Session
Development Gateway: An IREX Venture
Annie Kilroy (moderator)(onsite), Ayesha Mago, (onsite), Phillip Ayazika (onsite), Beverley Hatcher-Mbu (online)
Annie Kilroy (moderator)(onsite), Ayesha Mago, (onsite), Phillip Ayazika (onsite)
5. Gender Equality
17. Partnerships for the Goals
Targets: Addresses equality and safety for women, girls online for equitable access. Addresses cross-sectoral and cross-stakeholder partnerships that are critical for building online safety (and partnerships for all other goals around participation, education, health etc.).
Roundtable
Per Fishbowl style, there will be 3 seats in the middle (or space for speakers to stand) with participants seated around the speakers in a circle. The speakers listed in this proposal will remain for one or two round of answers, and then be replaced with new speakers from the audience every few minutes during the session. One seat will remain consistently for the moderator to facilitate the discussion. This format is dynamic, privileging the knowledge and contribution of all participants, enabling more concrete connection and pushing past surface-level introductions to help participants connect with each other’s specific work in online safety. 90 minutes will allow for 60 minutes of several rounds of the fishbowl, and 30 minutes for participants to connect further 1-1 to explore partnership opportunities.
The growth of online culture has created new ways to connect with people across the world, while also exacerbating harms specific users face. According to UNFPA, technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is an act of violence perpetrated by one or more individuals that is committed, assisted, aggravated, and amplified in part or fully by the use of information and communication technologies or digital media, against a person based on their gender. There is growing work on TFGBV, including efforts focused on online child safety, safety by design by and for tech companies and technologists, cyber security efforts by law enforcement agencies, and long-time leaders in offline gender-based violence initiatives. There are multiple banners under which international organizations, governments, technology companies, service providers, civil society organisations, and researchers work in pursuit of a safer world online. With diverse and scattered funding sources for research, programming, and policy work, there is a critical need for stronger partnerships and long-term coordination across organisations and sectors for more effective planning and coordination in this space. We need to talk to one another more, across areas of specialisation, sharing evidence, building on what we already know, amplifying each other’s work, and collaborating on solutions. This fishbowl-style networking event aims to bring the different communities together, facilitating meaningful connections via a moderated “fishbowl” where participants in person and online can introduce their work and their vision for online safety. As the global internet governance community looks forward to concrete steps that push the Global Digital Compact forward, this event will create space for forming new partnerships, strengthening existing relationships, sharing resources via existing knowledge repositories, and helping map the way forward for consensus-building across online safety communities globally.
We will have an online moderator to facilitate similar introductions via the chat function. During the 30-minute section at the end where in-person participants will connect 1-1, the online moderator can facilitate breakout rooms for those who remain to connect more deeply with those who joined online. Insights gleaned from online participants will be added to those in the room and reflected in the final shared vision document.