Parliamentarians For Change, Co-Hosted by Parliament of Iceland & IPU

This session is by invitation only.

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, reshaping the digital and physical space, and raising urgent questions of governance, rights and safety. Within the wider scope of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), AI is transforming the scale and forms of such violence, while making capabilities that once required specialist knowledge increasingly accessible through consumer applications.

The Parliament of Iceland, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Reykjavik Global Forum (RGF) jointly organize this parliamentary event as a space for collaboration across sectors. The meeting will focus on where their responsibilities meet: how legislation, regulation, product and platform design, institutional protection, support and redress can reinforce one another, including across borders. It will identify shared priorities, practical avenues for cooperation and action that participants can take forward.

Objectives

·       Build a shared understanding of how AI is changing the forms, accessibility, speed, scale and reach of technology-facilitated violence against women in politics and its consequences for parity representation.

·       Identify priorities parliaments can undertake through legislation, oversight, budgetary action, institutional protection and leadership within their own institutions, grounded in human rights and a gender-responsive and intersectional understanding of the challenges.

·       Define areas for coordinated actions among parliaments, governments and regulators, technology companies, civil society, support services and academia, including across jurisdictions.

Format

The two-hour session will take the form of an interactive roundtable. A small number of opening interventions will introduce perspectives from parliament and the other sectors represented. Participants will then work at their tables on a short practical exercise, considering the action required from parliaments and other actors and where closer cooperation is needed. The main points from each table will be reported back, followed by a moderated plenary discussion and concluding synthesis. The exercise and questions will be developed with the partners involved in the session so that their experience and priorities help shape the discussion.