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RightsCon 2015 in Manila was a triumph in the battle for digital rights for Southeast Asia. To revisit the program, you can download a pdf. More importantly, don’t forget to check out the Outcomes Report, which details the continuing work of the conference. More than 650 people attended RightsCon Southeast from over 40 countries from around the world. The program was jam-packed agenda had around 125 discreet workshops, lightning talks, demos, panels and more, and represented the joint contributions of over 300 institutions and 250 individual speakers. Check out the highlights below! |
Check out all the videos, liveblogs, and photos so that you can share in the experience of RightsCon Southeast Asia.
EO Networking, Inc, Internet Hall of Fame Global Connector
Executive Director, Digital Rights Pakistan
Executive Director, Point of View; Board Member, Wikimedia Foundation
Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Democratic Party
Executive Director, Asia Cloud Computing Association, Managing Director, TRPC Pte Ltd, & Convenor, Young Leaders' Programme
Co-founder of Foundation for Internet and Civic Culture and a coordinator
Special Rapporteur, United Nations Human Rights Council
Executive Director, Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
Founder, GNU Project and Free Software Foundation
Regional Bureau Director Asia Pacific, ISOC
International Cyber Policy Coordination Staff, German Foreign Office
Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft
Sr Public Policy Analyst, Google
Founding Director, Open Net, Professor, Korea University Law School
Managing Director, Cross Sector Mapping
Director, Internet & Jurisdiction Project
Executive Director, Global Partners
Head of Strategies and Asia Initiatives for Asia Pacific, ICANN
CEO, DotAsia.org
Senior Legal Counsel, Business and Human Rights, Yahoo! Inc
Executive Director, Human Rights Center, University of California Berkeley School of Law
Executive Director, Paradigm Iniitiative
Director of the Global Freedom Expression Project at Columbia University
Executive Director, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Associate Vice President, Media Relations, FitzGibbon Media
Editor, Digital News Asia
Managing Director, Advisory Services, BSR
Senior Programme Officer, Article 19
Co-founder, Sinar Project
South Asia Director, Accountability Counsel
Communications with Communities (CwC) Officer, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - The Philippines
President, Radio Free Asia
Co-founder, VOICE
Executive Director, Gender and Development Advocates (GANDA) Filipinas
Project Manager, Hong Kong Transparency Report, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong
Spokesperson, Viet Tan
Head of Business Sustainability, Telenor Myanmar
Vice President, Asia-Pacific, BSR
Head of the Department of Journalism and Information, at the Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Director, Tor Project
Senior Policy Advisor, Internet & Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands
Activist
Director, Internet Democracy Project
Sr Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
Executive Director, Philippines Initiatives for International Dialogue
Co-founder and Executive Director, Access
Senior Program Officer, Physicians for Human Rights
Head of Public Policy, Mozilla
ThePlanet
Deputy Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communicaitons (APC)
Program Manager for Asia and the Pacific, Witness
Principal Director, Open Technology Fund, Radio Free Asia
International Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Co-Founder, ICT Watch
Co-Director, ASL19
Co-Founder; Myanmar ICT for Development Organization (MIDO)
Regional Coordinator, Indigenous Voices in Asia (IVA)
Senior Legal Officer, ARTICLE 19
Communications Officer, Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
South and East Asia Programme Manager, Forum-Asia
Software Engineer, GitHub
Head of Technology, Tactical Tech
Counsel, CloudFlare
Deputy Director, ChangeFusion
CEO & Executive Director, Rappler
Director of Innovation Policy & General counsel, R Street Institute
Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society India, Brown University
Director General, APNIC
Internet Rights Program Coordinator, Foundation for Media Alternatives
Investigator, Indonesia National Commission on Human Rights
Regional Manager, Asia Pacific, Public Policy, Yahoo! Inc
Foundation for Media Alternatives
Alerts and Communication Officer, Southeast Asia Press Alliance
Communications Officer, Asia Human Rights Commission; Journalist, Sri Lanka Guardian
Counsel, Software Freedom Law Center
Renata Avila, Global Campaigns Manager, Web We Want
Deputy Director, Global Issues, Amnesty International
Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice
Blogger, Advocate and Strategist
Regional Coordinator, Migrant Forum in Asia
Research Manager, Citizen Lab, Munk, School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
International Rights Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Faculty Co-Director, Human Rights institute and Associate Professor of Human Rights, Columbia Law School
Humanitarian Accountability Manager, World Vision Typhoon Haiyan Response
Regional Director, EngageMedia
Program Officer, Hivos Regional Office Southeast Asia
Founder of Institut Pelangi Perempuan
FOSS Advocate
Project Assistant, Publish What You Pay Indonesia
Researcher, Center for Technology and Society (CTS)
Head of Global Marketing at Open Garden, Inc.
