| APrIGF 2022 Session Proposal Submission Form | |||||||||||||
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| Part 1 - Lead Organizer | |||||||||||||
| Contact Person | |||||||||||||
| Mr. Donny Utoyo | |||||||||||||
| Organization / Affiliation (Please state "Individual" if appropriate) * | |||||||||||||
| COVID-19 Handling and National Economic Recovery Committee (KPCPEN), Secretariat of Public Communication Team, Indonesia | |||||||||||||
| Designation | |||||||||||||
| Secretariat Coordinator of Public Communication Team | |||||||||||||
| Gender | |||||||||||||
| Male | |||||||||||||
| Economy of Residence | |||||||||||||
| Indonesia | |||||||||||||
| Primary Stakeholder Group | |||||||||||||
| Technical Community | |||||||||||||
| List Your Organizing Partners (if any) | |||||||||||||
| Rizky Ika Syafitri, UNICEF/ Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE), rsyafitri@unicef.org Indriyato Banyumurti, ICT Watch / Public Communication Team - KPCPEN, banyumurti@ictwatch.id |
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| Part 2 - Session Proposal | |||||||||||||
| Session Title | |||||||||||||
| Combating COVID-19 Hoaxes/ Disinformation through Digital Literacy and Multistakeholder Collaboration | |||||||||||||
| Session Format | |||||||||||||
| Panel Discussion | |||||||||||||
| Where do you plan to organize your session? | |||||||||||||
| Onsite at the venue (with online moderator for questions and comments from remote participants) | |||||||||||||
| Specific Issues for Discussion | |||||||||||||
| Southeast Asia has a thriving digital economy with over 400 million internet users. Except for Laos, Myanmar, and Timor-Leste, all nations in Southeast Asia have internet penetration rates of over 70%. During the pandemic, we were captivated by our gadget screens. Internet users in this region spend more time online than the global average (around 7 hours). On the other hand, the figure brings its own challenge, self-perceived digital literacy among Southeast Asian netizens should be improved. Especially for combating the "disinformation viruses" (hoaxes), it is essential as fighting the COVID 19 virus itself. Hoaxes regarding the COVID-19 are spread widely on social media. The handling of COVID-19 can be disrupted due to the rise of hoaxes, causing people to neglect health protocols, refuse vaccination and disobey health authorities. The scope of the discussion covers: 1). Ensuring multi-stakeholders collaboration. We believe and ensure that our work in the field must involve multiple stakeholders in an equal, inclusive, and participatory manner. 2). Enhancing capacity development for local actors. In a digital literacy program, we should always engage with local actors and source persons to be actively involved in the preparation, implementation, and development of activities. 3). Utilizing public online platforms and creative-commons licensed knowledge. In order to ensure that the knowledge that we have prepared can be conveyed to the widest possible public, we ensure that the online platform used is one that is available and open to the public and can be accessed and utilized freely. |
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| Describe the Relevance of Your Session to APrIGF | |||||||||||||
| We believe that digital literacy, especially for combating hoaxes, is in line with and strengthens the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) noble values that have been agreed upon by the world's information society. The problem is that technology can only treat the symptoms of hoaxes; it cannot address the main cause of digital deception, which is our tendency to believe everything we read on the internet and our failure to verify and authenticate information before sharing or acting on it. Computer / technical skill is a powerful and vital skill in our increasingly technology-driven culture, but it is not the same as digital (information) literacy, and it will not help in the fight against hoaxes. Many contemporary anti-hoax techniques aim to identify and delete all sorts of false and misleading material. It's an impossible task since acceptable forms of speech would inevitably be eliminated by casting such a wide net. In contrast, rather than addressing all hoaxes, a human rights-based strategy to hoaxes would be organized and targeted to address the harmful human rights repercussions of disinformation. It could imply, for example, specific legal standards for objective harm to be inflicted before a piece of hoaxes is held liable. Alternatively, rather than resorting to deception, greater efforts should be made to educate internet users on digital literacy and critical thinking, limiting the influence of hoaxes. The only way to truly begin combating the spread of digital lies is to recognize that it is a sociological issue rather than a technological one, and to revert to the early days of the Internet when we taught society to question what they read online. The handling of this hoax must prioritize collaborative work in a multi-stakeholder manner, involving policymakers, civil society organizations, the private sectors (and online platforms), academies, and the technical community. This collaboration foundation is of course in line with the spirit of the IGF. |
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| Methodology / Agenda (Please add rows by clicking "+" on the right) | |||||||||||||
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| Moderators & Speakers Info (Please complete where possible) | |||||||||||||
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| Please explain the rationale for choosing each of the above contributors to the session. | |||||||||||||
| We ensure that the sources/contributors we invite or propose are those who have the competence, authority, and real work related to digital literacy, online freedom, and handling hoaxes/disinformation in cyberspace. For example, resource persons from UNICEF and ICT WATCH during the pandemic carried out collaborative work with various parties such as the Public Communication Team of the COVID-19 Handling and National Economic Recovery Committee (KPCPEN), to handle hoaxes in the community through online and onsite channels. GOOGLE as one of the prominent online platforms also makes many efforts to deal with hoaxes, in collaboration with local governments in a number of economies/countries, one of which is the Ministry of Communications and Informatics (MCIT) in Indonesia. In handling hoaxes, care must also be taken so as not to hinder legitimate freedom of expression, so that this is one of the main concerns of APC and also part of research related to Internet governance and human rights conducted by Citizen Lab - TORONTO UNIVERSITY. Digital literacy and the handling of hoaxes must prioritize collaborative work in a multi-stakeholder manner, involving policymakers, civil society organizations, the private sectors (and online platforms), academies, and the technical community. This collaboration foundation is of course in line with the spirit of the IGF. | |||||||||||||
| If you need assistance to find a suitable speaker to contribute to your session, or an onsite facilitator for your online-only session, please specify your request with details of what you are looking for. | |||||||||||||
| So far, we don't need any assistance to find a suitable speaker to contribute to our session. Thank You. | |||||||||||||
| Please declare if you have any potential conflict of interest with the Program Committee 2022. | |||||||||||||
| No | |||||||||||||
| Are you or other session contributors planning to apply for the APrIGF Fellowship Program 2022? | |||||||||||||
| Yes | |||||||||||||
| APrIGF offers live transcript in English for all sessions. Do you need any other translation support or any disability related requests for your session? APrIGF makes every effort to be a fully inclusive and accessible event, and will do the best to fulfill your needs. | |||||||||||||
| Yes, English live transcript and/or sign language interpreter is needed, if possible. | |||||||||||||
| Number of Attendees (Please fill in numbers) | |||||||||||||
| Consent | |||||||||||||
 I agree that my data can be submitted to forms.for.asia and processed by APrIGF organizers for the program selection of APrIGF 2022. |
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