#3

In conversation with Jessica Rosenworcel, U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner

U.S. Federal Communications Commission💬FIRESIDE CHAT

#7899

Strategically litigating internet shutdown cases: challenges and successes

Hosted by Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) 🔍 COMMUNITY LAB

#8322

How Relaynet will pave the way to maintain communication during internet blackouts

Hosted by Relaynet💻 TECH DEMO

#8335

When where you live offline determines if you can be online: the cost of connectivity

Hosted by New America’s Open Technology Institute💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9713

No network: integrating technology in places where data is a luxury

Hosted by Irish Rule of Law International🗣️ PANEL

#8601

Beyond the internet: digital radio in the Amazon

Hosted by ARTICLE 9🗣️ PANEL

#8612

NewNode: all weather content delivery, a revolutionary protocol turning mobile devices into a resilient content delivery network

Hosted by Clostra💻 TECH DEMO

#8764

Can you hear us? Internet shutdown in Iran, what have we learned?

Hosted by NetFreedom Pioneers: Toosheh/Knapsack For Hope🗣️ PANEL

#8764

Let’s talk about best practices for measuring the internet ethically

Hosted by Open Observatory for Network Interference (OONI); Access Now🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9713

Alternative internet for Rohingyas: bypassing shutdowns, innovating solutions, infrastructuring hope (pre- and post-COVID-19 world)

Hosted by School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9091

Digital curfew in a conflict zone and its impact on gender rights, education, and economy

Hosted by Studio INTO; Digital Rights Kashmir; Software Freedom Law Center, India (SLFC.IN)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9102

How authoritarian leaders use ambiguous and rhetorical terms to dramatise internet shutdowns in Africa

Hosted by Centre for Multilateral Affairs (CfMA)🗣️ PANEL

#9151

Website blocking and network neutrality in Peru

Hosted by Hiperderecho💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9151

Meaningful connectivity: from COVID-19 and beyond

Hosted by Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#9379

Human rights documentation during internet shutdowns

Hosted by WITNESS🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9181

Censoring without getting caught

Hosted by Internews 🗣️ PANEL

#9285

Building rainbow bridges: what LGBTI communities can teach us about overcoming the digital divide

Hosted by ILGA World – The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9319

Working on a regulatory agenda for community networks in Latin America

Hosted by ARTICLE 19 (Brazil and South America)🗣️ PANEL

#9151

Investigating internet shutdowns with open data

Hosted by Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI); Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7995

Seize the signatures – Digital activism is rewriting the rules of mobilization in times of climate crisis

Hosted by Change.org; Extinction Rebellion🗣️ PANEL

#8247

How the internet is shifting the paradigm of democracy in India

Hosted by Breakthrough Trust🗣️ PANEL

#9527

From #NiUnaMenos to #ElVioladorEresTu: how feminism went viral in Latin America

Hosted by Chicas Poderosas🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8391

The revolution will be tracked: how to protect activism in the age of mass surveillance

Hosted by The B Team 🗣️ PANEL

#8747

NOnline protests: lessons from the pandemic

Hosted by The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, IACHR💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#9030

Social movements: amplying resilience and opportunities for support and solidarity from the international community

Hosted by CIVICUS; Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs🗣️ PANEL

#9381

After the revolution: innovations and lessons from Sudan

Hosted by Gisa Group🗣️ PANEL

#8338

In the public eye: reporting on protests under the surveillance state

Hosted by Committee to Protect Journalists; Derechos Digitales🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9546

UN Special Rapporteur for the freedoms of assembly and association: 10th anniversary, achievements, and vision for the next 10 years

Hosted by International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#5

In conversation with Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, ACLU

Hosted by American Civil Liberties Union💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#7722

The future of civil society’s online home – .ORG

Hosted by Access Now; Electronic Frontier Foundation; NTEN🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7868

Sow and cultivate the digital territory

Hosted by Barracón Digital💡 LIGHTING TALK

#7871

Conecta culturas: an app that brings indigenous knowledge and perspectives to the internet

Hosted by Deutsche Welle Akademie💻 TECH DEMO

#7980

Shared struggles: building public interest tech for economic and social rights in Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa

Hosted by Center for Economic and Social Rights🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#7986

Digital rights solidarities in South Asia

Hosted by Digital Rights Foundation🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#7998

