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* Video keynote by David Jenson, Coordinator of the UNEP Digital Transformation Task Force and Co-champion of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES)
* Video keynote by David Jenson, Coordinator of the UNEP Digital Transformation Task Force and Co-champion of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES)


''' EuroDIG Question Time''' (30’)
''' EuroDIG Question Time''' (30’) BBC Question Time [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_Time_(TV_programme) style]
* BBC Question Time [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_Time_(TV_programme) style]
* Theme: One year later, where are we now?
* Theme: One year later, where are we now?
* Moderator: Alexandra Lutz, Parliamentary Assistant for David Cormand, Greens/EFA
* Moderator: Alexandra Lutz, Parliamentary Assistant for David Cormand, Greens/EFA

Revision as of 16:22, 8 June 2021

29 June 2021 | 10:30-13:15 CEST | Studio Bruges
Consolidated programme 2021 overview / Day 1

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Session information

Date: Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Time: 10:30 - 13:15 CEST (UTC+2)

Session teaser

Now is the time for Europe to integrate sustainability and digitalisation via concrete action with the EuroDIG community. Tomorrow will be too little too late. How do we make ICT more sustainable, and how do ICTs enable us to achieve greater sustainability in society and economics?

Session description

Over the past year, the EuroDIG community has been addressing information and communications technology (ICT) sustainability and the crucial role of the Internet governance community in ensuring that environmental sustainability is at the heart of ICTs throughout their lifecycle. We are at a critical junction given the urgency of the topic coupled with a policy and regulatory environment that recognises the need for more concerted action vis-a-vis digitisation and sustainability – from the European Green Deal and the Sustainable Development Agenda, to the post-COVID recovery plans and the Paris Climate Agreement.

One year later, what has been achieved in Europe? What are the most prominent challenges? What else must be done to support all stakeholders in their respective roles towards greening Internet governance and the ICT ecosystem more broadly? What concrete commitments, collaborations, and plans for action are underway to develop rights-based and sustainable technologies as well as to ensure that technology is put in the service of solving the climate crisis and promoting environmental justice?

This session builds on EuroDIG 2020 Plenary 4: Greening Internet Governance to review the process made since EuroDIG 2020 and examine concrete achievements and feasible action plans for a sustainable ICT environment in the future, particularly over the next decade in-line with the EU's digital action plan and Green Deal strategies. It also constitutes the launch of the EuroDIG intersessional project, Greening Internet Governance, which will draw on the discussions had during this session to elaborate upon via concrete actions and recommendations over the coming period.

Format

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the online nature of EuroDIG 2021, and the high degree of interest in this topic, our session has been assigned a new session format called a focus session. This extended plenary session will allow us to dive deeper into the topics and create a foundation to launch EuroDIG’s upcoming intersessional project, Greening Internet Governance. This plenary event will be divided into three distinct, 45-minute-long sections (Input, Breakout Groups, and Output), with two 15-minute breaks in-between, meant to help facilitate the online format of EuroDIG 2021. The session is only the beginning of much more intensive work to come, which will generate concrete policy actions and recommendations.

PART I: Input

Allotted time: 45 minutes

Introduction (5’)

Keynote (5’)

  • Video keynote by David Jenson, Coordinator of the UNEP Digital Transformation Task Force and Co-champion of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES)

EuroDIG Question Time (30’) – BBC Question Time style

  • Theme: One year later, where are we now?
  • Moderator: Alexandra Lutz, Parliamentary Assistant for David Cormand, Greens/EFA
  • Question 1 – TBD
  • Question 2 – TBD
  • Question 3 – TBD
  • Question 4 – TBD

Panelists

  • Decision-maker 1 (Civil society) – TBD
  • Decision-maker 2 (Technical community) – TBD
  • Decision-maker 3 (Government) – TBD
  • Decision-maker 4 (Private sector) – TBD

Closing remarks for the first section & breakout group briefing (5’)

Break (‘15)

PART II: Breakout Sessions

Allotted time: 45 minutes

The purpose of the breakout sessions will be to focus each discussion on creating 2-3 key questions and/or concrete areas of inquiry/action on which we can further expand throughout the coming months as part of the Greening Internet Governance intersessional programme. Each breakout room corresponds to relevant developments over the past year, as raised by the organizing team, and in-line with last year’s messages (available in the “Further Reading” section below).

