UK IGF

The UK Internet Governance Forum

UK Internet Governance Forum 2018

Following on from an open call for agenda items, the 2018 UK IGF was held on Thursday 22nd November. See the full agenda.

This year’s UK Internet Governance Forum meeting focused on Solutions for The Digital Age. View the full report from the day.

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Videos from all the sessions can be viewed below.

Opening remarks: Russell Haworth, CEO, Nominet

Keynote speech: Margot James MP, Minister of State for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

AI Explainer: The potential impact of AI on my generation, and how we can plan for the future

Kari Lawler, Found of Youth4AI

Online safety panel: Making the UK the safest place to be online

  • Professor Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics
  • Douglas White, Head of Advocacy, Carnegie Trust
  • David Wright, Director, UK Safer Internet Centre
  • Vicki Shotbolt, Founder and CEO, ParentZone
  • Barbora Bukovska, Senior Director of Law and Policy, London Article 19
  • Andrew Honeyman, Head of Online Harms White Paper and Regulation, DCMS
  • Jodie Ginsberg, Chief Executive, Index on Censorship

Algorithm Explainer: Ansgar Koene, Senior Research Fellow, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute – University of Nottingham

Mapping the progress of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 Panel

  • Nick Wenban-Smith, General Counsel, Nominet (Chair)
  • Neil Thacker, Chief Information Security Officer of EMEA, Netskope
  • Rosalind Goodfellow, Domestic Data Protection Team, DCMS

Countering Data Exploitation: In conversation with Ailidh Callander and Alex Krasodomski-Jones

  • Ailidh Callander, Legal Officer with Privacy International
  • Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Researcher, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos

Lessons learnt from Paris and Dubai

  • Richard Wingfield, Legal Officer, Global Partners Digital
  • Mark Carvell, Head of International Online Policy, DCMS
  • Desiree Miloshevic, Internet Society UK Chapter Lead Team and Internet Society Board Trustee

Cybersecurity and the internet of things panel: ‘security by design’ 

  • Talal Rajab, Head of Programme – Cyber and National Security, Tech UK
  • Stephen Pattison, Vice President of Public Affairs, ARM
  • Eva Blum-Dumontet, Privacy Research Officer, Privacy International
  • Matthew Shears, Director of Cyber, Global Partners Digital and Board Member, ICANN
  • Joyce Hakmeh, Cyber Research Fellow, Chatham House

Summary

  • Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Chair of the Internet Society UK Chapter
  • David Souter, Managing Director, Ict Development Associates