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European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG). Visit us also on twitter () Workshops will be in English and Spanish and, where possible, in French.

The Pan-European dialogue on Internet governance (EuroDIG) is an open platform for informal and inclusive discussion and exchange on public policy issues related to Internet Governance (IG) between stakeholders from all over Europe. It was created in 2008 by a number of key stakeholders representing various European stakeholder groups working in the field of IG. EuroDIG is a network which is open

to all European stakeholders that are interested in contributing to an open and interactive discussion on IG issues. The stakeholders participating in the EuroDIG programme network comprise a considerable number of representatives from civil society, the business sector, the technical and academic community as well as European governments, institutions and organisations including the EU-presidency, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and the European Broadcasting Union.[1] There was also important and substantial contributions to EuroDIG 2009 from other international organizations and certain representatives of non-European states, including the Secretariat of the IGF, Egypt (host country for IGF 2009), UNESCO and ITU. The purpose of EuroDIG is twofold: first to help European stakeholders to exchange their views and best practices on the issues to be discussed at global IGF meetings and to identify common ground which is shared by all European stakeholders as well as highlighting the diversity of experience of the different European stakeholders; second to raise awareness in Europe and among European stakeholders about the relevance of the issues discussed in the IGF context and also to raise awareness of the value of the new multistakeholder discussion format developed by and around the IGF. Information to Note:

Remote participation in all sessions: For every session, there will be someone moderating the contributions coming in through remote participation and thus feeding them into the dialogue. read more…

Working languages will be English, French and Spanish for plenary events. Multi-stakeholder, gender and geographical balance and diversity is a priority and where possible and practicable will be built into the dialogue. Youth representatives and retired persons are also being contacted to be involved.

07/07/2025

🌍 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑹𝒊𝒚𝒂𝒅𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓ø𝒎 — Internet Governance in 2025 is entering a new phase.

After an intense 7 months of dialogue at , and , Sandra Hoferichter, Secretary General of EuroDIG, shares her reflections on where we stand — and what’s next.

From the review and the rise of emerging technologies like , , and , to the growing role of , , and the — one thing is clear: meaningful stakeholder engagement has never been more critical.

🚨 But challenges remain:

Are we funding bottom-up participation adequately?
Can we shape one governance approach for the technologies of tomorrow?
Will those who benefit most from an open Internet step up to support it?

🔎 Read the full reflection here to see why regional dialogues like EuroDIG matter — and why digital governance needs all of us:

👉 https://www.eurodig.org/eurodig-news-28-2025/

03/07/2025

Today, we’d like to highlight the Messages of Workshop 11: 𝐒ã𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬

💡 1. We need more comprehensive processes: Identifying stakeholders, preparing draft outcomes in a transparent way, factoring in feedback from the wider community and Open decision-making are some of the steps that can be easily extracted from the Sao Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines in order to foster trust in the various process and ensuring that outcomes reflect a true multistakeholder consensus, not just a procedural formality.

🧩 2. The multi stakeholder approach needs to be applied in a way that is meaningful and relevant to the specific context and issue under discussion. And in this context, we need less limitations to the conversation and foster more participation. We need a dialogue and improved exchange of views between all stakeholders is more needed than ever. The Sao Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines are a good path for more inclusion and reaching beyond the usual suspects interested in Internet Governance.

🔧 3. A critical approach to consensus is needed. In a context where power is unequal, consensus building could lead to minority voices being either silenced or a source of disruption. It is crucial for truly multi-stakeholder inclusive approaches to digital related issues and processes to identify, acknowledge and document the differences.

Thank you to the Org Team, the Key Participants and everyone who contributed to this vital conversation!

01/07/2025

Today, we’d like to highlight the Messages of Workshop 9: 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐄𝐔’𝐬 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐚𝐰 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐭

💡 1. Although the demand is high, critical mineral deposits are limited and geographically scattered. While most refining capacity is concentrated in China, Europe faces acute supply chain vulnerability. The EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act seeks to mitigate this risk through its 2030 targets – 10% domestic extraction, 40% EU processing, 25% recycling, and a cap of 65% of reliance on any single external supplier. This is demonstrated by Finland’s raw materials’ project, which combines local mining, European refining, green financing, and strict ESG standards into a replicable model for securing strategic raw material supply. While this is a good example to be replicated, the European Union depends on its member countries signing partner agreements to ensure a supply diversification.