Creating virtual reality for public good

Hosted by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 🗣️ PANEL

#8012

Opportunities for mechanisms to support human rights activists and defenders working in internet and civic repressive environments

Hosted by Digital Human Rights Lab🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8121

Re-centering the voice and expertise of frontline activists in transnational advocacy networks

Hosted by Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; Internet Sans Frontières; ARTICLE 19; Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University,; New York University Tisch School of the Arts🗣️ PANEL

#8154

SLAPPed but not silenced: fighting state and corporate repression, empowering people

Hosted by Protect the Protest Task Force; Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) 🗣️ PANEL

#8223

Defending the defenders: environmental activism and digital rights

Hosted by Human Rights Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#8229

Shifting mindsets from sustainability to resiliency: shared experiences navigating closing spaces

Hosted by PartnersGlobal🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8277

Obstacles and opportunities for collaborating to create secure tools

Hosted by Loki Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#8295

Busting myths about AI

Hosted by Access Now; Mozilla Foundation💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8333

Can community managers save the world? Online community principles and practices for the rights ecosystem

Hosted by Australian Community Managers (AMC) 🗣️ PANEL

#8530

How can online communities help improve human rights?

Hosted by The Carter Center🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8593

Rebalancing the scales: addressing and mitigating power asymmetries in funding of the tech/human rights ecosystem

Hosted by The Engine Room; Information Program, Open Society Foundations (OSF) 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8673

Rapid response funds and the promotion of human rights in the digital environment: reacting to tech authoritarianism in Latin America

Hosted by Derechos Digitales🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8229

Shifting mindsets from sustainability to resiliency: shared experiences navigating closing spaces

Hosted by PartnersGlobal🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8863

Going far? how the internet supports communities in organizing across diaspora

Hosted by Wikitongues💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#8295

Busting myths about AI

Hosted by Access Now; Mozilla Foundation💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8901

Future scenarios for Latin American civil society

Hosted by Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8626

Don’t call me your “local partner” unless I say so: best practice and red lines for CSO partnerships and consultation

Hosted by Next Billion Network🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9031

Secure communication with human rights defenders: a manual for diplomats

Hosted by Digital Defenders Partnership; Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs💻 TECH DEMO

#9246

Civil society in the digital age in Africa: identifying threats and mounting pushbacks

Hosted by Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

9272

Shrinking civic space in the digital age: are funders and researchers ready?

Hosted by Tandem Research🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9289

Working in restricted civic space in Central America

Hosted by CIVICUS; Dutch Embassy in Costa Rica🗣️ PANEL

#9366

Crowdsourcing human rights, leveling the playing field one match at a time

Hosted by Crowdsourcing Human Rights; DT Institute💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9478

<h5 style="text-align: center; color:black; letter-spacing: 0;"Binary is for computers, not for people: a human perspective of digital civic spaces

Hosted by Hivos (Latin America)🔍 COMMUNITY LAB

#9594

Taking action on digital ID: advocacy tactics for civil society

Hosted by The Engine Room🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8372

Threats to social movements: the rise of digital authoritarianism and oligopolies

Hosted by MediaJustice🗣️ PANEL

#7724

Digital identity: has freedom a future?

Hosted by Institute for Technology and Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio) 🗣️ PANEL

#7812

Identity 4 Development: what does it really mean?

Hosted by Independent🗣️ PANEL

#7905

Ironically, iOS robocall-blocking apps are violating your privacy

Hosted by NCC Group💻 TECH DEMO

#7990

Nos ven la cara: a Latin American declaration on human rights and facial recognition

Hosted by Institute for Research on Internet and Society (IRIS); Access Now🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8073

Litigating against surveillance

Hosted by Global Freedom of Expression at Columbia University; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)🗣️ PANEL

#8129

Human rights in the AR/VR era: privacy, safety, and responsible innovation in the immersive future

Hosted by Facebook🗣️ PANEL

#9766

From production to deployment: addressing the global proliferation of spyware

Hosted by Access Now; Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC)🗣️ PANEL

#8197

Digital identity versus legal identity: the contemporary challenges of Sub-Saharan Africa

Hosted by Paradigm Initiative🗣️ PANEL

#8211

The case for privacy by design: privacy law shortcomings and the role of privacy tools

Hosted by The Tor Project; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); Reset; Freedom of the Press Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#8233

Should we just give up on anonymity?

