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Marco Magnano is Comms Director at XR Safety Initiative. This dialogue is hosted by guest host Richard Foster-Flecher, founder of MKAI.

How is trust and being worthy of trust established in the physical world? Would that be the same online, and otherwise in the Digital Age? When adding immersive technology to the equation such as VR and AR, what does change, is augmented – or worsened – even more? Will data harvesting and other collection decrease or increase? Are we mere data points, and do we need to consider new notions about privacy and personal data? Can democratisation and related decentralisation and distribution methodologies and technologies perhaps help out? What should we do as individuals and society? This Dialogue covers all these important queries.

Nathalia Foditsch is a Senior Policy and Regulatory Specialist, with the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) part of the Web Foundation. In this dialogue she discusses the recent report the A4AI produced on the status of the Universal Service and Access Funds for the Latin American and Caribbean Countries.

How to make internet connectivity and access possible and available in an affordable way? What does meaningful connectivity and accessibility mean? What does affordable internet mean? How to foster that? And, to which (parts of the) the open internet? What are universal service and access funds? Why are those needed? Who has access to those funds? What can one do with it? What are success stories? What obstacles and challenges? What can local and regional policy makers and societies learn from the latest advocacy report? This Dialogue dives into these and related important matters.

She also brings up the topic of the need for meaningful connectivity.You can find a link to the A4AI report here.

What is the future of domain names? Why is attention to our digital fundamental infrastructure so important? Where did the internet protocol start, and what is IPv6? What brings it to the table regarding accountability? Is transparency seen as a friend or seen as a foe? Why is the implementation relatively difficult? Where certain necessary global transitions are relatively slow, why not start locally? Next to understanding, appreciation and financial investments, what are furthermore prerequisites? How to involve the mid and low income countries? How to leave nobody behind?

Rosa Maria Delgado is an independent expert in IPv6. She discusses the need for nations and organizations to move to IPv6 as a fundamental layer for digital transition.

Prof. Jan Scholtes, University of Maastricht, Founder ZyLAB discusses role of eDiscovery in Accountability in the Digital Age.

What does eDiscovery mean? What kind of fact finding does it facilitate? How to find relevant data, and how to trust it? How to avoid bias, tunnel vision and echo chamber behaviour by the investigators? How to respect human values and rights? When does one know it has found and investigated the appropriate data sets? How does one know whether it has seen it all? Can the eDiscovery tools and processes be trusted, and do they demonstrate accountability themselves? What can accountable eDiscovery and related good practices help our with accountability issues in the Digital Age? This Dialogue dives into these and related matters.