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
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

  • Henry Verdier, Ambassador for Digital Affairs, France (TBC)
  • Renata Mielli, Coordinator of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), Ministry of Science and Technology of Brazil
  • Sandy Ramirez, Head of Exploration, UNDP Accelerator Labs, Dominican Republic

Break for Q&A (10 minutes)

  • Anita Gurumurthy Executive Director, IT for Change, India
  • Rebecca MacKinnon, Vice President, Global Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, US
  • Alek Tarkowsky, Co-founder Open Future Europe, Poland
  • Carlos Rey-Moreno, Coordinator, LocNet Team (TBC)

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

The structures of the Internet affect us more deeply than ever before, reaching out to all aspects of our lives, from our societies and cultures to our finances and politics – to our very individual human behaviours and identities. 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. In addition, we will use a moderated chat on Zoom for online participants to interact with onsite speakers and vice versa. 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. To increase participation and interaction during the session, we plan to use an online document to allow participants to contribute their thoughts in a shared digital space. We will also utilize social media platforms for pre-session and post-session engagement, such as Twitter and Instagram for live updates.