IGF 2022 Day 0 Event #75 Future of a Female Web

Time
Monday, 28th November, 2022 (07:00 UTC) - Monday, 28th November, 2022 (10:00 UTC)
Room
CR6

Luisa Braig - Social Finance UK

Ame Elliot - Superbloom

Lucía León - Hiperderecho

Sandra Aceng - WOUGNET

Bulanda Nkhowani - Paradigm Initiative 

Malavika Rajkumar - IT for Change 

Eduardo Carillo - TEDIC

Moira Whelan - NDI

Katherine Townsend, Web Foundation, Civil Society Global

Speakers

Lucía León - Hiperderecho

Sandra Aceng - WOUGNET

Bulanda Nkhowani - Paradigm Initiative 

Malavika Rajkumar - IT for Change 

Eduardo Carillo - TEDIC

Moira Whelan - NDI

Katherine Townsend, Web Foundation, Civil Society Global

Onsite Moderator

Katherine Townsend

Online Moderator

Luisa Braig

Rapporteur

Ame Elliott

SDGs

16.6
16.7
16.8

Targets: Part of ensuring transparent and accountable institutions is a robust, connected, and informed civil society. This session will prioritize voices, experiences, and leadership from the global south/global majority and bring these to inform global initiatives including the global digital compact, US Department of State's office of global engagement, commitments of the UN Generation Equality Forum, and other leading efforts

Format

collaborative workshop with lightning talks, roundtable trainings, open discussion, and survey collection(for the UN GDC). All components will coordinate in-person and robust online presence and participation.

Language
English
Description

This event will focus on the current problems of the internet in ensuring an online space that as safe, equitable, and trusted for all genders. The nature of this event includes education and community building. This will include lightning talks from community members around the world, examples of harms and harmful tools, training on helpful tools to safeguard protections online, overview of key global and local legislation, and regional and thematic breakout discussions to strengthen community relationships and collaborations. The session will conclude with information provided to inform the UN Global Digital Compact consultations and ongoing work of UN Women and Generation Equality in the run-up to Commission on the Status of Women. Notes will be taken and shared at: bit.ly/femwebnotes

1. The sessions and introductions will be shared in person and broadcast with Lightning talks by:

  • Lucía León - Hiperderecho
  • Sandra Aceng - WOUGNET
  • Bulanda Nkhowani - Paradigm Initiative 
  • Malavika Rajkumar - IT for Change 
  • Eduardo Carillo - TEDIC
  • Moira Whelan - NDI
     

We will then break into breakout groups for a detailed session. We will have participants join breakout sessions in person and virtually to share experiences and how change can be made among governments, civil society, and the tech sector. 

Our second breakout focuses on specific projects that the Technology Policy Design Lab framework may carry forward:

Work with  specific stakeholders  to get  actor  to  take action, so that  people can  have outcome

Becomes:.

Work with  Dr. Carolina Are, Karisma, eSafety Minister in Australia  to get  Instagram  to  build a community review panel , so that  Instagram users can  be protected against malicious flagging.