Hosted by Blueprint for Free Speech🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8262

AI watched over by machines of loving grace: facial recognition, 1 CCTV camera for every 8 people, and protecting rights

Hosted by Microsoft🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8262

Living in the shadows: how international organizations can best support activists facing state surveillance and threats

Hosted by The Fund for Global Human Rights🗣️ PANEL

#8376

What is the price of inclusion for gender minorities? privacy and surveillance challenges faced by transgender persons with digital identities

Hosted by Independent 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8414

National digital ID systems in Asia: mapping considerations of potential benefits and harms

Hosted by Open Culture Foundation; Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR)🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8564

Strategic collaboration roundtable for Five Eyes country activists

Hosted by Digital Rights Watch🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8721

1 million protected, 6 million to go: how we’re banning government face surveillance in Massachusetts

Hosted by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8738

The dark side of digital ID: exclusion and the human rights of the poor

Hosted by Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project; Open Society Justice Initiative, Open Society Foundations (OSF) 🗣️ PANEL

#8876

Facial challenges: networking global responses to the spread of facial recognition technology

Hosted by Wikimedia/Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information (WIII)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8909

Insecure all the things! The civil dangers of IoT technologies at home and in the streets, and how we’ll survive

Hosted by Freedom of the Press Foundation; Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9013

Digital fights for digital rights? Investigating privacy in the Global South

Hosted by PaperLab🗣️ PANEL

#9279

Developing a useful and ethical digital identity ecosystem

Hosted by International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC); Norwegian Refugee Council; Australian Red Cross; Kenyan Red Cross🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9519

The private panopticon: how big tech gets consumers to build a surveillance empire for corporate and government use

Hosted by Fight for the Future💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9547

Who has your face? The fight against U.S. government agencies’ use of face recognition

Hosted by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)(OSF) 💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9560

Surveillance, safeguards, and strategy: campaigns for surveillance reform in North America, Latin America, and Africa

Hosted by New America’s Open Technology Institute🗣️ PANEL

#9676

The state of legal identity programs in the digital age: integrating diverse perspectives

Hosted by Access Now; Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#7960

Frontiers in health data privacy: navigating blurred expectations across the patient-consumer spectrum

Hosted by Future of Privacy Forum🗣️ PANEL

#8005

Digital inclusivity and reproductive rights

Hosted by Women First Digital💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8320

Digital solutions to respond to gender-based violence: experiences from pandemic times in Brazil

Hosted by Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio🗣️ PANEL

#8773

Shining a light in the darkest of corners: revolutionising immigration detention monitoring

Hosted by Boniĝi Pty Ltd💻 TECH DEMO

#9610

AI in mental healthcare: revolutionary reboot or the rise of the “digital asylum”?

Hosted by Mozilla Foundation; Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9141

COVID-19 and internet freedom

Hosted by Freedom Online Coalition; Government of the United States; Government of Canada; Government of Finland🗣️ PANEL

#9337

Data colonization: lessons from the pandemic in Latin America

Hosted by Tecnológico de Monterrey; Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9466

Vicarious trauma and technology’s first responders: protecting those who remotely monitor human rights violations

Hosted by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9517

When misinformation hurts our fundamental health rights

Hosted by Meedan💻 TECH DEMO

#9610

From devices to bodies: a tale on DNA data collection

Hosted by Coding Rights🗣️ PANEL

#9748

Face recognition technology and state surveillance in East Asia in the wake of COVID-19

Hosted by Open Net Korea; Korean Progressive Network Center (Jinbonet)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#11469

From “shout” drones to tracked cell phones: tech-assisted quarantine enforcement in the age of coronvirus

Hosted by Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#11470

It’s an infodemic! Identifying and monitoring COVID-19 rumours and misinformation on Twitter

Hosted by RNW Media🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#11471

Surveillance tools deployed across the globe in response to COVID-19

Hosted by International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations (INCLO)💻 TECH DEMO

#11482

COVID-19: a new front in the information war against elections

Hosted by International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)🗣️ PANEL

#11483

Meaningful connectivity: from COVID-19 and beyond

Hosted by Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#11486

Promoting human rights and access to safe medicines during pandemics: the critical role of internet pharmacies

Hosted by Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research at York University🗣️ PANEL

#11466

Digital health certificates: are they immune from violating the rights of users at risk?

Hosted by Access Now🗣️ PANEL

#8049

New influencers: putting digital rights on the policy agenda

Hosted by Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8242

Giving citizens a voice: how can we build digital citizen engagement indicators and standards?

