Responsible Tech London Recap: Hundreds Gather to Co-Create a Better Tech Future 🇬🇧
All Tech Is Human hosted Responsible Tech London on Tuesday, December 05, 2023, at Conway Hall in London, England.
Responsible Tech London was gathering that brought together together hundreds of people across a wide range of disciplines to co-create a better tech future. It featured panel discussions with diverse perspectives on how to reduce harms against children and the ways the Online Safety Act will shape the internet – and us – moving forward.
Responsible Tech London was organized by All Tech Is Human, in collaboration + support by Crisp, a Kroll Business.
Panel #1: Reducing Harms Against Children (Trust & Safety Focus)
With 75% of children around the world online and more children going online each day, the urgency to ensure that they are safe is ever increasing. With the possibility of children being exposed to cyberbullying, hate speech, and violent content, it is essential that mechanisms are put in place to ensure children are able to browse the internet safely. The panel will examine current and proposed initiatives to reduce online harms against children in a rights respecting manner, both in the UK and globally, including platform policies, legislation, and civil society safety campaigns. Panelists will consider how civil society, parents, youth, platforms, and government can work together to ensure their efforts to promote online safety are complementary and mutually reinforcing while still fostering digital opportunities and online community spaces for all children.
Featuring:
Andrew K. Przybylski is the Professor of Human Behaviour and Technology at the University of Oxford. Professor Przybylski investigates how online social media and video games platforms shape human motivation and influence the health and well-being of their users.
David Hunter is the VP of Product for Crisp's Platform Trust & Safety products. With over a decade of prior experience in technology consulting, David has held various positions within Crisp since 2015 across major projects, innovation and commercial delivery.
Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov is the founder of DigitalParentingCoach.com, a website and community with resources and strategies for parents. Her publications, parenting guides, and research projects can be found on www.digitalparentingcoach.com. She is also Senior Corporate Counsel, supporting The LEGO Group as a trusted leader in implementing and promoting digital child safety, rights, and well-being, in all digital games, metaverse experiences and digital engagements. Previously, Elizabeth was an independent consultant advising government and child protection agencies, non-profits and think tanks on public awareness campaigns, research initiatives and public policy strategies related to digital safety, parenting, and wellbeing.
Moderated by:
Danielle Sutton is a Responsible AI Strategist who is passionate about creating a more equitable tech future. She is a 5th generation Harlemite currently pursuing her Masters in Technology Policy at University of Cambridge. Prior to her graduate studies, Danielle worked in tech strategy consulting at Deloitte where she focused on the intersection of responsible AI and criminal justice.
Online Safety Act (Tech Policy Focus)
The Online Safety Act is set to alter the landscape of the global internet – but how can we analyze, interpret, and understand the implications of the new legislation? In this expert panel, we will explore how the Online Safety Act balances individual and collective privacy and security concerns. We will also interrogate how new regulation stands to hold existing tech companies accountable while encouraging competition. Based on the insight of a wide range of stakeholders across civil society, industry, platforms, and regulatory bodies, this panel will illuminate the impacts of the Online Safety Act – and how we can all co-create in a more secure internet.
Featuring:
Fred Langford is Director of Trust and Safety Technology at Ofcom, a Visiting Professor at University of Suffolk, Visiting Professional Fellow at Aston University, member of the REPHRAIN (Bristol University) and INHOPE (International Hotline Association) Advisory Boards. Fred is also a Non-Exec Director.
Richard Wingfield works with tech companies—particularly those based in or with operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa—to build human rights considerations and practices into their products, services, and policies. He brings a strong understanding of international human rights law and standards and how to translate the corporate responsibility to respect human rights into practice for companies of different sizes and sectors. ​
Nicolas Suzor researches the regulation of networked society. He is a Professor at the Law School at Queensland University of Technology, and one of the leaders of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Nic is a member of the Oversight Board, an independent organisation that hears appeals and makes binding decisions about what content Facebook and Instagram should allow or remove, based on international human rights norms. He is the author of Lawless: the secret rules that govern our digital lives (Cambridge, 2019).
Moderated by:
Areeq Chowdhury is Head of Policy (Data and Digital Technologies) at the Royal Society. His team focuses on how artificial intelligence and other data-driven technologies can, and should, be used to benefit humanity.
Areeq is also a Labour Party Councillor for Canning Town, in East London, and founded the influential technology policy think tank, WebRoots Democracy, which ran between 2014 and 2020. He has authored various reports on digital democracy, social media, and artificial intelligence. Most notably, he led a high profile project on disinformation during the 2019 UK General Election, producing viral deepfakes of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn endorsing each other for Prime Minister.
