Freedom Online Coalition

IGF 2023 | "Donor Principles for Human Rights in the Digital Age: Turning Principles into Action"
2023-10-11 08:30 - 10:00 (Asia/Tokyo)
This event will officially launch the Donor Principles for the Digital Age and begin a multistakeholder engagement process to bring them to fruition. International development actors have an outsized impact on technological innovation, use and governance around the world through digital programming and related engagements. Despite increased cooperation on technology and democracy engagements overall, donors have yet to collectively articulate and adopt comprehensive safeguards that can help to ensure that donor-supported programs do not inadvertently facilitate the weaponization of, or adverse impacts caused by, data driven technologies and information. This is a gap in the development sector that international and local civil society stakeholders have called on donors to fill.
These voluntary, non-binding donor principles will provide an opportunity for donor nations to negotiate and agree upon a set of normative parameters for rights-respecting, democracy-affirming investments and engagements in digital contexts. They will be negotiated and agreed upon by FOC member governments from June – October 2023, with inputs from the FOC’s multistakeholder Advisory Network. This session will launch the principles, and kick off the process of implementing them. The Donor Principles for the Digital Age will reflect the high-level principles articulated in the Declaration for the Future of the Internet, but will be specific to international development.
Visit the IGF session page: www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2023-open-forum-157-donor-principles-for-the-digital-age-turning-principles-int.

IGF 2023 | "Leveraging the FOC at International Organizations"
2023-10-12 08:30 - 09:30 (Asia/Tokyo)
As Internet Freedom continues to decline globally, the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) has a vital role to play in promoting values of democracy and human rights online. The FOC, established in 2011, is a group of 38 countries committed to protecting and promoting human rights online, including freedoms of expression, association, and peaceful assembly, and privacy rights. The FOC, the only multilateral organization solely dedicated to promoting and protecting human rights online, facilitates multistakeholder engagement at the intersection of technology and human rights by bringing government members into dialogue with technology companies, civil society organizations, and academics through the FOC Advisory Network (FOC-AN). The FOC is thus uniquely positioned to empower a diverse range of stakeholders to collaborate in ensuring the Internet and digital technologies remain free, open, interoperable, secure, and reliable.
In this session, Canada, the U.S. and the Netherlands, the past, current, and future government Chairs of the FOC, will be joined by two non-governmental FOC-AN stakeholders to discuss opportunities and challenges of using the FOC to advocate for human rights defenders (HRDs), civil society, journalists, and other stakeholders in multilateral institutions and processes. FOC advocacy tools include issuing joint statements and engaging in international organizations and multilateral processes and fora. Canada, the 2022 FOC Chair, will speak to the FOC’s engagement at the United Nations (UN), including in shaping UNESCO’s recommendations for “Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.” The United States, as the current chair of the FOC, will highlight capacity building efforts within the FOC to strengthen existing coordination efforts in diplomatic networks. The Netherlands will reflect on how to use the lessons learned over the past two years to enhance the FOC’s ability to shape global norms. FOC-AN stakeholders will share their perspectives from the civil society and/or private sector on the FOC’s advocacy efficacy within the UN system.
Read more by visiting https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2023-open-forum-109-leveraging-the-foc-at-international-organizations.

FOC Strategy & Coordination Meeting in Geneva
2023-11-14 - 2023-11-15
The FOC’s third Strategy & Coordination Meeting (SCM) of 2023 will be hosted by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Geneva from 14 – 15 November.
The SCM will convene FOC Member States, Observers, the FOC Advisory Network, and other stakeholders, to share information and develop joint strategies to address the trends, opportunities, and challenges in relation to the promotion and protections of human rights, both online and offline, worldwide.
Further information about the SCM will be shared over the coming months.

Summit for Democracy: "Upholding Information Integrity Online to Reinforce Democracy and Human Rights"
2024-03-19 05:00 - 06:30 UTC | COEX Convention & Exhibition Center, 513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Time: Tuesday, 19 March, 14:00 – 15:30 KST
Format: In-Person (Register via this link)
Session Description:
In recent years, the importance of a healthy information ecosystem has become increasingly apparent. It’s vital for maintaining public trust in democratic processes and institutions, fostering open, pluriform and inclusive public debate, and facilitating discussions on human rights, public health, and environmental issues grounded in a shared understanding of reality. The growing scope and sophistication of disinformation highlights the necessity for coordinated efforts among government, private sector, and civil society stakeholders. These efforts are essential to promote and protect the online information ecosystem. With a packed electoral calendar in 2024, the urgency of addressing these challenges is clear. The 39 member states of the Freedom Online Coalition’s are committed to supporting global efforts to uphold information integrity online and to reinforce democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.
This session will highlight the vision and goal of the FOC’s multistakeholder Task Force on Information Integrity Online, and foster dialogue among Summit participants on collaborative efforts to uphold information integrity during electoral periods. We take notice of the many different efforts, including recent industry initiatives such as the Tech Accord to Combat Deceptive Use of AI in 2024 Elections to address the challenges in particular caused by AI to election integrity. At this event, we will discuss methods to collectively advocate for the promotion of a healthy online information ecosystem, and how these initiatives can work in conjunction with each other. We will also discuss what further steps are needed to fully understand our different roles and responsibilities, the functioning and the nature of the online information ecosystem, and how we consequently can better design and govern it in a way that promotes democracy and human rights.
Opening Remarks:

Peter van der Vliet, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Republic of Korea
Uzra Zeya, U.S. Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights

Global Testimonies on Information Integrity:

Kyung Sin “KS” Park, Founder, Executive Director, Open Net Korea
Hyra Basit, Senior Project Manager, Digital Rights Foundation
Camilo Arratia Toledo, Project Analyst, Internet Bolivia

Panel Session:

