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SUMMARY:IGF 2023 | "(Re)-Building Trust Online: A Call to Action"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn 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. \nThe 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. \nView the IGF 2023 session page: https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2023-launch-award-event-144-re-building-trust-online-a-call-to-action
URL:https://freedomonlinecoalition.com/event/igf-2023-re-building-trust-online-a-call-to-action-2/
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SUMMARY:IGF 2023 | "Elections and the Internet: free\, fair and open?"
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by the Freedom Online Coalition Taskforce on Internet Shutdowns\, this Town Hall session will explore how the multi-stakeholder community (countries\, civil society and the private sector) can work together to anticipate\, prepare for and where possible prevent Internet shutdowns before they occur\, in particular ahead of elections\, building on progress to date. \nThe session will feature a panel discussion and Q&A\, bringing together experts to look at causes\, trends and impacts of Internet shutdowns\, including on human rights\, information integrity and democratic participation (particularly in the context of wider attempts to control the information space around elections). Through the session the Task Force will seek to identify practical steps that can be taken\, drawing lessons from elections during 2023 and looking towards ‘high risk’ elections in 2024. \nDuring 2023\, the UK is chairing the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Taskforce on Internet Shutdowns (TFIS) alongside FOC Advisory Network (AN) members Access Now and the Global Network Initiative. TFIS serves as a multi-national and multi-stakeholder coordination and response mechanism on Internet shutdowns. \nThrough TFIS\, we are working to improve coordination among like-minded countries\, civil society\, and the private sector to anticipate and respond to Internet shutdowns. As the biggest multilateral\, multi-stakeholder forum dedicated to internet governance\, the UN IGF is the ideal platform to bring partners together to drive this forward. \nThis event will support and deliver on the TFIS’ four key lines of effort: knowledge sharing; response – preventative and reactive (especially the former); shifting global norms – elevating Internet shutdowns up the international policy agenda (in line with the aspiration Japan set out to when hosting a session on Internet shutdowns at the UN UGF 2022); and improving data collection (e.g. trends around Internet shutdowns around elections). \nView the IGF session page: https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2023-town-hall-39-elections-and-the-internet-free-fair-and-open
URL:https://freedomonlinecoalition.com/event/igf-2023-elections-and-the-internet-free-fair-and-open/
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SUMMARY:IGF 2023 | "Donor Principles for Human Rights in the Digital Age: Turning Principles into Action"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThese 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. \nVisit the IGF session page: www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2023-open-forum-157-donor-principles-for-the-digital-age-turning-principles-int.
URL:https://freedomonlinecoalition.com/event/igf-2023-donor-principles-for-human-rights-in-the-digital-age-turning-principles-into-action/
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SUMMARY:IGF 2023 | "Leveraging the FOC at International Organizations"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn 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. \nRead more by visiting https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2023-open-forum-109-leveraging-the-foc-at-international-organizations.
URL:https://freedomonlinecoalition.com/event/igf-2023-leveraging-the-foc-at-international-organizations/
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