IGF 2023 | “(Re)-Building Trust Online: A Call to Action”

The Action Coalition on Trustworthy Information Online is a collaboration between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Wikimedia, Witness, Global Voices, and Salesforce. It aims to develop and advocate for strategies and policies that strengthen constructive and trustworthy online information. The coalition focuses on policy solutions to increase information integrity online. Technology is a significant source of societal transformation in promoting human rights, bringing people closer to the decisions that influence their lives, and making democratic institutions more robust and responsive. Yet online, expectations and aspirations for democracy have not fully been met. Digital technologies increasingly offer tools and channels for severe threats to democracies globally and our democratic practices.

In this session, the Action Coalition will present recommendations to identify political, regulatory, and technical approaches to enabling and protecting human rights to create, collect, share, and access trustworthy information. We will discuss how to advocate for better regulation in multiple jurisdictions. From members of the Coalition, we will hear about the importance of encouraging policymakers to understand community-based models for information creation and sharing, citizen journalism, and non-profit public interest journalism rooted in local communities. The recommendations set priorities for action by offering specific and actionable policies focusing on community-based models and putting forward concrete proposals for a healthier global information ecosystem. Participants will have access to the Action Coalition’s call for action and the possibility to get involved further after the launch of the recommendations.

The outcomes of this session will feed into the activities of the recently established FOC Task Force on Trustworthy Information Online (TFTIO), which will be continuing the work of the Action Coalition within its mandate in 2023. In its new role under the FOC, and with the aim to engage the broader mutlistakeholder community, TFTIO will work to develop and propose policy recommendations for governmental institutions and lawmakers with the goal of safeguarding a healthy online information ecosystem, ensuring people everywhere have the ability to participate in the creation of online information, and access to a broad range of trustworthy information.

View the IGF 2023 session page: https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2023-launch-award-event-144-re-building-trust-online-a-call-to-action