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Virtual Event Under the Patronage of H.E SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 2, 2020 Virtual Event Under the Patronage of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou In Cooperation With Paid Advertisement How Facebook is preparing for the US 2020 election We’ve taken critical steps to better secure our platforms and provide transparency during the upcoming elections, including: • Tripled safety and security • Removed billions of teams to 35,000 people fake accounts • Implemented 5-step • Launching new ad verification Voting Information Center Learn more about our efforts at fb.com/about/elections Paid for by Facebook - about.fb.com Paid Advertisement Welcome 5 The Pandemic Was Supposed to Be Great for Strongmen. What Happened? 14 Speakers 17 Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America How Facebook is preparing 30 Are You Willing to Give Up Your Privilege? 48 for the US 2020 election Despotism and Democracy in the Age of the Virus 62 We’ve taken critical steps to better secure our Capitalism and ‘Culturecide’ 78 platforms and provide transparency during the upcoming elections, including: Reform the Police? Guess Who Funds My State’s Officials 92 • Tripled safety and security • Removed billions of Moderators 99 teams to 35,000 people fake accounts Advisory Board 107 • Implemented 5-step • Launching new Our Sponsors 114 ad verification Voting Information Center Our Partners 115 Learn more about our efforts at Important Information fb.com/about/elections 116 athensdemocracyforum.com 3 Paid for by Facebook - about.fb.com @ebrd Welcome DEAR GUESTS I bid you a hearty welcome to the 2020 Athens Democracy Forum, which we are proud to convene in association with The New York Times along with our main stakeholders: the Kofi Annan Foundation, the City of Athens and the Greek daily Kathimerini. Our theme this year, “The New Abnormal: Reimagining Democracy,” reflects both the extraordinary and sometimes frightening times we are living through, and the enormous challenges they pose on a broad range of fronts. The Covid-19 pandemic has precipitously and acutely touched every corner of the world and every human endeavor. But the new abnormal goes beyond that, to the broadest scope implicit in the Greek word πάνδημος: the whole of humanity is being tested by inequality, climate change, fake news, migration shifts and populism to find better ways to govern ourselves and safeguard our planet. Better governance and citizen engagement – these are the goals that our new Democracy & Culture Foundation, the parent organization of the Athens Democracy Forum, is charged with pursuing. To that end, a stellar and diverse chorus of speakers will convene in Athens on September 30, in person or virtually, to address these issues from differing, sometimes contrarian perspectives, to arm our guests and our Foundation with ideas and inspiration on ways to help our democracies and institutions emerge strong and free from the pandemic crises. My colleagues, partners and I look forward to greeting you for what promises to be a most productive and consequential Forum. Achilles Tsaltas President The Democracy & Culture Foundation @ebrd athensdemocracyforum.com 5 Democracy & Culture Foundation MISSION To empower society through citizen engagement and better governance. In this way we contribute to the evolution of democracy to meet today’s challenges. How we achieve this is through a disruptive fusion of collective intelligence, discussion, culture and action (our ‘Think – Talk – Do’ impact chain) resulting in two key outcomes: 1. Progressive reforms are grafted onto existing institutions to create new models of democracy fit for a changing world; (better governance) and 2. Citizens actively participate in democracy and its evolution (citizen engagement) Five Core Values underpin our approach: Innovation – enhance democratic process through innovation and technology Dialogue – increase diversity of voices and wider stakeholder representation Truth & transparency – explore solutions to misinformation Sharing & education – educate citizens and government officials on best practices Citizen engagement – increase citizen deliberation in democratic processes WHAT WE DO DCF’s role is to provoke, curate and convene stakeholders through a series of activities and initiatives that: • create policy proposals by adding fresh thinking to ancient democratic wisdom; • calibrate and validate them through a thorough process of deliberative democracy, with culture as a key enabler; and • ensure the best ideas are grafted onto existing institutions to create new models of democracy fit for a changing world. Our stakeholders/audience is a blend of (1) ‘citizens and youth’ with (2) ‘leaders and experts’ and we seek to bring them together in a way that we bridge the gap. We work with carefully chosen, and closely aligned, partners from civil society, media, government and corporations to deliver these activities and achieve our overall mission. athensdemocracyforum.com 7 SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 2, 2020, ATHENS Think Talk Do (DEVELOPMENT) (CALIBRATION) (ACTION) Actively supporting the search Engaging in constructive Carrying out in and articulation of new and inclusive dialogue cooperation with activist ideas and concepts that and disseminating these partners, conceptually can translate into better innovative ideas and original and practically democratic processes and a concepts through all critical activities related wider understanding of culture possible enablers to the promotion of democracy and culture Policy idea Citizen Policy Stress Actual Reform Creation Proposals Testing & Finessing approval Ancient values Co-created by Athens Influencers Via activist and + fresh stakeholders Democracy bridging the government approaches through an Forum and citizen-leader partnerships + benchmarking incubation lab a cluster of gap + and leader supported by a and a series of conferences. Caucus of development curated library seminars Citizens’ parliamentar of knowledge assemblies . ians + case studies Cultural activities Figure 1 - the DCF Impact Chain 8 @athensforum HOW DO WE MEASURE SUCCESS? We work to three main strategic KPIs: 1. The number of reforms actually achieved; 2. The number and quality of participants engaged per reform/proposed reform; and 3. The proportion of our participants who believe decision-making is inclusive and responsive, by sex, age, disability and population group. We are strongly aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 16, to “promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.” Our third KPI allows us to track our contribution to SDG 16.7 which aims to achieve “responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.” HOW IS DCF FUNDED? Our funding strategy is divided into two phases: 1. Year 2020 involves DCF set-up. Funding for this phase will come from sponsorships and seed- funding (with a significant portion already committed); and 2. 2021 onward, envisages the scaling up of funding mainly from two sources: Internally, from the conferences and other activities organized by the DCF; and externally from the creation of an endowment, with a minimum target of €10 million from other foundations, UHNWI and institutions. (currently achieved a commitment of 20% of this sum). Simultaneously, DCF plans to seek additional funding from E.U. subsidies, individual philanthropic contributions, grants from other foundations and sponsorships from companies implementing CSR policies aligned with DCF’s principles and work. WHO ARE OUR PARTNERS? 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