{"id":15231,"date":"2020-06-17T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/06\/17\/en-switzerland-igf-2020-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:00:00","slug":"en-switzerland-igf-2020-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/06\/17\/en-switzerland-igf-2020-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss IGF 2020 (5th 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-2020-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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-2020-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 5th Swiss IGF met fully online on 28 September 2020 \u2014 postponed from 18 March by COVID-19 \u2014 with about 325 registrations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#39;Environment &amp; Climate 4.0&#39; elevated digitalisation&#39;s footprint to headline status, alongside digital literacy in politics, digital self-determination and trusted data spaces, and encryption versus cybercrime.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its verdicts \u2014 efficiency alone will not cut emissions; even an ICT tax deserves study \u2014 anticipated today&#39;s AI data-centre energy debate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Swiss IGF 2020 (5th 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<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; Originally planned for 18 March 2020 at Welle 7, Bern; postponed due to COVID-19 and held fully online on 28 September<\/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-switzerland-igf-2020-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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 2020 (5th Swiss Internet Governance Forum)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>28 September 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Held virtually (video and sound)<\/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>325 (The official site records about 325 enrolments within the registration period)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>6 (Three plenaries and three workshops)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Multistakeholder steering group under OFCOM patronage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>The &#39;Messages from Bern 2020&#39;, submitted to the UN IGF and EuroDIG; compiled by Olivier MJ Cr\u00e9pin-Leblond, Andrin Eichin and Dominique Keller<\/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-2020-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Environment &amp; Climate 4.0 \u2014 Digitalisation Is Not (Yet) Green<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 1 &#39;Environment &amp; Climate 4.0&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Digitalisation&#39;s environmental effects were framed in three levels \u2014 direct device impact, ICT-enabled eco-efficiency, and behavioural feedback \u2014 with the blunt verdict that &#39;so far, digitisation has had a negative impact&#39; [1]<\/li>\n<li>Energy may simply be too cheap: with Switzerland introducing a CO2 tax on airline tickets, participants asked whether an ICT tax should be studied too [1]<\/li>\n<li>Options ranged from carbon-neutral data centres to energy labels for phones and curbing data-volume growth \u2014 but the circular economy alone will not suffice; consumption itself must fall [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Digital Literacy in Politics \u2014 The Issue Elections Ignore<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 2 &#39;Awareness, skills and ideas in politics and administration&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Digitalisation barely featured in the 2019 federal election campaign; only a quarter of candidates joined a digital-affinity study (Greens and Green Liberals leading at 30% each), and parties lack clear positions [1]<\/li>\n<li>Not everyone can be an expert, but Parliament needs training \u2014 and terms and principles must be explained in language accessible to non-experts [1]<\/li>\n<li>Administration should be courageous and open to experimentation: ideas bottom-up, funding top-down (a &#39;digital fund&#39; via cantons and municipalities), and direct democracy improved with digital decision-making [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Digital Self-Determination \u2014 A Way Out via Trusted Data Spaces<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 3 &#39;Self-determination in the digital space&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With data concentration challenging basic values, a project on digital self-determination and trusted data spaces was presented as a way out of the trade-off between protecting fundamental rights and innovative data use [1]<\/li>\n<li>Is &#39;self-determination over personal information&#39; globally scalable \u2014 or should focus shift to concrete harms of data processing, such as discrimination? [1]<\/li>\n<li>The paradox of rising mistrust of profiling coexisting with unawareness of one&#39;s own data disclosure was emphasised; strengthening local and regional data spaces and quality labels were discussed [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Encryption and Cybercrime \u2014 Backdoors Create More Risk Than Benefit<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop 3 &#39;Cybersecurity &amp; cybercrime: global challenges \u2013 local solutions?&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The message was unambiguous: encryption is essential for security, and every attempt to weaken it or build in backdoors creates more risks than benefits [1]<\/li>\n<li>Cybercrime is heavily underreported \u2014 reporting must become easier, victims deserve feedback on investigations, and security firms can reveal the true extent of the many smaller cases [1]<\/li>\n<li>Education is key to prevention and security \u2014 also for the next 3.5 billion users coming online in the coming years [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. First Virtual Edition \u2014 Redesigned After the COVID Postponement<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Meeting logistics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planned for 18 March at Welle 7, the meeting was postponed by COVID-19 and held online on 28 September, including workshops on platform regulation and &#39;Libraries 4.0&#39; (e-book access, Web Archive Switzerland) [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>About 325 registrations marked a big widening of participation compared with the ~80 in-person attendees of the early editions [2][1]<\/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 the &#39;Messages from Bern 2020&#39; went to the UN IGF and EuroDIG, headlined by digitalisation&#39;s environmental footprint.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Most contentious point?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Climate measures versus incentives \u2014 up to and including the idea of taxing ICT like air travel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The rebound-effect warning \u2014 efficiency gains get eaten by growing consumption \u2014 predicted the AI data-centre energy debate five years early.<\/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-2020-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Switzerland IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\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 2020 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\/2020\/10\/SwissIGF2020_Messages_en.pdf\">Messages from Bern (Swiss IGF 2020)<\/a> \u2014 Swiss IGF (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.swiss\/en\/swiss-igf-2020\/\">Swiss IGF 2020\uff08\u5927\u4f1a\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u3001\u5ef6\u671f\u7d4c\u7def\u3068\u767b\u9332\u8005\u6570\uff09<\/a> \u2014 igf.swiss (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<\/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\u670810\u65e5 11\u664257\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 5th Swiss IGF met fully online on 28 September 2020 \u2014 postponed from 18 March by COVID-19 \u2014 with about 325 registrations.<\/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":[163,161,160,162,164,2788],"class_list":["post-15231","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-switzerlandigf2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231","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=15231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}