The Forum, GFMD and 23 partner organizations provide input on draft OECD Recommendation on Information Integrity

The OECD launched a public consultation on its draft Recommendation of the Council on Information Integrity, an international instrument to be adopted by its 38 member States. While the 25 undersigned organizations welcome this step, we call upon OECD member States to adopt the highest democratic standards to safeguard information integrity and hold platforms to […]
Paris Peace Forum Event: Exploring the creation of a voluntary certification mechanism for public interest AI

In the framework of the Paris Peace Forum Official Side Event on the Road to AI Summit the Forum on Information and Democracy organized a workshop on 12 November 2014 in Paris. Assembling industry representatives, researchers, civil society and a representative from an existing voluntary certification mechanism, the Forest Stewardship Council, participants explored the idea […]
G20: FID Joins Brazil’s Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change
As calls to combat disinformation intensify on the sidelines of COP 29, the Forum on Information and Democracy has joined the advisory committee of the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change, launched by Brazil, the UN and UNESCO during the G20 summit. The Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change, spearheaded by […]
AI and information integrity in West Africa: the Forum held a Seminar with its partners in Dakar

On October 17 and 18, 2024, in Dakar, Senegal, the Forum brought together its civil society partners from West Africa: the Association de Lutte Contre le Racisme, l’Ethnocentrisme et le Régionalisme (Benin), Jonction (Senegal), Mauritanie Perspectives, and the Réseau des Professionnels de la Presse en Ligne de Côte d’Ivoire. These two days of seminars were […]