Session
Organizer 1: Intergovernmental Organization, Intergovernmental Organization
Speaker 1: Julia Haas, Intergovernmental Organization, Intergovernmental Organization
Speaker 2: Jan Lublinski, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 3: Mario Kuçi, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 4: anna oosterlinck, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 2: Jan Lublinski, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 3: Mario Kuçi, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 4: anna oosterlinck, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Format
Roundtable
Duration (minutes): 60
Format description: While the session will offer expert input at different stages of the session, all session participants will be invited to contribute to the discussions, to make comments and ask questions. A one-hour roundtable setting will best enable inclusive and solution-oriented discussions.
Duration (minutes): 60
Format description: While the session will offer expert input at different stages of the session, all session participants will be invited to contribute to the discussions, to make comments and ask questions. A one-hour roundtable setting will best enable inclusive and solution-oriented discussions.
Policy Question(s)
A. What needs to be done to advance the agenda of the Global Digital Compact with regards to information integrity?
B. How can reliable journalism as a public good be financed?
C. How can media and big tech find common ground?
What will participants gain from attending this session? - Participants will receive an overview of the status of different ongoing UN processes and trends in information integrity and public media (Global Digital Compact, WSIS+20)
- Participants will understand the OECD principles on media development and discuss their status - based on the latest findings of the State of Media Development Report
- Participants will see challenges and options to improving the relationship between media and big tech, based on the OSCE report
- Participants will hear a critical discussion of the concept of public goods - and see different ways of how reliable journalism may be financed in the future
SDGs
Description:
THIS IS A JOINT PROPOSAL BY THE OSCE AND DEUTSCHE WELLE AKADEMIE In the past year, the international community has strengthened its commitments on information integrity and independent and public media. The Global Digital Compact (GDC), in particular, highlights the UN General Assembly’s dedication to a resilient information ecosystem. In the past months, however, drastic changes took place: social media platforms have altered their standards on content quality, the AI industry decreased its engagement in human rights discussions, and international development saw massive reductions in funding. This comes at a time when independent journalism world-wide is more and more at economic, digital and physical risk. In order to address these ever-growing challenges, the global community has established a number of standards and processes that can contribute to advance media viability, media freedom and thus information integrity: - Following the OECD’s “Development Cooperation Principles for Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment”, the State of Media Development Report recently published by DW Akademie includes a first measurement of these principles. - The Media Viability Manifesto Initiative has brought together a global community of media development organizations to advocate for the financing of journalism in the digital age. - The OSCE’s Media and Big Tech report finalized just a few weeks ago underlines the interlinkages between media viability, visibility, and vigilance and provides policy guidance on the promotion of a healthy online information ecosystems. In this workshop, the intersection of Good Governance and public goods will be addressed: what is needed to ensure the implementation of international commitments on a free internet, independent institutions as well as journalism for reliable information, dialogue and accountability? Experts will support the discussion with input on three policy questions: 1) Next steps GDC 2) Journalism as public good 3) media and big tech.
THIS IS A JOINT PROPOSAL BY THE OSCE AND DEUTSCHE WELLE AKADEMIE In the past year, the international community has strengthened its commitments on information integrity and independent and public media. The Global Digital Compact (GDC), in particular, highlights the UN General Assembly’s dedication to a resilient information ecosystem. In the past months, however, drastic changes took place: social media platforms have altered their standards on content quality, the AI industry decreased its engagement in human rights discussions, and international development saw massive reductions in funding. This comes at a time when independent journalism world-wide is more and more at economic, digital and physical risk. In order to address these ever-growing challenges, the global community has established a number of standards and processes that can contribute to advance media viability, media freedom and thus information integrity: - Following the OECD’s “Development Cooperation Principles for Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment”, the State of Media Development Report recently published by DW Akademie includes a first measurement of these principles. - The Media Viability Manifesto Initiative has brought together a global community of media development organizations to advocate for the financing of journalism in the digital age. - The OSCE’s Media and Big Tech report finalized just a few weeks ago underlines the interlinkages between media viability, visibility, and vigilance and provides policy guidance on the promotion of a healthy online information ecosystems. In this workshop, the intersection of Good Governance and public goods will be addressed: what is needed to ensure the implementation of international commitments on a free internet, independent institutions as well as journalism for reliable information, dialogue and accountability? Experts will support the discussion with input on three policy questions: 1) Next steps GDC 2) Journalism as public good 3) media and big tech.
Expected Outcomes
- The results of the discussion will be distributed by the organizers through online articles and social media posts.
- The results will be used as contributions of the discussions and publications around WSIS+20
- The Media Viability Manifesto Initiative will use the results for further advocacy action and refer back to the discussions of this workshop.
- The 2026 State of Media Development report will incorporate feedback from this workshop
- The discussions will feed into the OSCE implementation of its Media & Big Tech policy guidance
Hybrid Format: The session will be divided into 5 parts - and an expert speaker will be available for each part. A small number of comments from online participants will be invited at every stage:
1 Introduction
2 Next steps GDC
3 Journalism as a public good
4 media and big tech
5 Wrap up