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The city of Vilnius, Lithuania, hosted the 2024 edition of EuroDIG, which took place from June 17 to 19. EuroDIG is a pan-European multistakeholder forum focused on Internet Governance (IG), with the main goal of promoting European participation in the dialogue on this topic by bringing together perspectives from different stakeholders, facilitating debate, and informing decisions regarding the Internet. This forum has several significant institutional partners (e.g., European Commission; UNESCO; ICANN; RIPe; Internet Society, etc.) and various donors, which include notable European ccTLDs, such as .eu, .de, .nl, .at, and also .pt. As a regional initiative of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the "Messages" resulting from each edition of EuroDIG are presented at the annual IGF conference.

It is noteworthy that in this edition, .PT financially supported the travel and accommodation of a young computer engineering student from IST, who actively participated in the event along with the YouthDIG community [1].

This year's theme was: "Balancing Innovation and Regulation," a current and central topic in the international IG debate, also heavily influenced by the recent publication of the Artificial Intelligence Regulation. Over three days, the more than 50 EuroDIG sessions, which took place simultaneously with the annual "Baltic Domain Days" event, addressed topics—mostly from a legal and public policy perspective—such as the defense of human rights online, Artificial Intelligence (AI), interoperability, data governance, ongoing United Nations processes related to Internet governance, namely GDC and WSIS+20, digital empowerment, among others.

Read the full report here.

[1] YouthDIG Messages available at: https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/YOUthDIG_2024