Moira Whelan (Moderator), Director, Democracy & Technology, NDI
Mia Møhring Larsen, Senior Tech Advisor for Human Rights & Global Engagement, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Amy Larsen, Director, Democracy Forward, Microsoft
Alex Walden, Global Lead for Human Rights, Google
Elonnai Hickok, Managing Director, Global Network Initiative
Aws Al-Saadi, Founder & President, Tech4Peace
Rachel Arinii Judhistari (Closing Remarks), Lead Public Policy Specialist, ESEAP, Wikimedia Foundation

Digital Rights & Inclusion Forum: "Advancing a Human Rights-Based and Multistakeholder Approach to Internet and Digital Technology Governance"
2024-04-24 16:00 - 17:00 UTC
Time: Wednesday, 24 April, 16.00 – 17.00 GMT
For more information on DRIF 24, including the event program, visit the following link.
Session Description:
We find ourselves at a pivotal point to shape the governance of digital technologies, which may have severe implications for human rights and fundamental freedoms. Around the world, laws and policies are increasingly introduced to address a wide range of digital issues, including those relating to censorship, surveillance, network shutdowns, mis- and disinformation, and new and emerging technologies. While a myriad of initiatives and processes are currently underway to harness the benefits of digital technologies, establish norms and principles, and ensure effective multistakeholder cooperation, there is a need for more concerted efforts to ensure that outcomes are rights-respecting and ultimately advances Internet freedom globally.
Key processes such as the World Summit on the Information Society Review Process, alongside processes ongoing in the UN system, and leading up to the Summit of the Future and the Global Digital Compact, are set to have significant implications for governance arrangements relating to the Internet and emerging technologies. The FOC is committed to further promoting the multistakeholder governance of digital technologies, to work towards ensuring that the outcomes of these processes are human rights-respecting, human-centred, and inclusive, and promote harnessing the benefits of digital technologies while mitigating harms stemming from their use.
This session will be an opportunity to engage with regional stakeholders to share insights relating to opportunities and challenges in the global South linked to ongoing and upcoming processes, in addition to regional fora, from which the governance of the Internet and digital technologies will be shaped for the years ahead. The session will also explore the FOC’s role in these processes to advance a human rights-based and multistakeholder approach to the governance of the Internet and digital technologies.
Session Speakers:

(Moderator) Grace Githaiga, Co-Convenor of the Kenya ICT Action Network
(Opening Remarks) Luca Kuiper, Policy Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Emmanuella Darkwah, Senior Manager, International Cooperation, Cyber Security Authority, Ghana
Adeboye Adegoke, Senior Manager at Paradigm Initiative
Elizabeth Orembo, Research Fellow at Research ICT Africa
Emilar Gandhi, Head of Stakeholder Engagement for Policy Development, Meta

World Press Freedom Day Conference: "Shaping a Positive and Inclusive Vision for the Online Information Ecosystem"
2024-05-04 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
Time: Saturday, 4 May, 11.00 – 12.00 CLT / Hora: sábado, 4 de mayo, 11:00 – 12:00 CLT
Format: In-person (Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile, Room A2) and online. Join the live stream on Youtube.
For more information on the World Press Freedom Day Conference, including the event program, visit the following link.
Session Description:
The spread of disinformation online, which erodes information integrity, and the use of Internet shutdowns undermine the enjoyment of human rights, hinder the ability to seek, receive and impart information, as well as impede the realisation of civil and political rights necessary for democracy to flourish.
State-sponsored Internet censorship is particularly prevalent during electoral periods, interfering with citizens’ participation in representative government and the conduct of public affairs, and affecting the ability of different actors to participate fully and freely in the electoral process. These periods are also key milestones where the integrity of information online is essential for human rights and the democratic process, but faces the most threats (including through the spread of disinformation and hate speech).
To address this, FOC’s Task Force on Internet Shutdowns (TFIS) and the Task Force on Information Integrity Online (TFIIO) have both been leading on diplomatic joint statements denouncing the use of internet shutdowns and advocating for the promotion of information integrity during electoral periods.
This panel will reflect on how the two issues are interlinked, what the causal relations are (as internet shutdowns lead to further deterioration of information integrity, but a lack of information integrity online can also be used as a reason for states to impose internet shutdowns) and how the two topics can be addressed in synergy.
The panel will bring the discussion to a local level, to discuss region-specific challenges faced. It will address the role the free media plays in efforts to promote freedom and human rights online. Outcomes will be fed into further work of both the TFIS and TFIIO under the FOC.

“Dando forma a una visión positiva e inclusiva para el ecosistema de información en línea”
Descripción de la sesión:
La propagación de la desinformación en línea, que socava la integridad de la información, y el uso de cortes de Internet minan el disfrute de los derechos humanos, obstaculizan la capacidad de buscar, recibir e impartir información, así como impiden la realización de los derechos civiles y políticos necesarios para que florezca la democracia.
La censura de Internet patrocinada por el Estado es particularmente prevalente durante los períodos electorales, interfiriendo en la participación de los ciudadanos en el gobierno representativo y la conducción de los asuntos públicos, y afectando la capacidad de diferentes actores para participar plenamente y libremente en el proceso electoral. Estos períodos también son hitos clave donde la integridad de la información en línea es esencial para los derechos humanos y el proceso democrático, pero enfrenta más amenazas (incluida la propagación de desinformación y discursos de odio).
Para abordar esto, el Grupo de Trabajo sobre Cortes de Internet (TFIS, por sus siglas en inglés) y el Grupo de Trabajo sobre Integridad de la Información en Línea (TFIIO, por sus siglas en inglés) han estado liderando declaraciones diplomáticas conjuntas denunciando el uso de cortes de Internet y abogando por la promoción de la integridad de la información durante los períodos electorales.
Este panel reflexionará sobre cómo los dos problemas están interrelacionados, cuáles son las relaciones causales (ya que los cortes de Internet llevan a una mayor deterioro de la integridad de la información, pero la falta de integridad de la información en línea también puede ser utilizada como motivo para que los Estados impongan cortes de Internet) y cómo los dos temas pueden abordarse de manera sinérgica.
El panel llevará la discusión a un nivel local, para discutir los desafíos específicos de la región. Abordará el papel que juegan los medios de comunicación libres en los esfuerzos para promover la libertad y los derechos humanos en línea. Los resultados se incorporarán al trabajo adicional tanto del TFIS como del TFIIO bajo el FOC.

