \u2014 leaving Europe and the Netherlands to lead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Cloud sovereignty and procurement leverage mirror economic-security debates in every digitising country, and the WSIS+20 fight over the IGF&#39;s mandate affects every national IGF community.<\/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-2025-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Netherlands IGF 2025 \u30cf\u30fc\u30b0 \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 2025 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\/nl-igf-event-2025\/\">Terugblik NL IGF Event 2025\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u306e\u4e8b\u5f8c\u8a18\u4e8b\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ECP | Platform voor de InformatieSamenleving (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260217071529\/https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/western-european-and-others-regional-group-weog\">National IGF initiatives \u2013 WEOG\uff08Netherlands IGF\u5e74\u6b21\u4f1a\u5408\u6b04: 5 June 2025\u3002\u305f\u3060\u3057\u90fd\u5e02\u306f\u300cAmsterdam\u300d\u3068\u8a18\u8f09\u3055\u308c\u4e3b\u50ac\u8005\u60c5\u5831\u3068\u98df\u3044\u9055\u3046\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\uff08intgovforum.org, Wayback Machine\uff09 (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: 2025\u5e74\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u306e\u63b2\u8f09\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\u67083\u65e5 8\u664259\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 the afternoon of 5 June 2025, &#8216;NL IGF Event 2025&#8217; met in The Hague \u2014 the IGF&#8217;s 20th year and the year of the WSIS+20 review \u2014 to prepare <\/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":[163,161,160,162,2747,164],"class_list":["post-15131","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-netherlandsigf2025","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15131","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=15131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}