Description: The year of 2025 has so far brought drastic, consequential changes to our information ecosystem: social media platforms have altered their standards on content quality, the AI industry decreased its engagement in human rights discussions, and the international development community took massive reductions in funding. These alarming developments have put independent journalism at peak levels of economic, digital and physical risk.
To address these growing challenges and strengthen and scale promising solutions, the global community has established a number of standards and processes that can contribute to advance media viability, media freedom and thus information integrity. Situated within newly developed and on-going global governance developments are the OSCE recommendations on Media & Big Tech, which underline the interlinkages between media viability, visibility, and vigilance in the digital age, the Media Viability Manifesto, a civil society developed a framework to promote the economic sustainability of editorially independent and diverse media, and the Freedom Online Coalition Blueprint on Information Integrity.
Equally noteworthy are cutting-edge local solutions like alternative social media platform JamiiAfrica, which hosts public discussions and journalistic investigations that are moderated and fact-checked under empathetic, public interest principles. On the other hand, in Brazil, disputes arise over the regulation of platforms and their impact on journalistic activities, making consensus-building difficult to reach on the best way forward.
This session will bring together representatives from these diverse spaces within the IGF community to celebrate and learn from these potential tailorable solutions. Join us as we bust through threats to information integrity and strategize around how to build digital public interest infrastructure that aims to decrease the harms and increase the benefits from tech platforms in the information ecosystem.
Speakers: Speaker 1: Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard, Denmark’s Tech Ambassador Speaker 2: Julia Haas, Intergovernmental Organization, Intergovernmental Organization Speaker 3: Jan Lublinski, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG) Speaker 4: Magnus Ag, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG) Speaker 5: Maxence Melo, Civil Society, African Group Speaker 6: João Brant, Government, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) Speaker 7: Beatriz Barbosa, Civil Society, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
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