{"id":15228,"date":"2017-06-26T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/06\/26\/en-switzerland-igf-2017-overview\/"},"modified":"2017-06-26T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:00:00","slug":"en-switzerland-igf-2017-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2017\/06\/26\/en-switzerland-igf-2017-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss IGF 2017 (3rd 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-2017-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2017 \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-2017-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2017 \u30d9\u30eb\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 3rd Swiss IGF met at Welle 7 in Bern on 30 May 2017, opened by OFCOM Director Philipp Metzger, with three plenaries \u2014 security, the data economy, access \u2014 and three workshops.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#39;Security by empowerment or by regulation?&#39;, the Federal Council&#39;s March 2017 data-policy goals, and the proportionality of copyright blocking dominated, distilled into the Messages from Bern.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With the global UN IGF coming to Geneva that December, the drive to connect national debate to the world stage was stronger than ever.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Swiss IGF 2017 (3rd 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-2017-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2017 \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 2017 (3rd Swiss Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>30 May 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Welle 7, Bern, Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>6 (Three plenaries (security, data economy, access) plus three parallel workshops)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Multistakeholder steering group under OFCOM patronage; opened by OFCOM Director Philipp Metzger<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>The &#39;Messages from Bern 2017&#39;; the community&#39;s declared next stop was the global IGF in Geneva in December 2017<\/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-2017-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2017 \u30d9\u30eb\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Security \u2014 By Empowerment or by Regulation?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 1 &#39;Security by Empowerment or by Regulation?&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With regulation perpetually lagging technology and attackers professionalising, the right mix of empowerment and regulation depends on sector and population; the societal risk appetite itself must be debated [1]<\/li>\n<li>Misuse risks of security technology (e.g. for censorship) must be foreseen: who decides what gets filtered, and can state responsibility be delegated to the private sector? Voluntary cooperation formats were seen as providing checks and balances [1]<\/li>\n<li>For IoT, liability legislation was endorsed: producers and distributors should be accountable for minimum safety requirements \u2014 security updates over a defined life cycle, or open-sourcing the product afterwards [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The Data Economy \u2014 The Federal Council&#39;s Data Policy and Transparency as Bedrock<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 2 &#39;The Data Economy \u2013 Value Creation of Data&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Federal Council&#39;s March 2017 high-level goals for a coherent, future-oriented data policy framed the debate; data was cast as a key resource transforming business models across all sectors, agriculture included [1]<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland&#39;s assets \u2014 neutrality, international trustworthiness, stability \u2014 were highlighted, though some questioned whether recent legislation allowing state interference might compromise them [1]<\/li>\n<li>Doubts were voiced about individual-control approaches, but transparency \u2014 including new methods for algorithmic and AI transparency \u2014 was unanimously seen as the cornerstone of user acceptance and trust [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Copyright: Barrier or Cornerstone \u2014 Blocking Proportionality and Open Access<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 3 &#39;Access and Regulatory Requirements \u2013 Copyright as Barrier or Cornerstone?&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the consumer\/creator distinction blurring, participants endorsed combining state regulation with self-regulation, backed by liability shields for providers adhering to such schemes [1]<\/li>\n<li>IP and domain blocking was broadly felt to fail proportionality; the contradiction of legalising private-use downloads while introducing blocking to indirectly prevent them was flagged \u2014 and algorithms must not decide right and wrong alone [1]<\/li>\n<li>Open access routes (secondary publication rights), library-focused copyright amendments (orphan works, lending, indexing), and the urgency of web archiving \u2014 &#39;start archiving now, before we debate access rights&#39; \u2014 rounded out the session [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Onward to Geneva \u2014 Feeding a Home-Turf Global IGF<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Conference report (Bericht aus Bern 2017)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The official report declared: &#39;our next stop is the global Internet Governance Forum in December 2017 in Geneva&#39; \u2014 a direct pipeline from national debate to the UN IGF on home soil [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>The venue moved to Welle 7, the station-side complex in Bern, which has been the Swiss IGF&#39;s home ever since [3][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 binding \u2014 but its &#39;Messages from Bern 2017&#39; fed straight into the UN IGF hosted in Geneva that December.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Most contentious point?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Security by regulation or by empowerment. It went as far as proposing mandatory security updates for IoT products \u2014 and open-sourcing them after end of life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The IoT liability ideas aired here prefigured the EU Cyber Resilience Act and similar rules by years.<\/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-2017-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2017 \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 2017 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:\/\/igf.swiss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Messages-from-Berne2017.pdf\">Messages from Bern (Swiss IGF 2017)<\/a> \u2014 Swiss IGF (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.swiss\/en\/swiss-igf-2017\/\">Swiss IGF 2017\uff08\u5927\u4f1a\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf.swiss (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180812104313\/http:\/\/swiss-igf.ch\/about\/2017-bericht-aus-bern\/\">2017: 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<\/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\u67087\u65e5 18\u664202\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>The 3rd Swiss IGF met at Welle 7 in Bern on 30 May 2017, opened by OFCOM Director Philipp Metzger, with three plenaries \u2014 security, the data<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,583],"class_list":["post-15228","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-switzerlandigf2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15228","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=15228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}