Tackling online harms – a regulation minefield? Present and future. – PL 07 2019

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Consolidated programme 2019 overview

Title: Tackling online harms – a regulation minefield? Present and future.

Proposals assigned to this session: ID 37, 52, 55, 73, 85, 91, 124, 125, 136, 138, 146, 151, 173, 178, 180, 183, 184, 203 – list of all proposals as pdf

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Session information

Date: Thursday, 20 June 2019 (Day 2)

Time: 16:30 - 17:30 (CEST)

Room: King Willem-Alexander Auditorium

Venue: World Forum The Hague, The Netherlands

Sched link: https://sched.co/P0Oi

Session teaser

Over the last two years, many governing bodies have been seeking to compete on who is putting social media in order, leading to many proposals for regulation. For government, it’s a real minefield, a situation containing a lot of hidden problems and dangers, in which they need to navigate the different harms yet at the same time avoid harming the Internet itself. With some countries starting to develop regulations, and the private sector publicly engaging on regulatory issues, we have to ensure that we follow these developments and consider the pros and cons when looking at the future.

Session description

Governments throughout the world have been taking initiatives to pass legislation and enact regulation to secure the Internet against a large number of online harms from a diverse pool of attackers. Our question is how exactly that goal is being accomplished. This session is meant to examine different examples of European governments addressing online harms through regulation, and critically analyse how such regulation will impact the future of the Internet. The session will include four key participants that will address different perspectives on how we can future proof the Internet and address their concerns and insights on how this policy area is developing.

Two of our speakers will address recent policy developments from the United Kingdom and France. The UK recently published a white paper on online harms which sets out the government’s plans to keep UK users safe online through legislative and non-legislative measures. Specifically these measures seek to make companies more responsible for their users’ safety online, especially children and other vulnerable groups. A few months later, France published a paper addressing the responsibility of social media networks.

Our first two key participants will present their perspectives regarding policymaking of their respective countries and share their views on the development of these documents.

Following up on governmental perspectives, our second key participant will address the online harms landscape and their interconnection by provide an insight on the future of regulation and why we are falling short bringing in a human rights perspective.

Our last key participant, will address the future of technology in relation to online harms and the future of regulation.

In conclusion, the moderator will be addressing other future proofing endeavours and asking the questions that we need to bear in mind for the future.

Throughout the panel, questions will be asked to the audience using the menti tool to engage the audience to participate with the session.

Format

Panel

Further reading

Yrjo Lansipuro

Michael Oghia

Nadia Tjahja

Anelia Dimova & Bissera Zankova

  • Social Media and Convergence | COMPACT EC Horizon 2020 project website. Interesting headlines: Research findings and Policy recommendations for organisations and initiatives tackling fake news: False news stories are 70% more likely to be retweeted on Twitter than true ones; Wisdom of the Crowd: Multistakeholder perspective on the fake news debate; Minutes from Adria Information Disorder AI Tools 2018 Workshop; Challenges and dilemmas for national regulatory authorities in the age of convergence with respect to hate speech and the link to the Council of Europe conference in Zagreb

Anelia Dimova

People

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Focal Points

  • Nadia Tjahja, Youth Coalition on Internet Governance, Steering Committee Member (WEOG) | CEO & Co-Founder Sunium
  • Michael Oghia, Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)

Organising Team (Org Team) List them 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.

  • Dr. Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Foundation, Bulgaria
  • Anelia Dimova, Information Society Policy Expert, MTITC, Bulgaria
  • Liu Yong
  • Elena Perotti, Executive Director of Media Policy and Public Affairs, WAN-IFRA
  • Matthias Kettemann, Senior postdoc and head of research for rules in digital communicative spaces at @BredowInstitut
  • Narine Khachatryan, STEM Society
  • Virginija Balciunaite, Communications and Public Relations, Sunium
  • Annie Ferguson, Head of the EU & International Online Policy Team, UK Government
  • Ruth Cookman, EU & International Online Policy Team, UK Government
  • Giacomo Mazzone, EBU-UER European Broadcasting Union
  • Kristina Olausson, ETNO - European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association
  • Daniëlle Flonk, Hertie School of Governance
  • Fredrik Dieterle, LightNet Foundation, Sweden
  • Annika Linck, European DIGITAL SME Alliance
  • Paul Franklin
  • Richard Wingfield
  • Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
  • Dan Wilson, Online Harms, UK Government
  • Ben Wallis, Microsoft

Key Participants

  • Sacha Desmaris (to be confirmed)
  • Lorna Woods, Law Professor at the University of Essex (to be confirmed)
  • Jan Kleijssen, Director Information Society – Action against Crime, Council of Europe (confirmed)
  • Chris Buckridge, External Relations Manager, RIPE NCC (confirmed)

Moderator

Virginija Balciunaite - Sunium

Remote Moderator

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

Reporter

  • Cedric Amon, 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

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You can find the minutes of the session in this GoogleDoc

Preliminary Timeframe & Agenda outline

  • Meeting 1 (March): Introductions - Meeting the organising team, explaining the preparation methods, and launching a list of speaker proposals
  • Meeting 2 (March): Generating variables - Each org team member can add to the digital wall contributions that are important to them in terms of "tackling online harms"
  • Meeting 3 (April): Connecting the system - The variables from the digital wall are clustered and mapped visually, drawing interconnecting lines of positive and negative feedback
  • Meeting 4 (April): Programme - Based on the results submitted by the org team members, the title of the session is confirmed and speakers are selected to address the levers of change
  • Meeting 5 (May): Speaker Preparations - Key participants are invited and briefed on the focus of the sessions and are asked to give a preliminary overview of their contributions
  • Meeting 6 (June, EuroDIG): Speaker preparations - Meeting with key participants and moderators

Messages

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Video record

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Transcript

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