Accountability in the Digital Age

Musah Inuwa is co-founder of Voices for Peace in Ghana.

Marco Magnano is Comms Director at XR Safety Initiative. This dialogue is hosted by guest host Richard Foster-Flecher, founder of MKAI.

How is trust and being worthy of trust established in the physical world? Would that be the same online, and otherwise in the Digital Age? When adding immersive technology to the equation such as VR and AR, what does change, is augmented - or worsened - even more? Will data harvesting and other collection decrease or increase? Are we mere data points, and do we need to consider new notions about privacy and personal data? Can democratisation and related decentralisation and distribution methodologies and technologies perhaps help out? What should we do as individuals and society? This Dialogue covers all these important queries.

Jim Poisant is the Secretary General at The World Innovation, Technology & Services Alliance (WITSA).

Nathalia Foditsch is a Senior Policy and Regulatory Specialist, with the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) part of the Web Foundation. In this dialogue she discusses the recent report the A4AI produced on the status of the Universal Service and Access Funds for the Latin American and Caribbean Countries. She also brings up the topic of the need for meaningful connectivity.

You can find a link to the A4AI report here.

Nathalia Foditsch is a licensed attorney and has worked on technology and communications policy and regulatory issues over the past twelve years. She has worked for some of the main international organizations and think tanks, which she has represented in official missions to numerous countries in the Latin America, Caribbean, and Europe. Nathalia has also worked as an International Adviser for the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), the Brazilian antitrust authority, and served as a coordinator for communications policy and regulation at the ministerial level in Brazil. Foditsch is affiliated to Cornell University’s Broadband Network and Emerging Markets Institute. Among other publications focused on technology and communications policy and regulation, Foditsch has co-edited and co-authored the book “Broadband in Brazil: Past, Present, Future”, which was a finalist of the 2017 “Jabuti Awards” (the main literary award in Brazil). Nathalia is an adjunct professor at the University Jose Cela (Spain); and holds a master’s in law (LLM) and a master’s in public policy (MPP) and is a member of the advisory board of the Brazil-U.S. Legal and Judicial Studies Program at the Washington College of Law (WCL). She is fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish and German.

What is the future of domain names? Why is attention to our digital fundamental infrastructure so important? Where did the internet protocol start, and what is IPv6? What brings it to the table regarding accountability? Is transparency seen as a friend or seen as a foe? Why is the implementation relatively difficult? Where certain necessary global transitions are relatively slow, why not start locally? Next to understanding, appreciation and financial investments, what are furthermore prerequisites? How to involve the mid and low income countries? How to leave nobody behind?

About: Rosa Maria Delgado

·  A native of Peru, living in Switzerland

·  Currently an independent ICT strategy consultant and a domain name expert.

·  A long track record in domain names

·  Has works for a number of organizations including SITA, Internet Society, ITU and the IPv6 taskforce.

·  Helped create the Peruvian, Swiss and Egyptian IPv6 Task Forces

·  President of the IPv6 Forum in Peru.

·  Member of the International Cyberlaw University Advisory Board

·  Recognized as an IPv6 World Leader

Prof. Jan Scholtes, University of Maastricht, Founder ZyLAB discusses role of eDiscovery in Accountability in the Digital Age.

What does eDiscovery mean? What kind of fact finding does it facilitate? How to find relevant data, and how to trust it? How to avoid bias, tunnel vision and echo chamber behaviour by the investigators? How to respect human values and rights? When does one know it has found and investigated the appropriate data sets? How does one know whether it has seen it all? Can the eDiscovery tools and processes be trusted, and do they demonstrate accountability themselves? What can accountable eDiscovery and related good practices help our with accountability issues in the Digital Age? This Dialogue dives into these and related matters.

A dialogue with Saskia Bruines, deputy mayor of the city of The Hague. She talks about the history of The Hague as a UN city and the role it plays as the city of peace and justice in the digital age.

This dialogue is in DUTCH

A dialogue with Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Head Artificial Intelligence Law Hub. Which developments have been accelerated because of the Covid-19 pandemic? And why? How did or do stakeholders such as nations, technology companies or cybercriminals used the pandemic, and how to counter the detrimental effects and other negative consequences? How could or should people, rule of law respectively accountability support this better, on local, regional and global levels? How much time do we have? What are examples of 21st solutions for these, post-Covid-19 pandemic 21st century challenges? This Dialogue dives into these and related important matters.

Listen to media expert Cyril Pereira and our institute's co-director Frits Bussemaker having a dialogue about questions such as: Do newspapers have a future in this Digital Age? What is data journalism, and how to convert that into accountability instruments? How do the next generation journalists and free journalism look like, and what does it take? And much more!

Prof. Christoph Stueckelberger, Founder of Globethics.net Foundation discusses cyber ethics.

What does ethics means, around the world? What are the common denominators? What changes when one goes online? What can one reasonably expect online and why are some behaving differently online. How to be reliable towards people online – with the many persona individuals have during the day –, and remain accountable? How to deal with the long-term memory of digital systems, and the internet in specific, when people change and are allowed to change their minds over time? How to catch up, speed up, and keep up with every increasing and accelerating technological developments? How to keep the human in the driving seat in the Digital Age? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue.

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