Hate on the Internet in pictures – Edtstadler at the UN Internet Forum in Ethiopia

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Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) has been appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the governing body of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The forum, which is based at the UN, is currently meeting in Ethiopia on Internet governance issues such as Internet access, cybersecurity, human rights on the Internet and hate on the Internet, Edtstadler said.

The ten-member “Leadership Panel” chaired by the American computer scientist Vinton Gray Cerf, known among others as the “father of the Internet”, is to make the Internet Governance Forum more visible. It is also about making recommendations to the countries.

People who do not have access to the internet must be connected (“connect the disconnected”), the internet must be made more secure. “My concern as a former judge is to contribute to the online hate crime,” Edtstadler said. The minister emphasized that it should be a criminal offense worldwide on the internet, which is also prohibited offline. Philippine Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa, who herself often faces hate crimes, is the vice chair of the leadership panel.

Edtstadler also uses the forum for numerous bilateral meetings. Discussions were held with representatives of the technology industry, such as the internet address management company ICANN, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) responsible for country codes or the telecom association ETNO. Edtstadler also had an exchange with UN Technology Commissioner Amandeep Singh Gill, with Peggy Hicks from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and with the Ethiopian Minister of Technology.

Source: Krone

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