Opening Remarks:

Carmen Gonsalves, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Chile

Moderator:

Michel Roberto de Souza, Public Policy Director, Derechos Digitales

Panellists:

Agneris Sampieri, LATAM Policy Analyst, Access Now
Costanza Sciubba Caniglia, Anti-Disinformation Strategy Lead, Wikimedia Foundation
Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Chairwoman of the Board of Free Press for Eastern Europe

WSIS+20 Forum: The Impact of Technical Standards on Human Rights in the case of Digital Technologies
2024-05-29 10:00 - 10:45 (Europe/Helsinki)
Time: Wednesday, 29 May, 10.00 – 10.45 CET
Format: In-person (International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG), Room EF) and online. Register your attendance by visiting the following link.
For more information on the WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event, including the event program, visit the following link.
Session Description:

Emerging technologies have the potential to significantly impact the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms as defined by the foundational documents for international human rights law: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). They greatly affect economic development and might bring economic and social benefits, but also pose both opportunities as well as risks for further enabling and scaling human rights violations and abuses. Both governments and the private sector have a role to play in ensuring that the benefits of emerging technologies are harnessed, and the risks brought about by the design, development, deployment and the use of these technologies avoided, addressed, mitigated, and remedied. This reality has also been recognized in UN resolutions, such as UNGA Resolution A/Res/78/213 on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Digital Technologies.
Under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, businesses have a responsibility to respect all internationally recognized human rights, avoiding infringing on the human rights of others and addressing adverse human rights impacts stemming from or linked to their business activities. This also extends to companies’ participation in the development and implementation of technical standards. At the same time, states have obligations to respect, protect and fulfil human rights, which applies to their involvement in standard-setting. As per the OHCHR’s report on “Human rights and technical standard-setting processes for new and emerging digital technologies”, technical standards reflect the interests, values and concerns of those participating in their elaboration, with crucial ramifications for human rights. Technical standards for the Internet and digital technologies can generate human rights impacts in several ways, and there has been a growing body of work and research on this topic, including by OHCHR, academia and civil society organizations. However, given the complexity of the topic, more understanding is needed about the nature and extent of the linkages between technical standards and human rights impacts in the context of emerging technologies, including with respect to embedded biases that lead to or facilitate discriminatory outcomes, or interfere with the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, privacy, access information, and effective remedy.
This session will highlight the role of the private sector in ensuring a rights-respecting approach in developing emerging technologies, including generative AI tools and systems, as well as the role of governments in ensuring that the development and implementation of technical standards around these technologies are conducted in alignment with states’ obligation to respect, protect and fulfil human rights. The session will consider strategies for integrating human rights concerns and safeguards into the technical standards development process, building on the interlinkages between the multi-stakeholder approach to the governance of the Internet and digital technologies and a human rights-based approach to such governance. These interlinkages were explicitly highlighted in the Outcome Document of the multi-stakeholder conference NETmundial+10, held on April 29th and 30th 2024.
This session is a precursor to a more in-depth, dedicated session, co-organized by the Freedom Online Coalition under the Chairship of the Netherlands, at the IGF in December 2024, pending acceptance of the proposal, in which some of the outcomes of this session can be taken forward.

Asia-Pacific Regional IGF (APrIGF)
2024-08-21 - 2024-08-23 | NTUH International Convention Center, Taipei City, Taiwan
The Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) will be taking place from 21-23 August in Taipei, Taiwan. The Kingdom of the Netherlands, 2024 Chair of the Freedom Online Coalition, will be hosting a Regional Dialogue for stakeholders based in the Asia Pacific, which is scheduled for 11.30AM local time, Friday, 23 August in Room 101 of the NTUH International Convention Center.
The session will also be available to join online for registered APrIGF attendees, and can be accessed via the following links: Zoom & YouTube.
The FOC’s Observer, Taiwan, is organising an APrIGF side-event titled “Promoting Trust Under the Age of AI and Emerging Technologies”, which will feature remarks from the FOC Chair. The session will commence at 9:30AM local time, Friday, 23 August in Hall 203. Further information on the session can be found here, including the link to view the discussion online.
For more information on the APrIGF and to register, visit the following website. To get in touch, please contact the FOC Support Unit via the Contact Us page.

UNGA 79 Ministerial Side-Event | AI for Humanity: Charting the Global Course for Human Rights-Based Governance
2024-09-23 15:30 - 17:00 UTC | New York
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) presents a host of opportunities and challenges. AI has the potential to enhance individual wellbeing, to accelerate progress towards the SDGs and to promote the protection of and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. However, the technology poses risks to these same universal human rights when misused or when an appropriate policy infrastructure is lacking. Robust AI governance frameworks, grounded in international human rights standards, are essential. This event, organised by the Netherlands as the 2024 Chair of the Freedom Online Coalition, will address how comprehensive AI governance frameworks can be fully aligned with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law, as emphasised by all 193 United Nations member states in the first UN General Assembly resolution on AI (A/78/L.49).
In the 13 years since its inception, the cross-regional Freedom Online Coalition, now comprising 40 governments, has established itself as a crucial platform for advancing human rights principles in the digital age. This discussion aims to harness key insights for human rights-based AI governance, drawing on the final report of the UN High-Level Advisory Body on AI.
Watch the event live by visiting www.freedomonlinecoalition.com/ministerial-event-2024/.
Ministerial Remarks:
Caspar Veldkamp, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State, United States
Margus Tsahkna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Estonia
Mauricio Lizcano, Minister of Information Technologies and Communications, Colombia
Panellists:
Dr. Alison Gillwald, Executive Director, Research ICT Africa, FOC Advisory Network (Moderator)
Nighat Dad, Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation, HLAB on AI Member
Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Executive Director, Tech Global Institute, FOC Advisory Network
Sarah Heck, Policy, Anthropic
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Freedom on the Net 2024 | Europe Launch Event (co-organised by Freedom House, the Netherlands, and the FOC)
2024-10-22 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | The Hague, the Netherlands
The Europe launch of Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net 2024: The Struggle for Trust Online, co-organised by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Freedom Online Coalition, will take place at 5:00PM CET on Tuesday, 22 October.
The event will feature:

