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The key questions asked and answered during the fourth session of the day were weather there is need and desire for a European IGF, what its mandate and objectives should be, how its work should be organised.
Most contributors to the discussion agreed that a European IGF is more than necessary. It should take place prior to the Global IGF so that participants have the chance to formulate their messages and make a proper European contribution to the overall debate.

The European IGF would be usef… Continue

This was the workshop where everybody said they did not know what was going to happen in the future. Still, copyright was in the centre of attention of the discussion, with the “old” generation considering it a restriction and the “young” generation saying that there was no information which one cannot find for free. The European Youth Forum representative added that he was not happy with illegally downloading content, but he was not happy with Tom Cruise earning 15 million euro while he could n… Continue

Participants in the workshop talked about all the aspects of privacy. There were contributions from academics, regulatory bodies, NGOs, the business, the youth. Many interesting ideas were shared and exchanged:

- People are becoming citizens of Facebook in the way they are citizens of a country;
- It is important to regulate e-terminals;
- Enforcement of existing privacy legislation should be improved;
- Constant surveillance of people at work is increasing teh risk of health problems. Therefor… Continue

Two main issues were discussed at the roundtable: the dialogue between the institutions dealing with the issues of IG and the existing and future regulatory framework of the Internet: which are the most important problems in the area.

The conclusions about the first topic were simple: a multistakeholder approach should be adopted and institutions should communicate with one another, learning from each other’s best practices. Regarding the second topic, several questions were raised: the need fo… Continue

The most striking thing about the opening ceremony was that Georgios Kipouros, European Youth Forum representative, was the one who delivered the most clear and straightforward message from all participants in the session. He outlined the key problems in the Internet Governance area and encouraged the EuroDIG participants to focus on these issues during the two days of the conference.

For me, there are at least two reasons for this "phenomenon". First, youth people like Georgios and me are thos… Continue