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UK IGF 2022 Highlights

UK Internet Governance Forum Meeting 2022

Resilient Internet for a shared sustainable and common future

Recordings of each individual session can be viewed below.

Welcome and Introduction

Nick Wenban-Smith, General Counsel & Head of Stakeholder Relations, Nominet

Ministerial Address

Lucy Powell, Shadow DCMS Secretary of State & Labour MP for Manchester Central

Online Safety

  • Damian Collins MP
  • Sharon Gaffka, Love Island Season 7 contestant & online harms campaigner
  • Jon Higham, Online Safety Policy Director, Ofcom
  • Parven Kaur, Founder of Kids N Clicks

Digital Inequalities: The barriers facing young and old

  • Jess Barrett, Voicebox representative
  • Professor Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Department of Information Security at Royal Holloway University of London
  • Sonia Livingstone, Lead Consultant for General Comment 25 on the UN Convention of Rights of the Child
  • Cliff Manning, Research and Development Director at Parent Zone – Member of Digital Youth Index Advisory Board
  • Sally West, Policy Manager at Age UK

Keynote Speech

Yih-Choung Teh, Group Director for Strategy and Research, Ofcom

Encryption 

  • Stephen Bonner, Executive Director of Regulatory Futures at the Information Commissioner’s Office
  • Alec Muffett, Led the team that added end-to-end encyption to Facebook Messenger
  • Dan Sexton, Chief Technology Officer at the Internet Watch Foundation

Transparency and AI

  • Bridget Boakye, Tony Blair Institute AI lead 
  • Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Director of Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency and Accountability at Twitter
  • Dr Evert Haasdljk, Artificial Intelligence Expert & Senior Forensic Manager at Deloittee
  • Stephen Metcalfe MP, Conservative MP for South Basildon and Chair of the APPG on AI, Chair of Science and Technology Select Committee
  • Mariarosaria Taddeo, Oxford Internet Institute, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute

Avoiding Internet Fragmentation

  • Marjorie Buchser, Executive Director at the Digital Society Initiative
  • Akos Erzse, Tony Blair Institute
  • Margot James, Executive Chair of WMG at the University of Warwick and former Digital Minister
  • Scott Malcomson, Author of ‘Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce are Fragmenting the World Wide Web’
  • Emily Taylor, Associate Fellow at the International Security Programme at Chatham House

Sum up and wrap up

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