Proposal

APrIGF 2022 Session Proposal Submission Form
Part 1 - Lead Organizer
Contact Person
Mr. Sarthak Luthra
Email
Organization / Affiliation (Please state "Individual" if appropriate) *
Asia Internet Coalition
Designation
Secretariat and Director
Gender
Male
Economy of Residence
Singapore
Primary Stakeholder Group
Technical Community
List Your Organizing Partners (if any)
Access the website here to learn more about Asia Internet Coalition and supporting members
https://aicasia.org
Part 2 - Session Proposal
Session Title
Digital Trust & Safety Partnership (DTSP) and the emergence of ‘best practices’ in online trust & safety - the role and opportunity for the Asia-Pacific region
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
APAC is witnessing a rising number of laws regulating online content. This increase is driven by both the widespread use of social media across our societies - for good but also for less good purposes - and a trend toward governments exerting greater control over online activity within their jurisdictions. These trends are raising difficult questions for civil society advocates, academics, and tech companies alike, on the real world impacts and risks of the new wave of laws dealing with online content, and the importance of effective yet balanced moderation of content by online companies.

This session will bring together industry, academic, and civil society stakeholders to hear about emerging good practices in the field of content moderation, as developed and shared by the new DTSP initiative. The session will then enable an exchange between experts and other multi-stakeholder participants on emerging approaches to online content responsibility and examine the difficult questions raised by content moderation and legal requests for removals within the region.
Describe the Relevance of Your Session to APrIGF
Online content moderation (Trust & Safety) practices, and the laws regulating online content hold the potential to exert a significant impact on user trust, access to information and freedom of expression, in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.

This session will contribute to advancing policy discussions and thinking around best practice for responsible content moderation, and will aim to foster a dialogue among all stakeholders to consider and discuss the different considerations that online content providers must balance when making decisions on online content in APAC. It will promote multi-stakeholder models for supporting content responsibility and free expression online by bringing together a group of passionate experts in online content moderation and will invite the APrIGF community to debate and get involved in promoting good practices in this field.

The AprIGF ecosystem can help to brainstorm, design, develop, deploy and promote concrete norms, standards and mechanisms for the Internet industry.

Session methodology:
The session will start with an overview of the trends in content issues in APAC, and of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. It will invite the APrIGF community to consider emerging good practices in the field, and to discuss how best to ensure the APAC voices are included in global discussions on best practices for trust and safety, and crucially, how to share these good practices with online actors across our region. Some of the conclusions and recommendations for follow-up may include an ongoing multi-stakeholder dialogue on these issues after the AprIGF, including to report on findings to the global IGF.
Methodology / Agenda (Please add rows by clicking "+" on the right)
Time frame (e.g. 5 minutes, 20 minutes, should add up to 60 minutes) Description
10 minutes Introduction with an overview of content moderation trends and challenges in the region
15 minutes Presentation of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership (tbc, David Sullivan, Executive Director) [The DTSP ‘Best Practices Framework’, The role of transparency reports and independent, third party assessments]
15 minutes Interventions by other speakers (eg academic, official, civil society) [The usefulness of developing and sharing ‘best practices’, How to include the APAC voice(s) in an initiative like DTSP]
20 minutes Discussion among all participants
Moderators & Speakers Info (Please complete where possible)

  • Moderator (Primary)

    • Name: Jeff Paine
    • Organization: Asia Internet Coalition
    • Designation: Managing Director
    • Gender: Maile
    • Economy / Country of Residence: Singapore
    • Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
    • Expected Presence: In-person
    • Status of Confirmation: Proposed

  • Moderator (Back-up)

    • Name: TBC
    • Organization: TBC
    • Designation: TBC
    • Gender: Female
    • Economy / Country of Residence: TBC
    • Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organizations
    • Expected Presence: In-person
    • Status of Confirmation: Proposed

  • Speaker 1

    • Name: David Sullivan
    • Organization: Digital Trust & Safety Partnership
    • Designation: Executive Director
    • Gender: Male
    • Economy / Country of Residence: USA
    • Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
    • Expected Presence: In-person
    • Status of Confirmation: Proposed

  • Speaker 2

    • Name: Rakesh Maheshwari
    • Organization: MEITY
    • Designation: Sr. Director and Group Co-ordinator, Cyber Law & eSecurity
    • Gender: Male
    • Economy / Country of Residence: India
    • Stakeholder Group: Government
    • Expected Presence: In-person
    • Status of Confirmation: Proposed

  • Speaker 3

    • Name: TBC
    • Organization: TBC
    • Designation: TBC
    • Gender: Female
    • Economy / Country of Residence: TBC
    • Stakeholder Group: Civil Society
    • Expected Presence: In-person
    • Status of Confirmation: Proposed

  • Speaker 4

    • Name: Prof Masato Kajimoto
    • Organization: HK University
    • Designation: Associate Professor
    • Gender: Male
    • Economy / Country of Residence: Hong Kong
    • Stakeholder Group: Academia
    • Expected Presence: In-person
    • Status of Confirmation: Proposed
Please explain the rationale for choosing each of the above contributors to the session.
The panel above promotes a multi-stakeholder model for supporting content responsibility and free expression online where we have representation from the industry, Government, Civil society and Academic.
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?
No
Number of Attendees (Please fill in numbers)

    • Female: 2
    • Male: 3
Consent
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