ICANN77 Policy Forum will take place on 12-15 June 2023 in Washington, D.C, the USA.

The Policy Forum is the second meeting in the three-meeting annual cycle. The focus of this meeting is the policy development work of the Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees and regional outreach activities.

For more information, please visit the dedicated page.

The 12th annual RightsCon 2023 will take place in San José, Costa Rica and online from June 5-9, 2023.

The summit is organized by Access Now, an international NGO whose core mission is to defend and extend the digital rights of internet users worldwide through policies and direct technical support, all the while cherishing user engagement and input.

Topics that are going to be discussed are global developments related to gender and sexuality, labour and corporate accountability, climate and environmental justice and the interconnectedness of these topics to digital rights.

For more information about the event, please visit the dedicated web page.

TITLE: Next week is the Fourth Annual National News Literacy Week

CONTENT: The National News Literacy Week will take place between January 23rd and 27th this year and will offer a variety of ways for educators, students and the public to get involved. This annual event highlights the role of news literacy in a democracy and provides audiences with the knowledge, tools and abilities to become more news-literate. The week is presented by the News Literacy Project and The E.W. Scripps Company.

EXCERPT: The National News Literacy Week will take place between January 23rd and 27th this year and will offer a variety of ways for educators, students and the public to get involved.

LINK: https://newslit.org/news-literacy-week/

TREND: Fake news

DATE: 20/01/2023

COUNTRY: online

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in collaboration with eTrade for all, will host its annual eCommerce Week. This event will take place in Geneva and online from 04 - 08 December 2023.

The theme for the 2023 edition is 'Shaping the future of the digital economy'. The conference will focus on widening the digital gap and the danger that data-driven digitalization could exacerbate inequalities. Throughout the event, a particular emphasis will be placed on specific and actionable solutions to pressing issues related to the digital transformation of our economies.

During the UNCTAD eWeek, Ministers, senior government officials, CEOs and other business leaders, international organizations, development banks, academia and civil society will come together to address three key questions: What does the future we want for the digital economy look like? What is required to make that future come true? How can digital partnerships and enhanced cooperation contribute to more inclusive and sustainable outcomes?

For more information, visit the event web page.

The 2023 edition of Digital Government conference hosted by GovNet technology will take place on 23 May 2023 in London, United Kingdom.

This event brings stakeholders from the government, wider public and privet sector, and the health services to discuss how new digital strategies and technology can improve citizen services and build a digitally enabled state. Through best practice case studies and discussions, the conference will provide a venue for stakeholders to debate and define the opportunities for digital transformation in the public sector.

The following are some of the subjects covered by the conference:

Digital Leadership Digital Skills Digital Identity Data Analytics Cloud Digital Divide

For more information, please visit the dedicated web page.

The RIPE 86 meeting will take place on 22-26 May, 2023 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The RIPE 86 will bring together Internet service providers, network operators and other interested parties from around the world to discuss policies and procedures used by RIPE NCC to allocate Internet number resources and to share experiences, the latest development and best common practices.

Each meeting consists of plenary presentations, working group sessions and Birds of a Feather discussion (BoFs). RIPE Meetings are open to everyone.

More information will be made available soon on the RIPE 86 web page.

The 15th annual International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) 2023 will be held on 30 May to 2 June 2023, in Tallinn, Estonia.

Organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, the conference will focus on the fundamental aspects of cybersecurity under the theme' Meeting Reality'. It will bring together decision-makers and experts from all over the world, from government, military, and industry, for discussions on the legal, technology, strategy and military perspectives of cyber defence and security.

Some of the questions and issues to be tackled during CyCon 2023 include the following:

Do our policies and legal frameworks stand the test of time?

What technologies have turned out to be game changers, and which have been overrated?

Our assumptions about cyber conflict and associated technologies in general, in addition to their role in peacetime as well as crisis and conflict.

Focus on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and novel cyber-attacks and malware analysis in the context of the conflict.

AI use-cases in cybersecurity.

For more information, please visit the dedicated web page.

TITLE: Jogo Limpo 2.0, a Program to Combat Disinformation in Brazil in 2023

CONTENT: In 2023, continuing the partnership with YouTube Brazil, ICFJ is launching the second edition of the program: Jogo Limpo 2.0. Through this initiative, ICFJ seeks to support methods and models to promote factual content that resists the dissemination and the impact of fake news. This is in addition to supporting and empowering journalists, fact-checkers and the entire Brazilian media ecosystem. "Jogo Limpo 2.0" is a program fully funded by YouTube Brazil. As a way to inspire media organizations and independent journalists, ICFJ will have a webinar before applications open, with with Sérgio Spagnoulo and Natália Leal, moderated by Cristina Tardáguila, about innovative ways to combat disinformation in Brazil. The webinar will be held in Portuguese on Tuesday, January 24 at 2:00pm Brazil time.

