People-First Playbook Launch Event on 26 November 2025, Brussels (in-person & online)
2025-11-26 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Join MyData Global and The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra for the launch of the People-First Playbook in Brussels on 26 November 2025 (also live-streamed). Registration Now!

The Playbook evaluates the EU Digital Single Market (DSM) from the perspective of citizens and consumers, highlighting where the DSM “breaks” and how people-first governance, infrastructures, and regulatory technologies can strengthen trust, accessibility, and competitiveness.The event will bring together a high-level audience of policymakers, civil society leaders, and industry representatives to explore how the Playbook’s findings can inform ongoing discussions on the Digital Package.

The programme will feature a presentation of the Playbook’s key insights, followed by an interactive policy roundtable on next steps for shaping a more human-centric digital Europe.

Join us to gain insights from policymakers, civil society, and industry leaders as we explore how people-first governance and digital infrastructures can make Europe’s digital landscape more accessible, trusted, and competitive.

Event Details:

🗓️ Date: 26 November 2025

🕑 Time: 14:00–16:00 CETThe event will be held in person and live-streamed.

How to Join:In-person participation, please be on time: 🏛 Venue: Brussels, Thon Hotel EU, France Room📍 Address: Rue de la Loi/ Wetstraat 75, 1040, BrusselsPlease note that the national strike will affect public transportation in Brussels. We recommend allowing extra time to travel to the venue.

Online participation:Join Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83691171537?pwd=[REDACTED] ID: 836 9117 1537Passcode: [REDACTED] in instructions

Join Online

Programme Overview

14:00-14:10 Welcome Remarks

– Eric Pol, Chair, MyData Global

– Kristo Lehtonen, Director, Sitra International Programmes

14:10-14:40 Key Findings of the People-First Playbook

– Christopher Wilson, Executive Director, MyData Global

14:40-15:20 Panel Discussion on strengthening the Digital Single Market for European citizens and consumers

– Svetlana Stoilova, Senior Adviser, BusinessEurope

– Malte Beyer-Katzenberger, Team Leader, DG CONNECT, European Commission

– Reijo Aarnio, Senior Advisor, Sitra International Programmes

15:20-15:30 Closing Remarks

– Tiina Vainio, Senior Lead, Sitra International Programmes

15:30~ Networking on-site (Live-streaming ends)

fairsfair.io: Transparency and Data Control
2025-12-04 14:00 - 15:00
On December 4th, MyData member and Awardee fairsfair.io will share insights on transparency and data control through an EU-registered data intermediation service. Digital Rules, Human Values, a 2025–2026 global seminar series, is organised by The Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (GIDE), in collaboration with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), MyData Global, and the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI).

Be part of a Global Seminar on the Future of Digital Governance Let’s rethink digital governance through human-centred market mechanisms! In episode one, we explored how GIDE principles can give digital citizens a stronger role in shaping how their data is used. Episode two shows how these ideas can work in practice through an EU-registered data intermediation service.fairsfair.io is an EU-registered data intermediation service that helps digital citizens stay in control of what they share by making sure data is only used for a specific, agreed-upon purpose. Its approach supports clear, transparent data flows without exposing personal information. Its model is already being applied in mobility and other sectors, offering real-world lessons for creating safer, more accountable digital markets.

Speakers:– Dr. Paul Twomey, Co-Chair, Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment, former CEO of ICANN.– Christopher Wilson, Executive Director, MyData Global.– Ferdinand Burgersdijk, Founder, fairsfair.ioSpeakers will explore how the fairsfair.io model makes data use clearer and more transparent, how people can stay in control of what they share, and how this approach can support the GIDE principles by enabling individual control, trusted representation, strong fiduciary duties and clear, transaction-based negotiation between people and service providers. The series builds on GIDE’s Innovation in the Digital Economy Architecture (IDEA) framework.

Date: 4 December 2025Time: 1 PM UTC | 2 PM CET | 8 AM US EST | 6:30 PM IST | Midnight Australian AEDT

Learn more about the IDEA Framework:IDEA framework presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9SQZ32vLp0Policy brief on the model discussed in Episode One: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/innovation-digital-economy-architecture-ensuring-regulatory-simplification-drives

Contact: ceo@thegide.orgSpots are limited. Register now.

