IGF 2020 Platform Regulations: Towards A Common Vocabulary

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Session

Time:

Thursday, 5 November, 2020 - 16:20 to 17:50 UTC

Room:

Room 1

About this Session:

This session will discuss the most relevant and contentious platforms governance issues such as AI, content moderation, effective remedies that need a convergent approach to be addressed effectively. It will present the first consolidated draft of the Glossary on Platform Law and Policy, a guide on key terms related to platform governance for policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders alike.

DC:

Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility

Panel - Auditorium - 90 Min

Theme:

Trust

Subtheme:

Content Blocking and Filtering
Information and disinformation
Platforms

Description:

This session will feature an expert-led discussion of recent trends and developments around platform governance. It will begin with a series of brief presentations of the DC output for 2019/2020: a Glossary of terms of platform law and policy. This will be followed by an open discussion with specific focus on future directions of work for the DCPR.

Relevance to IG:

The proposal aims to provide visibility to the important work of the DCPR around the definition and simplification of key internet governance issues, such as platform responsibility, content recognition technologies, disinformation, various forms of online harm, end to end encryption, recommender systems, data portability, interoperability and non-discrimination (just to name a few). This will provide the floor for a multistakeholder discussion, bringing together a range of views, and account for the relationships between existing laws, enforcement and self-regulation in crucial platform governance domains.

Relevance to Theme:

The discussion that this proposal aims to stimulate would enable the identification by stakeholders of diverging and converging approaches to responsible content moderation, thus elucidating the importance of different approaches to responsibility for platforms and users alike.

Organizers:

Nicolo Zingales, FGV + Luca Belli, FGV

Speakers:

Keynote speeches on Platform Governance and its new dimensions

Julie Owono, Oversight Board (Facebook)
Lofred Madzou, World Economic Forum

Presentations (5-minute long) by panellists followed by open discussion:

Richard Wingfield, Global Partners Digital
Rossana Ducato, University of Aberdeen and UC Louvain
Catalina Goanta, Maastricht University
Rolf H. Weber, University of Zurich
Chris Marsden, University of Sussex
Giovanni De Gregorio, Milano Bicocca University
Paddy Leerseen, University of Amsterdam

Enguerrand Marique, UC Louvain & University of Radboud-Nijmegen

Yasmin Curzi, FGV

Ivar Hartmann, FGV

Onsite Moderator:

Nicolo Zingales, FGV + Luca Belli, FGV

Online Moderator:

Yasmin Curzi, FGV

Rapporteur:

Yasmin Curzi, FGV

SDGs:

GOAL 12: Responsible Production and Consumption

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