dialogues

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.

Pradeep Gupta, Chairman Cyber Media Group discussing the role of media and Accountability in the Digital Age.

Is the role of media news and other content provider, watch dog, or both? What has the media reporting about (and had influence in) during the past decades. What is it focusing on now and the next years? How does a media organisation implement accountability, both internally as well as externally? How does it cope with being branded as ‘fake news’? How does it deal with such attacks from a technical, digital perspective? Are there national/regional differences through the world? Why do people (like to) believe unverified information, and seem to enjoy echo chambers? How can an accountable media organisation help and share good practices? What are 21st good practices for 21st problems? Who should be at the table to help (further) develop, build, try, implement and improve accountability in the Digital Age? What can start-ups learn and how can they take in these good practices and initiatives? This Dialogue covers all these important queries.

Mei Lin Fung is chair and co-founder together with Vint Cerf of the People Centered Internet. See PCI.

What was the internet originally intended to be? To which other historic innovations is the evolution of the internet similar? What can we learn from those, and the first decades of the internet? How to improve or rebuild the current internet so it can become less technology-dependent, less vulnerable, more robust and more resilient? Who and which organisations could or should be part of these efforts? How can accountability be included, by design, while running, and by supporting continuous improvement? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue.

Prof. Christoph Stueckelberger, Founder of Globethics.net Foundation discusses cyber ethics.

What does ethics means, around the world? What are the common denominators? What changes when one goes online? What can one reasonably expect online and why are some behaving differently online. How to be reliable towards people online – with the many persona individuals have during the day –, and remain accountable? How to deal with the long-term memory of digital systems, and the internet in specific, when people change and are allowed to change their minds over time? How to catch up, speed up, and keep up with every increasing and accelerating technological developments? How to keep the human in the driving seat in the Digital Age? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue.

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What does digital sovereignty mean? Why has it become a hot topic? What are digital assets, and why are they important? What technologies with either local, regional or even global reach are relevant to build, achieve and sustain digital sovereignty? What geopolitical threats need to be taken seriously? Are these challenges too big for one country, and if so, how to collaborate? How to speed up and keep up with ever-increasing and accelerating technological developments including essentials such as cybersecurity and trust? Is speed actually a friend or a foe? Which trustworthy and accountable 21st century digital, collaborative and organizational capabilities can support addressing challenges in this Digital Age? These and other essential queries are explored in this Dialogue. with Paul Timmers, Oxford University.