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Changes in International Public Attitudes to Digital Governance and Artificial Intelligence
2025-12-18 14:00 - 15:00
Public attitudes toward AI are shifting fast. The new Carleton–CIGI–Ipsos survey shows widespread concern about trust, safety, fairness and control. Citizens across regions want clearer rules, stronger accountability and credible mechanisms to govern AI and personal data use.

Episode three of Digital Rules, Human Values takes place on December 18 and examines these findings.

Speakers: • Dr. Paul Twomey, Co-Chair, Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment; former CEO of ICANN • Professor Fen Hampson, Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada; and co-author of the Public Attitudes on Digital Governance survey • Joshua Moffatt, AI solutions architect

Speakers will discuss how the survey’s results should shape governance choices and how the IDEA framework can respond to what people say they need: transparency, human agency and market structures that give individuals a meaningful role.

This series, organised by the Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (GIDE), MyData Global, the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI), and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), aims to foster human-centred digital governance. We bring together global experts, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss practical solutions for safer digital services and greater user agency.

This is a participatory global forum for a constructive policy dialogue.Register now to be part of the conversation!

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Learn more about the IDEA Framework:

IDEA framework presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR1N8WAqwV4

Policy brief on the model discussed in Episode One: https://lnkd.in/g2KXAQP7

WAGOI: How you, rather than car brands, can control and get rewarded for your driving data
2026-01-22 14:00 - 15:00
*Event time change: This event is postponed to 22 January.*

On 22 January, MyData member and Awardee Wagoi will share insights on how drivers can regain control of their car’s data.

Global Seminar Series: Digital Rules, Human Values

Participate in a global seminar connecting experts, policymakers, and practitioners shaping the future of digital governance. Have your say in each seminar!

Episode four: WAGOI: It’s time to get rewarded for your car’s data.

Theme:Connected cars collect 25 GB of data per hour (that’s like 5000 pictures)!

Connected cars are super convenient, but modern cars know way more than your driving habits or your favorite playlist – they track deeply personal information – and sell all that data! Even your passengers are ‘tracked’, if they are using Google Maps or streaming services. According to McKinsey, the vehicle data market is set to skyrocket to $750 Billion. Wagoi is breaking this model by establishing a market where owners can control what data is shared and get rewarded every time they hit the road. Let’s flip the script and put the power – and the value – back in consumers’ hands!

Speakers

Dr. Paul Twomey, Co-Chair, Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment, former CEO of ICANN.

Mario Schraepen, CEO, WAGOI.

Speakers will discuss how drivers can regain control of their car’s data and how the IDEA Framework creates the conditions that make such control possible at scale.

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Learn more about the IDEA Framework:

IDEA framework presentation

Policy brief: Ensuring regulatory simplification drives innovation and growth

About the Series

Digital Rules, Human Values brings together global leaders and practitioners exploring how digital governance can better serve human welfare. Each session focuses on practical ways to build digital systems and markets that are accountable, inclusive, and aligned with human values.

Purpose

Organised by the Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (GIDE), in collaboration with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), MyData Global, and the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI), the series examines how to translate principles into policy and practice.

What to Expect in Each Episode

Access to a diverse, international community of digital governance professionals

Keynotes and discussions with global experts and practitioners

Case studies on digital rights, AI governance, and fair digital markets

Interactive Q&A with participants

MyData Global Extraordinary General Meeting 2026
2026-01-22 14:00 - 15:30
The Extraordinary General Meeting to approve the new MyData Declaration will take place online on 22 Jan 2026 at 13.00 UTC+0. The general meeting is open to all, but only MyData Global members are entitled to vote during the meeting.

The voting to approve the new Declaration has started at 14:00 UTC+0 on 22 Jan. Voting takes place at https://go.mydata.org/2026-egm-voting. The voting is open for 72 hours until 14:00 UTC+0 on Sunday, 25 Jan.

The extraordinary general meeting will resume at 11:00 UTC+0 on 26 Jan to announce the voting results. If you have any questions, please contact teller Julia at julia@mydata.org

Time: 22 Jan 2026, at 13.00 UTC+0.

See your local time here

Add to your calendar

Online meeting: The general meetings are held ‘online first’.

