[Live] WEBCAST SEP 29: Finnish Internet Forum 2022

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This has kicked off. Note that only the final session at 12:00 UTC will be
in English. But it looks like a good one!


[image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/15774>On *Thursday September 29 2022*
at *10:00-16:30pm EEST* (07:00 – 13:30 UTC) the *Finnish Internet Forum
<https://internetforum.fi/2022/09/15/finnish-internet-forum-2022/>* will
convene at the University of Helsinki to discuss three topical issues:
future of the freedom of expression on the Internet in cross pressures from
governments and tech giants; new and future regulation by European Union;
and the role of national and regional internet for a in the preparations
for the Global Digital Compact. *The two first topics are discussed in
Finnish, the last one in English.*

The Finnish Internet Forum is an annual multistakeholder event, set up in
2010 to discuss internet-related issues from a Finnish perspective.

*PROGRAM* (Times EEST/UTC)

*10.00/07.00 OPENING REMARKS + KEYNOTE* (FI)

*Suna Kymäläinen*, Chair of the Committee on Transport and Communications,
Finnish Parliament
*Timo Harakka*, Minister of Transport and Communications
*Miapetra Kumpula-Natri*, Member of European Parliament

*10.40/07.40 PANEL* (FI)
Are the giants of platform economy the best thing that happened to freedom
of expression since Gutenberg, or are they a threat worse than imagined by
Orwell? Do the attempts by governments to control discussion on the
Internet threaten the freedom of expression, or do they save it from all
evil?
*Yrsa Gruene-Luoma*, Chair, Reporters Without Borders, Finland Chapter
*Heidi Jern*, Director, Public Affairs, Google Finland
*Stefan Lindström*, Ambassador (Digitalization/Technology Affairs)
*Dr. Matti Nelimarkka*, Lecturer, Centre for Social Data Science,
University of Helsinki
*MODERATOR*
*Tapani Tarvainen*, Electronic Frontier of Finland.

*13.00/10.00 PANEL* (FI)
Internet is in the focus of renewed regulatory efforts of the European
Union, but what is the meaning of it all for Finland?
*Meeri Toivanen*, LLM, Specialist in Fair Data Economy at the Finnish
Innovation Fund (SITRA)
*Marième Korhonen*, Senior Safety and. Security Specialist, Ministry of
Transport and Communications
*Iiro Ihanamäki*, Senior Specialist, Ministry of Economic Affairs and
Employment
*Kreetta Simola*, Senior Ministerial Adviser Ministry of Transport and
Communications

*15.00/12.00 DISCUSSION – Towards Global Digital Compact* (EN)
Internet Governance fora at all levels – global, regional, national – have
a key role in the preparations for the Global Digital Compact (GDC),
proposed by the U.N. Secretary General to be adopted at the Summit on the
Future of the U.N. General Assembly 2023.
*Sandra Hoferichter*, Secretary-General, EuroDIG
*Anja Gengo*, National and regional initiatives. IGF Secretariat
*Lisa Fuhr*, Director General, ETNO
*Juuso Moisander*, Counselor, Permanent Mission of Finland in Geneva
*MODERATOR*
*Yrjö Länsipuro*, ISOC Finland

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