Hosted by Code for All; SlashRoots Foundation; Codeando México A.C.🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8309

Is climate change an emergency? How using emergency powers to fight climate change could backfire

Hosted by Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8270

From passive participation to productive resistance: building community capacity to challenge smart city tech

Hosted by Open North🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8309

Hello from the other side: what can activists do to stamp out corruption post-democratic transition?

Hosted by International Republican Institute🗣️ PANEL

#8520

Digital authoritarianism inside out: how internet governance has been hacked

Hosted by Open Internet for Democracy Initiative🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8577

Technology enables the future, but it should not determine it

Hosted by Oxfam International💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8677

Democracy’s new battleground: risks, responsibilities, and recommendations for tech platforms during elections

Hosted by Freedom House🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8726

A documentary on how Taiwan voted to save its own democracy (…and then some re:COVID-19)

Hosted by National Democratic Institute🗣️ PANEL

#8777

Shrinking democratic space: how reform of the electoral and political party system contributes to inclusive democracy

Hosted by Netherlands Intstitute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD)🗣️ PANEL

#8787

Strategic engagement with lawmakers: moving toward collaborative digital rights legislation

Hosted by Paradigm Initiative🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8936

Dissecting the (not so) democratic drama: reflecting on the digital manipulations and political persecutions in the Tunisian 2019 elections

Hosted by Bloggeurs sans Chaines🗣️ PANEL

#9278

Developing regulatory codes and frameworks for human rights in a digital world

Hosted by The IO Foundation; Evolution of Mind Life Society Research Institute🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9303

Assessing the human rights implications of micro-targeted political ads

Hosted by World Wide Web Foundation🗣️ PANEL

#9459

Securing elections in COVID-19: online threats, vulnerabilities, and the resources available to protect the foundations of democracy

Hosted by Cloudflare🗣️ PANEL

#9278

Unrecognized and digitally disenfranchised: digital rights for peoples without a state

Hosted by The SecDev Group🗣️ PANEL

#9586

How to follow the money from home with the C4ADS data lake

Hosted by C4ADS💻 TECH DEMO

#9628

Democracy 2030: what should it look like?

Hosted by International Republican Institute💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#9810

How should we adapt whistleblowing laws for a Latin American context?

PODER; Técnicas Rudas🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#1

In conversation with Brad Smith, President of Microsoft

Hosted by Microsoft💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#7977

Filterwatch: how state policies and private companies undermine digital rights in Iran

Hosted by Small Media Foundation🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8093

Investing in our shared humanity: how investors and human rights defenders can better work together to protect human rights

Hosted by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC); Investor Alliance for Human Rights; International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8103

Media mapping in Sri Lanka: through a lens of language and ethics

Hosted by Verité Research (Pvt) Ltd 💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8186

Opening up data on the top 100 corporate emitters

Hosted by Wikirate💻 TECH DEMO

#8237

Working through it: dispute resolution in the gig economy

Hosted by Aapti Institute🗣️ PANEL

#8522

Is the tech greener on the other side? Benchmarking tech companies’ environmental sustainability

Hosted by Ranking Digital Rights🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8606

Real corporate accountability for surveillance capitalism: setting the civil society agenda for the 2020s

Hosted by Ranking Digital Rights💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#8704

Going coop: a platform model for workers in the South

Hosted by International Labor Organization (ILO); IT for Change🗣️ PANEL

#8799

WeClock: a self-tracking app to fight wage theft and foster worker wellbeing

Hosted by The Why Not Lab💻 TECH DEMO

#8935

Workers are also the product: let’s include them in data governance

Hosted by Open Society Foundations (OSF)🗣️ PANEL

#8954

Building power over Amazon’s empire

Hosted by Athena; The Partnership for Working Families; Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR); MediaJustice; United for Respect🗣️ PANEL

#8606

Technology against sweatshops: the potential for technology to protect labor rights in global supply chains

Hosted by Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative 🗣️ PANEL

#9063

Time for facts: how are electronics manufacturers performing on human rights? Insights from KnowtheChain and Corporate Human Rights Benchmark

Hosted by World Benchmarking Alliance; Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) 🗣️ PANEL

#9845

Innovating for inclusion: how to combat bias through policies, product design, and community engagement

Hosted by Airbnb, Inc. 🗣️ PANEL

#9164

The climate crisis and business as usual: how start-ups are navigating policy, markets, and evolving risks

