Session
Organizer 1: Lily Edinam Botsyoe, Ghyrate Ghana
Speaker 1: Gabriel Karsan, Civil Society, African Group
Speaker 2: Lily Edinam Botsyoe, Technical Community, African Group
Speaker 3: Héwing Gérald Dorvelus , Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Arthur Oyako, Civil Society, African Group
Héwing Gérald Dorvelus , Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Héwing Gérald Dorvelus , Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Break-out Group Discussions - Flexible Seating - 90 Min
Inclusion, rights and stakeholder roles and responsibilities: What are/should be the responsibilities of governments, businesses, the technical community, civil society, the academic and research sector and community-based actors with regard to digital inclusion and respect for human rights, and what is needed for them to fulfil these in an efficient and effective manner?
Promoting equitable development and preventing harm: How can we make use of digital technologies to promote more equitable and peaceful societies that are inclusive, resilient and sustainable? How can we make sure that digital technologies are not developed and used for harmful purposes? What values and norms should guide the development and use of technologies to enable this?
We tackle the issue of inclusion and access in the context of online events, with a focus on Inclusion, rights, and stakeholder roles and responsibilities as well as promoting equitable development and preventing harm and the opportunities and new challenges. We aim to extract objective experiences from participants by giving them questions on pressing matters and key scenarios as internet leaders to see their thinking and solutions in creating equal online spaces and a well-distributed fair internet ecosystem. Some of our key questions include:
Now that online events are becoming the norm, what are the inclusion challenges?
Who is included and who is excluded when events are held online?
Which tools and platforms can be used to hold online events in an open way?
How can we ensure safety in online events?
How can we ensure online events support meaningful participation?
How can we ensure online events are environmentally sustainable?
Are the available online platforms sustainable as matters of meaningful and equitable connectivity are concerned?
Beyond connectivity do online platforms serve the user or the corporations in an age where data is the new oil? How do we secure privacy and anonymity?
4.4
9.b
Targets: In the wake of the pandemic, many people have had to adapt to the technological world either for work or education.As this trend has become somewhat necessary, it is a bit problematic to assume everyone will have the resources to stay connected. The SDG four 4.4 and 9b explore the critical areas of Inclusion which highlights:
-Accessibility
-Affordability
-Digital Literacy
In this session, we look to address the challenges and proffer solutions through inclusive design.
Description:
A practical session to look at the challenges and opportunities as events increasingly move online. It's not enough to assume that online events will be more inclusive, they need to be designed with inclusion in mind. We will share experiences and then facilitate attendees to engage with case studies so they can test methods of designing inclusive online spaces.
We aim to extract objective experiences from participants by giving them questions on pressing matters and key scenarios as internet leaders to see their thinking and solutions in creating equal online spaces and a well-distributed fair internet ecosystem.
The expected outcome builds on findings from the initial part of this workshop which will be held as an interactive Day 0 event. The session has been designed to enable group collaboration of both online and on-site attendees. Online and on-site participants will each have a moderator supporting them through the session. Given the topic, we will be able to hear from each group about their experiences of the session to enrich the discussion in a very concrete way. For the online audiences, a common room will be used for all, but during the smaller group engagements, breakout sessions will be provided for and when this session ends, all participants will reconvene in the bigger group in which results from the breakout sessions will be shared.
A similar scenario will be used for the physical engagement where smaller sessions will be held within the main session, results from these smaller sessions will then be shared with all when the main session reconvenes. Ultimately, our aim is to create a quick guide for individuals and institutions for creating inclusive meetings/online spaces. To capture views and inputs, we will use collaborative tools such as Google Documents and Trello to organize our work. Beyond the event, we look to translate this toolkit to French, and Portuguese and made available as an e-book for use.
Our plan is in four parts and will be optimized from our first try of it from our Day 0 event which is the beginning of this workshop.
Part 1. Presentation and discussion on inclusive design practices for online events and considerations through the experiences of the facilitators. The aim is to introduce the participants to some useful tools for their own work on holding online events.
Part 2. Next, we will be sharing a questionnaire with all participants about what kinds of issues they face and are interested in. We will then group the participants with those who have answered the questions in similar ways so that they can focus on work that is relevant to them.
All parts will involve design thinking in creating effective models and prototypes of solutions that can be further developed as resources to tackle the challenge of achieving ubiquity in meaningful inclusion.
Part 3. Each group will then be assigned a case study for an online event, they will vary by stakeholder type, goals, resources. They will be asked to create an inclusive event design plan, highlighting risks, challenges, opportunities, and ways of working.
Part 4. Each group will present their case studies back to the whole group to share ideas and key considerations. There is also space for group members to share their own experiences.
Usage of IGF Official Tool. Additional Tools proposed: We will use collaborative tools such as Google Documents and Trello to organize our work.