The political influences of WLA-CdM’s members can be used to guide future actions in the political field with a new project on Information Integrity and the Future of Democracy.
WLA-CdM has been developing the Next Generation Democracy project which addresses the main factors affecting democracy of the world, which were new technology and social media. Guy Verhofstadt, former Belgian Prime Minister and Member of WLA-CdM, wrote an op-ed on Project Syndicate. He put emphasis on the threat of information integrity and social media shaping people’s political view.
To tackle this problematic situation, WLA-CdM launched a new project on Information Integrity and the Future of Democracy, with a purpose to engage in the discussion with stakeholders and WLA-CdM’s members to come up with recommendations to guide people in the area.
“In a world where an algorithm determines all outcomes, politics no longer exists,” said Guy Verhofstadt, “There is no time to lose. The world needs a new Internet, and Europe needs a new digital strategy – one that is not simply copy-pasted from the American model.”
The Roundtable on Global Governance for Information Integrity (take place on September 27, 2018 in Riga, Latvia) is the first activity of this new project. The event is organized under the cooperation of Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and WLA-CdM, in consultation with the Lavitan Association of Political Science and the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence. Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Director of MDI, will attend the panel discussion of this event.
