Session
Internet Society Zambia Chapter
Levy Syanseke, Internet Society Zambia Chapter, Civil Society, Africa
Theorose Elikplim Dzineku , Internet Society Ghana, Civil Society, Africa
John Uduma, Ifatos University, Academia, Africa
Richard Mulonga, Bloggers of Zambia, Civil Society, Africa
Denise Leal, Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae) and University of Brasília (UnB), Private Sector, GRULAC
Sakura Takahashi , Climate Youth Japan, Asia
Levy Syanseke
Zoe Kuyanda
John Uduma
10. Reduced Inequalities
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Targets: Involving the media in reducing inequality is critical as they highlight issues that need to be attended to through their watchdog role.
Involving the media in IG conversations will allow for increased adoption of the internet thereby allow more development of infrastructure supporting access thus reducing inequalities.
The session will be hybrid to allow for both onsite and online participation.
Onsite participation will create room for engagement of onsite participate to understand further how the media can be engaged in promoting increased internet access as well as learn how the media can be engaged on various IG issues.
The session will have both online and onsite moderators to allow for an engaged discussion. Further, questions will be answered by both online and onsite speakers.
We also have the online moderator(s) ensure that they communicate any questions and conversations from the online participants which will allow for those onsite to have a real time engagement with the discussion.
Zoom is the online platform that will be used to facilitate both online and onsite interaction.
English
Oftentimes conversations on internet governance leave out the media and media practitioners in the discourse. This leaves the majority of the population at a place where they are digitally illiterate as a result of the lack of communication. From the training perspective, media professionals rarely learn about issues on Internet Governance. A few who have taken interest in IG issues have not made much impact.
This session will begin with the exploration of Addis Ababa Messages from IGF 2022 pertinent to Digital Divides and Inclusion. The speakers will delve into aspects of how the knowledge gap can be considered one of the reasons people only hear or see reports related to cybercrime and cybersecurity when there is a big scandal or threat and later dies down.
Conversations of such nature ideally ought to continue in the media to empower ordinary citizens and internet users with information that contribute to the stable and secure internet. The young panelists will speak about the specific reality of their countries and regions, with focus on cases of how politicians have used the media quite extensively such that the media has in certain times been tagged the “king maker”.
Despite the power and how vast the internet is, a number of stakeholders in internet governance have not used the power of the media to shape the internet for the better at every given chance. Our speakers believe and will bring data to prove that the media needs to be involved and actively engaged in IG to effectively promote access and digital inclusion. Involving media personnel in IG discussions is one of the steps to reducing the knowledge gap in the media on IG.
The session aims to facilitate a roundtable where participants will be part of the session itself.
Tentative agenda:
5’: Introduction and background. The moderator explains how the session will take place and points out that attendees can ask questions by using the hand-raising option or in the chat (online), or by requesting the floor (onsite).
40’: The moderator introduces the policy issues and addresses the speakers with questions in a roundtable fashion.
10’: Open floor. The moderator invites all participants to take the floor either online or onsite.
5’: Key takeaways (rapporteur) and conclusions.
The session is going to ensure interactions through a Q&A and comment section in the online application where the session will be taking place (e.g. Zoom). Both online and onsite moderators will make sure that the questions and comments are not overlooked through effective communication, but play an important role throughout the session