{"id":15162,"date":"2016-06-14T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/06\/14\/en-poland-igf-2016-overview\/"},"modified":"2016-06-14T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T11:00:00","slug":"en-poland-igf-2016-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/06\/14\/en-poland-igf-2016-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum Zarz\u0105dzania Internetem 2016 \u2014 the first Polish IGF (IGF Polska) \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-poland-igf-2016-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Poland IGF 2016 \u30ef\u30eb\u30b7\u30e3\u30ef \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-poland-igf-2016-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Poland IGF 2016 \u30ef\u30eb\u30b7\u30e3\u30ef \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Poland&#39;s first national IGF, the Forum Zarz\u0105dzania Internetem, met in Warsaw on 18 October 2016 \u2014 a free public event co-organised by the Ministry of Digital Affairs with ICANN, NASK and the University of Warsaw&#39;s DELab.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The agenda covered free flow of data, the Digital Single Market, online platforms and cybersecurity, drawing Polish and foreign experts alongside government, business, NGOs and academia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>ICANN later credited this debut&#39;s success with inspiring the inaugural Central European IGF in Warsaw in 2017 \u2014 the start of a path that led Poland to host the global IGF in Katowice in 2021.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Forum Zarz\u0105dzania Internetem 2016 \u2014 the first Polish IGF (IGF Polska)<\/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-poland-igf-2016-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Poland IGF 2016 \u30ef\u30eb\u30b7\u30e3\u30ef \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>Forum Zarz\u0105dzania Internetem 2016 \u2014 the first Polish IGF (IGF Polska)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>First edition of the Polish national IGF, corroborated by ICANN&#39;s contemporary blog: &#39;the Polish IGF, which was held for the first time last year and supported by ICANN&#39;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>18 October 2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Warsaw, Poland (specific building not confirmed in primary sources)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Ministry of Digital Affairs (Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji), co-organised with ICANN, NASK and DELab (Digital Economy Lab, University of Warsaw)<\/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-poland-igf-2016-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Poland IGF 2016 \u30ef\u30eb\u30b7\u30e3\u30ef \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Debut Framework \u2014 Ministry, ICANN and Academia as Co-organisers<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Overall programme, 18 October 2016<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four co-organisers \u2014 the Ministry of Digital Affairs, ICANN, NASK and DELab UW \u2014 gave the debut a government-technical-academic backbone from day one [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The ministry&#39;s invitation framed it plainly: &#39;Globally, the internet is governed in a multistakeholder way. So will be this year&#39;s discussion at the Forum&#39; (translated from Polish) [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Topics spanned free data flows, the Digital Single Market, platforms, the ICANN transition, IoT cybersecurity, and balancing anonymity with security [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Platforms and the Single Market \u2014 DELab&#39;s Twin Sessions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Sessions on internet platforms and on the Digital Single Market<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Maciej Sobolewski (DELab coordinator) moderated the platforms session and Dr hab. Katarzyna \u015aledziewska (DELab managing director) the Digital Single Market session, with panellists from ISOC, Google Poland, Uber and Czech portal Seznam.cz [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>When the inaugural Central European IGF met in Warsaw the following year, ICANN framed it as building &#39;on the heels of the Polish IGF, which was held for the first time last year and supported by ICANN&#39; [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What kind of meeting was this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Poland&#39;s first national IGF, held in Warsaw on 18 October 2016. The Ministry of Digital Affairs ran it with ICANN, NASK and the University of Warsaw \u2014 a free event where government, business, NGOs and academics debated data flows, platforms and cybersecurity as equals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What happened next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The inaugural Central European IGF followed in Warsaw in 2017, annual national editions settled in from 2018, and Poland went on to host the global IGF in Katowice in 2021. This 2016 debut was where that path began.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It is a clean case study of launching a national IGF with a ministry in the driver&#39;s seat and the technical community (ICANN, NASK) plus academia providing legitimacy \u2014 a model many countries have since compared themselves against.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Poland IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-poland-igf-2016-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Poland IGF 2016 \u30ef\u30eb\u30b7\u30e3\u30ef \u2014 About Poland IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Poland 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 2016 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:\/\/delab.uw.edu.pl\/forum-zarzadzania-internetem\/\">18 pa\u017adziernika 2016 DELab UW wsp\u00f3\u0142organizatorem Forum Zarz\u0105dzania Internetem<\/a> \u2014 DELab, University of Warsaw (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portalsamorzadowy.pl\/spoleczenstwo-informacyjne\/ministerstwo-cyfryzacji-zaprasza-do-udzialu-w-forum-zarzadzania-internetem,85770.html\">Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji zaprasza do udzia\u0142u w Forum Zarz\u0105dzania Internetem<\/a> \u2014 Portal Samorz\u0105dowy (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icann.org\/en\/blogs\/details\/inaugural-central-european-internet-governance-forum-held-in-warsaw-28-11-2017-en\">Inaugural Central European Internet Governance Forum Held in Warsaw\uff08\u300cthe Polish IGF \u2026 held for the first time last year\u300d\uff09<\/a> \u2014 ICANN \u516c\u5f0f\u30d6\u30ed\u30b0 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.pl\/web\/igf-polska\">IGF Polska\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30dd\u30fc\u30bf\u30eb: \u300cIGF Polska ju\u017c od 2016 roku\u2026\u300d\uff09<\/a> \u2014 gov.pl (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 20\u664258\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>Poland&#8217;s first national IGF, the Forum Zarz\u0105dzania Internetem, met in Warsaw on 18 October 2016 \u2014 a free public event co-organised by the Mi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,95,11],"tags":[163,161,160,162,914,164],"class_list":["post-15162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-poland-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-polandigf2016","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15162","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=15162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}