IGF 2025 Lightning Talk #76 Principles for Electoral Integrity & Political Advertisement

    The London Story
    Ritumbra Manuvie, University of Groningen, Assistant Professor of Law and Politics Marieke Koekkoek, Member of Dutch Parliament, party VOLT Moderator: Maen Hammad, Campaigner and Researcher, EKo Foundation Rapporteur: Aisling Lynch-Kelly, Advocacy Officer for The London Story
    Speakers
    Ritumbra Manuvie, University of Groningen, Assistant Professor of Law and Politics Marieke Koekkoek, Member of Dutch Parliament, party VOLT Moderator: Maen Hammad, Campaigner and Researcher, EKo Foundation
    Onsite Moderator
    Maen Hammad
    Rapporteur
    Aisling Lynch-Kelly
    SDGs
    10.2
    10.3
    16.6


    Targets: This proposal centres around transparency around politicl advertisements and their role in the diruption of democracies across the globe (relating to target 16.6). The talk also aims for solutions to limit problematic political advertisements which have a direct impact on the social and political inclusion of vulnerable groups and minorities (touching upon 10.2 and 10.3)
    Format
    Interactive fireside chat, where the audience is invited to share experiences and idea, co-writing an agenda for concrete policy suggestions for tackling dark political ads and issues related to them after a brief presentation sketching the problem by expert speakers.
    Duration (minutes)
    30
    Description
    The Internet has become a digital town square where publics engage in social, political, and economic activities. While nations have increasingly acted towards the creation of best practices and regulations in streamlining economic processes, less value is attached to social interaction and even less to political information sharing. In this lightning talk, we draw attention to the role of political advertisements in social media and how they seek to disrupt democracies worldwide. We introduce the audience to the draft Principles on Election Integrity based on the principles of natural law and the Kantian approach to democracy.

    The London Story has a wide range of experience in organising hybrid, in-person, and online events over the years. We will use facilities like Open Talk, and Zoom (with potential translator function) to help facilitate the participation and discussions with the online attendees. The moderator and technical support person(s) will be responsible for ensuring a smooth functioning and gathering of online questions.Since the lightening talk is prepared as a fire-side event, it will involve interaction between participants and the speakers, this would be initiated through active prompts by the moderators, use of collaborative boards in physical and online space before the start of the talk to engage audience and sharing of results from these boards towards the conclusion of the talk. We plan to use Open Talk, Mentimeter, and the Mirro board.