Session
Organizer 1: arda gerkens, ATKM
Organizer 2: Auke Pals, 🔒
Organizer 3: Dorijn Boogaard, NL IGF
Organizer 4: Marjolijn Bonthuis Bonthuis, 🔒NLIGF
Speaker 1: arda gerkens, Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 2: Mashilo Boloka, Intergovernmental Organization, African Group
Speaker 3: Flavia Alves, Private Sector, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 4: Auke Pals, Technical Community, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 5: Graeme Bunton, Technical Community, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Marjolijn Bonthuis Bonthuis, Intergovernmental Organization, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Dorijn Boogaard, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Auke Pals, Technical Community, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Classroom
Duration (minutes): 90
Format description: Content moderation is a sensitive topic within internet governance. Who decides what is allowed online? How can we prevent censorship? How do we ensure that the internet remains an open and free space? Who plays a role in this? We expect that there will be a lot of interest in this theme. To facilitate a conversation with active audience participation, we opt for a 90-minute classroom discussion. To discover our differences and identify our similarities, it is essential that we enter into dialogue, each from our own discipline. The panel therefore consists of experts who not only represent the various stakeholders, but are also diverse in region, gender and age. The audience is actively involved in the discussion through polls and the ideas they put forward can be directly tested by the panel members.
A. In what way can we shape collobaration between Regulators and Industry without Regulators losing their independancy? B. What role can technical and infrastructural actors play in combatting illegal material online? C. How do we prevent legislation that threatens the open en free internet, whilst addressing illegal and harmful content?
What will participants gain from attending this session? Attendees will learn new insights on internet governance and how to implement this in their field. They will learn about initiatives taken to combat online illegal and harmful content. Participants will understand the need of the multistakeholder model in internet governance better and will learn good examples of how the model is implemented in other countries in various ways. The outcome is a positive one: By working together we can keep the internet open and safe.
Description:
With the increasing digitalization of our society, a growing number of people face illegal content that not only affects them personally but have a disrupting effect on society. Two main examples are Child Sexual Abuse Material and Terrorist Content Online. To combat the distribution of CSAM and TCO, more often regulatory measures are being proposed. The downside is that it jeopardizes net neutrality and in some cases even online safety. The Internet industry wishes to protect its users and preserve the image of the Internet sector. In turn, governments are challenged to enforce illegal activities on the Internet and there is an expectation that they will protect citizens from this, or enable them to stand up for their own rights. To achieve these mutual interests, and prevent devastating legislation, the Internet sector and the governments need each other. As we navigate the path forward, it is therefore becoming increasingly clear that a multistakeholder approach is necessary to shape the future of online content moderation. Join us for an engaging session in which you can immerse yourself in one of the stakeholder groups within the online content moderation ecosystem. Get familiar with the various interests and how to collaboratively arrive at effective solutions. In this workshop we will speak with Regulators and how they cooperate with industry. We will also hear how DNS abuse can be tackled. Last nut not least Meta will tell us about their cooperation in the multi stakeholder environment.
The panelists will be involved in drafting the statements. We would like to engage with participants of other workshops/panels on CSAM and TCO, to see if we can draft a common statement on the eradication of online illegal material.
Hybrid Format: Interaction between onsite and online speakers and attendees will be encouraged by using Mentimeter to facilitate interaction during the plenary part. We will hold polls on statements, ask the public why they voted what for something and go back to the panelist to give their views. Mentimeter can easily be used online too. We can actively ask online participants to give them their view, so we can engage them in the discussion. The panelists will be involved in drafting the statements. We would like to engage with participants of other workshops/panels on CSAM and TCO, to see if we can draft a common statement on the eradication of this online material.