Member-only story
I attended a conference, on the Digital Transition chapter of the CoFoE final report. This was hosted by the Estonian Human Rights centre and held in Tallinn. This article contains my notes and views of what happened. The conference invited two keynote speakers but otherwise looked at the four objectives from the COFOE final report, Chapter 6 on Digitisation, which I précised on my blog [or on Medium], in working groups. The conference came to together in plenary to share its findings on the CoFoE proposals. This article talks about the future of the internet and its regulation/ My key takeaway may be that the Eastern European citizen’s legitimate fear of a censorious and surveillance state, will lead to a failure to regulate private sector players who are driven by profit, wealth and exploitation.
Who was there?
The icebreaker consisted of identifying our place of residence and then moving around the room to make a map of Europe. About 50% of the attendees were from Estonia, there were significant contingents from Croatia, Slovenia and Portugal with smaller teams from Czechia, Germany and of course me, the sole UK representative. The average age, was young.
Human rights and conflict
The opening session was addressed by Ann Väljataga, who is a Law Researcher at NATO’s Co-operative…
