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EuroDIG 2023 programme, 21 June
As of 24 July 2023.
All times are Tampere local time (EEST, UTC+3).
21 June 2023
10:00 – 10:30
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Keynotes by Merja Ylä-Anttila and Tobias Bornakke
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21 June 2023 | 10:00 EEST | Main auditorium
- Merja Ylä-Anttila, CEO Yle (Finnish Broadcasting Company) | More details on the wiki. |
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- Tobias Bornakke, Chairman of the Nordic Think Tank for Tech and Democracy (online) | More details on the wiki. | |
- Merja Ylä-Anttila, CEO Yle (Finnish Broadcasting Company) | More details on the wiki. |
10:30 – 11:15
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Main Topic 3: Digital Platforms | #Risks | Subtopic 1: Virtual worlds, but real risks: navigating metaverses as a next generation of digital platforms
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21 June 2023 | 10:30 – 11:15 EEST | Main auditorium |
| Immersive technologies, including extended reality, augmented reality and virtual reality, commonly referred to as the “metaverses”, have long history of uses in research, military training and gaming. However, the new phase of commercializing technologies in the “metaverse” poses new interesting opportunities and challenges, ranging from novel creative ways to connect with people across the world to potential adverse impacts on user wellbeing and safety. This session will explore the current state of affairs of these emerging technologies, focusing on their potential impacts.
10:30 – 11:30
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Workshop 5: Proposal for a regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse
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21 June 2023 | 10:30 – 11:30 EEST | Auditorium A1 |
| The European Commission has proposed a “Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse” which provides a uniform approach to detecting and reporting child sexual abuse and imposes obligations on online service providers to screen private communications for this purpose. Can the regulation ensure both privacy and child protection online?
10:30 – 11:15
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Flash 7: EU Accessibility Directive
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21 June 2023 | 10:30 – 11:15 EEST | Auditorium A3 |
TACCU (Tampere Accessibility Unit) is a multidisciplinary unit conducting accessibility-related research and education at the Tampere Universities. Accessibility empowers every person and every organization affecting us all and enables inclusion in the digital society. Our research is largely multidisciplinary and related to accessibility in the digital society. With increasing attention in society, the field is also a source of abundant new job opportunities. Education, legislation, and policies are important to the big picture.
11:30 – 12:15
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Main Topic 3: Digital Platforms | #Resilience | Subtopic 2: The European Union’s Digital Transformation – Regulatory Challenges, Technical Impacts and Emerging Opportunities
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21 June 2023 | 11:30 – 12:15 EEST | Main auditorium |
| In the European continent, particularly the EU, the regulatory responses from the recent years have attempted to keep abreast or even get ahead of the fast-paced technological developments. This session will explore the resilience of these legislative responses, in particular their implementation and enforcement challenges and paths to regulating digital technologies and the positive and negative impact of the regulation on technological advancement.
11:30 – 12:15
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Flash 8: Building Resilience through Data Values: Empowering Youth Engagement via Social Media.
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21 June 2023 | 11:30 – 12:15 EEST | Auditorium A3 |
In this 45-minute workshop, we will:
- Introduce the Data Value Manifesto and its principles
- Explore the role of social media in empowering youth engagement with data values
- Engage in group discussions on challenges and strategies for inclusive data value education
- Identify important topics for creating engaging social media content
- Share insights and ideas among participants
- Provide next steps and opportunities to join the Data Value Advocate programme.
12:15 – 13:15
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Workshop 6: When Universal acceptance meets Digital inclusion
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21 June 2023 | 12:15 – 13:15 EEST | Auditorium A1 |
| As the world races to connect the next billion, indigenous communities in Europe and worldwide face unique accessibility challenges ranging from connectivity, to language barriers due to the lack of universal acceptance of their Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). How can stakeholders help achieve a digital transformation that offers and promotes cultural and linguistic diversity to ensure meaningful access and full participation for all?
12:30 – 13:15
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Main Topic 3: Digital Platforms | #Hope | Subtopic 3: Platforms as critical infrastructure for democratic discourse
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21 June 2023 | 12:30 – 13:15 EEST | Main auditorium |
| In recent years, challenges of platform dominance have attracted new approaches and solutions, ranging from decentralized social networks to independent oversight mechanisms. In this session we will discuss approaches and concrete initiatives which go beyond regulation and can contribute to shape a digital public sphere which respects human rights and which works according to democratic rules.
12:30 – 13:15
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Flash 9: Inclusive and Meaningful Access
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21 June 2023 | 12:30 – 13:15 EEST | Auditorium A3 |
13:15 – 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:30
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Agreeing on the Messages and Wrap up
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21 June 2023 | 14:30 – 15:30 EEST | Main auditorium
- Wrap up by Thomas Schneider, President EuroDIG SA, Swiss Government, Ambassador, Chair of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) | More details on the wiki. | |
- Message drafting with support by Andrijana Gavrilovic, reporter from the Geneva Internet Platform (GIP) | More details on the wiki. | |
- Wrap up by Thomas Schneider, President EuroDIG SA, Swiss Government, Ambassador, Chair of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) | More details on the wiki. |
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