Thank you for the draft recommendations. I have a few suggestions: 

1) In addition to ‘Raising awareness for perpetrators’ strategies in times of lockdown’, it is necessary to develop and promote effective deterrence and support mechanisms for people with sexual attraction to children (prevention of offending) as well as those who perpetrate sexual offenses against children (intervention). Mechanisms can be technical or human in nature, or both combined. 

2) In addition to, or to expand upon ‘increased research’, I think it is important to specify the need for structured data collection frameworks as the basis for research and the development of indicators etc. Privacy must remain paramount. 

Best wishes, 

Amy 

Thanks Olena, for your very important comment. I suggest to refer to Art. 23 of the UN-CRC in this regard. We will leave the debate open a while and then consolidate all comments into a final version of the recommendations.

Jutta

Q: Regarding electronic waste and building new devices, could there be a skeme so that consumers can bring their old smartphone to the store manufacturer and have a discount, so that could boost recycling of materials?

Q: How could product lifetime extension be implemented in Europe? Is this about a kind of reverse guarantee that forces companies to innovate to provide longer lifetime? or is it about creating new standards?

Q: Can circular digital  economy, while creating jobs in the "refurbishment" part, cost jobs in the more general sense as in those ones which continuously create new devices today?

Q: How to address the problem that green regulations can be bypassed by basing ICT services mainly in countries that do not enforce them?

Q @ Emma & Ilias in particular: Is (will be) there any incentive - we spoke about labels, Stickers, Buttons in another session - where eg the EU would lend Support to climate neutral DCs?

Q: How about the paradox of being cybersecure by the updates that are being pushed and what Lousewies said: "Every bloody upgrade costs memory and slows down the device - "forcing" us to either forego upgrades or move towards a new device."

Q: Should government become more active in promoting sustainable consumer behaviour with regard to e-waste & data consumption? Just as they advice to "bring your thermos coffee" or to "quit smoking?"

Verifiable Claims has created the opportunity for individual sovereignty, inside a country's sovereignty, inside a union, inside international laws and norms. 

User sovereignty in both data and identity results in an atomic online existence, where individuals are indistinguishable from each other, and have equal rights and access to network resources.

It raises the issue of how we interact with each other when we are all equal.  From a governance perspective this is might be seen as unrealistically challenging, but that is not the case.

Consider the following scheme:  Alice obtains a credential from a regional issuer that affords her access to some arbitrary resource.  She does not need to apply.  She simply scans a QR code and agrees to follow rules to maintain access to the resource (it is essentially a permissionless privilege).  If the issuer revokes the credential, Alice loses access to the resource and reapplication is detectable.  On detection she can be held accountable for her actions.

If Alice owns the credential, she is essentially proving that she is “Honest under a Rulebook”.  She can prove it to any other network user without revealing any other aspect about herself and without communicating with the issuer.

This default-allow nature to obtaining one and only one credential from a network of issuers; facilitates a sort of whitelist of actors for a given transaction type.  It ensures there is appropriate accountability on infringement of a rulebook.  Accountability would be in various forms depending on the transaction type, but a person’s every indiscretion needn’t tattoo itself onto our online identities.

It can be thought of as proving yourself “currently honest under a given rulebook” and is possible due to Self-Certified Sybil Free Pseudonyms .

The model is extraordinarily powerful in that large networks of regionally bound institutions can assume that actors are honest until they are proven dishonest.  Without hyperbole, it is entirely possible for a network of institutions to efficiently provide privileged access to 7 billion people.

So, Alice wants to sell a designer handbag and Bob wants to buy it.  Alice proves to Bob that she is currently honest under an auction rulebook.  Bob uses a payment service. Alice ships the goods. Transaction complete.  If something goes wrong, Bob complains to the issuer of Alice’s auction privilege – <insert regional rights of appeal>

The devil is always in the detail; but it is important to note that the detail is about policy and not possibility.  The good people of EuroDIG and the IGF are therefore sorely needed, so I would appreciate your engagement as this is not technical theory - it is demonstrable today.

Transactional governance would promote market economies.  If the EU wants to drive the web into a specific direction; drive it towards highly competitive, open network utilities; operating under multistakeholder governance structures.  

It is my assertion that these networks will beat large corporations on scalability, advancement, and agility for most if not all business streams.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this.

My suggestion to the European Commission would be to participate more actively in existing fora such as EuroDIG and IGF, where government actors are also called upon to bring in issues through the 'Call for issues' (EuroDIG) or 'Call for Open Forums' (IGF).

I'm interested in your views on this matter.

Q: from a technical perspective, do you believe that 5G and beyond benefit from the proposed NewIP standards developments or will IPv6 and its successors suffice?

Q: So my (very direct Dutch) question to Cao Hui: How do you feel about everyone assuming that because Huawei or any Chinese company  is subject to Chinese law its technology would be abused by the Chinese Communist party for its political goals?

Q: how you can ensure The equivalent of today's "free to air distribution" of local contents  in the future 5g environment, if we want to keep our culture and diversity ? is this included in the télécoms players plan even if doesn't help to monetize… but has a lot of public value...

Q: Is broadcasting for emergency situations not aimed to technologies owned by every Citizen, meaning 2G, so that there is no one left behind?