Accountability in the Digital Age

A dialogue with Kai Hermsen, co-CEO of IDENTITY Valley. Next to cybersecurity as a key trust ingredient in this Digital Age there are many more, including digital literacy, transparency and human agency and identity, to name a few. How to come to a set of holistic, intertwined yet actionable ingredients that can be furthered as digital responsibility goals, to support the Sustainable Development Goals and improve the measurability thereof. In this Dialogue seven of these key ingredients and related challenges and opportunities are discussed.

A secure, stable and interoperable internet is an important part of the world in this Digital Age. How does ICANN help facilitate and curate this common interest, who is who in this omni-connected global society, how does its omni-stakeholders bottom up approach work, where is accountability and transparency taken in, and how is it catered for? This Dialogue dives into these and related important matters.

A dialogue with Peter Batt, Former Dir-Gen for Digital Society, Digitisation of the Administration and IT, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, Germany.

A dialogue with Nicolas Diaz Ferreyra, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen working on areas of privacy and cybersecurity

In this Digital Age, are users able to make their own decisions about using digital services, and sharing their personal data? Why do they seemingly give away so much? Are they aware of the risks, impact and other consequences of doing so? What can and should developers add to the accountability table? How can one check and validate trust, what can we learn from existing non-digital use cases, and what accountability tools can help users to make better decisions? These and other essential queries are explored in this Dialogue.

In the medical/health sector, ethics is and has been a core and key component of daily decisions, research and other activities. Where digital technology has outstripped societal and legal frameworks, what can we learn from the ways ethics and accountability are continuously deployed in this sector? For instance regarding personal, bodily, emotional and data integrity. How to cater for multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary collaboration? And why is common ground such as a clear taxonomy so important? This Dialogue dives into these and related important matters.

A dialogue with Boris Koprivnikar, CEO Sincular Consulting. Former deputy Prime Minister Republic of Slovenia. 

Dialogue with Dan Jerker Svantesson:

·  Professor at Faculty of Law, Bond University, Australia (Gold coast)

·  Researcher Law & Informatics in Sweden

·  Emeritus Editor International Data Privacy Law, Oxford University Press

·  He specialises in international aspects of the IT society, a field within which he has published over 250 publications in his name including the book Solving the Internet Jurisdiction Puzzle

How does the Digital Age look like in a post-browser world where one can not easily switch from one browser to another within a second? How much (more) locked-in will people and society get? How to get accountability into play, before, during and after the game? How can a local bottom-up, can-do yet critical community be set up, florish and have a national and global reach. What can we learn from each other? And what is the role of government? These and many essential queries that cater for having a multi-faceted and open mind are explored in this Dialogue.

Dialogue with Joelle Casteix:

·  Joelle Casteix is a leading global expert, author, and keynote speaker for survivors of child sexual assault and institutional cover-up.

·  As founding member of the board of directors of the Zero Abuse Project, she has helped launch ZeroAbuse.ai

·  She is furthermore, the Chief Content Officer of SpotTheLine – ai.