Comments by email
Comments by email
Comments by email in the chronological order in which they were received:
- Comments by the UK Government on the Report of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel On Digital Cooperation
view PDF | view HTML - Re: Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation by Amali De Silva-Mitchell
view PDF | view HTML - Initial Comments from the Swiss Government on the report of the High Level Panel in Digital Cooperation
view PDF | view HTML - Microsoft response to the UN High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation report on the Age of Digital Interdependence
view PDF | view HTML without appendix - X IGF-UA comments on UNSG HLPDC Report – “UNSG HLPDC Report from the point of view of different stakeholders”
view PDF | view HTML - RIPE NCC Response to the Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation
view PDF | view HTML - Comments by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and the Finnish NRI on the Report of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation
view PDF | view HTML - Reaping the benefits of digital transformation – Denmark’s response to the UN High-level panel on digital Cooperation
view PDF | view HTML - Comments by the Council of Europe’s Information Society Department on the Report of the UN Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation
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For reference please see also the comments by the Data Protection Unit of the Council of Europe - Comments by INTA – Re: EuroDIG ’s platform to collate views on the Report of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation
view PDF | view HTML - Invitation to contribute to a European reply to the report “The Age of Digital Interdependence” – Response from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
view PDF | view HTML - EBU contribution to the debate concerning the Report of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation by Giacomo Mazzone, head of institutional relations
view PDF | view HTML - Comments of the French Republic on the Report of the UN Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation “The age of interdependence”
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Commentaires de la République française sur le Rapport du groupe de haut niveau du secrétaire général des nations unies « L’âge de l’interdépendance numérique »
voir PDF | voir HTML - Comments by The Netherlands on the report of the UNSG’s High Level panel on Digital Cooperation.
view PDF | view HTML - Comments on the report of the UNSG’s High Level panel on Digital Cooperation. Provided by Dr. Bissera Zankova, media expert, “Media 21” Foundation, Bulgaria
view PDF | view HTML - ICC BASIS response to the report of the UN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation
view PDF | view HTML - HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON DIGITAL COORDINATION: THE AGE OF DIGITAL INTERDEPENDENCE REPORT, TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION: RESPONSES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE INTERNET SOCIETY
view PDF | view HTML - Comments by Croatian IGF on the Report of the UN Secretary General’s High level Panel on Digital Cooperation
view PDF | view HTML - European External Action Service and European Commission – Comments on the recommendations from the United Nations High-Level Panel’s Report on Digital Cooperation
view PDF | view HTML - Comments by the Data Protection Unit of the Council of Europe
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For reference please see also the Comments by the Council of Europe’s Information Society Department on the Report of the UN Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation - COMMENTS BY THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT ON THE REPORT OF THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL’S HIGH LEVEL PANEL ON DIGITAL COOPERATION (OCTOBER 2019)
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Recent Comments on this Site
3rd July 2023 at 2:58 pm
I agree with Michael’s comment.
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3rd July 2023 at 2:56 pm
This first message makes no sense. Please take into consideration the comment made by Torsen.
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3rd July 2023 at 2:37 pm
3 The Ukrainian Internet resilience is impossible without worldwide cooperation, help and support. There are very good examples of such cooperation, and not very good. These lessons also have to be documented and analysed.
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3rd July 2023 at 12:14 am
In responding to the points around the impact encryption, I would ask that the comments I made around the UK’s Online Safety Tech Challenge Fund and academic paper by Ian Levy and Crispin Robinson are added to the key messages.
I referenced a paper by Ian Levy and Crispin Robinson, two internationally respected cryptographers from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, which set out possible solutions to detecting child sexual abuse within End-to-End Encrypted Environments that companies could be exploring to balance both the rights to privacy and the rights of children to grow up in a safe and secure environment free from child sexual abuse.
The link to the paper is copied below:
[2207.09506] Thoughts on child safety on commodity platforms (arxiv.org)
And the UK Safety Tech Challenge Fund:
Lessons from Innovation in Safety Tech: The Data Protection Perspective – Safety Tech (safetytechnetwork.org.uk)
It is important that we balance the concerns about the breaking of encryption, with the possibilities that should be being explored to prevent child sexual abuse from entering or leaving these environments.
Andrew Campling also made points about the right to privacy not being an absolute right and the need to balance this right, with other rights- another point I think that is worth reflecting in this final paragraph.
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3rd July 2023 at 12:00 am
I agree with the amendment Torsten has proposed to the initial text.
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2nd July 2023 at 11:58 pm
I would be careful about saying these images have been created consensually. Just because an image is “self-generated” it does not mean it has been created through “sexting”. Children are being “groomed” and “coerced” into creating these images as well.
I agree- however, with the rewritten text above regarding what companies currently do and what they will be required to do if the EU proposal becomes law and is clearer than what was written in the initial text.
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2nd July 2023 at 3:21 pm
The Internet has changed how war is fought, and how it is covered by media. At
the same time, the war has put “One world, one Internet” to a stress test. The foundations of global and interoperable Internet should not be affected by the deepening geopolitical divide, even though it has fragmented the content layer.
No one has the right to disrupt the global network that exists as a result of voluntary cooperation by thousands of networks. The mission of Internet actors is to promote and uphold the network, and to help restore it if destroyed by armed aggression.
The war has been accompanied by heightened weaponization of the content layer of the Internet. New EU legislation is expected to curb at least the role of very large platforms in spreading disinformation and hate speech.
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2nd July 2023 at 2:36 pm
I kindly suggest the following changes:
Please add these two important points that were said by the speakers/audience:
– There is an initiative on the Nordic level to protect children from the harms of the Internet, and this initiative has already been promulgated into legislation in Denmark.
– As the role of parents is crucial in educating children to use the Internet in a savvy way, also parents need education. That’s why we need adult education also from beyond the formal education system, just like the adult education system in Finland already provides training in basic digital skills.
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2nd July 2023 at 2:35 pm
I kindly suggest the following changes:
– governs => governments
– Replace this: ”Therefore, the contemporary political landscape requires three-level trust: political power; knowledge organisations; and individual.”
– By this:
– ”Therefore, the contemporary political landscape requires three levels of trust: trust in basic societal functions and structures of the society, trust in knowledge organizations, and trust between one another as individuals.”
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2nd July 2023 at 2:32 pm
I kindly suggest the following changes:
Replace this: ”Thus, one of the key priorities is to enhance citizens digital literacy and education going beyond only digital competencies and including cultural aspects.”
with this: ”Thus, one of the key priorities is to enhance citizens’ digital literacy and education by going beyond just digital competencies and including also ethical, social and cultural dimensions.”
Add this important point that was said by the speaker: Responsibility for digital information literacy education lies not only with the formal education system, but also cultural institutions, NGOs, youth work play a key role.
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