Safeguarding & Strenghtening Open Societies | Recommendation
Open societies should be strengthened and safeguarded by creating mechanisms that combat emerging threats to democratic institutions, increase transparency of social media platforms and protect civil society’s ability to engage in advocacy, especially for marginalised groups.
2.1 To provide a comprehensive
to increase government accountability. This must be complemented by educational programmes for civic organisation actors addressing using these instruments to empower and strengthen the efforts of marginalised communities to equally participate in advocacy and strengthen respect of their human rights. 2.3 To increase transparency and ensure good governance, G7 members and partner countries must ensure legislation for large social media platforms to provide API access to privacy-compliant data for thesis students and researchers. Settings should be included for all users to select and modify preferred options for recommender systems, with at least one option not based on profiling to safeguard against filter bubbles and algorithmic biases.
understanding of current threats, we call upon G7 members and partner countries to establish a unified, transparent definition of disinformation, human rights abuse, privacy, online safety, and violent extremism to streamline unitary enforcement. These should be developed with partners across civil society, including underrepresented communities, and annually updated through an independent mechanism, with the outcomes presented at the 2023 G7 Summit followed by annual implementation reports.
2.2 We call upon G7 governments to increase the transparency and
accessibility of the advocacy process by implementing public political lobby registers, legislation watchdogs, and improving freedom of information rights
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