EXCERPT:In 2023, continuing the partnership with YouTube Brazil, ICFJ is launching the second edition of the program: Jogo Limpo 2.0. ICFJ organizes a webinar before applications open.

LINK: https://www.icfj.org/our-work/jogo-limpo-20-program-combat-disinformation-brazil-2023

TREND: Fake news

DATE: 15/01/2023

COUNTRY: Brazil

Intergovernmental Group of Experts on E-commerce and the Digital Economy, the sixth session organised by The United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), will take place from 10 to 12 May 2023 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

UNCTAD’s Intergovernmental Group of Experts on E-commerce and the Digital Economy meets annually to discuss ways to strengthen the development dimension of e-commerce and the digital economy.

The meeting aims to strengthen the work of UNCTAD on information and communications technologies, e-commerce and the digital economy for development, as well as to enhance its ability to support developing countries to engage in and benefit from the evolving digital economy and reduce the digital divide, for creating more inclusive knowledge societies.

For more information about the event, visit the dedicated web page.

The semi-annual LACNIC 39 will be held on May 8-12, 2023 Mérida, México.

The LACNIC 39 event brings together Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and other parties interested in internet policies and technologies from the region to discuss internet policies, allocation and administration of IP Addresses and other related resources (Autonomous System Numbers and Reverse Resolution) for the region of Latin America and the Caribbean. The event brings together participants from various backgrounds, including academia, NGOs, civil society, governments, and others.

LACNIC 39 will include five days of training activities, technical presentations, and the opportunity to network and exchange knowledge and best practices.

For more information about LACNIC 39, please visit the dedicated page.

TITLE: 2023 Citrin Center Conference: Misinformation and Its Consequences for American Democracy

CONTENT: This one-day conference at Berkeley brings together prominent political researchers and practitioners to discuss the origins and consequences of misinformation, as well as strategies to reduce its prevalence and pernicious effects.

EXCERPT: A one-day conference at Berkeley where political researchers and practitioners will discuss the origins and consequences of misinformation and strategies to reduce its prevalence.

LINK: https://polisci.berkeley.edu/events/2023-citrin-center-conference-misinformation-and-its-consequences-american-democracy

TREND: Fake news

DATE: 20/07/2023

COUNTRY: United States

TITLE: 2023 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress

CONTENT: 2023 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress

Theme: Researchers, clinicians, educators, government agency representatives, and others with expertise in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, pediatrics, communications, social work, public health, education, and more will come together to explore how digital media use impacts the social, psychological, cognitive, behavioral, and physical development of children.

Date: 20-23 September 2023

Location: Washington D.C., The U.S.

Host: Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development is an international non-profit organization founded in 2013 to understand and address compelling questions regarding media's impact on child development through interdisciplinary dialogue, public information, and rigorous, objective research bridging the medical, neuroscientific, social science, public health, educational, and academic communities.

EXCERPT: 2023 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress will be hosted by Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development on 20-23 September 2023 in Washington D.C.

LINK: https://www.childrenandscreens.com/2023-digital-media-and-developing-minds/

TOPIC: Child safety online

TREND: digital media, children development

DATE: 21 Dec 2022

COUNTRY: the U.S.

ITLE: 73rd Annual ICA Conference Theme Call for Papers: Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication

CONTENT: The ICA 2023 conference theme of Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication invites communication scholars to examine how authenticity has become a variable, rather than a constant, in public discourses and popular culture across the globe, and with what relational, social, political, and cultural implications.

EXCERPT: The ICA 2023 conference theme of Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication invites communication scholars to examine how authenticity has become a variable in communication.

LINK: https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA23-CFP

TOPIC: Freedom of the press

TREND: Fake News

DATE: 14/12/2022

COUNTRY:

TITLE: Fighting Misinformation Online

CONTENT: Fighting Misinformation Online summit in Brussels and online. The event will be hosted by Annette Kroeber-Riel, (VP, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Europe at Google) alongside YouTube, the EUI and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation at De Warande, Brussels.

Speakers

Věra Jourová, Vice President for Values and Transparency, European Commission Jon Ronson, non-fiction author and documentary maker Krisztina Stump, Head of Unit, Media Convergence and Social Media, European Commission Alexander Stubb: former President of Finland and Director at the European University Institute Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

EXCERPT: Fighting Misinformation Online summit in Brussels and online.

LINK: https://newsonair.withgoogle.com/events/fighting-misinformation-online

TREND: Fake news

DATE: 29/11/2022

COUNTRY: Belgium (and online)

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