The Observatory on Cyberbullying, Cyberhate and Online Harassment under DCU Anti-Bullying Centre invites everyone interested to join the second webinar on the subject. This seminar will focus on the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill which will be enacted this year.

Dr. Ioanna Noula, The Internet Commission’s Co-founder and Director of Research will join other speakers who will discuss the ways in which the Bill will impact the population as well as the social media companies in Ireland.

The tech sector is responsible for creating a free, secure, open, and trustworthy cyberspace environment while positively impacting the societies that fostered its development. This panel discussion will highlight concrete initiatives developed worldwide to support the growth of a socially sustainable tech industry and the development of rights-respecting level-playing fields.

The development of global standards in content moderation is a pressing societal need. This session discusses the challenges platforms face when trying to define and tackle harmful content.

The EU has proposed a single set of new rules to govern digital services. As the Internet Commission starts its second accountability reporting cycle, this roundtable will explore the new regulatory obligations for platforms and review the opportunities and challenges for corporate accountability.

The Internet Commission published its Accountability Report in January 2021. Rob and Christopher discuss online privacy, trust and digital wellbeing with the founder and Executive Chair of the Internet Commission, Jonny Shipp.

How much of a problem is online misogyny and how is it affecting women from all walks of life? What solutions and technologies exist or are on the horizon? What can we all do as digital citizens to mitigate online abuse? Internet Commission Strategy Director, Anno Mitchell joins other star panelists, all at the vanguard of change.

Online event: world experts and practitioners review the growing significance of ethical leadership and corporate accountability in digital environments.

National governments and the new European Commission are developing laws to address the unintended consequences of digital development. This may involve changes in the liability of Internet companies for online content and proposals for regulating artificial intelligence.

What role will ethical business and corporate accountability play? This roundtable will review accountability in other contexts including GDPR and explore how it will help make Europe fit for the digital age.

A private exchange of views about the UK Government’s Online Harms White Paper, chaired by Jonny Shipp. As background, see: Regulating against online harms: corporate accountability’s new wave?

UK Government published its response to its Internet Safety Strategy consultation in May. It plans to publish a White Paper later this year as a precursor to bringing forward online safety legislation. This workshop brings together leading thinkers on digital responsibility, trust and accountability to discuss the Government’s plans and identify areas of agreement. This will inform a short discussion paper.

Speaking at the 2018 meeting of the World Economic Forum in January, the British Prime Minister launched a Digital Charter which sets the direction for the UK to become the best place to start and grow a digital business and the safest place in the world to be online.

The Internet Commission will develop its offer and programme in the light of this framework. It seeks to generate action as quickly as possible in the face of the raft of issues that that threaten to undermine public trust in digital environments. It is envisaged that its focus will be on the UK first, driving a programme focussed on:

1. Increasing industry investment in digital responsibility;

2. Catalysing a new wave of accountability; and

3. Establishing a medium-term agenda for the reform of Internet regulation.

 You are invited to help shape this new initiative to build multi-stakeholder movement for a trusted Internet. 

The rapid pace of technological development in the context of the 2017 Conservative Manifesto and Queen’s Speech, new data protection rules and Brexit lend a new urgency to questions of Internet governance and regulation. This high-level roundtable and working session will enable stakeholders to share perspectives and consider together how the institutional framework for Internet regulation might be modernised.