'Out of my hands?: Harnessing exponential tech and user centered action to counteract sextortion'
Proposer: Marjolijn Bonthuis
E-mail: marjolijn.bonthuis@ecp.nl
Stakeholder Group: Intergovernmental Organization
Organization: NLIGF
Country: Netherlands
Co-proposer: Catherine Garcia van Hoogstraten
Email: C.vanHoogstraten@hhs.nl
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Organization: The Hague University of Applied Sciences, South School of Internet Governance
Country: The Netherlands
Co-organizers:
Arda, Gerkens, Civil Society, Director of the expertise bureau Online Child Abuse & INHOPE, Dutch Senator
Catherine Garcia van Hoogstraten, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, South School of Internet Governance
Session Format: Birds of a feather- 90 Min
Format description: The goal of this Birds of a feather session is to create an open forum and multistakeholder dialogue in which the attendees generate the majority of the discussion and knowledge sharing. The session will be organized as a facilitated and highly interactive dialogue through which each participant will have the opportunity to express their position.
After introducing the case in point with a video (max. 3 minutes), the moderator will ask the speakers a round of 3 key critical questions posed in the introduction to the session that will reflect the main goals of this session explained below. The speakers will have 5 minutes each for reacting to the 3 critical questions(total of 35 minutes). We will use green cards to let all onsite and online participants signal their convergence and red to signal their divergence with the 3 critical questions(40 minutes). We will ask during the discussions to justify their view points of convergence or divergence in relation to the questions. We have used this format already in prior internet governance national forums and turned out to be very interactive.
Content of the session:
The internet is shaping our life in many ways, some of it being a bliss, some being terrible. Sex is an important part of the internet, but so far the use of internet as a part of sexual exploration has had its downside. Society likes to blame the one who made the pictures, saying that by not having them, you will not be at risk. But the real problem is the anonymous spreading on the internet. Letting these images go public is a nightmare to many people. What if you could decide if, how and where an image is spread? What can you do to be in control of your own images made?
This birds of a feather session will address the current theme of sextortion and the tech responsiveness of websites and applications to help victims in sextortion incidents need of minimizing and controlling the impact and scale of this form of online harassment based on non-consensual distribution of sexual images. It will advance our understanding of the attempts in the ecosystem technical response to tackle with sextortion
It will mainly survey emerging exponential technology and user centered action being deployed by multistakeholders to counteract sextortion. Furthermore, this session will bring together different stakeholders to facilitate a joint discussion with online and onsite participants on the challenges and opportunities brought by this emerging exponential technology to tackle sextortion.
The session has four main GOALS:
1. Explore key emerging exponential technology and user centered action being deployed by multistakeholders to counteract sextortion
2. Identify its challenges and opportunities and its implications for Internet Governance
The expected OUTCOMES include the following:
1. Nuanced understanding of current emerging exponential technology and user centered action being deployed by multistakeholders to counteract sextortion and its implications for Internet Governance
2. Multistakeholder dialogue and commitment to contribute to draft policy recommendations to help victims in sextortion incidents
Relevance of the Session:
To be in control of your digital images, being able to stop spreading of leaked images or being made under sextortion, should be a possibility with the technologies out there. That would truly be shaping your future on the internet. These new tech tools will be using image matching technology combined with AI to stop a photo from being shared before it even gets a chance to make it live on the platform and will also work across other platforms like Facebook, Messenger or Instagram.
Tags:
Tag 1: Cybersecurity
Tag 2: Child Safety
Tag 3: Multistakeholder action
Tag 4: New Technology and emerging issues
Tag 5: Ethical dimensions of technology mediation
Discussion facilitation:
Organizers will develop a list of thought-provoking questions to spur conversation. In addition, we will closely work with the remote moderator to ensure online participants are afforded equal opportunity to participate.
As a birds of a feather session, we hope for a lively, perhaps confrontational discussion as our speakers engage as peers with the other participants around the table. The onsite moderator will sharpen contrasts between points of view, request examples from everyone in the room, and note points of covergence and divergence with respect to the 3 critical questions. The goal of this session is not necessarily to reach consensus on the nature of the problem or potential mitigations, but rather to elucidate a variety of frank points of view, and perceptions of what key internet stakeholders ought to be doing in response. This is not a panel, and as such all speakers will be looking to engage substantively with the others in the room.
Online Participation:
The livestream for this event will be promoted in advance through the social networks of the organizer, as well as by discussants. Responses to the session’s key discussion topics will be solicited in advance from community members who will not be able to participate in the live discussion, such as those located in time zones not conducive to viewing the livestream. Questions and comments received will be shared with the Onsite Moderator for incorporation into the live discussion. During the live session, the Online Moderator will coordinate with remote participants to facilitate live audio participation in the discussion if technical media permit. In addition, non-audio based comments and questions received through social media or chat discussions in the virtual meeting space will be integrated into the discussion directly by the Online Moderator.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/301Dui
Discussants:
* Arda Gerkens, Director of Expertisebureau Online Child Abuse, Dutch Senator, President of INHOPE
* Neil Walsh, United Nations Cybercrime Chief, UNODC
* Catherine Garcia van Hoogstraten, Technology, Internet Policy and Cybersecurity Consultant, Liaison and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Public Management, Law and Security -The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Vising Faculty at the South School of Internet Governance
* Karuna Nain, Facebook's Global Safety Programs Manager
* Semanur Karaman, Coordinator Political Participation, Gender and Tech at Tactical Tech Collective
*Walid Al Sagaf, Vice Chair at ISOC Blockchain Special Interest Group
* Renata Aquino, Researcher in Education, Communication and Technology, member of ISOC Blockchain
* Su Sonia Hearing, Mentor at Middle East & Adjoining Countries School of Internet Governance, Organizing Committee Member Youth IGF Turkey
* Gregory Mounier, Head of Outreach and Support at EUROPOL
* Claudio Lucena, Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University
* Olga Cavalli, Director of the South School of Internet Governance, ICANN GAC Advisor on the Special Group of Technology Affairs
Onsite Moderator: Catherine Garcia van Hoogstraten
Online Moderator: Vanessa Berning and Renata Aquino
Rapporteur: Wilma Westenberg
Agenda:Proposed Agenda:
Welcome and Overview - 2 minutes Moderator
Overview of the problematic through a video – 3 minutes
Speakers reacting to the 3 critical questions - 35 minutes
Open discussion among audience participants facilitated by Moderator and speaker acting as discussion Facilitators- 40 minutes
Summarize outcomes – 10 minutes
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