Hosted by Climate Solution Consulting🗣️ PANEL

#9336

Addressing business model-related human rights risks

Hosted by B-Tech Project, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9567

There’s an app for that: protecting labor rights in the age of the platform economy

Hosted by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) 💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#9654

Refashioning technology: building tools and frameworks towards a sustainable and ethical apparel industry

Hosted by Shaping Fashion, Global Shapers Community 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9071

Pling! Audience engagement and business models for independent digital media that actually work: experiences from Eastern Europe and Central America

Hosted by Free Press Unlimited 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#7906

Digital CVE: ignorant algorithms, inane counter messaging, and insipid counter engagement strategies

Hosted by Defending Rights & Dissent; Muslim Justice League 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7963

Embedding conflict sensitivity into technology development

Hosted by JustPeace Labs; BSR 🗣️ PANEL

#8032

Before and beyond hatespeech: using data and dialogue to combat polarization and racism online

Hosted by Build Up💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8095

What can go right? Positive use cases for science and technology in human rights investigations

Hosted by Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG); Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG); HURIDOCS🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8137

Making tech accessible for community-based environmental monitoring

Hosted by Center for Human Rights – American Bar Association (ABA); Source International 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8149

In defense of our (tech)rritory: digitally defending the environment and right to land during COVID-19

Hosted by Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL) 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8210

Advancing human rights in digital age by assessing R.O.A.M indicators at country level

Hosted by UNESCO🗣️ PANEL

#8278

Can excel sheets have ethics? The realities of AI use in the Global South and implications for AI governance

Hosted by Tandem Research🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8289

It’s not just about big tech: online harms and international law

Hosted by Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC); Oxford Institute for International Peace & Security (IPS); Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8321

The anatomy of a visual investigation: innovation in human rights and investigative reporting

Hosted by The New York Times; ProPublica; SITU Research 🗣️ PANEL

#8227

Data for development: shaping future scenarios

Hosted by Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA); International Development Research Centre (IDRC)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8537

It’s time for an international fund for public interest media

Hosted by Luminate; BBC Media Action💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8613

Online gender violence: towards the configuration of international standards

Hosted by TEDIC; Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL) 🗣️ PANEL

#8663

Empowering the documentarians: a conversation about standard-setting, data ownership, and returning international advocacy to the grassroots

Hosted by Center for Justice and Accountability; WITNESS; Benetech🗣️ PANEL

#8696

Immigration, iris scanning, and iBorderCTRL: migration control technologies, human rights, and the lived experiences of people on the move

Hosted by European Digital Rights (EDRi); Mozilla Foundation💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8727

Taking algorithms to court: case studies on litigating AI and automated systems

Hosted by Digital Freedom Fund; Mozilla Foundation 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8845

The impending age of killer robots? how our data fuels autonomous weapons, and why it’s not too late to stop them

Hosted by Campaign to Stop Killer Robots🗣️ PANEL

#8874

Unlocking the truth: documenting political prisoners globally

Hosted by United for Iran🗣️ PANEL

#9011

Open source design contributions for humanitarian OSS: what we learned running workshops

Hosted by Open Design 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9014

Virtual field visits and contextualization for human rights advocacy

Hosted by Al-Haq💻 TECH DEMO

#9036

Leveraging technology to stop impunity for sexual and gender-based violence crimes

Hosted by WITNESS; Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9174

Artificial environment? Or environmental intelligence?

Hosted by IPANDETEC Centroamérica🗣️ PANEL

#9177

On internet universality and governance, sharing perspectives from underrepresented communities

Hosted by Digital Grassroots🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9223

Frequent flyer numbers, meal preferences, and the efficient countering of terrorist travel

Hosted by UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights; Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota🗣️ PANEL

#11473

Risky OSINT? Evaluating tool security during your human rights investigation

Hosted by Citizen Clinic, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9232

Future perfect, part II

Hosted by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); Change.org Foundation🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9235

AI in the Global South: is it different?

Hosted by Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) at Strathmore University🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9349

Localizing algorithms in trans-global tech: development impacts of AI in local economic contexts

Hosted by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); IT for Change 🗣️ PANEL

#9352

Human rights made it to internet governance: now it is time for the environment to do so!