Welcome remarks from Ernst Noorman, Ambassador at Large for Cyber Affairs at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (TBC)
A keynote from Marietje Schaake
An overview of research findings from Allie Funk, Research Director for Technology and Democracy and Grant Baker, Research Analyst for Technology and Democracy

A discussion with:

Evelyn Austin, Executive Director of Bits of Freedom and FOTN author for the Netherlands report
Nasiru Deen, FOTN author for the Gambia report
Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Founder and Executive Director of Tech Global Institute

Watch the event live via the video below or visiting the following link (YouTube).

IGF 2024: Inclusive Multistakeholderism: Tackling Internet Shutdowns
2024-12-15 15:45 - 16:45 (Europe/Moscow)
Join the Session: Workshop Room 6 / Zoom (hybrid)
Organised by: The Co-Chairs of the FOC’s Task Force on Internet Shutdowns – the United Kingdom, Access Now, and the Global Network Initiative.
Speakers:

Kanbar Hossein-Bor, Head of the Democratic Governance and Media Freedom Department, UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office
Felicia Anthonio, #KeepitOn Coalition Campaign Manager, Access Now
Scott Campbell, Senior Human Rights Officer, OHCHR
Joss Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
Alex Walden, Global Head of Human Rights, Google

Session Description:

Our objective for the session is to reinforce the importance of the multistakeholder approach to tackling digital threats, including Internet shutdowns, exploring and showcasing ways in which inclusive multistakeholder collaboration (countries, civil society and the private sector) can facilitate and effect positive change. We will also use the session to wrap up the UK country chairship of the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC)’s Task Force on Internet Shutdowns (TFIS) showcasing learning, progress and achievements from our two-year leadership on this work. The session will feature a panel discussion and Q&A, bringing together experts to look at the ways in which an inclusive multistakeholder approach can effectively tackle digital threats, including Internet shutdowns, the challenges, and practical ways to safeguard and further develop this collaborative approach. Speakers will represent governments, civil society, international organisations, academia and the private sector. The session will aim to look at country case studies to identify both challenges and effective collaborative approaches.
During 2024, the UK is chairing the FOC’s Taskforce on Internet Shutdowns (TFIS) alongside Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network (AN) members Access Now and the Global Network Initiative. TFIS serves as a multinational and multistakeholder coordination and response mechanism on Internet shutdowns. Through TFIS, we are working to improve coordination among like-minded countries, civil society, and the private sector to anticipate and respond to Internet shutdowns and restrictions. As the biggest multilateral, multistakeholder forum dedicated to internet governance, the UN IGF is the ideal platform to bring partners together to progress this work.

IGF 2024: Human Rights Impacts of AI on Marginalized Populations
2024-12-15 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Moscow)
Join the Session: Workshop Room 9 / Zoom (hybrid)
Organised by: The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Moderator: Allison Peters, Acting Deputy Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, United States
Speakers:

Amy Colando, General Manager, Responsible Business Practices, Microsoft
Nighat Dad, Founder and Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation
Nicol Turner Lee, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution
Rasha Younes, Interim Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program, Human Rights Watch
Guus van Zwoll, Team Lead, Task Force International Cyber Policies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (closing remarks)

Session Description:
While AI technologies promise significant benefits, the human rights risks they pose too often fall disproportionately on marginalized populations, such as women and girls in all their diversity, persons with disabilities, members of marginalized racial, ethnic, religious, or linguistic groups, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQI+ persons, children, and human rights defenders. For example, AI systems are often used to generate harassing and harmful “deepfakes” or spread disinformation that specifically targets women and human rights defenders; AI systems can perpetuate patterns of bias found in their training data, reinforcing historical patterns of discrimination faced by groups defined by traits such as gender, geography, race, or caste; and AI tools enable advances in surveillance technologies that are too often used to interfere with rights to peaceful assembly or freedom of association, especially by marginalized populations, and have been used for targeting by security forces with harmful effects for civilians and privacy rights.
This interactive workshop session aims to collaboratively develop feasible steps that can advance the identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks to marginalized populations that are created or exacerbated by AI. Framed by remarks from government, civil society, and industry stakeholders describing the challenges and constraints they face in this area, the workshop will explore 1) pressing issues related to AI’s impacts on marginalized populations; 2) success stories that should inform future actions; and 3) feasible steps that different groups of stakeholders can take to advance progress. The discussion will pay particular attention to how these issues and potential actions differ across diverse cultural, geographic, and economic contexts. After the event, the key issues and steps identified will be collated into an outcomes document, which could be published by the FOC.

