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| 25 || [[consolidated_programme_2023#topic3_sub1_23 | Topic 3 / Subtopic 1 ]] || Menno Ettema || Council of Europe || Intergovernmental organisation || <span class="table-squares-23 a-a-l">n</span> || || <span class="table-squares-23 hu-ri">n</span> || || || || || || Suicides by youngsters such as Amanda Todd in 2012 and Molly Russel in 2017 are widely covered in the media, exemplifying the ultimate psychological impact that hate speech and other harmful content online can have. The impact of hate speech on targeted individuals and groups is widely documented by institutional monitoring bodies, such as the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe, and NGOs. Yet, most hate speech goes unreported, and users, getting accustomed to hate speech, either believe that they can handle it or are too ashamed to seek support or unaware where to find it. How can we reach out to victims and, more broadly, how to support all those targeted by hate speech, before it’s too late? Are there appropriate support services in place, and are they up to the task? What is missing and which measures can different stakeholders, including internet platforms, NGOs and State authorities set up? The Council of Europe will conclude in the spring of 2023 a review study of support mechanisms for those targeted by hate speech across a selection of member states and providing examples of promising programmes, activities and policies. The study builds on the Recommendation CM/Rec (2022)16 on Combating Hate Speech adopted in May 2022, and it will serve as a strong bases to review how a comprehensive and multi-stakeholder approach can ensure effective support for the victims and targets of hate speech and other harmful content.
| 25 || [[consolidated_programme_2023#topic3_sub1_23 | Topic 3 / Subtopic 1 ]] || Menno Ettema || Council of Europe || Intergovernmental organisation || <span class="table-squares-23 a-a-l">n</span> || || <span class="table-squares-23 hu-ri">n</span> || || || || || || Suicides by youngsters such as Amanda Todd in 2012 and Molly Russel in 2017 are widely covered in the media, exemplifying the ultimate psychological impact that hate speech and other harmful content online can have. The impact of hate speech on targeted individuals and groups is widely documented by institutional monitoring bodies, such as the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe, and NGOs. Yet, most hate speech goes unreported, and users, getting accustomed to hate speech, either believe that they can handle it or are too ashamed to seek support or unaware where to find it. How can we reach out to victims and, more broadly, how to support all those targeted by hate speech, before it’s too late? Are there appropriate support services in place, and are they up to the task? What is missing and which measures can different stakeholders, including internet platforms, NGOs and State authorities set up? The Council of Europe will conclude in the spring of 2023 a review study of support mechanisms for those targeted by hate speech across a selection of member states and providing examples of promising programmes, activities and policies. The study builds on the Recommendation CM/Rec (2022)16 on Combating Hate Speech adopted in May 2022, and it will serve as a strong bases to review how a comprehensive and multi-stakeholder approach can ensure effective support for the victims and targets of hate speech and other harmful content.
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| 26 || [[consolidated_programme_2023#topic1_sub2_23 | Topic 1 / Subtopic 2 ]] / [[consolidated_programme_2023#topic3_sub1_23 | Topic 3 / Subtopic 1 ]] || Menno Ettema || Council of Europe || Intergovernmental organisation || || || <span class="table-squares-23 hu-ri">n</span> || || <span class="table-squares-23 m-a-c">n</span> || || || || The surge of hate speech at the start of Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine raised multiple questions, including whether a different approach to moderating online hate speech should apply in times of conflict. The Covid19 health crisis equally sparked waves of hate speech against specific groups, to the point that the World Health Organisation announced that the pandemic was accompanied by an “infodemic”, constituting a serious risk to public health and public action. Recommendation CM/Rec (2022)16 on Combating Hate Speech, adopted in May 2022, provides guidance to member states and other relevant stakeholders towards a comprehensive and properly calibrated set of legal and non-legal measures to prevent and combat hate on- and offline. Effectively implemented, the measures proposed can build social resilience against hate speech in society. It also ensures key-stakeholders can quickly upscale efforts to fight online hate speech and provide support those targeted. Cooperation among all relevant actors, including state authorities, internet platforms and CSOs, proves crucial in times of crisis, to ensure that human rights and democratic principles prevail. The Council of Europe will conduct a study in 2023 on effective practices to combat hate speech in time of crisis. The EuroDIG session will inform the study by reviewing how a comprehensive and multi-stakeholder approach can deliver quicker and more effective response to hate speech in time of crisis.
