UNESCO to hold Workshop "Exploring Privacy and Social Networking" at the Fifth Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania
07-09-2010 (Paris)
Building on outcomes from the High Level Debate on Social Networking at World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2010, UNESCO is organizing a workshop at the forthcoming IGF in Vilnius, Lithuania, as a follow-up on previous discussions focused on the issue of privacy and legal frameworks for privacy protection.
UNESCO has been concerned with the issue of privacy in the context of the “free flow of information”, which is at the core of UNESCO’s mandate. Previous discussions shared the view that social networking tools have tremendous potential to promote freedom of expression and political and social cohesion. New legal and regulatory instruments for social networking have been developed by various agencies, but due to social networking’s transnational nature, challenges exist in the application of these instruments, with the discrepancy between the legal framework of the online territory and that of national territories.
The workshop will bring different multi-stakeholders around the world, and will take a broader approach to examine the interaction between privacy protection, freedom of expression and security. The sub-themes include:
Global dynamics and trends in policy and legal frameworks concerning Internet social network diffusion
How users’ privacy could be protected without compromising their right to freedom of expression
Women’s rights and child protection
Implications of mobile Internet on social networking
The workshop will take place in Room 8, Lithuanian Exhibition Centre LITEXPO, Vilnius, 4.30-6.30p.m., 15 September 2010. Mr Jānis Kārkliņš, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information will chair the meeting. The speakers include:
Mr Thomas Schneider, Coordinator international Information Society
Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), Switzerland
Mr Richard Allan, Director of Policy, EU, Facebook
Mr Van Nistelrooij, European Parliament
Ms Ceren Unal, Bilkent University Faculty of Law, Turkey
Mr Rafael García, Head of the International Department of the Spanish Data Protection Agency
Mr Ivo Corrêa, Senior Policy Counsel, Google Brazil
Mr Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme Court of India and President, CYBERLAWASIA
The workshop welcomes remote participation through access to the IGF website.
The programme and agenda of this workshop are available on the IGF website.
The workshop will bring different multi-stakeholders around the world, and will take a broader approach to examine the interaction between privacy protection, freedom of expression and security. The sub-themes include:
The workshop will take place in Room 8, Lithuanian Exhibition Centre LITEXPO, Vilnius, 4.30-6.30p.m., 15 September 2010. Mr Jānis Kārkliņš, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information will chair the meeting. The speakers include:
Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), Switzerland
The workshop welcomes remote participation through access to the IGF website.
The programme and agenda of this workshop are available on the IGF website.
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· UNESCO and WSIS
· Access to Information
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· Internet Governance
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