On 18 June 2019, in Tbilisi (Sakartvelo) experts from Lithuania and Croatia conducted seminars for representatives of the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC), Ministries, public authorities and electronic communications service providers on the setting up of internet hotline and ensuring network integrity. The seminars were held as part of the Twinning project GE/15/ENI/TE/01/16 (GE/27) “Supporting the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) in developing of its electronic communications regulatory framework and operational capacities in line with EU regulatory framework”.
Since 2007, Lithuania has been operating its internet hotline. In February 2019, the hotline was named “Clean internet” and is intended to remove illegal and harmful content from the internet. During the visit to Sakartvelo the RRT, as the institution in charge of this function, briefed the audience on the operation of the hotline and the procedures to be followed to join the international association INHOPE, which brings together the internet hotlines worldwide. The Lithuanian experts presented the peculiarities of the cooperation of the RRT with the Police Department, the Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics and other responsible authorities, highlighted the importance of publicising the hotline, briefed on a range of activities, presented examples of best practice, and cases highly-publicised by the media related to the illegal or harmful content dissemination on the internet. During the discussions the Sakartvelo colleagues were interested in the experience of Lithuania in eliminating content inciting hatred and violence, and the schemes for combating such content.
During the seminar on ensuring integrity of the public electronic communications networks, the experts from Croatia and Lithuania presented the guidelines for developing of network integrity incidents notification system, also the overview of Lithuanian, German and Croatian expertise in ensuring the network integrity in the respective countries. The discussions considered the ways how this expertise could be used in Sakartvelo.
Twinning Project GE/15/ENI/TE/01/16 (GE/27) “Supporting the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) in developing of its electronic communications regulatory framework and operational capacities in line with EU regulatory framework” is scheduled to be carried out until July 2019.
Updated on 2019-06-25