IGF 2024: A Rights-Respecting Approach to Emerging Tech Development
2024-12-17 15:45 - 16:45 (Europe/Moscow)
Join the Session: IGF Village Stage / Zoom (hybrid)
Organised by: The Netherlands, FOC Chair 2024, and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Opening Remarks: Rasmus Lumi, Director General of the Department of International Organizations and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
Moderator: Radka Sibille, Digital Affairs Advisor, EU Delegation to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva
Speakers:

Brendan Dowling, Australia’s Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology
Scott Campbell, Senior Human Rights Officer, OHCHR
Roman Danyliw, Chair, IETF
Ihueze Nwobilor, Senior Programmes Officer, Paradigm Initiative
Alex Walden, Global Head of Human Rights, Google

Session Description:
In past years, we have witnessed a significant increase of conversations around emerging technologies, especially generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools and systems, in the public sphere, peaking in 2023 following the release of ChatGPT. Since then, there have been extensive deliberations on the way these technologies affect human rights, and what implications new developments may have in the future. Emerging technologies have the potential to significantly impact the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms as defined by the foundational documents for international human rights law , and pose both opportunities for development and economic and social benefit, as well as risks for enabling and scaling human rights violations and abuses.
Both governments and the private sector have a role to play in ensuring that the benefits of emerging technologies are harnessed, and the risks brought about by their design, development, deployment and use addressed, mitigated, and remedied. In line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, businesses have a responsibility to respect all internationally recognized human rights, avoiding infringing on the human rights of others and addressing adverse human rights impacts stemming from or linked to their business activities. This also extends to companies’ participation in technical standards-development. At the same time, states have obligations to protect and promote human rights, which applies to their involvement in standard-setting. As per the OHCHR’s report on Human rights and technical standard-setting processes for new and emerging digital technologies, technical standards can have crucial ramifications for human rights. Technical standards regulating digital technologies can generate human rights impacts in several ways, and there has been a growing body of work and research on this topic, including by OHCHR and civil society. However, more specific work is needed to understand the impact of technical standards on human rights in the context of AI systems, particularly with respect to embedded biases that lead to or facilitate discriminatory outcomes, or interfere with the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, privacy, access to information, and effective remedy.
This networking session will allow participants to explore the role of the private sector in ensuring a rights-respecting approach in developing emerging technologies, including generative AI tools and systems, as well as the role of governments in ensuring that the development and implementation of technical standards around these technologies is conducted in alignment with states’ obligation to protect and promote human rights, and avoid fragmentation of international standards.
The networking session will gather stakeholders that work on or have a role in technical standards development to also learn about and discuss human rights issues that arise in technical standards-setting, considering strategies for integrating human rights concerns and safeguards into technical standards for digital technologies. The networking format will allow speakers and participants to explore avenues for strategic cooperation on the development of technical standards for emerging technologies that is rooted in a multistakeholder approach, and outline existing tools and (legal) frameworks that can serve as guidelines. The outcome of the session will be a raised capacity of the participants on what responsibility each stakeholder group has to ensure the development of a rights-respecting emerging technology and how to utilise the UNGPs and the OHCHR technical standards report practically, as well as what impacts these technologies could have on human rights if they are not developed through a multistakeholder and human-rights approach and if international technical standards are fragmented. The outcomes of the session will be captured in a report, with concrete recommendations.

IGF 2024: Ensuring an Inclusive and Rights-Respecting Digital Future
2024-12-19 13:15 - 14:45 (Europe/Moscow)
Join the Session: Workshop Room 6 / Zoom (hybrid)
Organised by: The Netherlands, FOC Chair 2024
Opening Remarks: Ernst Noorman, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Moderator: Jacco Pepijn-Baljet, Senior Policy Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Speakers:

Rasmus Lumi, Director General of the Department of International Organizations and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Executive Director, Tech Global Institute
Adeboye Adegoke, Senior Manager, Paradigm Initiative
Fiona Alexander, American University
Olaf Kolfman, Executive-level Advisor and Spokesperson, ISOC
Emilar Gandhi, Global Head of Stakeholder Engagement, Meta
Alex Walden, Global Head of Human Rights, Google
Representative of the IGF Secretariat
Representative of the Office of the UN Tech Envoy

Session Description:
With a number of key multilateral processes underway that have a potential of changing the Internet governance landscape, notably the UN Pact for the Future and the Global Digital Compact (GDC), this session will provide a platform for the various stakeholders in this space, including governments, civil society, the private sector, academia, the technical community, and relevant UN bodies, to discuss strategies for upholding the multistakeholder model of Internet governance. With the WSIS+20 Review coming up in 2025, participants will explore the path forward in implementing the Pact and GDC through the process for a rights-respecting and inclusive digital future. Relatedly, the session will also aim to provide an opportunity for relevant stakeholders to discuss the future of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in light of its mandate review in 2025. Stakeholders will examine ways to ensure the IGF’s role as a key platform for multistakeholder policy dialogue on Internet governance and for the promotion of an inclusive, open, safe and secure digital space, outlined in the Tunis Agenda, is reaffirmed and strengthened, as well as discuss how the IGF can advance the commitments outlined in the GDC.

RightsCon | From Countering to Building: Finding the Keys to Promote Information Integrity Online
2025-02-25 14:00 - 15:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Room 402A, Taipei International Convention Center, No. 1, Section 5, Xinyi Rd, Xinyi District, Taipei City, Taiwan 110
The following session will take place during the 2025 RightsCon Summit, 24-27 February, Taipei, Taiwan. For more information on the Summit, visit www.rightscon.com.
Roundtable discussion facilitated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, and the Wikimedia Foundation
Everyone, everywhere should be able to participate freely and safely in the creation, consumption, dissemination, and evaluation of information and ideas. A healthy information ecosystem should support and advance human rights, in particular freedom of expression. But recently, efforts to protect free speech and reliable information online – including with legitimate reason – risks undermining human rights. This includes both governments’ and companies’ active actions to control speech (including under the guise of countering disinformation), as well as their lack of addressing phenomena such as disinformation and hate speech to ensure people can safely access pluriform information without interference.
The right to freedom of expression and the global information ecosystem are complex topics. Global discourse as well as a majority of initiatives, and policies seem to primarily focus on the effects of the rapid spread of disinformation and misinformation that pollute the information ecosystem (which is accelerated by the developments of generative artificial intelligence). While disinformation is serious issue, overfocusing on content that needs to be removed may lead governments and companies to insufficiently address the essential ideas, values, and strengths of a healthy information ecosystem. Recent announcements from big tech platforms further underscore the need to refocus the conversation to what kind of global information ecosystem we wish to build and promote – rather than just focusing on what we would like to remove, block or take down.
Chaired by the Governments of Denmark and The Netherlands, and the Wikimedia Foundation, the Freedom Online Coalition’s (FOC) Task Force on Information Integrity Online launched a Blueprint on Information Integrity, which articulates a positive vision for a healthy online information ecosystem that supports the production and sharing of accurate, trustworthy and reliable information, and that protects and promotes human rights and democracy. The Blueprint presents three interconnected pillars: Agency – Trust – Inclusion.
During this roundtable conversation, the co-leads of the Task Force will briefly present this framework, and open up for a discussion about the key principles that underpin a healthy information ecosystem and how these manifest in different contexts. Participants are encouraged to contribute to this conversation on how we can utilize this framework to move forward this agenda, and to shift our attention towards the promotion of the key components needed to support a healthy, trustworthy, reliable, and inclusive information ecosystem.