🧩 2. Criticality’ means different things to different regions. Yet mostly, it is not critical to the countries that are most in need. With the attachment to energy and security come ethical concerns. For instance; in DRC, cobalt is destabilising the region, incl. environmental degradation and human insecurity. We need to create a sustainable world taking into account the social element – whereby countries all abide by the same ethical due diligence. In order to achieve improved holistic processes with the community, we need to ensure that all people are engaged and consulted.

🔧 3. The EU needs to have a strict monitoring process in place that encourages companies to implement the regulations. Technology development can occur best when environmental impacts are minimised and benefits for the environment and the community are maximised.

Thank you to the Org Team, the Key Participants and everyone who contributed to this vital conversation!

27/06/2025

Today, we’d like to highlight the Messages of Workshop 8: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬

💡 1. Most politicians and citizens do not have a sufficient understanding of AI. There are also gaps in the skills taught by universities and required by business and technology that need to be filled.

🧩 2. Dual uses (good and bad) are prominent. We see threats and progress equally strong. There is no real opposition between security and ethics in AI. We need to have both.

🔧 3. Current governance models do not cope with opportunities and challenges of AI well and need to evolve.

Thank you to the Org Team, the Key Participants and everyone who contributed to this vital conversation!

25/06/2025

Today, we’d like to highlight the Messages of Workshop 7: 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐦𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧?

💡 1. Gen AI has the potential to diminish unique voices, including minority languages and cultures. It poses integrity issues, problems with identifying whether content is created by humans or technology. It also has the power of persuasion (including via disinformation that it enables) and influences market dynamics. It can also be used to facilitate gender based violence.

🧩 2. Journalism and genAI contradict each other. The former is about facts, the later calculated probabilities. There is a risk of standardized expressions as well. However genAI offers also opportunities for journalism helping to bring more (tailored) content to the audiences. Questions that remain: accuracy, impact on humans (creativity vs laziness), funding/reliance. The risk of using AI in journalism is losing control over news production and quality, which might impact also the future of the business model. One of the main issues will be keeping journalism visible and keeping the connection with the audience.

🔧 3. We should take AI seriously, be aware of what they can and cannot do and their rapid development/impact in the near future creating a lot of uncertainty in terms of dynamics and impact on freedom of expression. There is a risk of omniscience. AI, including GenAI, has implications not only on freedom of expression but also on privacy (surveillance) in terms of freedom of expression which leads to the control of perception. We need to act on a networked and collective level.

Thank you to the Org Team, the Key Participants and everyone who contributed to this vital conversation!

24/06/2025

Today, we’d like to highlight the Messages of Workshop 6: 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬-𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬

💡 1. Within one year the use of AI in business has risen from 35% to 75%. Employees have mixed feelings about it, with a slight majority being positive and a strong minority being negative.

🧩 2. There is a lack of upskilling, governance and ethical policies in place. The use of AI has to be transparent and accountable. It needs to be monitored and evaluated. Impact assessments are required when there is a possible risk to human rights.

🔧 3. It is too early to see an impact of the EU AI Act and even more the impact of the CoE Framework Convention of AI and legal certainty has to settle in. This needs to be evaluated in the future. UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights from 2011 provide important guidance as well. Human rights tracking tools can track the adherence to and implementation of human rights by nations and corporations.

Thank you to the Org Team, the Key Participants and everyone who contributed to this vital conversation!

19/06/2025

Today, we’d like to highlight the Messages of Workshop 4/NRI Assembly: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐆𝐅𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐍 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭?

💡 1. NRIs should act as key enablers and catalysts for change in local digital spaces by adapting global principles and encouraging open discussion among local stakeholders. This can be achieved by channeling grassroots perspectives and innovations into global policies, while contextualising the global commitments into unique cultural contexts, economic conditions, and regulatory environments.

🧩 2. NRIs should act as feedback loops for local communities, providing the outcomes of their work in the form of publicly available reports. NRIs can drive capacity building and address national or regional digital issues through events such as workshops and targeted programmes, with the special attention to vulnerable groups.

🔧 3. NRIs should make use of the digital tools available, such as the ‘GDC implementation map’ when it is launched, to navigate the critical milestones and KPIs, collaborate and contribute at regional and global levels with the assistance of the IGF Secretariat. NRIs should aim to become visible by getting involved and by contributing to the existing roadmaps.

Thank you to the Org Team, the Key Participants and everyone who contributed to this vital conversation!