Agenda and materials: The detailed agenda is available here, and the slide deck for the MyData Declaration update can be found here.

No registration: No prior registration is needed. The link and password to join the meeting will be sent to all members before the meeting.

Bylaws and voting and elections regulations: The meeting is organised according to the association’s bylaws and voting regulations.

Voting codes: All members in good standing as of 23 December 2025 will receive their voting code via email before the meeting.Voting form opens after the Extraordinary General Meeting ends (approx. 14:00 UTC+0, Jan 22, 2026), if you have any questions, please contact julia@mydata.org

Policy of meeting assistants (bots): A member who wants to use bots for note-taking must inform MyData Global before the meeting. See here for more detailed instructions.

Agenda

1. Opening the general meeting

2. Calling the meeting to order

2.1. Chair

2.2. Secretary, Tellers and Examiners of the minutes and other roles

2.3. Notice and attendees present in the meeting

3. Approving the agenda for the meeting

4. Bylaws amendments

4.1. Amendment to Section 10.5 Voting in General Meetings

4.2. Finnish translation of the bylaws

5. MyData Declaration review and voting for its adoption

5.1 MyData Declaration review

5.2 Opening the voting

5.3 Resuming the meeting for voting results

6. Closing the meeting

Practicalities

Online participation: The password to join the Zoom call and voting codes will be sent to all members in good standing as of 23 December 205 before the meeting.

General best practices:

Please keep your microphone muted by default to avoid potential sound issues.

The meeting is moderated by the Chair.

If you’d like to make a comment or proposal, please indicate this by raising your hand in Zoom

NB. If you are dialled into the meeting using a phone number, you will not be able to raise your hand or participate in indicative voting.

More discussions on the agenda take place in our Slack (join here), at the #general-meeting channel. Welcome!

MyData Explainer: lessons from Europe's biggest digital identity experiment
2026-02-18 13:00 - 14:00
Please register for the event. The report “What We Learned from Europe’s Biggest Digital Identity Experiment” will be shared with attendees after the event.

This explainer webinar will present lessons and insights drawn from analysis of the EUDI Large Scale Pilots that tested the European Digital Identity Wallet in over 1,300 interoperability scenarios, issued more than 1,500 credentials, and engaged hundreds of real users in production-ready transactions. Based on analysis conducted by Meeco after the Pilot’s conclusions in 2025, this webinar will present the four Large Scale Pilots and their outcomes, and what they mean for policymakers, regulators, innovators, and consumers. The Webinar will be led by Katryna Dow, CEO of Meeco, together with CPO Jan Vereecken, and will include time for questions and discussions.

Meeco is a longstanding MyData member and has been awarded the MyData Award each year from 2020 to 2025.

Join the webinar

If the button doesn’t work, please see the following details to join:Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81909944616?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 819 0994 4616Passcode: [REDACTED]

*Image background photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash.

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Personal data and AI in East Asian Countries: A comparative view through the IDEA framework
2026-02-18 21:00 - 22:00
Global Seminar Series: Digital Rules, Human Values

Organised by the Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (GIDE), in collaboration with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), MyData Global, and the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI), the series examines how to translate principles into policy and practice.

The series brings together global leaders and practitioners exploring how digital governance can better serve human welfare. Each session focuses on practical ways to build digital systems and markets that are accountable, inclusive, and aligned with human values.

Episode Five of Digital Rules, Human Values examines how personal data markets and AI development are evolving across leading East Asian economies.

The IDEA framework is designed as a universal framework. Yet countries differ in digital infrastructure, regulatory capacity, institutional design, and levels of technological development. This session offers a comparative view of how governance approaches in East Asia are shaping data and AI ecosystems – and how the IDEA framework can support more human-centred digital economies across diverse systems.

Speakers• Paul Twomey, Co-Chair, Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment; former CEO of ICANN• Charles Mok, Research Scholar, Stanford University; former Hong Kong Legislative Council Member (ICT)

📌 Important: We are slightly adjusting our usual time slot.To accommodate our speaker in US Pacific Time, this episode will take place at 8 PM UTC.

Participate in a global seminar connecting experts, policymakers, and practitioners shaping the future of digital governance. Have your say in each seminar!

Register here
