APPENDIX B
FORUM OF EXPERTS AGENDA
May 25, 2023
All times cited in U.S. Eastern Daylight Time
PLENARY SESSIONS
Auditorium at the National Academy of Sciences
9:30 am – 12:00 pm
In-person program by invitation only and streamed live at www.nobelprize.org
9:30 am | Welcome Alliance4Europe |
9:35 am | Welcome from Hosts Marcia McNutt, President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences |
Vidar Helgesen, CEO, Nobel Foundation | |
9:45 am | Collaboration Amidst Complexity A global information environment that promotes human progress rather than impeding it will require collaboration across disciplines, languages, and political cultures. This international panel of leaders discussed how to achieve it. |
Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2011 | |
John Momoh, CEO, Nigeria Channels TV | |
Sanjiv Ahuja, Chairman and Founder, Tillman Global Holdings | |
Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations. | |
Moderator: Sheldon Himelfarb, PeaceTech Lab | |
10:35 am | Overcoming Health Misinformation through Behavioural Science In collaboration with the Mercury Project |
Paul Romer, Recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018 | |
Rachel Glennerster, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago and Mercury Project grantee | |
Eileen O’Connor, Senior Vice President, Strategic Communications and Policy, The Rockefeller Foundation | |
Sylvie Briand, Director, Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, WHO Emergency Programme | |
Alonzo Plough, Vice President, Research-Evaluation-Learning and Chief Science Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | |
Robert Califf, Food and Drug Administration | |
Moderated by Abdul El-Sayed, Communicator and Policymaker | |
11:25 am | Truth + Trust = Hope? Martin Chalfie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008, and Chair, National Academies Committee on Human Rights |
Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993 | |
Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize 2021, and Co-Founder and CEO, Rappler | |
David MacMillan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 | |
Moderated by Laura Lindenfeld, Stony Brook University |
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
National Academy of Sciences Building
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
In-person program by invitation only
This second day of the summit allowed us to address some of the questions posed by our opening agenda in more depth. Many of the speakers from the previous day stepped off the stage and took part in smaller breakout sessions, joining an invited audience of researchers, academics, and fellow experts to probe more explicitly into the root causes of misinformation, discuss the ways in which various sectors are impacted, and reflect on the necessary next steps that would most likely to lead to genuine change.
DIGITAL PROGRAMME
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Streamed live at nobelprize.org
1:00 pm | Reflections From the Last Summit Carl Folke, Trans-Disciplinary Environmental Scientist and Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
Owen Gaffney, Chief Impact Officer, Nobel Prize Outreach | |
1:10 pm | Thought and Truth Under Pressure Åsa Wikforss, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Stockholm University |
Peter Pomerantsev, Senior Fellow, Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics | |
1:25 pm | Tawakkol Karman on Misinformation Tawakkol is a Yemeni Nobel Prize laureate, journalist, politician, and human rights activist. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. |
1:35 pm | Hope in Action: Open-Source Innovation for Information Integrity A global campaign to discover open-source solutions that are taking action in combating information pollution. |
2:00 pm | Smithsonian Youth Project The Smithsonian Science Education Center assembled a group of high school students to participate in a 12-week research program on Sustainable Communities. |
Wikimedia Training Session In collaboration with Wikimedia. |
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Editing Wikipedia and Closing Content Gaps Online. During this instructional video, viewers learned to edit and added content to Wikipedia. No prior experience was required. The training was provided by Ariel Cetrone, Institutional Partnerships for Wikimedia DC, an official chapter affiliate of Wikimedia. | |
DIGITAL SESSION (12:00–4:00 PM EDT) | |
Deliberative Polling Exercices At this Nobel Prize Summit, we invite you to participate in a citizen deliberation. We will run an exercise in large-scale group deliberation to help develop the capacity to democratically vet policy proposals concerning the information landscape. We will together learn about how to shape such deliberations for our larger societies—and also learn some of the issues around current proposed policies regarding online media platforms. |
CLOSING SESSION
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Auditorium at the National Academy of Sciences
In-person and streamed live at nobelprize.org.
4:00 pm | Input From Breakout Sessions Input from Deliberative Polling Exercise |
REFLECTIONS ON DAY 1 & 2 – WHAT IS NEXT?