Global Platform Governance Network

The GPGN was a global community of civil servants, legislative staff and regulators committed to a collaborative and harmonized approach to address pressing issues related to digital platform governance.

About

From 2020 to 2022, CIGI and Reset partnered to create the Global Platform Governance Network (GPGN). The GPGN consisted of a global community of civil servants, legislative staff and regulators committed to a collaborative and harmonized approach to address pressing issues related to digital platform governance.

Regular interactive sessions were joined and led by eminent international thinkers, including:

  • Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s digital minister;
  • Marietje Schaake, international policy director, Cyber Policy Center at Stanford University, and former Member of the European Parliament;
  • Rebecca MacKinnon, founding director, Ranking Digital Rights; and
  • Claire Wardle, co-founder and US director, First Draft.

GPGN meetings enabled participants to discuss pressing platform governance challenges, gain a deeper understanding of policy-level solutions and form relationships with international peers for future collaborations. Key discussion topics included privacy, competition, online safety, electoral integrity, and countering online hate and extremism.

To learn more about CIGI’s platform governance work, click here.