{"id":15224,"date":"2015-06-10T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/10\/en-switzerland-igf-2015-overview\/"},"modified":"2015-06-10T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:00:00","slug":"en-switzerland-igf-2015-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2015\/06\/10\/en-switzerland-igf-2015-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss IGF 2015 (1st Swiss Internet Governance Forum) \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-switzerland-igf-2015-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2015 \u30d9\u30eb\u30f3 \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-switzerland-igf-2015-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2015 \u30d9\u30eb\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Switzerland&#39;s first national IGF met in Bern on 19 May 2015: around 80 representatives of all stakeholder groups debated in German, French and English.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Three plenaries \u2014 post-Snowden data sovereignty, shared responsibility for security, and accessibility and copyright \u2014 produced the first &#39;Messages from Bern&#39;, submitted to EuroDIG.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its design choice \u2014 interactive discussions instead of expert panels \u2014 became the template for a decade of Swiss multistakeholder dialogue.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Swiss IGF 2015 (1st Swiss Internet Governance Forum)<\/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-switzerland-igf-2015-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2015 \u30d9\u30eb\u30f3 \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>Swiss IGF 2015 (1st Swiss Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>19 May 2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Bern, Switzerland<\/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>80 (The official report records &#39;around 80&#39; representatives of all Swiss stakeholder groups)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>5 (Three plenary sessions and two workshops)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>A multistakeholder steering group, under the patronage of the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM\/BAKOM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>The &#39;Messages from Bern 2015&#39;, submitted to EuroDIG and the UN IGF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Note<\/td>\n<td>First-ever Swiss national 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-switzerland-igf-2015-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2015 \u30d9\u30eb\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Trust after Snowden \u2014 Data Sovereignty and Digital Self-Determination<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The starting dilemma: as the Snowden revelations showed, users cannot fully control how platforms use their data or what profiling and big-data analytics do to their privacy [1]<\/li>\n<li>To the question &#39;whom can end users trust?&#39;, participants agreed a democratic multistakeholder debate is needed, covering transparency measures, practical capacity building, privacy by default and awareness education for the young generation [1]<\/li>\n<li>Participants proposed international, democratic framework conditions with end users&#39; digital self-determination as a core principle \u2014 the issue being control over personal data more than privacy per se [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Security as Shared Responsibility \u2014 From ISP Obligations to Terms of Service<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Security is a shared responsibility in which end users, service providers and technology vendors each play roles \u2014 to be delimited transparently, future-oriented and in line with technical realities [1]<\/li>\n<li>Proprietary versus open-source software: with proprietary products support dies with the vendor&#39;s business, while open source lacks a single accountable provider \u2014 both scenarios worry users [1]<\/li>\n<li>On terms of service, a balance is needed between minimal, understandable, user-friendly rights and an innovation-friendly environment; peer reviews of terms and a simple common terminology could help [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Accessibility and Copyright \u2014 &#39;What the Public Funds Must Stay Public&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 3<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite existing legal frameworks, accessibility implementation lags badly in both private and public sectors; awareness raising and training are needed, and accessibility requirements should be mandatory in public procurement [1]<\/li>\n<li>Copyright should be adapted to the digital environment on a fact-based approach, preserving public-interest uses \u2014 public libraries, archiving of born-digital public content \u2014 and legitimate private copying [1]<\/li>\n<li>Open access to publicly funded academic publications was welcomed as a step in the right direction: what the public finances must remain publicly accessible [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. An All-Participant Format \u2014 Trilingual and Bottom-Up by Design<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Meeting design (Call for Issues and wrap-up)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Topics were crowdsourced through a Call for Issues and shaped into the programme by a multistakeholder steering group \u2014 a bottom-up method adopted from the very first edition [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Sessions were interactive discussions involving every participant rather than expert panels; the report was compiled by Jorge Cancio, Olivier MJ Cr\u00e9pin-Leblond and Nicolas Rollier [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>This free, open, trilingual, bottom-up design became the standing format of the Swiss IGF, with the pipeline to the UN IGF and EuroDIG established from year one [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did it decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing formally \u2014 it was Switzerland&#39;s first national IGF, where government, business and civil society talked as equals. The essentials went to Europe&#39;s EuroDIG as the &#39;Messages from Bern&#39;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Biggest issue?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Post-Snowden trust. The sharpest framing: privacy ultimately means control over your own data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. It shows how a small country bootstrapped a free, trilingual, bottom-up national IGF with 80 people \u2014 a model for national digital-policy dialogue anywhere.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Switzerland IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-switzerland-igf-2015-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2015 \u30d9\u30eb\u30f3 \u2014 About Switzerland IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Switzerland 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 2015 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:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160501010042\/http:\/\/swiss-igf.ch\/about\/messages-2015\/\">Swiss-IGF 2015: Bericht aus Bern\uff08\u72ec\u8a9e\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Swiss Internet Governance Forum\uff08\u65e7swiss-igf.ch\u3001Wayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.swiss\/en\/about-the-swiss-igf\/\">About the Swiss IGF<\/a> \u2014 igf.swiss (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 IGFs \u2014 Western European and Others Regional Group (WEOG)<\/a> \u2014 \u56fd\u9023IGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\uff08Wayback\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.swiss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/SwissIGF_2024_PressRelease_EN.pdf\">Largest Swiss Internet Governance Forum held since its foundation (Press Release 2024)<\/a> \u2014 Swiss IGF (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 19\u664233\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>Switzerland&#8217;s first national IGF met in Bern on 19 May 2015: around 80 representatives of all stakeholder groups debated in German, French a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,11,107],"tags":[163,161,160,162,164,2784],"class_list":["post-15224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-switzerland-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced","tag-switzerlandigf2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224","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=15224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}