Session
Organizer 1: Carlos Alberto Afonso, 🔒Instituto Nupef
Organizer 2: Bianca Correa, Legalite Research Center
Organizer 3: Jean Carlos Ferreira dos Santos, 🔒
Organizer 4: Tatiana Jereissati, 🔒
Speaker 1: Hugo Siqueira, Government, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Speaker 2: Carolyn Hamilton, Technical Community, African Group
Speaker 3: Samik Kharel, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 4: Marielza Oliveira, Intergovernmental Organization, Intergovernmental Organization
Bianca Correa, Civil Society, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Tatiana Jereissati, Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Jean Carlos Ferreira dos Santos, Technical Community, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Roundtable
Duration (minutes): 90
Format description: The round table format favors multistakeholder engagement with the presentation of different experiences and regional perspectives related to the preservation of memory online, allowing an informal debate on pressing topics, such as preserving the integrity of information, countering disinformation, protecting the right to information, promoting under-represented cultural heritage, preserving multilingualism and other issues. The 90-minute duration facilitates the discussion of complex issues characterized by open disputes and multiple perspectives from different sectors and regions, and also by allowing time for audience participation through questions and answers.
1. What are the new challenges brought by the Internet and the digital platforms to the preservation of collective memory? 2. How these new challenges relate to the promotion of information integrity, the protection of the right to information, the promotion under-represented cultural heritage, and other issues traditionally debated in the Internet Governance field?
What will participants gain from attending this session? Participants and attendees will benefit from the understanding on the role of the Internet as a vehicle for the preservation of collective memory and delve into the challenges and opportunities that relate to the digital archiving ecosystem. This multistakeholder debate will shed light on concrete initiatives and experiences, including key takeaways for advancing this discussion, paving the way for the construction of good policy practices.
Description:
The Internet has allowed the production and archiving of a plurality of contents and narratives online by individuals, including historically under-represented populations. The storage and linking capacities of the Internet play an important role in the preservation and organization of cultural heritage. Professional historians, archivists, museum curators and other traditional stewards of public memory face a new set of challenges to rethink their role in a changed “archiving ecosystem”. Internet has greatly impacted how memories are created, stored, accessed and shared. More recently, large proprietary digital platforms began to play an increasingly relevant role in defining what is to be seen, remembered and forgotten, given that billions of people and organizations produce and post content through their applications. They became an important stakeholder to the collective memory preservation, stablishing a new layer of complexity to the issue. Their private policies of content storage, moderation, distribution and amplification are not necessarily aligned with the public interest in the preservation of collective memory, given their commercial nature. Memories are mobilized by archives represented by images, symbols, values and codes which encapsulate common ideas that become part of an inter subjective symbolic system and can be corroborated, corrected, disputed. Moreover, the increasing role of digital platforms in preserving public memory has been associated to traditional challenges of Internet Governance, such as preserving the integrity of information, countering disinformation, protecting the right to information, promoting under-represented cultural heritage, preserving multilingualism and other issues. The workshop aims at bringing together multiple stakeholders to discuss the challenges and initiatives for the preservation of public memory online and also its relevance to the Internet Governance debate.
We expect to produce a report on different stakeholder perspectives, interests and positions about the challenges and opportunities for the construction and preservation of collective memory online and how digital platforms play an important role on the issue; 2. Promote experience-sharing on initiatives and good practices related to memory preservation online, including those related to preserving the integrity of information, countering disinformation, protecting the right to information, promoting under-represented cultural heritage, preserving multilingualism and other issues.
Hybrid Format: The workshop will be divided into three parts: the first will consist in an opening, followed by three presentations addressing, a) the challenges on the preservation of collective memory, b) Google initiatives to deal with archiving challenges, c) initiatives from different regions. Secondly, an open debate on how to address these challenges and how it permeates the internet governance debate. The last part will be devoted to Q&A. To ensure proper interaction between the audience, the session will count with onsite and online moderators. The onsite moderator will be responsible to oversee the interventions and interacting with the speakers, and also care for safeguarding the due balance to meet diversity expectations. The online moderator will take care of the flow of questions within all the online tools involved in the session. He/she will guarantee that the onsite moderator will be aware of questions and comments from the remote audience.