IGF 2023 Day 0 Event #82 ICF 2023: Digital Commons for Digital Sovereignty

    Time
    Sunday, 8th October, 2023 (01:40 UTC) - Sunday, 8th October, 2023 (03:10 UTC)
    Room
    WS 3 – Annex Hall 2

    Center for Technology and Society at FGV
    Luca Belli, CTS-FGV, Academia, Brazil; Adam Burns, Free2Air, Technical Community, Germany; Anriette Esterhuysen, APC, Civil society, South Africa.

    Speakers

    Opening remarks:  Anriette Esterhuysen, APC; Luca Belli, Center for Technology and Society at FGV

    • Renata Mielli, Coordinator of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), Ministry of Science and Technology of Brazil
    • Renata Avila, CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation, Guatemala
    • Lea Gimpel, AI & Country Policy Lead, Digital Public Goods Alliance, Germany

    Break for Q&A (10 minutes)

    • Anita Gurumurthy, Executive Director, IT for Change, India
    • Franziska (Ziski) Putz, Senior Advocacy Manager, Wikimedia
    • Carlos Baca, Genral Coordinator, CITSAC, Mexico

    Open debate (20 minutes)

    Moderators: Anriette Esterhuysen, APC; Luca Belli, Center for Technology and Society at FGV

    Onsite Moderator

    Luca Belli, CTS-FGV, Academia, Brazil; Adam Burns, Free2Air, Technical Community, Germany; Anriette Esterhuysen, APC, Civil societ, South Africa.

    Online Moderator

    Senka Hadzic, FGV, Academia, South Africa

    Rapporteur

    Senka Hadzic, FGV, Academia, South Africa

    SDGs

    9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

    Targets: The session will discuss how digital commons can foster an innovative approach to digital soverignty with specific regard to digital innovation and digital infrastructures.

    Format

    Roundtable

    Language

    English

    Description

    This event will explore how different approaches to Digital Commons can contribute to strenghten digital sovereignty. The Internet Commons Forum (ICF) has been jointly organised by CTS-FGV, APC, and Free2Air, since 2019. The ICF aims at gathering thinkers and doers that are developing ideas and solutions for a less concentrated and more just Internet. See http://www.intcomforum.org/

    To facilitate interaction between onsite and online speakers and attendees, we will leverage a hybrid event platform that provides real-time communication channels. For the onsite attendees, we will project the virtual attendees and their questions/comments onto the screen to ensure that both groups can engage with each other.

    To participate you can use the hashtags #ICF2023 and #DigitalCommons on social media.

    The session will be designed with both online and onsite participants in mind. The session will be structured with interactive segments to engage all attendees, such as Q&As and debates to cater both online and onsite participants.