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Has the Digital Age been slowed or accelerated by the global Covid-pandemic? Which law is actually applicable when in a cross-border conference call? Are stakeholders taking a too simplistic approach on global, overlapping privacy and personal data protection? Do countries still play any role in the Digital Age? Do people and society still have a say, and a choice, or are we already too dependant on digital? Does focusing on either sovereignty, human-centricity, data-centricity or universal societal challenges solve this? And most of all, what have accountability, engaging with stakeholders and building trust to offer for all of these existential or otherwise essential questions? A Dialogue with Prof. Dan Jerker Svantesson. Professor at Faculty of Law, Bond University, Australia (Gold coast)

A dialogue with Peter Batt, Former Dir-Gen for Digital Society, Digitisation of the Administration and IT, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, Germany.

When having had to experience a huge trauma and becoming a victim, does one just remain a victim or survive it and thrive through it? If the latter, how to help others? What tools are available to identify, isolate and stop harassment and other abuse? And how can the combination of mission-focus, digital capabilities, data and data analytics better cater for this? What patterns can one identify, and what can bring artificial intelligence (AI) concretely while not being biased, and otherwise remain accountable? Addressing serious societal challenges, developing and optimizing mission-based AI for accountability, being accountability for AI and balancing these out in this dynamic digital era, are clearly intertwined in this important Dialogue. A dialogue with Joelle Casteix, founding member of the board of directors of the Zero Abuse Project