World Telecommunications and Information Society Day: 100 researchers call for a global assessment of the impact of digital technology on democracy
On May 17, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, 100 leading researchers, including Timothy Garton Ash, Anya Shiffrin, Jun Murai, Gérald Bronner and Marietje Schaake, are calling for support for the International Observatory on Information and Democracy, which is the equivalent for information chaos of the IPCC for global warming. According to the Reuters Institute’s […]
The global call of 100 researchers to contribute to the International Observatory on Information and Democracy
100 researchers are calling all relevant stakeholders to cooperate with the Observatory on Information and Democracy, an IPCC-like entity for the information and communication space. Over the last two decades, private companies have taken a growing importance in the structuration of the information and communication space. In the absence of guardrails and shared principles across […]
Breaking the filter bubbles: recommendations from the Forum on Information and Democracy to promote pluralism online
On the occasion of UNESCO’s conference on “Internet for Trust”, the Forum on Information and Democracy (I&D) published on February 21 a series of recommendations on the pluralism of curation and indexing algorithms, for the attention of States and digital platforms. Ensuring pluralism in content curation is a priority for the Forum on Information and […]
4 priorities to move forwards: an event of the Forum on Information and Democracy on February 21 at UNESCO
On February 21 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the Forum on Information and Democracy holds a session on the implementation of democratic safeguards in the information and communication space. The global conference “Internet for Trust” takes place from February 21 to 23. During the UNESCO global conference that aims at shaping guidelines for digital platform […]