Former CEO, WWF, Vice Chair WWF National Advisory Council
Editor, Blog Watch
Security Specialist, APNIC
Co-Founder, Research Action Design (rad.cat)
Advocacy Director, Viet Tan
Sr. Director Legal- IP, Product and Privacy, LinkedIn
Writer/Lecturer
Co-Founder, Research Action Design (rad.cat)
Women's Rights Programme Manager, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
Regional IT Project Manager, FHI 360
Project Manager, Open Data Lab Jakarta
IT Leader and Expert
Trustee of the Philippine Chapter of the Internet Society
Program Director, Witness
Program Officer, Internet Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Lead Programme Researcher, Tactical Technology Collective
Philippines Representative, TechSoup Asia
Executive Director, Center for International Law (CenterLaw)
Project Manager, Open Data Lab Jakarta, World Wide Web Foundation
Associate Prof, Peking University's School of Journalism & Comm.
Programme Officer, DEF
Policy and Investigation, CloudFlare
Internet Campaign Director, Free Press
Vice President, Bubbly
Customer Development Lead, engageSPARK
Regional Programmes Coordinator for Asia-Pacific, ISOC
Director, DEF
Founder- Director, DEF
Head of Department of Communications, Islamic University of Indonesia
National Coordinator & Project Manager, Computer Professionals' Union
Co-founder, Blog Watch
Project Coordinator and Researcher, Karisma Foundation
President/CEO, Imperium Technology, Inc.
Executive Director, Women's Legaland Human Rights Bureau
Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Padjadjaran University
Program Manager (Digital Rights & Freedom of Expression), Bytes for All
Skills and Strategies Program Manager, EngageMedia
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Access enlists an a multi-stakeholder Programming Committee of leading internet and human rights experts to help us build the best possible conference programs. These Committees are composed of members of civil society, private sector, government officials, journalists, and other leaders in the field. To ensure that RightsCon Southeast Asia was relevant to the incredibly dynamic region, an Advisory Board was also recruited composed of regional leaders.
Legislative Council, Hong Kong
Executive Director, Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
Co-Founder; Myanmar ICT for Development Organization (MIDO)
Executive Director, Asia Cloud Computing Association, Managing Director, TRPC Pte Ltd, & Convenor, Young Leaders' Programme Singapore (YLP SG)
Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society India, Brown University
Executive Director, Foundation for Media Alternatives
Co-founder of Foundation for Internet and Civic Culture and a coordinator
Women's Rights Programme Manager, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society in the School of Journalism and Communication Carleton University
Blogger and former legislator, Global Voices
Security Expert
Public Policy Manager, Facebook
Founding Director, Open Net, Professor, Korea University Law School
Director of Ranking Digital Rights Project, New America Foundation
Blogger, Advocate and Strategist
Executive Director, Global Partners
Director, Internet & Jurisdiction Project
Executive Director, Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
Co-Founder; Myanmar ICT for Development Organization (MIDO)
Executive Director, Asia Cloud Computing Association, Managing Director, TRPC Pte Ltd, & Convenor, Young Leaders' Programme Singapore (YLP SG)
Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society India, Brown University
Women's Rights Programme Manager, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society in the School of Journalism and Communication Carleton University
Blogger and former legislator, Global Voices
Security Expert
Project Coordinator and Researcher on Digital Rights, Center for Technology and Society/Fundação Getulio Vargas
Programme Support Manager: ICT, Institute for Human Rights and Business
CEO, Be Bold Media
General Manager Policy and Outreach, Union Square Ventures
Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Researcher, Internews
Director of Advocacy, Mozilla Foundation
Regional IT Project Manager, FHI 360
IT Leader and Expert
Vice President, Human Rights Program, Benetech
Sr. Director Legal- IP, Product and Privacy, LinkedIn
Trustee of the Philippine Chapter of the Internet Society
Program Manager, Hivos Regional Office Southeast Asia
NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, Policy Associate
Community Awards and Grants Specialist, Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF Asia)
Philippines Representative, TechSoup Asia
Program Officer, Internet Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Philippines Representative, TechSoup Asia
Executive Director, Chairperson of the Executive Committee, and a Founder of Open
PREGINET Technical Head, Advanced Science and Technology Institute, Department of Science and Technology (DOST-ASTI)
Executive Director, Global Voices
Advocacy Director, Viet Tan
Project Manager, Open Data Lab Jakarta, World Wide Web Foundation
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Access would like to thank the below institutions for their remarkable contributions to RightsCon Southeast Asia.
Hosted by: Access, Amnesty International, with special guest Jacob Appelbaum
Hosted by: Open Society Justice Initiative, Coalition for the International Criminal Court - Asia Pacific Network
Hosted by: HURIDOCS, Benetech, Amnesty International, CESR, and the engine room
Hosted by: EFF, Article 19, Centre for Internet and Society - India, KICTANET, ADC, and Derechos Digitales, Open Net Korea
