UK Internet Governance Forum 2019

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The theme of this year’s UK Internet Governance Forum meeting was ‘Ensuring a healthy digital society by 2050’.

We were be joined by experts from a variety of organisations to explore these key topics:

Data Governance: The technical, legal and organisational aspects of the handling and exchange of data.
Digital Inclusion: Issues of access and equal participation in digitalisation and its participatory shaping.
Security, Safety, Stability & Resilience: Matters of data protection, data security and the protection of people, resources and infrastructure in the digital age.

View the presentation slides and full agenda.

Videos from all the sessions can be viewed below.

Highlights of the day

Opening remarks: Eleanor Bradley, MD Registry & Public Benefit, Nominet

Discussion of the future of Internet Governance over the next 30 years

Adrian Lovett, President and CEO of World Wide Web Foundation

Current developments/proposals for the future of Internet Governance

• Sheetal Kumar, Global Partners
• Stacie Hoffman, Oxford Information Labs
• Maeve Walsh, Carnegie
• Dominique Lazanski, Last Press Label

Use of and attitudes to the internet in the UK: key findings from Ofcom’s Online Nation report

Ian Macrae, Ofcom

Digital Inclusion & Education

Gareth Jones, Scouts
Adam Micklethwaite, Good Things Foundation

Risk, Harm & Ethics in Digital Society: Healthy Digital Society?

Victoria Nash, Oxford Internet Institute
Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Demos
Darren Jones MP
Chloe Colliver, ISD

Empowering Users: Can ‘Safety by Design’ learn from Tech for Good

Ben Bradley, Tech UK’s Senior Policy Manager (Chair)
Rachel O’Connell, Trust Elevate
Antonia Bayly, Online Safety Policy at DCMS
Noor Mo’alla, Doteveryone
David Hunter, Crisp

Cybersecurity: challenges and opportunities

Sheetal Kumar, Global Partners
Kat Jones, FCO

Policy & Technology: developing both in harmony

Andrew Puddephat, Internet Watch Foundation
Vinous Ali, Tech UK
Lindsay Taylor, BEIS
Frédéric Donck, Director of the ISOC European Bureau
Rowena Schoo, Nominet (Chair)

Summary of the day

Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Internet Society UK England Chapter
Paul Blaker, DCMS
Gareth Jones, Scouts
Nick Wenban-Smith, Nominet

See more information on the UK IGF speakers