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EuroDIG 2025 programme, 14 May
As of 21 May 2025.
We are using AI transcriptions provided by Zoom for all sessions.
All times are Strasbourg local time (CEST UTC+2).
14 May 2025
09:00 – 10:30
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Main Topic 5: The Age Verification Dilemma: Balancing child protection and digital access rights
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14 May 2025 | 09:00 – 10:30 CEST | Hemicycle |
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As online safety regulations evolve across Europe, age verification is at the heart of the debate. Under the Digital Services Act (DSA), online platforms must implement measures to protect minors – yet questions remain on how to balance child protection with digital rights and data privacy. But how far should these restrictions go? Should access to social media be limited – or are there better alternatives that balance safety with children’s right to participation? With the UK’s Online Safety Act rolling out in 2025, global efforts intensifying, and as the EU explores an Age-Appropriate Design Code, this panel will discuss the future of age assurance, the challenges of technical implementation, and whether a unified EU approach is the answer to safeguarding young users while maintaining an open and inclusive digital space.
09:30 – 10:30
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Workshop 11: São Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines – The Way Forward in Multistakeholder and Multilateral Digital Processes
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14 May 2025 | 09:30 – 10:30 CEST | Room 8 |
| Internet governance and digital policy processes need unprecedented coordination to unlock technologies’ benefits and tackle its harms. But multistakeholder forums face huge challenges. We must improve how they build consensus and influence multilateral processes and global decisions—ensuring communities’ voices shape real, impactful solutions.
09:30 – 09:55
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Flash 7: From Talk to Action: Safeguarding Core Internet Values in Today’s Digital Governance
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by IGF Dynamic Coalition on Core Internet Values
14 May 2025 | 09:30 – 09:55 CEST | Room 7 |
This Flash session will discuss how topics that are discussed at Flash sessions in IGF processes, progress to eventually grow into international action.
From planting seeds to building communities, to shaping broader priorities, we take the example of Core Internet Values to illustrate our points and will discuss how to improve this path to global action.
10:30 – 11:00
Break
11:00 – 11:30
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Intergenerational dialogue – reflection of the conference
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14 May 2025 | 11:00 – 11:30 CEST | Hemicycle |
11:30 – 12:00
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Wrap up
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14 May 2025 | 11:30 – 12:00 CEST | Hemicycle |
| - Mr Matjaz GRUDEN, Director for Democracy, DGII: Directorate General of Democracy and Human Dignity
- Marianne Wilhelmsen, State Secretary Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance, Norway (online)
- Chengetai Masango, United Nations Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Head of Office
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