IGF 2020 WS #317 DNS-Abuse in the Age of COVID-19: Lessons Learned The Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical technology on which Internet users rely on every day. Defining, measuring, and understanding DNS-Abuse, especially in the context of COVID-19, can help in mitigating harm and protecting end users. The session aims to detail efforts to measure abuse, explore the lessons learned during this pandemic, and discuss options for how to prevent such abuse from happening.

IGF 2020 WS #37 Community Network, Electricity and Digital Inclusion The objectives of this workshop session is to bring together key stakeholders to discuss this important topic within the Covid-19 context and how we can fully develop and improve community networks and showcase best practices and innovative solution within the global digital frameworks.

IGF 2020 Main Session DATA: Data governance and practices lessons during COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic prompted many public private initiatives around the world to leverage data for fighting the pandemic. We are looking to share and hear about useful experiences from different stakeholders about how to ensure privacy and other human rights while leveraging the use of data for tackling the pandemic.

IGF 2020 WS #57 E-Human Trafficking: Understanding,Challenges,Opportunities

IGF 2020 WS #105 Designing inclusion policies in Internet Governance The session will have 3 segments:
1) Introduction of speakers
2) Collective discussion on the 5 topics, dividing the analysis in 3 blocks, using a collective document we will share during the session.
3) Online campaign: after the collective discussion, we will start drafting the online campaign at a mind map. This link will be also provided during the session.

Flash Talks between Youth and IG Experts: Environment and the Internet: what’s the link?‎

IGF 2020 Main Session ENVIRONMENT This session will explore how technologies are used and developed throughout the world to measure, understand and fight the impacts of climate change and mobilize to keep the globe from warming above 1.5 °C. 

Panelists will showcase solutions and commitments for climate action across all layers of the global digital ecosystem and elaborate on the elements necessary to create enabling policy environments in which such initiatives can flourish.

IGF 2020 BPF Local Content Join the BPF Local Content for a discussion on local and indigenous content in the digital space – the protection, preservation and sustainability of creative work and traditional knowledge.

IGF 2020 WS #187 Open data For Women and Persons with disabilities Open Data is data which is made accessible and available in a standardized machine-readable format and under a license that allows it to be re-used and re-shared. Open data policies should be able to provide frameworks for opening up access to government data and provide governance mechanisms. Policies from governments should always highlight the requirements for the successful implementation of open data for all people including Women and Persons with disabilities.

IGF 2020 WS #128 Global crises and socially responsible data responses This workshop will address how collaboration through responsible data-sharing could provide organizations (both public and private) around the world with access to the variety, quantity and quality of data to enable further progress in research, new products and services, as well as policy development.

IGF 2020 WS #43 Trusted Digital Space via PRIDA–Informed Transformed Africa Session focus is trust & CBM in cyberspace in the context of Africa. Space to discuss issues of trust that hinders the use & utilization by AUC member states of the advanced data-driven digital services, such as IOT, big data, AI & ML. Challenges & opportunities presented by the global processes of digitalisation & datafication will be highlighted including the role of stakeholders in developing governance frameworks for a safe & trusted online space ie Ratification of Malabo Convention.

IGF 2020 WS #342 People vs machines: collaborative content moderation This session explores the complexities of content moderation at scale and potential implications for trust in the internet. While some platforms deploy technology to automatically moderate information, others enable their users to participate in moderation practices. In this session, speakers will discuss the kind of support, architecture, norms, and other systems that will be needed for communities to be able to do this work effectively and safely.

IGF 2020 WS #53 Right to Play?---Online Gaming and Child Rights This workshop is planned to be an interactive session with meaningful discussion, and the discussion will be facilitated in the following ways.
The diversity of speakers as we list above will enable diversified perspectives and views to be shared, highlighting children’s voices.
The moderator is well informed and experienced in presiding multi-stakeholder discussions, and able to have a good control over the meeting progress.

IGF 2020 WS #147 Building digital bridges: engaging young women online In the session Building digital bridges: engaging young women online, we will learn how contextualized approaches to bridging the digital gender divide can lead to the empowerment of (young) women’s voices online. Three speakers will introduce different on-the-ground experiences and explore the differentiated responses needed to guarantee that women’s voices are heard.

IGF 2020 WS #163 Access Challenges among Rural Communities & Local Solutions