IGF 2020 Pre-Event #69 Internet Diverse - People United!

Given the increasing regulatory demands in the areas of Media-, Internet- and Social Policies, questions concerning the Common Space of Opportunity offered by the Internet become even more urgent. 

This is especially important in times of crisis, like now, when we are forced to translate communication and participation into digital.

One important goal the High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation in 2019 set is shaping the IGF in a more inclusive way. In order to achieve this, we will always have to raise the issue of a more inclusive Internet. This includes the aspects of access and participation as well as the issues of openness and transparency. 

Marginalized groups in particular experience violence within the digital environment. Apart from digital violence and hate speech, we also have to pay close attention to the issue of the allocation of resources. Those are generally distributed unequally, ranging from material resources such as devices and broadband to the lack of immaterial resources like the ability to navigate new media, the lack of digital literacy.

Moreover, injustice and inequality are increasingly manifesting in the issues of surveillance and control, which also affect individuals to varying extents, in all their diversity.

The development of AI Systems often amplifies such social injustice. Using the example of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Decision Making (ADM), we can see how closely violence, control and surveillance are interconnected with traditional systems of social exclusion. This is why we want to open the discourse and talk to people for whom AI causes injustice and leads to exclusion. So let’s talk about one of the most important topics of our time: AI & Social Justice.

Speakers:

• Christina Dinar, Center for Internet and Human Rights 
• Katharina Mosene, Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute and Humboldt-Institute for Internet and Society 
• Jan Zygmuntowski, Centrum Cyfrowe / Instrat 
• Jedrzej Niklas, Data Justice Lab (Cardiff University) 
• hvale vale, Association for Progressive Communication 
• Victoria Guijarro-Santos, University of Münster