Opening Ceremony of the World Press Freedom Day Global Conference 2022 "Journalism under digital Siege".



Watch LIVE the opening ceremony of the World Press Freedom Day Global Conference 2022 and the opening talkshow "Journalism under digital Siege", with Luis Lacalle Pou, President of Uruguay, Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General, Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Shoshana Zuboff, Author “Surveillance Capitalism”, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University,Timnit Gebru, Founder and Executive Director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR), Claudia Duque, Investigative Journalist, Will Cathcart¸ Head of WhatsApp, Dr. Marcelo Bechara, Director of Institutional Relations and Regulation of Globo Group, among others.



On 2-5 May 2022, UNESCO together with the Government of Uruguay will host the Global Conference for the celebration of World Press Freedom Day (WPFD). The conference will be in a hybrid format, but – conditions allowing - with the ambition to have the largest possible participation in praesentia. It is time for the WPFD’s community and movement to get back together, following a year that saw the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two journalists, and growing challenges to the practice of journalism. The conference will reunite relevant policymakers, journalists, media representatives, activists, policy makers in Internet companies, cybersecurity managers, AI researchers and legal experts from around the world to explore the digital era’s impact on freedom of expression and the safety of journalists, media viability and public trust.

This year’s edition will focus on the theme “Journalism under Digital Siege”, to spotlight the multifaceted ways in which recent developments in surveillance by state and non-state actors, as well as big data collection and artificial intelligence (AI), impact journalism, freedom of expression and privacy. Also under the spotlight will be the associated challenges to media viability in digital times, and threats to public trust that arise from surveillance and digitally-mediated attacks on journalists, and the consequences of all this on public trust in digital communications.

In these ways, the Conference will further the implementation of principles outlined in the Windhoek+30 Declaration on Information as a Public Good, recently endorsed by the UNESCO General Conference. The 2022 World Press Freedom Day Global Conference will produce a further declaration as a record of key discussions, as well as pointers to follow-up.

 


There is a growing awareness and mobilization of citizens, media workers and organizations, pushing to reclaim data privacy and ownership, and to ensure transparency as part of the solution to arbitrary surveillance, weakened news media viability, and a decline in public trust. The 2022 World Press Freedom Day Global Conference is a timely moment to take stock of these trends and what can be done about them. MEDIA VIABILITY AND PUBLIC TRUST CONCLUSION. 

For Your comments and suggestions are welcome, please write to wpfd@unesco.org

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