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Rapport annuel du Forum : 2024, l’année de l’intégrité de l’information

Le Forum sur l’Information et la Démocratie publie son rapport d’activités pour l’année 2024, une année sous le signe de l’intégrité de l’information. Dans ce rapport, l’organisation revient sur les grandes réalisations de l’année, marquée par le décès en juin 2024 de Christophe Deloire, fondateur et président du Forum.  L’année 2024 a marqué le 5ème […]

AI and democracy in West Africa: recommendations for Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal

The Forum on Information and Democracy and its partners in three West African countries are publishing recommendations to ensure that Artificial Intelligence serves the public good and the integrity of information. Based on the international report published in February 2024, these recommendations aim at advancing the implementation of frameworks in West Africa. The debates around […]

IA et démocratie en Afrique de l’Ouest : recommandations pour le Bénin, la Côte d’Ivoire et le Sénégal

Le Forum sur l’information et la démocratie et ses partenaires de trois pays d’Afrique de l’ouest publient leurs recommandations pour s’assurer que l’Intelligence Artificielle soit au service du bien public et de l’intégrité de l’information. Basées sur le rapport international publié en février 2024, ces recommandations visent à avancer dans la mise en œuvre de […]

After Mauritania’s endorsement, FID and Mauritanie Perspectives host first workshop on information integrity in the country

Following the country’s endorsement of the International Partnership for Information and Democracy, the Forum and Mauritanie Perspectives, a public policy think tank, co-hosted a high-level multi-actors dialogue in Nouakchott on 29 and 30 April 2025. The 2-day panel discussion brought together representatives of governments and regulatory authorities, journalists, lawmakers, researchers and civil society experts. In […]

Led by Ukraine and Luxembourg, the Workstream on Identifying solutions to ensure information integrity on private messaging platforms held its first meeting

Private messaging platforms represent one of the most important communication tools among users, while simultaneously emerging as a key medium in the dissemination of political propaganda and disinformation. They also often lack regulatory oversight because of (or in some cases thanks to) their private or encrypted features. To address this critical dichotomy, the Forum on […]

The Forum publishes a call from academics to build European social media platforms

In a shifting moment for tech governance, the Forum on Information and Democracy is publishing a position paper authored  by a group of researchers calling for Europe to seize a unique opportunity to establish local social media platforms. In the midst of raising techno-political tension, a group of scholars is calling on the European Union […]

Call for Contributions: Digital Taxes to fund public interest media 

In light of the alarming financial crisis currently facing the media industry, the Forum on Information and Democracy is calling on its community to contribute to the development of a policy brief aimed at exploring innovative solutions to sustain public interest journalism.  The current challenges posed by Big Tech’s dominance over digital advertising revenues has […]

Private messaging platforms, climate disinformation: States of the Partnership for Information and Democracy launch workstreams to address urgent challenges to information integrity 

Facilitated by the Forum on Information and Democracy, States of the Partnership for information and democracy are launching two targeted workstreams to address urgent challenges related to private messaging platforms and climate and other environmental disinformation. Respectively led by Ukraine and Luxembourg and Armenia and Brazil, these workstreams will mobilize other countries, academia and civil […]