Hosted by Association for Progressive Communications (APC); BlueLink 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9508

A cautionary tale: harnessing technology for sustainable development

Hosted by IEEE Standards Association💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#9533

Technology in support of child migration: risks and opportunities

Hosted by Article One; UNICEF 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9689

Behrouz Boochani: writing “No Friend But the Mountains” from Manus prison on WhatsApp

Hosted by ARTICLE 19; Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University 💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#11472

Data for peacebuilding and prevention: ecosystem mapping and the way towards creating community of practice

Hosted by Center on International Cooperation at New York University 🗣️ PANEL

#7835

From Australia to the Amazon: stopping the spread of disinformation during climate crises

Hosted by Purpose🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7879

Social media platforms: are they art’s new gatekeepers?

Hosted by PEN America 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7921

Extremists, extremists everywhere: how States misuse anti-extremism and counter-terrorism laws to stifle online speech and what to do about it

Hosted by ARTICLE 19🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#7938

In Chad, 16 months of censorship … of torture

Hosted by Wikimedia Tchad💡 LIGHTING TALK

#7965

Freedom of expression online versus state-sponsored homophobia: the case of Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Hosted by ARTICLE 19; Russian LGBT Network🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8026

From Fortnite to Hong Kong: video game policy and human rights

Hosted by CElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); Access Now; Center for Technology and Society, San Andres University; Geekylegal🗣️ PANEL

#8060

Nobody’s watching the watchers: designing oversight for online censorship

Hosted by Dangerous Speech Project 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8260

How do we know we can trust you? Weighing the strength of platforms’ commitments to provide content moderation appeals

Hosted by Ranking Digital Rights🗣️ PANEL

#8065

Deepfakes solutions for who? Decentering us politicians, recentering the rest of the world

Hosted by WITNESS🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9696

Just the facts: a guide to disinformation on Wikipedia

Hosted by Wikimedia Foundation 💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8187

Working group on the fight against infodemic and response to information chaos

Hosted by The Forum on Information & Democracy 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8300

Tackling terrorist and violent extremist content online: an open discussion with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)

Hosted by Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8314

How to use open source data to analyze social media content removals, from Turkey to Kashmir

Hosted by Committee to Protect Journalists💻 TECH DEMO

#8374

Christchurch Call: working collectively to protect freedom of speech while preventing the abuse of the internet

Hosted by French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs; New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade🗣️ PANEL

#8492

Will the disinformation timeline help us to find out the truth? A multi-search tool for fact-checking

Hosted by DoubleThink Lab💻 TECH DEMO

#8611

Keeping the light: factchecking in closed and closing spaces

Hosted by IREX 🗣️ PANEL

#8645

Not “revenge porn”: new trends in non-consensual intimate imagery in Uganda and the role of digital security

Hosted by Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8700

The Christchurch Call Advisory Network: civil society engaging around terrorist and violent extremist content

Hosted by Christchurch Call Advisory Network🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9826

Between regulation and rights: empowering the citizen through media and information literacy in the context of misinformation and offline violence

Hosted by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) 🗣️ PANEL

#8735

Content removal in Latin America: censorship practices on the internet and regulatory approaches for the region

Hosted by Observacom; ARTICLE 19 (Mexico and Central America)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8862

Beyond the platform: content moderation and internet infrastructure

Hosted by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)🗣️ PANEL

#8871

Moderate globally, impact locally

Hosted by Wikimedia/Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information (WIII)🗣️ PANEL

#8893

Countering censorship through strategic litigation: experiences from Pakistan

Hosted by Media Matters for Democracy, Pakistan 💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8908

Interpret censorship as damage

Hosted by Samizdat Project💻 TECH DEMO

#8963

The economy of hate: how advertising funds hate speech and disinformation

Hosted by Check My Ads; Sleeping Giants💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8970

They don’t really care about us: social media platforms and disinformation in the Arab World

Hosted by Oxford Internet Institute🗣️ PANEL

#9065

Human rights-based model of intermediary liablity: how do we get there?

Hosted by Access Now🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9886

Empowering the public to act against disinformation: combatting disinformation, incitement, hate speech and attacks on journalist online to build democracy

Hosted by Media Monitoring Africa💻 TECH DEMO

#8359

Managing online harassment

Hosted by Google (Jigsaw) 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9305

Countering digital hate

Hosted by Bolo Bhi🗣️ PANEL

#9318

How indigenous communities are combating misinformation by creating fact-checked resources in their native languages

Hosted by Rising Voices Project, Global Voices; Media and Information Literacy Experts Network (MILEN)🗣️ PANEL

#9323

How to use data journalism to investigate mis- and disinformation online

Hosted by First Draft🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9343

Recordkeepers of the resistance: do you trust the dark force to save your activist history?

