Programme
Day 0 - Partners’ Day - 21 February
Partners from around the world will convene their constituencies to discuss issues of regulation of digital platforms.
Day 1 - 22 February
8:30 - Registration
9:15 - Opening performance
9:30 - Opening remarks
11:15 - How can digital platform regulation secure information as a public good?
12:30 - Introducing UNESCO’s Guidance for regulating digital platforms: a multistakeholder approach
13:00 - Lunch Break
14:30 - Defining the regulatory scope.
15:45 - Break
16:00 - Transparency, accountability and democracy.
16:30 - Transparency – why it’s needed and what should be expected?
18:00 - Closing Day 1
Day 2 - 23 February
9:00 - Registration
9:30 - Content management and accountability.
11:00 - Break
11:15 - User empowerment and complaints.
12:30 - YOUTH TALKS - How can youth support governments and social media companies to co-create policies to combat disinformation and hate speech online?
13:00 - Lunch break
14:30 - The engineering challenges: How should regulators deal with the technical challenges in applying a human rights-based approach regulation to the digital platforms?
16:00 - The institutional structure: What kind of safeguards should be in place to guarantee the existence of independent regulators, avoiding capture either by political or economic interests?
17:00 - Moving towards a final version of the Guidance for regulating digital platforms and concrete follow-up actions.
18:30 - Closing performance