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Paris, 28 September 2023 - On International Day for Universal Access to Information, the Forum on Information and Democracy announces its latest international policy working group investigating the impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on our democratic information...

Paris, 15 September 2023 - On International Day for Democracy, the International Observatory on Information and Democracy (OID) announces the appointment of 19 prominent leaders in policy, research and academia to its Steering Committee. This dynamic group of thought...

Brazil becomes the 51st signatory state of the Partnership for Information and Democracy (PID). By officially joining this coalition, Brazil joins hands with member countries and civil society in strengthening democratic governance of the information space.  On August...

Join the Global Effort to Safeguard Democracy in the Digital Information Space!  The Forum on Information and Democracy  is hiring research rapporteurs and a Scientific Director for its Observatory, and policy rapporteurs for its working group.  We are delighted to...

Over 100 experts applied to the Observatory’s Steering Committee, reflecting a strong engagement from Academics all over the world to contribute to the Observatory’s mission of assessing the impact of the digital information ecosystem on democracy. The open call for...

Are you a thought leader working at the intersection of technology and democracy ? Are you keen to join a cohort of world-class experts to oversee the first international and trans-disciplinary evaluation of the information ecosystem and its impact 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...

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...

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...

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...

During the 5th edition of the Paris Peace Forum, the Forum for Information and Democracy announced that three new countries have joined the Partnership: Albania, Ireland and Niger. This initiative for democratic principles in the digital space, linking civil society...

During the 5th edition of the Paris Peace Forum, a session chaired by the French Secretary of State for Europe, Laurence Boone, will mobilize in favor of the International Observatory on Information and Democracy, the equivalent for the information chaos of what the...

Announced at the second annual Summit on Information and Democracy, held on the margins of the UN General Assembly on 22 September 2022, the working group on pluralism of news and information in curation and indexation algorithms is publishing its global call for...

On the agenda of the Summit for Information and Democracy, held in New York on September 22: new members for the Partnership for Information and Democracy, deliberation on the Forum's recommendations, presentation of the Observatory on Information and Democracy,...

The second ministerial-level summit of the Partnership for Information and Democracy will be convened on 22 September 2022, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Ministers from the member states of the Partnership for Information and Democracy and civil society...

This ambitious co-regulatory text negotiated between the European Commission, platforms and civil society organizations contains many of the recommendations issued in the Forum's report How to end infodemics and in the text of the International Partnership on...

Leer en español / Read in Spanish On the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day Conference organized by UNESCO and Uruguay, the Forum publishes its recommendations on transparency for digital platforms in Spanish. They will be the subject of a presentation session to...

The Forum on Information and Democracy issues a global call for contributions to shape an accountability regime for social networks and their users. All experts, jurists and researchers working on these issues are invited to respond.

The Forum on Information and Democracy is issuing a worldwide call for contributions to help create the International Observatory on Information and Democracy. All institutions, experts, jurists and researchers working on the structure of the information and...

Around 50 experts associated with the Forum's regional networks of contributors in Africa and the Middle East took part in workshops on the regulation of social networks. Thanks to their contributions, the perspectives from different regions of the world will be taken...

The Forum on Information and Democracy announces the creation of the Working group on accountability regimes for social network accounts. Its steering committee will be chaired by Kjersti Loken Stavrum, CEO of the media holding...

Tallinn, Estonia – Two of the most ambitious international initiatives set up to confront potential “media extinction” and support the Right to Information round the world have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate more closely. The International...

On the occasion of the Paris Peace Forum, the Forum on Information and Democracy is unveiling the first names of the “prefiguration group” that will pave the way for the International Observatory on Information and Democracy, including Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace...

Speech pronounced by Christophe Deloire, Chair of the Forum on Information and Democracy, on 11 November 2021, in the presence of President Macron, Vice-President Kamala Harris and over thirty heads of State and Government during the Paris Peace Forum.  Mister...

The Forum on Information and Democracy warmly welcomes the awarding of the prize to Dimitri Muratov and Maria Ressa. The latter is a member of the Commission on Information and Democracy and co-chaired the Forum's first working group. “We are extremely pleased to see...

At the Summit for Information and Democracy held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the Forum on Information and Democracy announced the up-coming creation of an International Observatory on Information and Democracy.  The prefiguration group will be...

The Forum on Information and Democracy announces the creation of a civil society coalition composed, to date, of 42 non-governmental organizations from 24 countries. These are associations and research centres known for their expertise and whose objectives are close...

By the civil society coalition on Information and Democracy The Initiative on Information and Democracy, which aims at implementing democratic safeguards in the information and communication space, is vital for online human rights and for the future of democratic...

The government has just announced that the country has joined the Partnership on Information and Democracy, which now has 43 signatory states. On the occasion of a plenary meeting of the Economic and Social Council of Argentina devoted to digital threats to democracy,...

   As the Covid-19 pandemic undermines journalism at a growing pace, the Forum on Information and Democracy is publishing its recommendations under the title A New Deal for Journalism. The report presents a plan to guarantee up to 0.1% of GDP a year into journalism to...

@ Felix Zahn     Meeting on the sidelines of the 46th Human Rights Council, the Alliance for Multilateralism held its first meeting of 2021. On this occasion, Christophe Deloire, Chair of the Forum on Information and Democracy and general secretary of...

To move forward the 250 concrete recommendations of our ​report on how to fight Infodemics​, the Forum organizes a a one-hour webinar on January 27, 2021 at 3.00pm CET on : How to fight against infodemics?  Who should turn off the power? What democratic control...

  The Forum on Information and Democracy is issuing a worldwide call for contributions to produce concrete recommendations on regulation and self-regulation for the media economy. All media practitioners, experts, jurists and researchers working on these issues...

The Forum on Information & Democracy announces the creation of a working group on the sustainability of journalism that will seek structural recommendations from experts, media stakeholders, academics and jurists all over the world on how to make quality...

As false or manipulated information continues to proliferate online during the Covid-19 epidemic, the Forum on Information and Democracy is publishing a report entitled How to end infodemics. Based on more than 100 contributions from international experts, it offers...

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...

The Forum on Information and Democracy has named the steering committee of the “working group on infodemics.” Chaired by Maria Ressa and Marietje Schaake, the steering committee consists of 17 prominent figures including David Kaye and Edison Lanza, the UN and OAS...

The Forum on Information and Democracy thanks the countries of the Alliance for Multilateralism for the strong support they expressed for the Forum’s “working group on infodemics.” During the meeting of the Alliance on Covid-19, which gathered nearly 50 foreign...

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...