The Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age (I4ADA) was founded in 2017 with the mission to ensure that those issues and concerns do not undermine the Internet’s potential for increasing access to knowledge, spreading global tolerance and understanding, and promoting sustainable prosperity.
The I4ADA is established as a non-profit foundation under Dutch law. It is governed by its ‘Code of Rules’ and the I4ADA Board of Directors’ Code of Conduct. The I4ADA structure reflects the principle of transparent leadership and control, while ensuring openness, participation and equality for business and associates members, who support the I4ADA financially. In pursuit of its mission of helping the world derive maximum benefit from the internet, the Institute is dedicated to helping create a fair and balanced framework of best practice and, where necessary, regulation. Among other activities, these are the main activities of the Institute:
- Create awareness for Accountability in the Digital Age
- Host a global multi-stakeholder community
- Provide knowledge sharing on Accountability in the Digital Age
- Explore and develop 21st Century instruments for Accountability The Institute will pursue its objectives by building ongoing dialogue, both structured and informal, among participants in the internet environment.
By building and maintaining a network at national and international level bringing together stakeholders and organizing activities, meetings and congresses to highlight, support and facilitate accountability nationally and internationally. These stakeholders represent participants from civil society, academia, the business technology community, lawyers and policy-makers. The Institute does not ‘own’ the discussion on Accountability in the Digital Age. It merely wants to act as a catalyst for a global discussion.