17/06/2025

In today's newsletter:

📖 The brochure 'Messages from Strasbourg' is available online

🌎 Meet us at the in Norway and join our session 'EuroDIG inviting global stakeholders’ next Tuesday

➡️ https://www.eurodig.org/eurodig-news-25-2025/

16/06/2025

Today, we’d like to highlight the Messages of Workshop 2: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

💡 1. Defining and achieving digital sovereignty in Europe will require a multifaceted approach, balancing autonomy with global cooperation, and addressing both technological and societal challenges.

🧩 2. Creating effective development strategies for digital sovereignty must be done through partnerships and collaboration that balances the needs and creates opportunities for all European stakeholders.

🔧 3. For Europe to become a stronger player and less dependent on outside innovation, competition policy needs to be more balanced and focused on creating growth opportunities and providing support for companies, especially encouraging the development of technical advances within Europe.

Thank you to the Org Team, the Key Participants and everyone who contributed to this vital conversation!

14/06/2025

Today, we’d like to highlight the Messages of Workshop 1: 𝐀𝐈 & 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬: 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬

💡 1. Prevention

The session agreed that more needs to be done to address group-based discrimination and inequality may not be solved with AI alone. It may be necessary to assess if AI is really needed or if non-technical solutions may be more effective. Where AI is needed, transparency and accountability is crucial. Bias detection with mandatory impact assessments must be used as well as involving and consulting impacted communities in the AI design and development processes combined with stronger powers for equality bodies and industry best practices.

📌 2. Mitigation

Algorithmic discrimination is difficult to detect and to prove and those affected find it difficult to access justice. When it comes to intersectional discrimination it is even more difficult not only because of the resistance of states and international courts to recognise them but also to effectively work with the affected communities. There are main barriers to effective AI regulation for tackling discrimination and bias and session participants agreed that those include the lack of transparency, and accountability, access to data and training sets, as well commercial secrecy and funding.

🔔 3. Redress

Access to adequate funding particularly to equality bodies is a main barrier to access justice.

Some steps are being taken by advocacy groups to collaborate with regulatory bodies but a multistakeholder approach at a global level involving civil society, private sector, equality bodies and affected communities is vital for meaningful cooperation and to fully address discrimination in all its forms, particularly intersectional discrimination.

Thank you to the Org Team, the Key Participants and everyone who contributed to this vital conversation!

11/06/2025

Today, we’d like to highlight the Messages of Main Topic 4: 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧

🌍 1. Tensions between tech giants and EU and other European regulation, nothing new in themselves, are now getting increasingly entangled with transatlantic political conflicts, with Internet issues risking to become pawns in disputes on trade or defence policies. This has exacerbated, at least on a rhetorical level, the discrepancy between European and U.S. interpretations of the freedom of expression. European-style regulation – against harmful content or election interference – has been labelled as outright censorship.

⚖️ 2. As to how Europe should reply to the pressure, there was a consensus that retreating was no option. While continuing the transatlantic dialogue and trying to correct obvious American misunderstandings about the nature of Hashtag , Hashtag and other regulations, Europe should make clear that it will defend its basic principles. On the other hand, the European regulatory instruments continue to be refined, simplified and made smarter.

Thank you to the Org Team, the Key Participants and everyone who contributed to this vital conversation!

06/06/2025

Today, we’d like to highlight the Messages of Main Topic 3: 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐬: 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟎.

🌍 1. A strategy for Internet resiliency has to include measures for economic resiliency to ensure adequate investment in development, and a new geometry of interconnections that are driven by both current demand and support resilience by providing redundancy capacity. Other relevant topics include ensuring sufficient energy and water supply, and initiatives to make for human capital more available by closing the skills gap for professions such as specialists on AI cybersecurity.

⚖️ 2. The European regulatory field needs smarter, non-prescriptive risk-based frameworks aligned with international security and information risk-management standards. MSH approach and public-private cooperation are key to achieving harmonisation and standardisation and balance between new technology and human rights. Disproportional measurements, particularly on smaller and midsize organisations, may increase market concentration and undermine Internet resilience. European future should be in advancing a shared vision of the common interest.

🔐 3. Some elements of successful strategy: supporting best practices like IPv6 for sustainable grow and RPKI for routing security, recognising the technical expertise of global Internet coordination bodies in their roles ensuring global interoperability, reliable encryption to avoid political, economical, malicious, military risks, market decentralisation, which can help even under military aggression, focus on innovation.

Thank you to the Org Team, the Key Participants and everyone who contributed to this vital conversation!

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