The Internet Governance has been developing on a continuous basis and on a proactive basis by addressing by products challenges, problems, and situations which were not foreseen during its inception. 
After COVID situation, the parents and the children experienced internet and the virtual life got accepted. Now the safety, security and authenticity need to be safeguarded by ensuring these at all aspects and by all means. 
It is important to let the children grow free by offering them safe and secured digital space. 
Children are not supposed to be burdened with the option of doing wrong or right.
They need to be led by good example and best practices.

To whom the Social Media is accountable to?
Is there any existing accountability mechanism for Social Media? Is that an inclusive one with all other stakeholder groups?
Is there any legal obligation or legal mechanism to keep the social media platforms stay on service to the users ensuring their all kind of rights on the platforms at any situation?

These basic questions and requirements were not discussed in the discussion. 
 

Is there any set criteria and rules and regulations to become fact-checker?
Who decides those criteria?
Is there any accountability mechanism? If and if not playing the expected roles?
If yes, who are they accountable to? Is the legal system involved in that mechanism?

Quoting a statement of one panelists, ‘Fact-checking and public relations cannot work/go together’
Echoing that to be noted as the core value, obligation and commitment for taking the responsibility of fact-checking.
The politicization of factchecking and factchecker was totally absent in the discussion. 
Factcheckers need to be legally bound to stay accountable and gain the trust of the users ensuring neutrality and openness. 
(When/if factcheckers have political stands, it misleads the users’ community and impacts a false situation which costs peoples’ lives)

Also the role and impact of politicization was totally absent in the discussion

·        Non-inclusivity was highly remarked. There was no Human Rights Defender in the Panel
·        The panelists from Meta and Microsoft explained what kind of initiatives they do have in their mechanism by giving examples of publishing statement/s on human rights violation happenings and having their safeguarding policies on the website to check on.

I’m stating below my observations and opinion on their shared information and statements:

·        Safeguarding is more than having policies and expressing solidarity. 
·        Big tech companies like Meta, Microsoft, etc, shall develop action-oriented Corporate Social Responsibility that leads to a proactive approach and safeguarding mechanism to secure their customers’ rights in terms of freedom of expression, right to information, digital security, data privacy and prohibit the violations of human rights like restrictive internet or internet shutdown by weaponizing their technical strength. 
·        A mechanism of transparent accountability shall be established for the technical groups/private sectors, governments, and civil society to ensure the users’ rights.

·      The mechanism shall establish a legal mechanism to ensure data privacy and combat misuse of private information in people’s virtual lives (maybe) by aligning with international standards like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (Article 12) that ensures the right to privacy. All stakeholder groups shall commit to ensuring this alignment with the national level constitution (for example, the right to privacy is constitutionally protected in Bangladesh under Article 43, part 3)
 
 

· A transparent accountability mechanism needs to be established to ensure users’ right to avail Internet for information and expression without being fragmented by any geographical, governmental or political, technical, economic, social, or cultural boundaries.

·  Simultaneous initiatives and actions are necessary for expanding and ensuring internet access for all and ensuring digital literacy and digital rights regardless of any intersections.

Increased participation of governments across globe regarding expansion of digital public infrastructures and  dialogue is necessary to presenting context with each other as well as enabling policies to bring private sector for investment and expansions.

Covid has exacerbated the usage of Internet during pandemic. There have been collaboration platforms for interaction of different stakeholders. 

International cooperation among different organizations to address their working groups, processes can lead towards a better world. However there are challenges to co relate the processes and frameworks of different organizations. There is high time in formulation of Global Digital Compact, which has been preparing for the next twenty years of World Summit of Information Society WSIS process of ITU. However, meaningful participation from Global South is still needed.