Accountability in the Digital Age

To what extent was accountability a topic in the educational curricula of engineers, back in the days? How about ethics? What has changed since then? Why is accountability in this Digital Age nowadays so important? And, who raised the issue to take in accountability? To what extent is technology neutral? Where technology is designed for use as has become a need to have, does that change whether te...

What does the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics of the United Nations (UN) Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute ( UNICRI ) do? How can artificial intelligence and robotics improve fighting crime in this Digital Age? How to cater for future-proof law enforcement? What new and emerging technologies are visible on and envisioned over the horizon? How to use those responsib...

What is the difference between illegal hate speech, and legal hate speech? How free is the freedom of expression, and what are its thresholds? Can, and if so, how could technology help guarding these thresholds of what is freedom of expression, and what is not? How to arrange for more transparency by digital media platforms so their ways of acting or not acting to protect the freedom of expression...

A dialogue Paul Nemitz, Principle Adviser on Justice Policy EU Commission Why can technology not work without democracy and rule of law? What is the state of play regarding the rise power of technology, and related rise of economic power? How to control technological power? How to preserve our democracy and quality of life, and increase their resilience. Can rule of law compatible technology actua...

A dialogue with Prof Ali Hessami , VC & Process Architect, IEEE Ethics Certification Programme for Autonomous & Intelligent Systems at IEEE Standards Association. Ali discusses the a new IEEE global standard developed titled " P7000 - Model Process for Addressing Ethical Concerns During System Design" Furthermore his latest book on " Factoring Ethics in Technology Policy Making, Regulation...

Musah Inuwa is co-founder of Voices for Peace in Ghana.

Marco Magnano is Comms Director at XR Safety Initiative . This dialogue is hosted by guest host Richard Foster-Flecher , founder of MKAI . How is trust and being worthy of trust established in the physical world? Would that be the same online, and otherwise in the Digital Age? When adding immersive technology to the equation such as VR and AR, what does change, is augmented - or worsened - even mo...

Jim Poisant is the Secretary General at The World Innovation, Technology & Services Alliance ( WITSA ).

Nathalia Foditsch is a Senior Policy and Regulatory Specialist, with the Alliance for Affordable Internet ( A4AI ) part of the Web Foundation. In this dialogue she discusses the recent report the A4AI produced on the status of the Universal Service and Access Funds for the Latin American and Caribbean Countries. She also brings up the topic of the need for meaningful connectivity . You can find a...

What is the future of domain names? Why is attention to our digital fundamental infrastructure so important? Where did the internet protocol start, and what is IPv6? What brings it to the table regarding accountability? Is transparency seen as a friend or seen as a foe? Why is the implementation relatively difficult? Where certain necessary global transitions are relatively slow, why not start loc...

Prof. Jan Scholtes , University of Maastricht, Founder ZyLAB discusses role of eDiscovery in Accountability in the Digital Age. What does eDiscovery mean? What kind of fact finding does it facilitate? How to find relevant data, and how to trust it? How to avoid bias, tunnel vision and echo chamber behaviour by the investigators? How to respect human values and rights? When does one know it has fou...

A dialogue with Saskia Bruines , deputy mayor of the city of The Hague. She talks about the history of The Hague as a UN city and the role it plays as the city of peace and justice in the digital age. This dialogue is in DUTCH

A dialogue with Pavan Duggal , Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Head Artificial Intelligence Law Hub. Which developments have been accelerated because of the Covid-19 pandemic? And why? How did or do stakeholders such as nations, technology companies or cybercriminals used the pandemic, and how to counter the detrimental effects and other negative consequences? How could or should people, rule of...

Listen to media expert  Cyril Pereira  and our institute's co-director  Frits Bussemaker  having a dialogue about questions such as: Do newspapers have a future in this Digital Age? What is data journalism, and how to convert that into accountability instruments? How do the next generation journalists and free journalism look like, and what does it take? And much more!

Prof.  Christoph Stueckelberger , Founder of Globethics.net Foundation discusses cyber ethics. What does ethics means, around the world? What are the common denominators? What changes when one goes online? What can one reasonably expect online and why are some behaving differently online. How to be reliable towards people online – with the many persona individuals have during the day –, and r...

What does digital sovereignty mean? Why has it become a hot topic? What are digital assets, and why are they important? What technologies with either local, regional or even global reach are relevant to build, achieve and sustain digital sovereignty? What geopolitical threats need to be taken seriously? Are these challenges too big for one country, and if so, how to collaborate? How to speed up an...

Mei Lin Fung is chair and co-founder together with Vint Cerf of the People Centered Internet. See PCI . What was the internet originally intended to be? To which other historic innovations is the evolution of the internet similar? What can we learn from those, and the first decades of the internet? How to improve or rebuild the current internet so it can become less technology-dependent, less vuln...

A dialogue with Pradeep Gupta , Chairman Cyber Media Group discussing the role of media and Accountability in the Digital Age. Is the role of media news and other content provider, watch dog, or both? What has the media reporting about (and had  influence in) during the past decades. What is it focusing on now and the next years? How does a media organisation implement accountability, both in...

A dialogue with Prabhat Agarwal, European Commission

What is AI for Good about? When did it start, why, and where is accountability taken in? What’s the level of awareness of digital impact (positive and negative) of people, society and businesses? What are their leaders doing about it? Are there already instruments available that can be deployed to support and cater for accountability? Who should be at the table on these ever-growing opportunities,...

A Dialogue with Prof. Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor.

Marietje Schaake discussing Accountability in the Digital Age

Jacques Kruse Brandao , Global Head of Advocacy, SGS and Co-Founder Charter of Trust talks about connected devices and systems have become a need to have. Now each will need to be able to demonstrate that those are safe and (cyber)secure, and can be trusted. Both seperately as well as holistically. Locally, nationally, and globally. This Dialogue touches on this important dimensions.

Where for journalists internet 1.0 was about how to use it in its daily course of work, nowadays, in this Digital Age, press freedom, freedom of expression and traditional and digital media have been influenced, impact and otherwise changed dramatically, both in positive and negative ways. Who are the players and gatekeepers of communication, what are the nuances of accountability for each of them...

A dialogue with Kai Hermsen , co-CEO of IDENTITY Valley. Next to cybersecurity as a key trust ingredient in this Digital Age there are many more, including digital literacy, transparency and human agency and identity, to name a few. How to come to a set of holistic, intertwined yet actionable ingredients that can be furthered as digital responsibility goals, to support the Sustainable Development...