dialogues

Marielza Oliveira is Director division for digital inclusion, policies and information.

What does ‘information as a public good’, and make those open and available in a trustworthy way mean? Why is it so important? How to lower (or even get rid of) exposure to harmful content, and both protect and empower people locally and worldwide? What other big threats and related accountability issues are created in this Digital Age? What policy instruments and actions need to be developed and deployed to address those? What are good respectively bad examples where policies including regulations are catching up with technological developments? How to help essential decision makers such as judges understanding digital (eco)systems, developments and their consequences to people and society? Regarding multi-stakeholder conversations, which stakeholders and networks should be at the table? What is the role of digital in SDGs, and achieving and sustaining those, before and after 2030? Where and how can the Institute for Accountability help facilitate with the mission of UNESCO? And, when is the next relevant event by UNESCO to discuss these and related important matters?

Jonathan Reichental, Author Data Governance for Dummies talks about why data governance is an issue today, what it is and its link to accountability. What does data governance mean? Why is it important? How is responsible for data? Which departments and functions should be involved? What is the difference between data governance and data management? While working with data and in data flows in any way, how to preserve human dignity and integrity including for instance privacy, data protection, data sovereignty and trust. And, why and where does accountability come in?

An I4ADA dialogue with Guy de Felcourt on “DIGITAL and EXTRATERRITORIAL OUTREACH”

In this Digital Age, how have the concepts of sovereignty and territory been evolved? What is the concept of extraterritorial outreach? How would it lead to more freedom, empowerment, protection and (other) sovereignty for people and communities in the Digital age? How to build such societal and economic future, and promote these new forms of democracies? Who should organise it? And, how to avoid it leading to even longer arms of national regimes abroad? These and other topics are addressed in this Dialogue.

Amos Guiora is the Author at Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults.

Where the one who commits or has committed a criminal act such as sexual assaults is the perpetrator, what’s the role and responsibility of bystanders of these acts? How are bystanders that failed to protect the assaulted person while being in a position to do so, now criminalized in the State of Utah? How about the enablers? And, what about digital platform and other intermediaries in the Digital Age that accept and share those posts? Are they enablers as well? Said otherwise, who is who, in the Digital space? Where legislation generally is geographically specific, how to expand to digital, or otherwise include the digital ecosystems? What is the extent of harm that is caused by such bystanders to such survivor? How to assess the harm a sexual assault enabler causes? Amos is requesting the help of the audience with finding empirical data sets. Good news already, that occurred after the Dialogue, is that we have been able to liaise him with Joelle Casteix of the Zero Abuse Project; connect, collaborate and co-create.

Olivier Crochat is the executive director of the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT). Part of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.