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The Global Digital Justice Forum, IT for Change, Third World Network (TWN) and the Association for Progressive Communications have come together to hold a strategy meeting for global civil society working at the intersections of the society and digital. This three day meeting is aimed at co-determining a combined vision for our digital justice future and the way for civil society to engage with the powers that be. The meeting is scheduled from March 3, 2024 to March 5, 2024 in Penang, Malaysia.  

== Concept Note - From WSIS to Now: What Next for Digital Justice? ==
A poignant hope articulated in the 2005 Tunis Agenda for the Information Society (part of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process) goes thus, “We are greatly encouraged by the fact that advances in communication technology, and high-speed data networks are continuously increasing the possibilities for developing countries, and countries with economies in transition, to participate in the global market for ICT-enabled services on the basis of their comparative advantage.”<ref>https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html</ref>

Cut to the present, with two decades gone by, the UN Secretary General’s policy brief on the Global Digital Compact strikes a more somber note, “Our digital world is one of stark divides: A persistent digital access divide across regions, gender, income, language, and age groups; growing data divides that disadvantage developing countries; and an innovation divide resulting in highly unequal wealth generation, dominated by a handful of big platforms and states.”<ref>https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-policy-brief-gobal-digi-compact-en.pdf</ref> [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZmdomccF_l0mlp5JSeL-xNhhBjmDHCEHTTgfe2E7W98/edit?usp=sharing Read more]. 

= Resources =
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_-WxqzUxekXL4w_Bmu2ZfEn3eQA7HuXKNt_eu02J18Q/edit?usp=sharing Link] to discussion guide for Day 2 group work. 

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJFzGxa_nh6IENdGzT0115303GsOL0SLdndGXMvZ9Wg/edit?usp=sharing Link] to discussion guide for Day 3 group work.  

== Agenda ==
Download [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ddu0c7NxWj-9ysqGfOmjpcjbvO_OwoRknDbkN6HAetU/edit?usp=sharing here] 
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="3" |'''Day 1: 03/03/2024'''
|-
|'''Time'''
|'''Session'''
|'''Resource Persons'''
|-
|'''17.00-18.00'''
|'''Registrations'''
|
|-
|'''18.00-18.45'''
|'''Welcome and introductions'''
|Malavika Rajkumar, IT for Change

Deepti Bharthur, IT for Change
|-
|'''18.45-20.00'''
|'''- Context setting for the meeting'''

'''- Agenda walk through'''

'''- Reflections and expectations'''
|Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network
Valeria Betancourt, APC
Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change
|-
|'''20.00-21.00'''
| colspan="2" |'''Welcome Dinner'''
|-
! colspan="3" |'''Day 2: 04/03/2024'''
|-
|'''Time'''
|'''Session'''
|'''Resource Persons'''
|-
|'''9.00-10.50'''
|'''From WSIS to now... promise and pitfalls'''

Moderator:

Sean O' Siochru, Nexus Research
|Anriette Esterhuysen, APC

Emilia Reyes, Equidad de Género

Chenai Chair, Mozilla Foundation

Jamila Venturini, Derechos Digitales

Kate Lappin, Public Services International

Neth Dano, ETC Group

Burcu Kilic, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
|-
|'''10.50-11.20'''
| colspan="2" |'''Break'''
|-
|'''11.20-12.30'''
|'''The digital status quo and multilateral rules'''

Moderator:

Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network
|Vahini Naidu, South Centre

Cedric Leterme, CETRI-GRESEA

Sanya Reid Smith, Third World Network

Ana María Suárez, FoodFirst Information and Action Network (FIAN International)

Camila Leite Contri, Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor (IDEC)
|-
|'''12.30-13.30'''
| colspan="2" |'''Lunch'''
|-
|'''13.30-15.00'''
|'''Recovering the south: What do sovereignty, decoloniality and self-determination really mean?'''

Moderator:

Valeria Betancourt, APC
|Alison Gillwald, Research ICT Africa

Paulo José Lara, Article 19

Barbara Adams, Global Policy Watch

Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change

Roberto Bissio, Social Watch

Jai Vipra, IT for Change 
|-
|'''15.00-15.30'''
| colspan="2" |'''Break'''
|-
|'''15.30-17.00'''
|'''Towards a civil society digital justice agenda''' (plenary followed by small group discussion)
|'''Break-out groups'''
|-
! colspan="3" |'''Day 3: 05/03/2024'''
|-
|'''Time'''
|'''Session'''
|'''Resource Persons'''
|-
|'''9.30-10.30'''
|'''Finding the convergences (report back from day 1 groups, followed by the creation of process and thematic action clusters)'''
|Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network