Theme 1: Energy

Theme 2: Circular Economy

Theme 3: Regulation & Policy

Theme 4: Green Business & ICT for Sustainable Business Models

Theme 5: Lifestyles & Consumerism

Break (‘15)

PART III: Output

Allotted time: 45 minutes

Reporting Back & Discussion (35’)

  • Breakout group reporting by the rapporteurs (10’)
  • Present key messages & action points from each breakout group (2 minutes each)
  • Use the Zoom Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down reactions to gauge audience agreement/disagreement
  • Followed by 25 minutes of discussion

Session reporting (5’)

Wrap-up (2’)

Further reading

Sustainability intersessional projects

Past EuroDIG sessions focusing on sustainability

PL 4 (2020) key messages

  • A standardised methodology and indicators are necessary to assess and monitor the environmental and social impact of digital technologies to enable evidence based decision making at the regulatory and political levels.
  • Internet governance must include sustainability at its heart (core).
  • To reduce the environmental impact of the digital world, it is necessary to adopt measures to optimise energy and material efficiency (circularity) of the digital sector. For example, increasing the use of renewables, innovating for low energy consumption, keeping devices longer in use, facilitating re-use, improving reparability and recyclability, and adopting sustainable business models.
  • We need to make sure that the infrastructure we use runs on green power. We should leverage policy, and in particular the policy on spending public money, to speed along the use of a greener Internet.
  • Areas where international coordination is needed the most are measures to promote the circular economy, to share environmental data, to reduce environmentally harmful consumption, to promote efficiency and enhance digital applications, and to ensure transparency regarding environmental costs and materials, as well as the improvement of data protection through technical measures.
  • Regulations that increase circular production and consumption, ensure corporate accountability, and increase the reuse of devices as well as increasing their longevity are some of the most important policy areas that need to be addressed in order for Europe to have a sustainable digital future.

Selection of past IGF sessions focusing on sustainability

Reports, regulations, and studies conducted by the European Union

Additional resources

  • Climate change impacts in Europe (link)
  • Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA)

People

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Focal Points

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Organising Team (Org Team) List Org Team members here as they sign up.

The Org Team is a group of people shaping the session. Org Teams are open and every interested individual can become a member by subscribing to the mailing list.

  • Alisa Heaver
  • David Franquesa
  • Kathrin Morasch
  • Vesna Manojlovic
  • Weronika Koralewska
  • Laurent Lefevre
  • Chris Adams
  • Prof. James Crabbe
  • Didier Beloin-Saint-Pierre
  • Dr. Monique Calisti
  • Kris Shrishak
  • Amali De Silva-Mitchell
  • Rapudo Hawi
  • Leandro Navarro
  • Ilias Iakovidis
  • Fabio Monnet
  • Simon Hinterholzer
  • Mike Hazas
  • Elizaveta Saponchik
  • Florian Feillet
  • Marcel Krummenauer

Key Participants

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Remote Moderator

Trained remote moderators will be assigned on the spot by the EuroDIG secretariat to each session.

Reporter

Reporters will be assigned by the EuroDIG secretariat in cooperation with the Geneva Internet Platform. The Reporter takes notes during the session and formulates 3 (max. 5) bullet points at the end of each session that:

  • are summarised on a slide and presented to the audience at the end of each session
  • relate to the particular session and to European Internet governance policy
  • are forward looking and propose goals and activities that can be initiated after EuroDIG (recommendations)
  • are in (rough) consensus with the audience

Current discussion, conference calls, schedules and minutes

See the discussion tab on the upper left side of this page.

The organising team initially convened on 22 April 2021. Meeting notes as well as a summary of our progress so far (i.e., the brainstorming document)is available here.

We once again met on 18 May 2021.

Messages

A short summary of the session will be provided by the Reporter.

Video record

Will be provided here after the event.

Transcript

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