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Panel 6: Digital Infrastructure Solutions to Advance Data Agency — How Can Governments Catalyze Positive Innovation for a Fair Data Economy?
“Digital agency should be the key component of digital infrastructure in order to give the power back to citizens, and to take it back from tech monopolies.”
Digital sovereignty means not being forced to rely on big tech. Our data needs to be secure, and we need to trust the infrastructure that holds it. This Think7 panel calls on the G7 to prioritize empowering civil society by establishing safer digital infrastructure globally. How do we help people exercise their data agency rights?
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:12 Christian Kastrop, CEO and Partner, Global Solutions Initiative (GSI)
05:09 S. Yash Kalash, Research Director, Digital Economy, the Centre for International Governance Innovation
10:49 Laura Halenius, Project Director, Data and Competitiveness, Sitra, Finnish Innovation Fund
16:25 Sarah Nicole, Policy & Research Manager, Project Liberty Institute (PLI)
24:11 Question: What is the responsibility and opportunity to invest in or incentivize the development of digital public infrastructure?
29:55 Question: What have been and what should be the metrics to tell us that things are working in the service of the public? What are the signs of a success story when it comes to digital public infrastructure?
32:24 Question: What has been the role of governments in promoting these opportunities? How do you encourage people to take advantage of these newly available services so that they start to build trust in them?
39:07 Question: What are the advantages and needs for international cooperation, or do we not need that? Can we live with a "splinternet", and every national polity has its own digital infrastructure?
Tags: #T7CIGI #Think72025 #Think7 #T7 #G7 #G72025
Panel 6: Digital Infrastructure Solutions to Advance Data Agency — How Can Governments Catalyze Positive Innovation for a Fair Data Economy?
“Digital agency should be the key component of digital infrastructure in order to give the power back to citizens, and to take it back from tech monopolies.”
Digital sovereignty means not being forced to rely on big tech. Our data needs to be secure, and we need to trust the infrastructure that holds it. This Think7 panel calls on the G7 to prioritize empowering civil society by establishing safer digital infrastructure globally. How do we help people exercise their data agency rights?
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:12 Christian Kastrop, CEO and Partner, Global Solutions Initiative (GSI)
05:09 S. Yash Kalash, Research Director, Digital Economy, the Centre for International Governance Innovation
10:49 Laura Halenius, Project Director, Data and Competitiveness, Sitra, Finnish Innovation Fund
16:25 Sarah Nicole, Policy & Research Manager, Project Liberty Institute (PLI)
24:11 Question: What is the responsibility and opportunity to invest in or incentivize the development of digital public infrastructure?
29:55 Question: What have been and what should be the metrics to tell us that things are working in the service of the public? What are the signs of a success story when it comes to digital public infrastructure?
32:24 Question: What has been the role of governments in promoting these opportunities? How do you encourage people to take advantage of these newly available services so that they start to build trust in them?
39:07 Question: What are the advantages and needs for international cooperation, or do we not need that? Can we live with a "splinternet", and every national polity has its own digital infrastructure?
Tags: #T7CIGI #Think72025 #Think7 #T7 #G7 #G72025