Gurumurthy Kasinathan, IT for Change
|-
|'''10.30-10.50'''
| colspan="2" |'''Break'''
|-
|'''10.50-12.30'''
|'''Group work in action clusters (mapping and bridging advocacy interventions for coordinated multi-scalar action)'''
|'''Break-out groups facilitated by cluster champions'''
|-
|'''12.30-13.30'''
| colspan="2" |'''Lunch'''
|-
|'''13.30-15.00'''
|'''Closing plenary'''

'''- Report back from cluster champions'''

'''- Collaboration process discussion and decisions'''

'''- Mapping collaboration moments and spaces'''
|Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change

Valeria Betancourt, APC

Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network
|-
|'''15.00-15.30'''
| colspan="2" |'''                                                                                                                            Break (End of Program)'''
|}

== Schedule of upcoming advocacy events ==
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tr-8q8FkiAPLppeejY_4Os92axKclvCSEoYw9bEm1Dc/edit#gid=0 Political calendar to be shared in advance for further inputs]

== Workshop Reading Resources ==

==== WSIS Review and Global Digital Compact ====

* WSIS Outcome Documents - https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1161|1160|2266|2267|2316|2369
* Approaching the digital tipping point – non-negotiables for the UN Global Digital Compact (2023) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z3rDjqigflwNXr1zjzfQdbct-itNpiTG/view?usp=sharing
* Inside the Digital Society: How should we review a 20-year-old Summit? What makes it relevant today? (2023) - https://www.apc.org/en/blog/inside-digital-society-how-should-we-review-20-year-old-summit-what-makes-it-relevant-today
* A Global Digital Compact — an Open, Free and Secure Digital Future for All (2023) - https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-policy-brief-gobal-digi-compact-en.pdf

==== Data and AI Governance ====

* Accelerating Progress Toward Trustworthy AI (2024) - https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/library/accelerating-progress-toward-trustworthy-ai/whitepaper/
* 2023 Landscape (2023) - https://ainowinstitute.org/general/2023-landscape-executive-summary
* Beyond the North-South Fork on the Road to AI Governance: An Action Plan for Democratic & Distributive Integrity (2022) - https://itforchange.net/beyond-north-south-fork-on-road-to-ai-governance-an-action-plan-for-democratic-distributive
* Can Data Save Lives? The Right to Health in the Digital Era (2022) - https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/can-data-save-lives-pushing-right-to-health-into-the-digital-age/
* The Wicked Problem of AI Governance (2019) - https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1625/The%20Wicked%20Problem%20ofAI%20Governance.pdf
* Governance of data and artificial intelligence (2019) - https://www.2030spotlight.org/en/book/1883/chapter/governance-data-and-artificial-intelligence
* AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong (2019) - https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithms-criminal-justice-ai/

==== Corporate Accountability ====

* How tech billionaires are killing internet for all (2024) - https://www.somo.nl/how-tech-billionaires-are-killing-internet-for-all/
* Missing the Target? Why the OECD Updates Fail to See the Full Picture on Digitalization (2023) - https://botpopuli.net/missing-the-target-why-the-oecd-updates-fail-to-see-the-full-picture-on-digitalization/
* The Evolution of Big Tech Litigation (2023) - https://botpopuli.net/the-evolution-of-big-tech-litigation/
* What’s Public about India’s Digital Public Infrastructures? (2023) - https://botpopuli.net/whats-public-about-indias-digital-public-infrastructures/
* Rigging the Rules: How Big Tech Uses Stealth “Trade” Agreements and How We Can Stop Them (2022) - https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/rigging-the-rules-how-big-tech-uses-stealth-trade-agreements-to-undermine-and-prevent-digitalization-in-public-interest-and-how-we-can-stop-them/
* Digging Deeper: Assessing Big Tech’s Capture of the Internet’s Infrastructure (2021) - https://botpopuli.net/digging-deeper-assessing-big-techs-capture-of-the-internets-infrastructure/
* Breaking Up Big Tech: Separation of its Data, Cloud and Intelligence Layers (2020) - https://itforchange.net/breaking-up-big-tech-separation-of-its-data-cloud-and-intelligence-layers

==== Feminist Digital Justice ====
* The Feminist Principles for including gender in the Global Digital Compact (2023) - https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/feminist-principles-including-gender-global-digital-compact-0
* The Declaration of Feminist Digital Justice (page 11) - https://www.dawnfeminist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/DI-on-FDJ-2023.pdf

==== Platform Labor ====

* Feminist Communities of Care and a Transnational Response to Redesigning Social Media Governance (page 80) (2023) - https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/2291/ITFC_Feminist%20Perspectives%20on%20Social%20Media%20Governance_0.pdf
* Digital Bargaining Hub - https://publicservices.international/digital-bargaining-hub
* On Algorithmic Wage Discrimination (2023) - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4331080
* Beauty and the Platform Economy (2020) - https://botpopuli.net/beauty-platform-economy-urban-company-women-gig-workers/
* Economic rights in a data-based society (2020) - https://publicservices.international/resources/publications/economic-rights-in-a-data-based-society?id=10819&lang=en

