IGF 2021 Main Session BPF Gender and Digital Rights

Time
Thursday, 9th December, 2021 (08:30 UTC) - Thursday, 9th December, 2021 (10:00 UTC)
Room
Conference Room 7

The Best Practice Forum on Gender and Digital Rights, one of the IGF intersessional activities, intends to explore the concept of gendered disinformation.

Disinformation is a multifaceted, and evolving issue and one that sits at the crossroads of ICTs, human rights and governance. While much of the available scholarship focuses on the gendered impacts of disinformation, just like this year’s BPF thematic report. The contours of disinformation at the governance level remains equally important yet blurred and particularly challenging. What is it that makes disinformation hard to handle, mitigate and prevent? 

Hence, the BPF on Gender and Digital Rights will hold an open roundtable discussion with relevant stakeholders to get a deeper and practical understanding of what is “beneath the disinformation lid”, and aims to answer including questions: 

1/   How do you define or understand gendered disinformation?

2/ How far has the world come to the platformization of disinformation in the context of covid-19? 

2/   Who are the missing voices in the fight against disinformation at the national, regional and global levels? 

3/   How is trust building manifesting in this multi-stakeholder process?

BPF webpage https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/bpf-gender-and-digital-rights-1 

draft agenda

    1. Opening and introduction - 15min

  • Introduction to the BPF Gender and Digital Rights 
  • The concept of gendered disinformation and framing of the BPF draft report
  • Linking the topic of gendered disinformation to the IGF and Internet governance

    2.  Open Interactive Roundtable Discussion exploring Gendered  Disinformation  - 60min

  • The purpose of the exchange is to get a deeper understanding of how different stakeholders relate to the concept of gendered disinformation away from traditional ways of tackling disinformation from a victim-centred approach

    3.   Wrap up - 15min

  • Key takeaways of the session and input for the final BPF report
  • Discussion on outreach (who should get the report?) and next steps for the BPF Gender and Digital Rights 

 

 

Draft BPF Gender and Digital Rights output report:  https://www.intgovforum.org/en/filedepot_download/62/20091

Comments on the draft report can be submitted to [email protected]

 

Theme
Inclusive Internet Governance Ecosystems and Digital Cooperation
Key Takeaways (* deadline 2 hours after session)
Gender and disinformation has an impact on the participation of women in public spaces. The experience of gender and disinformation or witnessing it happen to others has a chilling effect for their participation online. It hinders the political equity of groups. Action: There is a need to engage all political players, in particular political parties as well in understanding the impacting of gender and disinformation in reaching political equity
The multistakeholder process provides a mechanism where solutions beyond legislation and regulation maybe developed. It would also see stakeholders recommending solutions based on their role in the digital ecosystem
Call to Action (* deadline 2 hours after session)
The multistakeholder process provides a mechanism where solutions beyond legislation and regulation maybe developed. It would also see stakeholders recommending solutions based on their role in the digital ecosystem
Action item what would be the best practice that we can develop that would see it being adapted and contextualised by governments. It is important to use the UN forum to actually have stakeholders commit to an intervention.
Session Report (* deadline Monday 20 December) - click on the ? symbol for instructions