Hosted by Meedan🗣️ PANEL

#9404

Media and digital freedom in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua: challenges and opportunities

Hosted by World Voices Media; La Red Hispana 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9419

Disinformation and LGBTQIA+ rights in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Hosted by Gender and Development Advocates (GANDA) Filipinas; R3D 🗣️ PANEL

#9609

The social media gag tax: censorship policies clashes with unapologetic transgressors

Hosted by Independent💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9623

Content moderation and competition: the missing link?

Hosted by ARTICLE 19; Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) at São Paulo Law School 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#11488

Legislative trends related to freedom of expression online: overview from UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye

Hosted by UN Special Rapporteur on the freedom of opinion and expression; Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#7751

Ethics of language and cultural documentation in the digital age

Hosted by Wikitongues; Indigenous Friends Association 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#7897

Litigating privacy, data protection, and digital rights in Africa

Hosted by Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7909

American PII and the United State(s) of privacy law

Hosted by Silicon Flatirons Center for Technology, Law, and Entrepreneurship at Colorado Law 🗣️ PANEL

#8069

Data protection, consent, and its impact on the defense of human rights in Central America

Hosted by Consorcio INNONICA; Red Previos💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8240

Democratizing data: using human rights to challenge narratives on which data (and whose voices) count in decision-making

Hosted by International Network on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8307

Digital ID and personal data empowerment: key tools for human rights and SDG achievement in the digital domain

Hosted by MyData Global; Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs 🗣️ PANEL

#8313

Data collection and open source investigations: advancing accountability and justice in the Middle East

Hosted by Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy; Eshhad 🗣️ PANEL

#8334

Data trusts: a workshop

Hosted by Global Center for the Digital Commons 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8429

Trading away our digital rights: the digital trade agenda at the WTO

Hosted by Digital Trade Alliance🗣️ PANEL

#8664

Ensuring users have a voice: collecting and integrating user feedback

Hosted by Internews🗣️ PANEL

#8681

From toys to schools to digital IDs: pushing for better governance and accountability for children’s data

Hosted by UNICEF🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8690

Designing an open data standard to capture how criminal justice systems fails sexual assault survivors

Hosted by Chayn🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8694

It’s my data! Tools to reclaim control of our personal data

Hosted by Hiperderecho; Simon Fraser University; ObservaTIC🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8695

Responsible data: reducing potential for harm during the design phase

Hosted by Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL); The Engine Room; Palladium 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9627

CARE principles for indigenous data governance

Hosted by Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA); University of Arizona; University of Waikato; Colegio de Postgraduados 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8706

Claiming the data building block for the digital commons

Hosted by IT for Change; New Economics Foundation 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8757

Data privacy: enabling individuals to control their data destiny

Hosted by Cisco Systems, Inc.💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8759

Using data ethically in humanitarian, human rights, and open source investigations work

Hosted by The Engine Room🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8805

Protecting personal data during health, political, and social crisis

Hosted by Access Now 🗣️ PANEL

#8889

COVID-19: can Global South institutions survive the GovTech onslaught?

Hosted by The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), India 🗣️ PANEL

#8912

Re-imagining data privacy and security: a speculative fiction workshop

Hosted by Speculative Futures Ottawa; Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8999

Lessons learned from mobile data collection applications that strengthen indigenous data governance towards greater indigenous data sovereignty

Hosted by East West Management Institute’s Open Development Initiative 🗣️ PANEL

#8263

The public, the private, and our rights: how to lift information out of lockdown

Hosted by Open Data Charter; Access Info🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9052

Instantiating data stewardship: use cases, accountability, and implementation

Hosted by Aapti Institute; AlgorithmWatch 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9153

Dada: creative strategies for algorithmic resistance!

Hosted by Icarus Salon Data 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9166

Ownership or rights: what’s the path to achieving true agency over data?