==== Food Systems and Agriculture ====

* Food Barons 2022: Crisis Profiteering, Digitalization and Shifting Power (2022) - https://www.etcgroup.org/content/food-barons-2022
* The Big Tech Takeover of Food Systems in Latin America: Elements for a Human Rights-based Alternative - https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/agritech-and-food-systems-in-latin-america-corporate-takeover-and-elements-for-a-human-rights-based-alternative/
* Did you know that the digitalization of agriculture could affect farmers’ rights? - https://www.etcgroup.org/content/did-you-know-digitalization-agriculture-could-affect-farmers-rights

==== Community Networks ====

* Connecting the Unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives (2019) - https://www.apc.org/en/project/connecting-unconnected-supporting-community-networks-and-other-community-based-connectivity
* Community Networks in Latin America: Challenges, Regulations and Solutions (2018) - https://cnlearning.apc.org/resources/community-networks-in-latin-america-challenges-regulations-and-solutions/
* From Digital Divide to Digital Inequality: The connectivity paradox (2017) - https://researchictafrica.net/publications/Other_publications/2017_Gillwald_From_digital_divide_to_digital_inequality.pdf

== Longer Reading List ==

==== Digital Rights and Justice ====
* Multistakeholderism: Is it good for developing countries? (2023) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CYeLGBfccElU7yiJd5EjHXalJQfNAsCu/view?usp=sharing
* Governing Urban Data for the Public Interest (2023) - https://ucl.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=75899bfec08af6ce4259bd21c&id=860be5a354&e=68d5ea674e
* Voices from the Global South: Perspectives on International Engagements in Digital Rights (2023) - https://www.dataprivacybr.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/global-south-interviews.pdf
* The Digital Inflection Point - Is There Hope at the End of the Tunnel? (2023) - https://itforchange.net/index.php/digital-inflection-point-there-hope-at-end-of-tunnel
* UN Human Rights Council Resolution on New and emerging digital technologies and human rights (2023) - https://undocs.org/Home/Mobile?FinalSymbol=A%2FHRC%2FRES%2F53%2F29&Language=E&DeviceType=Desktop&LangRequested=False
* Global Information Society Watch 2021-2022: Digital futures for a post-pandemic world (2022) - https://www.apc.org/sites/default/files/giswatch_2021-2022_sneak_peek.pdf
* The Quizumba is On: Technological Appropriation by Black Women in the Amazônia - https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-7/the-quizumba-is-on/#1045d73e-a16e-4dcd-9c20-7e91c5bb0318
* Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future (2022) - https://www.alai.info/en/a-review-of-ben-tarnoffs-book/ 
* Digital Trade Rules and Big Tech: Surrendering Public Goods to Private Power (2020) - https://pop-umbrella.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/f2bddc3d-c353-4846-a23b-82dec9a9e6d7_2020_-_ASIA_DIG_REPORT_3__1_.pdf
* Defining Digital Justice (2020) - https://dai-global-digital.com/defining-digital-justice.html

==== Digital Colonialism ====

* Digital Colonialism (2023) - https://www.tni.org/en/publication/digital-colonialism
* Resisting Data Colonialism – A Practical Intervention (2023) - https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ResistingDataColonialism_INC2023_TOD50.pdf
* Coloniality as surveillance laboratory: Latin America and catholic radio (2019) - https://lavits.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MoreiraLara-2019-LAVITSS.pdf

==== Data and AI ====
* Confronting Tech Power, AI Now Annual report 2023 - https://ainowinstitute.org/general/2023-landscape-executive-summary
* The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (2023) - https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3035-the-internet-con
*Postman’s Five Laws of Technology (2019) - https://pggalalis.com/postmans-five-laws-of-technology/
*Design Justice (2020) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043458/design-justice/
*Book Review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019) - https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2019/11/04/book-review-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-the-fight-for-the-future-at-the-new-frontier-of-power-by-shoshana-zuboff/

==== Media and Information ====
* Postcolonial Media Policy Under the Long Shadow of Empire. In R. Mansell & M. Raboy (Eds.), The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy (2011) - https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395433.ch23
* The Costs of Connection (2019) - https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28816
* Communication rights ten years after the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): Civil society perceptions (2013) - https://www.giswatch.org/communication-rights-ten-years-after-world-summit-information-society-wsis-civil-society

==== Digital Commons ====
*Problematizing Strategic Tension Lines in the Digital Commons - https://tensionsincommons.net/report.html

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