[Dcpr] DCPR activities at the IGF, and proposals for future engagement

[Nicolo Zingales]

Many thanks Chris and Rilke for your kind words, and for sharing these highly relevant infos.

On a separate note: as some of you pointed out, the Google Doc was not editable when I first shared it… this mistake was fixed a couple of hours later. So, let me clarify that it can now be edited, by you or any other trusted third party with whom you might want to share the link.

Someone also drew my attention to this very interesting article<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2765268>, which seems to adopt the concept of accountability discussed in the notes with regard to the specific goal of non-discrimination in algorithmic design. Really worth a read, and  a nice way to start thinking about these concepts!

Nicolo
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From: Rikke Frank Jørgensen <rfj at Humanrights.dk<mailto:rfj at Humanrights.dk>>
Date: Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 5:50 AM
To: Chris Marsden <C.Marsden at sussex.ac.uk<mailto:C.Marsden at sussex.ac.uk>>, Nicolo Zingales <N.Zingales at sussex.ac.uk<mailto:N.Zingales at sussex.ac.uk>>, "dcpr at lists.platformresponsibility.info<mailto:dcpr at lists.platformresponsibility.info>" <dcpr at lists.platformresponsibility.info<mailto:dcpr at lists.platformresponsibility.info>>
Cc: Luca Belli <luca.belli at fgv.br<mailto:luca.belli at fgv.br>>
Subject: RE: [Dcpr] DCPR activities at the IGF, and proposals for future engagement

Hi all

I also wanted to thank you for a very interesting panel and publication! Great work Nico and Luca, and nice seeing you again :)

Please excuse me for the selfie, but I published some papers on platforms and human rights this year (listed below). I can provide pdf´s if any of you are interested, just let me know off list.

Best and happy holiday
Rikke

Jørgensen, R. F. and Pedersen, Anja M., 'Online service providers as human rights arbiters' in Taddeo, M. and Floridi, L., The Responsibilities of Online Service Providers, : Springer International Publishing, 2017, 179-199.
Jørgensen, R. F., 'Framing human rights: exploring storytelling within internet companies<http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1289233>', Information, Communication & Society, 21:3, DOI 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1289233, 2017, 340-355.
Jørgensen, R.F., 'What Platforms Mean When They Talk About Human Rights', Policy and Internet, 9:3, DOI: 10.1002/poi3.152, 2017, 280-296.
Jørgensen, R.F. and Desai, T., 'Right to Privacy Meets Online Platforms: Exploring Privacy Complaints against Facebook and Google<http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2017.1314110>', Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 30:2, 2017, 106-126-


From: DCPR [mailto:dcpr-bounces at lists.platformresponsibility.info] On Behalf Of Chris Marsden
Sent: 20. december 2017 18:25
To: Nicolo Zingales <N.Zingales at sussex.ac.uk<mailto:N.Zingales at sussex.ac.uk>>; dcpr at lists.platformresponsibility.info<mailto:dcpr at lists.platformresponsibility.info>
Cc: Luca Belli <luca.belli at fgv.br<mailto:luca.belli at fgv.br>>
Subject: Re: [Dcpr] DCPR activities at the IGF, and proposals for future engagement

I really enjoyed listening to the panel – well done Luca and Nico!

For those in the Washington DC area, you may find the following event interesting (I am giving a paper and will live tweet) – to be published as a special issue of the Georgetown Law Technology Review: https://www.georgetownlawtechreview.org/
Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy, one-day conference on “The Governance and Regulation of Information Platforms.” The conference will be held at Georgetown Law Center on Friday, February 23, 2018. The audience will include members of the Georgetown Law and Georgetown University community, policy experts, public interest advocates, and government and Congressional staffers.
            The program will consist of four panels, currently titled as follows:
•       Governance by and of Platforms: This panel will explore some of the big-picture questions surrounding how platforms govern their own operations and how the legal system might approach platform-related governance challenges.
•       Problems of Access and Entry: This panel will address the roles that platforms play in structuring access to information and to markets and the ongoing debates about net neutrality regulation and antitrust oversight.
•       Problems of Fact and Value. This panel will consider the roles that platforms play in amplifying conspiracy theories, false information, harassment, and hate; the roles they might play in mitigating those problems; and the feasibility and desirability of more (or different) legal oversight.
•       Coding Regulation vs. Regulating Code. This panel will explore the technical and legal questions that surround the difficult project of ensuring algorithmic accountability.