RightsCon | Unlocking Progress through Inclusive and Rights-Respecting Digital Public Infrastructure
2025-02-27 09:00 - 10:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Room 102, Taipei International Convention Center, No. 1, Section 5, Xinyi Rd, Xinyi District, Taipei City, Taiwan 110
The following session will take place during the 2025 RightsCon Summit, 24-27 February, Taipei, Taiwan. For more information on the Summit, visit www.rightscon.com.
Dialogue session featuring Sabhanaz Rashid Diya (Tech Global Institute), Rasmus Lumi (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia), Amy Colando (Microsoft), Liz Orembo (Research ICT Africa), and Shruti Narayan (Access Now) – Room 102, TICC
Digital technologies have the potential to significantly impact the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and offer unprecedented opportunities for development and innovation, with the potential to generate social and economic benefits. In this sense, Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) often understood as a key tool to achieve the SDGs, and has been recognised as such through various initiatives, including the UN SG’s Envoy on Technology and UNDP initiative at the 78th UNGA to develop the Universal Safeguards Framework for DPI leading up to the Summit of the Future, and the UN Global Digital Compact (GDC).
In general, DPI is any digital technology that can enable the delivery of public services. There are three functional categories of DPI: digital identity systems, digital payment systems, and data exchanges. While DPI is an important enabling component towards digital inclusion, certain examples have shown how implementation without proper safeguards can lead to negative outcomes, including adverse impacts on human rights.
This session will explore human rights-respecting approaches to the design and implementation of DPI systems, that account for contextual realities in terms of access, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and examine ways to meaningfully engage with communities throughout the lifecycle of DPIs. Various stakeholders from the FOC community and beyond, including government, civil society, and technical community, will share perspectives and insight into ensuring that DPIs work towards securing social and economic benefits for communities, while upholding human rights in an inclusive and collaborative manner with access to effective remedy and redress.

Digital Rights & Inclusion Forum (DRIF) 2025
2025-04-29 - 2025-05-01 | Lusaka, Zambia
Estonia, 2025 Chair of the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC), will host a multistakeholder dialogue session as part of the 2025 Digital Rights & Inclusion Forum (DRIF). The session will explore rights-respecting approaches to the design and implementation of DPI systems that account for contextual realities in terms of access, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and examine ways to meaningfully engage with communities throughout the lifecycle of DPIs.
The dialogue will also serve as a consultation between stakeholders from the FOC community and beyond, including government, civil society, private sector, and technical community, to support the development of ‘Rights-Respecting Digital Public Infrastructure Principles’. The principles will establish a common understanding within the FOC of rights-respecting and inclusive DPI, and will draw on global best practices and frameworks, including the Universal DPI Safeguards and the GovStack Principles.
Further information on the session will be available shortly on the DRIF event page. The forum will take place in Lusaka, Zambia from Tuesday 29 April to Thursday 1 May. For more information, and to register your attendance, visit the following link: https://drif.paradigmhq.org/.

EuroDIG 2025: Multistakeholder Consultation on the FOC's Rights-Respecting Digital Public Infrastructure Principles
2025-05-12 13:00 - 14:15 (Europe/Helsinki)
Estonia, 2025 Chair of the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC), will host a multistakeholder consultation on the FOC’s draft Rights-Respecting Digital Public Infrastructure Principles during the 2025 EuroDIG Conference, taking place in Strasbourg, France from 12 – 14 May. For more information on EuroDIG and to register your attendance, visit the following link: https://www.eurodig.org/.
Session Overview:
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) are digital technologies that can enable the delivery of public services. There are three functional categories of DPI: digital identity systems, digital payment systems, and data exchanges. It is crucial for such systems to have built in safeguards that ensure human rights commitments are adhered to in their design and implementation. During the session, we want to hear perspectives from the community on how the design and implementation of DPI can balance the benefits of digital innovation with the protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms. Whether through examples of successful approaches or lessons learned. We will explore the most critical safeguards that should be in place to prevent DPI from exacerbating discrimination, exclusion, or other human rights harms. We also seek to discuss how governments, civil society, the private sector and technical experts can collaborate to ensure accountability within DPI processes and how these can include access to redress. Lastly, we invite EuroDIG participants to look ahead and provide suggestions on the emerging risks and opportunities that stakeholders, especially governments, should anticipate as DPI continues to evolve, and what steps can be taken to proactively start addressing the potential human rights challenges on the horizon.

Yerevan Dialogue: FOC Panel Discussion on DPI for Resilience & Inclusion - Advancing Human Rights Online
2025-05-26 16:30 - 18:00 (Asia/Dubai) | Seven Visions Resort & Places, The Dvin, Yerevan, Armenia, 40 Paronyan St, Yerevan, Armenia
Join the FOC during the 2025 Yerevan Dialogue (May 26-27) for a panel session on “Digital Public Infrastructure for Resilience and Inclusion: Advancing Human Rights Online”.
As digital technologies reshape every aspect of our social, economic, and political lives, ensuring equitable access and meaningful participation in the digital ecosystem has become a pressing global priority. The panel will bring together policy makers and civil society to explore how DPI can be designed and deployed to advance digital inclusion and uphold human rights online. For more information on the Yerevan Dialogue, visit www.yerevandialogue.com/agenda/.

