Call for Topics 2024 - Data Governance and Privacy
From IGF-USA
| Submission Number | Submission | Issue Areas | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Submission Number | Submission | Issue Areas | |
| 2024 Submission 3 | AI governance and Innovation
Platform regulation Data Protection & Cybersecurity with a Human Rights Perspective | Artificial Intelligence • Content Policy • Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Emerging Technologies | |
| 2024 Submission 4 | Development in Critical infrastructure in America has been rapid in the past decade. There has been upgradation of the Technology integrated with the critical infrastructure facilities in the region. With the development of the IoT sector and 5G technology, there are opportunities for growth and potential vulnerabilities of national security concerns. Massive foreign investment also seems to add to the exposure as it potentially influences the foreign policy agenda of many American countries. Depending on these investments and diplomatic ties, the protection of critical infrastructure may be compromised - reflecting the need for cyber diplomacy as a tool to prevent cyberattacks as an act of war. Therefore we must discuss the connection of critical infrastructure security with Cyberdiplomacy | Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Emerging Technologies • Sustainability | |
| 2024 Submission 11 | Online Privacy: safety, design, and controls. From policy and regulatory perspectives, much attention has recently turned to privacy design and settings. Because of its current popularity in lawsuits, penalties, and even mainstream news, privacy controls would be a worthwhile topic for IGF-USA this year. | Cybersecurity • Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Online Harms | |
| 2024 Submission 12 | Leveraging the Multistakeholder Approach for Combatting Online Abuse: Effective and Ineffective Engagement Strategies | Content Policy • Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Online Harms | |
| 2024 Submission 16 | Promoting the deployment of Internet Standards and ICT best practices, by teaching large organisations, public and private, to procure secure by design and make consumer protection and advocacy organisations understand they have to take the IoT components into account when judging, respectively testing products, devices and services. Start a discussion on how tertiary cyber security education can close the skills gap between the offered education and the demand coming from industry and the technical community. | Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Online Harms • Other | |
| 2024 Submission 20 | Interplanetary Internet Governance/Solar-System Internet Architecture and Governance, including new protocol requirements, deep-space challenges to the DNS and cybersecurity architectures, Interoperability/Artemis Accords, and emerging multistakeholder governance challenges | Access and Digital Inclusion • Artificial Intelligence • Data Governance and Privacy • Emerging Technologies | |
| 2024 Submission 21 | While AI appears to be the flavour of the moment, clearly it is a double edged sword; an extremely dangerous and pervasive technology that is so terribly open to abuse in so many sectros of society.
Therefore it would seem imperative that trustworthy AI (and the underpinning data structures) that need to be implemented and should form the basis of new legislation emerging from our various political leadership groups. Unfortunately, these representatives have very little understanding of the problem space, let alone having ever implemented such computational techniques. Perhaps the IGF can come up with soem guidance on how AI could be made compliant with forthcoming legislation? | Artificial Intelligence • Data Governance and Privacy | |
| 2024 Submission 18 | It is time in the wake of the growing capability and use of AI that serious consideration be given to establishing a legal framework to protect individuals from having their image and likeness used without informed consent - deep fakes. In addition, the unauthorized use of such images, to include (audio recordings), that are altered without informed consent should constitute a cause of action resulting in civil penalties. Government regulatory bodies such as the FCC should be given the authority to sanction persons or entities that do so. | Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Emerging Technologies • Online Harms | |
| 2024 Submission 24 | 1. Responsible use of the Internet.