| 26 || [[consolidated_programme_2023#topic1_sub3_23 | Topic 1 / Subtopic 3 ]] / [[consolidated_programme_2023#topic3_sub1_23 | Topic 3 / Subtopic 1 ]] || Menno Ettema || Council of Europe || Intergovernmental organisation || || || <span class="table-squares-23 hu-ri">n</span> || || <span class="table-squares-23 m-a-c">n</span> || || || || The surge of hate speech at the start of Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine raised multiple questions, including whether a different approach to moderating online hate speech should apply in times of conflict. The Covid19 health crisis equally sparked waves of hate speech against specific groups, to the point that the World Health Organisation announced that the pandemic was accompanied by an “infodemic”, constituting a serious risk to public health and public action. Recommendation CM/Rec (2022)16 on Combating Hate Speech, adopted in May 2022, provides guidance to member states and other relevant stakeholders towards a comprehensive and properly calibrated set of legal and non-legal measures to prevent and combat hate on- and offline. Effectively implemented, the measures proposed can build social resilience against hate speech in society. It also ensures key-stakeholders can quickly upscale efforts to fight online hate speech and provide support those targeted. Cooperation among all relevant actors, including state authorities, internet platforms and CSOs, proves crucial in times of crisis, to ensure that human rights and democratic principles prevail. The Council of Europe will conduct a study in 2023 on effective practices to combat hate speech in time of crisis. The EuroDIG session will inform the study by reviewing how a comprehensive and multi-stakeholder approach can deliver quicker and more effective response to hate speech in time of crisis.
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| 27 || [[consolidated_programme_2023#topic3_sub1_23 | Topic 3 / Subtopic 1 ]] / [[consolidated_programme_2023#ws02_23 | WS 2 ]] || Mikko Salo || Faktabaari || Civil society || <span class="table-squares-23 a-a-l">n</span> || || || || || || || || Digital information literacy is a modern civic skill that underpins participation in democratic decision-making. Finland is renowned for its high literacy rate, and the teaching of multiple literacies has been integrated into current curricula from early childhood education onwards. However, on digital platforms we all are confronted with a bewildering flood of information that they may not be able to filter out with the skills they have acquired in the school community and at home: claims about products by influencers, search results tailored by commercial algorithms, cleverly scripted propaganda and authorisations to track online behaviour or physical movement in urban space hidden behind countless 'yes' buttons. It is therefore important to strengthen the digital information literacy of all the web users, especially young people, in order to identify how we are being influenced online. Finnish Faktabaari has recently published within EDMO NORDIS project a Digital Information Literacy Guide for citizens in the digital age also in English and would be interested to compare views on how to concretely build awareness and engage people for healthier digital information ecosystems: https://faktabaari.fi/dil/digital-information-literacy-guide/
| 27 || [[consolidated_programme_2023#topic3_sub1_23 | Topic 3 / Subtopic 1 ]] / [[consolidated_programme_2023#ws02_23 | WS 2 ]] || Mikko Salo || Faktabaari || Civil society || <span class="table-squares-23 a-a-l">n</span> || || || || || || || || Digital information literacy is a modern civic skill that underpins participation in democratic decision-making. Finland is renowned for its high literacy rate, and the teaching of multiple literacies has been integrated into current curricula from early childhood education onwards. However, on digital platforms we all are confronted with a bewildering flood of information that they may not be able to filter out with the skills they have acquired in the school community and at home: claims about products by influencers, search results tailored by commercial algorithms, cleverly scripted propaganda and authorisations to track online behaviour or physical movement in urban space hidden behind countless 'yes' buttons. It is therefore important to strengthen the digital information literacy of all the web users, especially young people, in order to identify how we are being influenced online. Finnish Faktabaari has recently published within EDMO NORDIS project a Digital Information Literacy Guide for citizens in the digital age also in English and would be interested to compare views on how to concretely build awareness and engage people for healthier digital information ecosystems: https://faktabaari.fi/dil/digital-information-literacy-guide/

Revision as of 14:13, 10 March 2023

During the call for issues for EuroDIG we received 60 submissions in the period from 12 September till 31 December 2022. You can see the breakdown of proposals here and download the list of proposals as of 31 December 2022, 24:00 CET as pdf file. The list below is a rolling document where proposals will be added during the review period. Proposals marked with an asterisk * have been added after 31 Dec. 2022.

Categories are coloured as follows: (up to three categories per proposal could be selected)

 Access & literacy   Development of IG ecosystem   Human rights & data protection   Innovation and economic issues   Media & content   Cross cutting / other issues   Security and crime   Technical & operational issues 

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