IGF 2025: Shaping Global AI Governance Through Multistakeholder Action
2025-06-25 10:45 - 11:45 (Europe/Helsinki)
Join the FOC’s Task Force on AI & Human Rights for the following IGF Open Forum taking place in Workshop Room 4 / Online on Wednesday, 25 June from 10.45 – 11.45 CEST.
Session Description:
This session launches the 2025 Joint Statement on AI and Human Rights, which reaffirms the need for international AI governance to be grounded in international human rights law and developed through inclusive, multistakeholder processes. As AI systems are increasingly used in ways that suppress dissent, enable arbitrary surveillance, amplify discrimination, and erode democratic participation, the statement highlights the urgent need to embed human rights protections throughout the entire AI lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and oversight. The session will explore how global governance efforts can uphold these principles and advance a human-centric, accountable, and rights-respecting approach to AI.
Moderator: Zach Lampell, Senior Legal Advisor & Coordinator, Digital Rights, ICNL
Opening remarks: Ernst Noorman, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs, the Netherlands
Speakers:

Maria Adebahr, Director for Cyber Foreign and Security Policy, Germany
Divine Selase Agbeti, Director-General, Cyber Security Authority of Ghana
Erica Moret, Director UN & International Organisations, Microsoft

Closing remarks: Rasmus Lumi, Director General, Department of International Organisations and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

IGF 2025: How Do Technical Standards Shape Connectivity and Inclusion?
2025-06-27 09:00 - 10:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Join the FOC during the following IGF Open Forum taking place in Workshop Room 2 / Online on Friday, 27 June from 9.00 – 10.00 CEST.
Session Description:
Technical standards are the backbone of global connectivity, enabling data to flow seamlessly across borders and ensuring access to digital services. Yet, standard-setting processes often lack inclusive participation—particularly from the Global South, civil society, and marginalized communities. This session will examine how open and interoperable standards can improve connectivity, reduce digital inequalities, and enhance access to affordable digital services, especially in underserved regions.
A key focus will be the role of standards in global communication infrastructure, such as undersea cables, and in areas like data transmission, network compatibility, and cybersecurity. As technologies evolve (optical fiber, wavelength division multiplexing, quantum communications, etc.) standards must adapt to ensure reliability and resilience.
Despite their importance, bodies like the ITU, IETF, IEEE, and W3C often operate with limited stakeholder input. This session will explore barriers to participation in standard-setting and propose strategies to enhance transparency, accessibility, and representation. It will also highlight how inclusive digital cooperation can align technical standardization with broader goals—such as human rights, digital inclusion, and the SDGs—supporting WSIS Action Lines C2 (Information and Communication Infrastructure), C3 (Access to Information), and C11 (International and Regional Cooperation).
Through expert insights and interactive dialogue, participants will identify actionable steps to make standard-setting more open, collaborative, and equitable, advancing a secure, inclusive, and resilient global digital ecosystem.
Moderator: Laura O’Brien, Senior International Counsel, Access Now
Opening Remarks: Rasmus Lumi, Director General, Department of International Organisations and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
Speakers:

Divine Agbeti, Director-General of the Cyber Security Authority of Ghana
Stephanie Borg Psaila, Director for Digital Policy, Diplo Foundation
Natálie Terčová, At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), ICANN / Founder and Chair of IGF Czechia
Alex Walden, Global Head of Human Rights, Google
Rose Payne, Lead, Policy and Advocacy, Global Partners Digital

IGF 2025: Universal Principles, Local Realities: Multistakeholder Pathways for DPI
2025-06-27 11:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Helsinki)
Join the FOC for the following co-organised IGF Workshop taking place in the Conference Hall / Online on Friday, 27 June from 11.00 – 12.30 CEST.
Session Description:
We are witnessing a global movement toward the adoption of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), with countries all over the world deploying systems such as digital identity, payments, and data exchanges. While DPI has emerged as a driver of inclusive digital transformation and innovation, its design and implementation must respect and promote human rights to avoid risks such as exclusion, surveillance, and discrimination.
This workshop aims to examine how DPI systems are being shaped by diverse political, societal, and economic factors across regions. The session will explore the intersection between global DPI frameworks (like the UN Global Digital Compact and the Universal DPI Safeguards Framework) and country-level realities that influence DPI outcomes, and examine the importance of ensuring rights-respecting approaches to the design, development, and deployment of DPI systems. Building on regional outreach by the FOC, this session will draw insights from stakeholder experiences in India, Estonia, Brazil, South Africa, and the Dominican Republic, with speakers highlighting how DPI design choices reflect local political economies, the roles of state and market actors, and the implications for digital inclusion, civic participation, and human rights. The FOC will also highlight its efforts to develop “Rights-Respecting Principles for Digital Public Infrastructure”, and use the session as an opportunity to hear recommendations from the IGF community on how to strengthen the principles.
This conversation is particularly timely in light of the WSIS+20 Review Process, where DPI may feature prominently in revising the WSIS Action Lines. Furthermore, DPI has become a central element in international cooperation, with the Indian and Brazilian G20 Presidencies prioritizing it, and its relevance to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is widely acknowledged.
Moderator: Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Executive Director, Tech Global Institute
Speakers:

Rasmus Lumi, Director General for International Organisations and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia
Armando José Manzueta Peña, Vice Minister for Public Innovation and Digital, Ministry of Public Administration of the Dominican Republic
Anil Kumar Lahoti, Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
Bidisha Chaudhury, University of Amsterdam
Luca Belli, FGV Law School
Keith Breckenridge, University of the Witwatersrand