2. Potential fragmentation caused by artificial intelligence. 3. The need for free tools for privacy to protect Human Rights. 4. Potentially harmful packaging (e.g., privacy loss, restricted access, lack of competition, etc.) of core Internet functionality (data transmission, management, prioritization, identity/IP protection, etc.) as products to users. 5. Governments using the Internet to build small business capacity and global competitiveness. | Access and Digital Inclusion • Artificial Intelligence • Data Governance and Privacy • Digital Markets and Competition • Emerging Technologies • Online Harms | |
| 2024 Submission 28 | Responsible use of the Internet. Privacy tools for consumers as a Human Right. AI’s impact on fragmentation. Potential harms associated with the increase in commodification of core Internet infrastructure. Government, small business and the Internet. | Access and Digital Inclusion • Artificial Intelligence • Data Governance and Privacy • Digital Markets and Competition • Online Harms | |
| 2024 Submission 34 | The current digital landscape struggles to offer a system that installs trust and confidence in online interactions. Despite the rapid growth of online services and the critical need for secure identification, there is no cohesive mechanism in place to introduce a level of trust that mirrors what we experience in the physical world. This has resulted in inconsistencies, vulnerabilities, and a myriad of security challenges. The Decentralized Identity Verification System (DIVS) aims to bridge this gap by introducing the trust of the physical world (e.g., governmental entities) into the digital space. By leveraging secure cryptographic systems and learning from experiences like the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), the goal is to build a digital identity framework that can serve as a robust layer of trust. | Access and Digital Inclusion • Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Emerging Technologies • Online Harms | |
| 2024 Submission 30 | How municipalities are working with federal, state, and private partners to increase broadband deployment, digital equity and consumer protection. | Access and Digital Inclusion • Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Digital Markets and Competition | |
| 2024 Submission 31 | Access and Digital Inclusion This panel will focus on redlining in the US and what does exclusion of these communities mean for our efforts to close the digital connectivity divide. The Panel will offer a retrospective on why many communities are being redlined, even during the past year when the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) has been available, and what can be done to make communities more attractive to providers. The panel will also attempt to provide some solutions on how communities can make themselves more attractive and bring in providers. | Access and Digital Inclusion • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy | |
| 2024 Submission 33 | Artificial Intelligence represents one of the greatest paradigm disruptions that the FBI has ever seen. AI technology has the potential to augment and empower the agents and analysts of the FBI, leveraging technology to supercharge their ability to achieve decision advantage in previously unforeseen ways. Keeping up with the pace of technology evolution, and continuously evolving to the shifting governance landscape is no small task for any agency. The stakes involved when integrating AI, and any emerging technology into law enforcement processes are particularly immense. Done well and justice prevails in new and vigorous ways, but when done poorly cases can be compromised and the wheels of justice may fall off with disastrous consequences. The FBI will discuss how the Bureau is approaching integration of AI into no-fail law enforcement operations, including areas of focus, governance and oversight, as well as other guardrails to ensure that the Bureau can embrace the benefits of AI while avoiding the creation of unnecessary risks. | Access and Digital Inclusion • Artificial Intelligence • Content Policy • Data Governance and Privacy • Emerging Technologies | |
| 2024 Submission 35 | The US lack of uniform data governance and data privacy policies. States are moving forward creating inconsistent requirements. Competing around the world is increasing challenges for US companies. | Data Governance and Privacy • Digital Markets and Competition | |
| 2024 Submission 36 | The threat and promise of AI for the rights and privileges in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and why they should be the model for an agreed common set of human values for AI alignment. Pained but not surprised Human Rights not in your list of Issue Area categories. Most of the focus has been on the potential challenges AI poses for HRs, not on the positives. | Artificial Intelligence • Data Governance and Privacy • Other | |
| 2024 Submission 37 | Little research has focused on geography as a context for AI deployment and policy. Further, even within current contexts for investigations, there is a distinct bias for scrutinizing technology and impacts within an urban context. This ignores the people and communities in non-urban spaces that, too, are and will be impacted by the creation and use of artificial intelligence. Therefore, a discussion of rural as a context for AI creation, deployment, and sustainability is long overdue. This discussion should also include discussions of privacy, data governance, and security. | Access and Digital Inclusion • Artificial Intelligence • Data Governance and Privacy | |
| 2024 Submission 40 | What happens when Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Prime Ministers provide real "Digital Leadership"? Today, most of the thorniest digital policy issues have been unresolved because within each national government, agencies have competing agendas. What can we learn from countries (including the U.S.) where top polotical leaders have forced the consensus needed to craft clear digital policies? | Access and Digital Inclusion • Content Policy • Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Other | |
| 2024 Submission 45 | 1. Cancel Culture 2. The shadowbanning of conservative Christians. | Content Policy • Data Governance and Privacy | |
| 2024 Submission 47 | What are the respective roles of government, business, civil society and parents in controlling how minors access online services and apps? | Access and Digital Inclusion • Content Policy • Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Digital Markets and Competition • Online Harms | |
| 2024 Submission 49 | To what extent is robust encryption a crucial part of the cybersecurity and privacy landscape? Should government be able to compel access to in transit messages? | Content Policy • Cybersecurity Cybercrime and Online Safety • Data Governance and Privacy • Online Harms |
