Towards a European democracy shield in our digital world: The role of information integrity
Tuesday 10 December 2024 | 12:30 - 14:00 CET
The pressures on our shared digital information space - the public sphere that weaves our democracies together by facilitating access to information, and allowing us to express and form our opinions - are mounting. Countering foreign information manipulation and interference without compromising human rights and freedom of expression is a growing challenge for democracies worldwide. Building information integrity is part of the efforts to find sustainable solutions on a national, international and multilateral level. This panel brings together senior experts and diplomats to discuss current efforts to build information integrity, and look at the role of the EU in the new legislature. How can information integrity help strengthen the European democracy shield? How does this fit into a bigger, global democracy shield? And what role does digital diplomacy play in bringing all key actors together?
Speakers include :
Sabine VERHEYEN, MEP, First Vice-President of the European Parliament
Arvinn GADGIL, Director of the Global Policy Centre for Governance, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Filip GRZEGORZEWSKI, Head of the Information Integrity Division, European External Action Service (EEAS)
Charles BAUBION, Head of the Information Integrity Team, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Seemab SHEIKH, Acting Deputy Tech Ambassador, Denmark
Naja BENTZEN, Policy Analyst, Digital Policies Unit, EPRS
Moderation: Michael ADAM, Head of the Digital Policies Unit, EPRS
EPRS publications related to the event:
Information integrity online and the European democracy shield: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2024)767153
Fact checking compass How to spot information manipulation: https://epthinktank.eu/2024/07/11/fact-checking-compass-how-to-spot-information-manipulation/
Online information manipulation and information integrity: An overview of key challenges, actors and the EU's evolving response: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2024)762416