WSIS+20 High-Level Event | Global Digital Governance & Multistakeholder Cooperation for WSIS+20
2025-07-10 10:00 - 10:50 (Europe/Helsinki)
Date & Time: 10:00 – 10:50 CEST, Thursday, 10 July

Location: Plenary Room C, Palexpo, and online
As the global community approaches the 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20), inclusive and ethical digital governance remains critical to upholding human rights and advancing sustainable development. This roundtable will examine how to strengthen multistakeholder engagement—across civil society, the academic and technical communities, the private sector, and end users—to advance WSIS Action Lines C10 (Ethical Dimensions of the Information Society) and C11 (International and Regional Cooperation).
Recognizing the inextricable link between human rights and equitable global progress, the session will focus on best practices, challenges, and strategies for rights-based digital governance and enhanced international collaboration. A central theme will be the role of artificial intelligence (AI)—particularly generative and decision-making systems—in shaping the integrity of online information and public discourse. Participants will explore how AI influences trust, democratic participation, and human rights, and how governance frameworks can promote transparency, accountability, and equity while safeguarding freedom of expression, privacy, and non-discrimination. As AI technologies increasingly amplify existing trends, such as the spread of disinformation and the erosion of trust, the session will also consider to what extent current international agreements, human rights frameworks, and platform regulations remain adequate to address these compounded challenges.
The session will also highlight practical, collaborative approaches to bridging the digital divides through inclusive and rights-respecting strategies. Emphasis will be placed on how responsible AI governance and the promotion of healthy, trustworthy information ecosystems contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while preventing emerging technologies from deepening existing inequalities.
By fostering meaningful engagement and generating concrete policy recommendations, particularly around the WSIS+20, this session aims to help shape a more inclusive, sustainable, and human rights-based digital future.
Moderator: Ernst Noorman, Cyber Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Speakers:

Rasmus Lumi, Director General, Department of International Organisations and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
Dan York, Chief of Staff, ISOC
Gitanjali Sah, Strategy and Policy Coordinator, ITU
Isabel Ebert, Strategic Adviser, B-Tech Project, OHCHR
Jan Gerlach, Public Policy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

WSIS+20 High Level Event | Embedding Human Rights in AI Standards: From Principles to Practice
2025-07-10 16:00 - 16:45 (Europe/Helsinki)
AI Governance Dialogue at WSIS+20

Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) – International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Date & Time: 16:00 – 16:45 CEST, Thursday, 10 July
Location: Room E, Palexpo, and online
Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming societies at an unprecedented pace. While they offer vast opportunities, they also pose risks to the enjoyment of human rights. Technical standards, as foundational elements of digital infrastructure, can either safeguard or undermine these rights depending on their design and implementation.
In the Global Digital Compact, Member States call on standards development organizations (SDOs) to collaborate in promoting the development and adoption of interoperable artificial intelligence standards that uphold safety, reliability, sustainability, and human rights. In line with this vision, the Compact also recommends establishing an AI Standards Exchange to maintain a register of definitions and applicable standards for evaluating AI systems. Moreover, the Freedom Online Coalition’s 2024 Joint Statement urges SDOs and all stakeholders to embed human rights principles in the conception, design, development, and deployment of technical standards.
Thus, this side event will explore how such standards and tools can be developed to uphold human dignity, equality, privacy, and non-discrimination throughout the AI lifecycle.
Moderator: Ernst Noorman, Ambassador at Large for Cyber Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Speakers:

Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General, ITU
Peggy Hicks, Director of Thematic Engagement, OHCHR
Karen McCabe, Senior Director of Technology Policy, IEEE
Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO & Founder, Women at the Table
Dr. Florian Ostmann, Director of AI Governance and Regulatory Innovation, Alan Turing Institute

UNGA 80 | Building on the Foundations: Securing the Future of the Open Internet
2025-09-25 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | New York
On the margins of the UNGA 80 High-Level Week in New York, the Republic of Estonia, 2025 Chair of the FOC, will convene representatives from government, the technical community, civil society, academia, and the private sector for the side-event “Building on the Foundations: Securing the Future of the Open Internet”.
As the global community marks the 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) and advances efforts toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, ensuring that the Internet remains free, open, globally connected, accessible, interoperable, secure, and rights-respecting has never been more critical.
This side-event will examine how to strengthen resilience, mitigate risks such as Internet shutdowns and attacks on critical infrastructure, and promote meaningful connectivity, particularly for marginalized communities. Together, speakers will examine how technical, policy, and rights-based approaches can protect the architecture of the Internet and support a digital environment that upholds human rights and fundamental freedoms.
The event will commence with opening remarks from the 2025 FOC Chair, followed by interventions from high-level representatives of FOC Member States, Members of the Advisory Network, and other key stakeholders. Nabiha Syed, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation, will provide a keynote address in advance of a multistakeholder panel discussion moderated by Lea Kaspar, Executive Director, Global Partners Digital, and featuring:

H.E. Margus Tsahkna, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia
Dr. Jamal Tonzua Seidu, Deputy Director-General, Regulatory Affairs, Cyber Security Authority of Ghana
Alex Walden, Global Head of Human Rights, Google; Member of the FOC Advisory Network
Avri Doria, Principal Researcher, Technicalities; Member of the FOC Advisory Network
Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Executive Director, Tech Global Institute; Member of the FOC Advisory Network

Please note attendance at this event is by invitation. If you would like more information, please contact events@freedomonlinecoalition.com.

Tallinn Digital Summit | FOC Engagements
2025-10-09 - 2025-10-10 | Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia
Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Member States, Observers, and the FOC Advisory Network will convene on the margins of the upcoming Tallinn Digital Summit (TDS), taking place from 9 – 10 October 2025.
Further information on FOC engagements at TDS will be shared in the coming weeks. Should you have any enquiries, please reach out to events@freedomonlinecoalition.com.
