Panel 4: Digital and tech democracy, disinformation
Theme: Democracy
Chair: Sue Gardner, former Executive Director of the WikiMedia Foundation
Papers: Digital Democracy and Public Discourse by Dr. Ulrike Klinger and Securing Cyberspace in an Age of Disruption by Aaron Shull and Kailee Hilt
Participants:
Chris Beall, Policy Lead at CIGI
Mark Surman, Executive Director at the Mozilla Foundation
Prof. Heidi Tworek, professor of history and public policy at the University of British Columbia
Dr. Wesley Wark, fellow at CIGI
Kyle Matthews, Executive Director of MIGS at Concordia University
Dr. Christian Katzenbach, lead researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Matthias Kettemann, law professor at the University of Innsbruck
Dr. Alexander Görlach, Editor-in-Chief at Conditio Humana
Tankred Schipansky, Christian Democratic Union representative in the German Bundestag
Dr. Fenwick McKelvey, communications professor at Concordia University