Hosted by Ada Lovelace Institute🗣️ PANEL

#9296

Having a private cloud made easy with OpenAppStack

Hosted by OpenAppStack; Greenhost💻 TECH DEMO

#9332

Data localization contagion: how the global spread threatens privacy, free expression, and the rule of law

Hosted by Facebook🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8912

Consent by design: how design in tech impacts choice, power, and control in data-sharing processes

Hosted by Derechos Digitales🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#9528

Caught in the (social safety) net: social exposure and intensive data exploitation in Latin American social protection

Hosted by InternetLab 🗣️ PANEL

#9612

Surveillance and algorithmic regulation in transportation and public spaces

Hosted by Uber 🗣️ PANEL

#4

In conversation with Niklas Zennström, Founding Partner and CEO of Atomico, Co-founder of Skype

Hosted by Atomico💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#7879

Digital accessibility: information for all people

Hosted by El Rinconcito Inclusivo🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#7853

Centroamérica Cibersegura

Hosted by IPANDETEC Centroamérica🗣️ PANEL

#7936

Militarization of the cyber space: grappling with applicability of international law to the cyber space

Hosted by Centre for Multilateral Affairs (CfMA); Association for Progressive Communications (APC)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8057

Help we are under attack! A peek into a community of rapid responders

Hosted by Access Now; Digital Defenders Partnership; Front Line Defenders; Greenhost; Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) 🗣️ PANEL

#8151

Just another brick in the paywall: why open access is a human right

Hosted by Creative Commons💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8195

Data Detox Kit: control your smartphone data to increase your online privacy

Hosted by Tactical Tech🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8260

Discriminating AI? How to prevent it with a human rights-based approach

Hosted by ECIJA Legal💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8288

#GBVinMedia: how can the media report gender-based violence more sensitively?

Hosted by Feminism in India💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8367

Protecting the public core of the internet: from formulation to implementation

Hosted by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) 🗣️ PANEL

#8427

Why we must automate SAFETAG now! Lessons from Nigeria

Hosted by Co-Creation Hub💡 LIGHTING TALK

#8458

Education and technology in indigenous settings

Hosted by Indigenous Friends Association 🔎 COMMUNITY LAB

#8527

Citizen scoring in the EU revisited: facial recognition, lie detectors, and more

Hosted by AlgorithmWatch🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8550

The Digital First Aid Kit: a resource for civil society to troubleshoot digital security emergencies

Hosted by Digital Defenders Partnership 💻 TECH DEMO

#8617

CDR link: expanding use cases for secure help desk platforms

Hosted by Center for Digital Resilience💻 TECH DEMO

#8643

Feminist internet research for a feminist internet

Hosted by Association for Progressive Communications (APC)🗣️ PANEL

#8711

Digital New Deal: for a cleaner and decentralized internet

Hosted by French National Assembly, Office of MP Paula Forteza 🗣️ PANEL

#8986

Digital rights and disability: a framework for measuring ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities in Africa

Hosted by Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8995

(Un)free speech: when algorithms decide

Hosted by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9010

Why you should care about media freedom in the Pacific: the way forward for the Melanesia Media Freedom Forum

Hosted by Melanesia Media Freedom Forum 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9055

Tackling online censorship: campaign and Digital Toolkit for Artists launch

Hosted by Freemuse🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9098

Music, digital distribution platforms, and human rights

Hosted by Cooperativa Sulá Batsú; Endemia; La Milixia; Los Garbanzos 🗣️ PANEL

#9128

UNdoing progress and rights with a new global cybercrime treaty?

Hosted by Third Way🗣️ PANEL

#9163

Have you ever wondered what a truly disabled-access and smart city or community would look like?

Hosted by PICISOC (Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society); Mobile Me; Fiji Disability People’s Federation💡 LIGHTING TALK

#9406

Reporters as spies: the global threat of U.S. media leak prosecutions

Hosted by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 🗣️ PANEL

#9698

Mujerxs unidas, jamás serán vencidas: intersectional feminism in the age of AI

Hosted by Coding Rights🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#8995

(Un)free speech: when algorithms decide

Hosted by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9712

Encryption under fire: a discussion on the threats to private messaging around the world

Hosted by WhatsApp💬 FIRESIDE CHAT

#9777

Tackling online abuse: bridging the gap between human rights and computer science

Hosted by Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) 🗣️ PANEL

#9803

The future of human rights and climate: anticipating the unpredictable

Hosted by BSR🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#9907

Building an inclusive future in the age of AI

Hosted by World Economic Forum 🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION

#11476

Engaging civil society ahead of the Freedom Online Coalition’s joint statement on AI and human rights

Hosted by Global Affairs Canada🗺️ STRATEGY SESSION