IGF 2020 WS #210 Nobody Left Behind - Interregional Cyber Capacity Building This workshop aims to bring together stakeholders from developing regions to identify best practices of cyber capacity building initiatives and the prerequisites needed to ensure their sustainability. The participants will look at the different perspectives of cyber capacity building across stakeholder groups and what roles these actors can play in developing capacity.

IGF 2020 BPF Data and New Technologies in an Internet Context A dialogue on how users’ data is collected, analysed and used, and best practices to ensure that it is used to bring benefit and not to harm.

1. What are current challenges and concerns re. the collection and use of users’ data and what best practices exist to ensure that data is used to bring benefit and not to harm?
2. Are views and concerns changing and is there a need for new mental models and mindsets?
3. What is the way forward and what is the role of Internet Governance and the IGF?

IGF 2020 WS #273 Enhancing sustainable computing, production & consumption An interactive session on Enhancing efficient computing, production, and consumption across sectors in the present scenario.

IGF 2020 WS #236 Data flows, Trade and International Cooperation Trade is facilitated when Internet functions at its best and data can flow freely and efficiently. Reciprocally, the global reach and effectiveness of the Internet depend on trade. This event discusses how data policies affect companies providing the digital infrastructure needed for the data revolution. The event presents international cooperation schemes in privacy, cybersecurity and competition, and discusses the effectiveness of these schemes and how they affect Internet companies.

IGF 2020 WS #165 Unlocking the Digital Potential of the DLDC (Part II) The workshop will explore the digital potentials of Developing and Least Developed Countries (DLDC) in the post-COVID-19 era. It will examine digital cooperation initiatives that encompass the industry 4 technologies and related methods such as smart manufacturing and environmental sustainability with meaningful connectivity. The workshop would also focus on the requisite digital skills and tools necessary for the sustainable development of the requisite labour and human capacities.

IGF 2020 WS #324 One size fits all? Global norms as a threat to inclusion. This session explores the ways that - in 2020, still - rules for internet are shaped in some parts of the world and brought to others. The panelists will discuss how cross-border application of rules and regulations for content and conduct online as well as the processes to shape the global standards and norms could impact access to information and digital inclusion.

IGF 2020 WS #125 How do you embed trust and confidence in AI? The proposed session will debate questions regarding governance methods to providing citizens, organizations and governments with the means to assess the trustworthiness of AI systems. As AI is playing an increasingly vital role in the services that are provided over the internet, as well as running and maintaining the core infrastructure that the internet depends on, trust in the Internet is increasingly defined by trust in these AI systems.

IGF 2020 WS #212 Learn from Home During COVID-19 This session focuses on practices, experiences, and insights on digital infrastructure, learning management systems, and new digital behaviors during COVID-19. It will also cover the education for the most marginalized post-COVID-19, and suggest guidance for governments in the uses of digital technologies in education. We hope to come up with a more complete overview of the challenges faced by educators and learners, and suggestions to the identified issues together with all attendees.

IGF 2020 WS #252 Connected Health in the Post-Covid-19 Era As much of the world has moved to severely curtail travel and caution against non-essential healthcare visits, providers have adopted telehealth and remote patient monitoring solutions to handle a greater load of cases in a manner protective of social-distancing policies and public health. This panel will explore the newfound prominence of connected healthcare, addressing both the opportunities and challenges of this development.

IGF 2020 WS #176 Assurance and transparency in ICT supply chain security This workshop will examine how trust in global ICT supply chains – and the ICT products and services they are developing, deploying, and provisioning – can be strengthened through objective, risk-informed, and verifiable assurance and transparency measures that enhance security, safety, stability, and resilience of the Internet and underlying ICT.

IGF 2020 WS #287 Robots against disinformation - Automated trust building? This workshop will use the format of a roundtable discussion to explore initiatives and tools currently being used to automate the countering of online disinformation while also highlighting the main challenges and opportunities of using helpful bots to fight harmful bots in the context of online disinformation.

IGF 2020 WS #180 Trust, Media Ethics & Governance During COVID-19 Crisis The workshop will address the impact of public health crisis Covid-19 upon the global internet systems and citizens related to trust, media and democracy. Combing local and global perspectives on internet governance and media communication, this session builds a platform for speakers and moderators from China, Europe, India, and Singapore to discuss above issues on an interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional approach from diverse geographic and stakeholder perspectives.

IGF 2020 WS #247 ICTs, SDGs, and Existing Data Gaps for Measuring Progress This panel will focus on a roadmap for a broad set of actors to address data gaps for sustainable development. The panelists, drawn from different stakeholder groups will share current practices, reflecting upon the past couple years of progress and setbacks, and develop tentative recommendations on future best practices. The panelists will provide practical strategies to overcome the existing setbacks and highlight successful country and local-level practices.