Best regards for a fruitful 2018!
Chris
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Subject: [Dcpr] DCPR activities at the IGF, and proposals for future engagement

Dear all,

First of all, let us share here the link<http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/dspace/handle/10438/19402> to the (open access and CC licensed) book on Platform Regulations, which was launched and distributed at the DCPR session yesterday. This was the result of effective and efficient teamwork by all authors, who took great pain to deliver the paper in due course and quickly getting back to us with comments and edits. Thank you!

One of the clear takeaways from the session was that there is a shared interest in continuing the discussion on platform responsibility with a view to offering concrete outputs for the 2018 IGF. We received positive feedback on the book not only by the audience, but also by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression David Kaye and several members of the European Parliament, both promising to rely on our input for their future work. This is great news and you will hear soon further information about their initiatives in relation to this. For the moment, please be aware that we are going to submit the book in response to David Kaye’s call for submissions on content regulation in the digital age<http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/FreedomOpinion/Pages/ContentRegulationInTheDigitalAge.aspx>, which is open until tonight.

This morning, the outcome document<https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/5133/768> explaining the concept of the book attracted interest in the main session on Dynamic Coalitions, and some suggestions were made for workshops at the 2018 IGF and possible cross-DC collaboration.


On Monday evening, we also had a productive meeting amongst some DCPR members who were in Geneva, discussing some of our current projects relating to platform responsibilities in order to find possible synergies and options for collective engagement over the next year. Here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wSPck_VXU_8jVr4TTUwmcQl6Ae2hfVnPOcUPMdN1fXc/edit> you can find  a Googledoc with bullet point notes of the meeting (by all means feel free to edit adding your input, especially if you were not present), courtesy of Chiara Poletti. At the bottom, you will see some suggestions for projects that we could work together on, structuring ourselves into working groups. If you are interested to join in any of those, please put your name in the list at the link below by 31 December. On the basis of this list, we hope to be able to create one or more working groups amongst a few of us who can commit to devote sometime over the next few months to delivering some concrete outcome, ideally in addition to another set of chapters on platform responsibilities. Be assured that the scope and timeline of working groups will be kept to a very reasonable level, recognizing that we all have a busy schedule, and will be spread over the course of several months. One potential piece of good news for those who are interested is that we might be able to get some funding from sponsors (we are discussing this with interested parties who have suggested it), but almost certainly that will be only for expenses related to project meetings and publications.

Finally, please note that the DCPR mailing list remains open for people to share their work in this area and make further suggestions for future projects- and this input is especially welcome from those who could not make it to the informal meeting on 18/12.

Wishing those who are in Geneva a safe return home, and to all of you a happy holiday break!

Nicolo and Luca

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From: DCPR <dcpr-bounces at lists.platformresponsibility.info<mailto:dcpr-bounces at lists.platformresponsibility.info>> on behalf of Nicolo Zingales <N.Zingales at sussex.ac.uk<mailto:N.Zingales at sussex.ac.uk>>
Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 5:00 PM
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Subject: [Dcpr] DCPR annual session and outcome document

Dear all,

Please note that the annual DCPR session will take place on 19 December at 9:00 in room Room XXII-E of the Palais des Nations (in Geneva). During the session, the authors of the papers featured in the DCPR report (resulting from the Call for Papers) will address the notion of platform responsibility from a range of perspectives.  The edited collection of those papers will be officially launched at our annual meeting and, for the occasion, we’ll have the keynotes by David Kaye and Julia Reda, who authored the book’s prefaces.  Here <https://igf2017.sched.com/event/CTqv> the agenda, while the to link to the electronic version of the publication will be shared on the 19th.

For those who cannot participate, the event is live streamed and recorded for posterity, so you should be able to find it on the IGF’s Youtube channel. In addition, do not forget you can contribute to the discussion by commenting on the DCPR Outcome document, which summarizes the said contributions in light of the ongoing DCPR discussion, and will be presented at the Main Session on Dynamic Coalitions on December 20th.
Here<https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/preview-of-the-2017-dcpr-outcome-platform-regulations-dc-on-platform-responsibility> is a link to the IGF Review Platform where you can review and comment upon the text, that will be adopted as official outcome by the end of the IGF.

As always, please feel free to get in touch also if you have any other thoughts or suggestions about future DCPR activities.

Best regards,
Nicolo and Luca
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