Working group on infodemics issues worldwide call for contributions
The Forum on Information and Democracy is issuing a worldwide call for contributions to fight against the spread of infodemics. All experts, jurists and researchers working on these issues are invited to respond. The call concerns four main topics: meta regulation of content moderation, platforms’ design and reliability of information, rules for messaging systems exploiting […]
Forum launches working group to combat infodemic, information chaos
Against the backdrop of the still developing Covid-19 epidemic, the Forum on Information and Democracy announces the creation of its inaugural working group. The Forum will ask experts, academics and jurists all over the world to define a policy framework (set of recommendations) to respond to “ the infodemic and the information chaos”. The ambition […]
Eleven organizations from civil society create the Forum on Information & Democracy, a structural response to information disorder
Eleven organizations from civil society create the Forum on Information and Democracy, a new international entity tasked to implement the principles of the International Partnership on information & Democracy, an intergovernmental agreement signed by a coalition of 31 States on the margins of the UN General Assembly last September. It is the continuation of the […]
30 countries endorsed the International Partnership on Information & Democracy initiated by RSF
30 UN members states signed the International Partnership on Information and Democracy at the UN General Assembly today, a historic inter-governmental accord initiated by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to promote democratic principles in the online public arena. Made possible by RSF’s Information and Democracy Initiative, the signing of this unprecedented agreement in New York opens […]
