Michael Bąk on the intersection of tech and civil society

Impossible Tradeoffs with Katie Harbath

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This week, we are talking to Michael Bąk. Michael brings more than two decades of experience across international development, peacebuilding, diplomacy, and tech policy. Throughout his career, he has sustained a strong commitment to democratic governance, human rights, and information integrity.

He is currently the Executive Director of the Forum on Information and Democracy and a former colleague of mine at Facebook, where he was the head of public policy for Thailand.

We dig into the relationship between technology companies and civil society, how he’s thinking about our information environment and how we protect democracy in the age of social media and artificial intelligence.

Show Links:

* Global Call for Research to Expand Literature on Crucial Research Questions, with Emphasis on Global South Regions

* Policy brief - Tech firms, governments urged to combat digital election threats (I forgot to mention that we did this with International IDEA and Democracy Reporting International)

* Policy Brief - Information Integrity in Times of Conflict

* AI as a Public Good: Ensuring Democratic Control of AI in the Information Space framework

* Why Do We Need to Discuss So-called "Information Integrity"?

* Euroviews. 'Regulation stifles innovation' is a misguided myth

* Der Demokratieschützer Michael Bak über KI. - SZ.de

* Fair Trade AI: https://background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierung/plaedoyer-fuer-eine-fairtrade-ki

* Forum on Information and Democracy: www.informationdemocracy.org

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