This policy workshop brings together civil society leaders, scholars, and technologists to explore the role of Prosocial Tech Design Governance in governing platforms and online ecosystems.

Governments can mitigate online harm by addressing platform designs in ways that raises awareness and shifts market forces to support prosocial platforms and invest in public interest infrastructure.

The By Design Agenda affirms a key principles framework to help move towards digital public spaces that are are rights-respecting and that are safer, inclusive and secure for everyone.

During the Breakout sessions, please use this Google Doc to capture your groups’s comments and ideas on how to move the prosocial agenda forward.

Product developers steer human behavior in a variety of ways. No technology has a "neutral" design. Tech designers make. important choices that influence human behavior.