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Explore the 500+ sessions shaping the 10th anniversary summit program
The RightsCon 2021 Session List details the title, host, format, program category, and intersecting theme of all sessions happening at RightsCon (June 7-11, 2021). You can see all 20 program categories in alphabetical order below, or filter by category and theme to begin informing your RightsCon experience. With over 500 sessions in total โ the most weโve ever had at RightsCon โ our 10th anniversary edition is shaping up to be the biggest RightsCon yet. One week before the event, registered participants can log in to the RightsCon platform to explore the full schedule, see speakers, and build a personalized agenda. Get your ticket now.
Category
Theme
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Algorithm
How to be heard? The fight for community and civil society voices in AI and digital health governance
Host: Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) | STOPAIDS | Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global) | Kenyan Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS (KELIN)
๐ Community Lab
Feminist search: reimagining our “search” for knowledge
Host: Feminist.AI | Poieto
๐ Community Lab
Making the right impact: human rights compliant AI
Host: European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL)
๐ Community Lab
A new AI lexicon: responses and challenges to the critical AI discourse
Host: Access Now | AI Now
๐ Community Lab
The robot will see him now: building gender-equitable AI in the Global South
Host: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
๐ Community Lab
How better measurements can help us fight for justice in AI?
Host: Global Black Youth | Portulans Institute
๐ Community Lab
Bias in algorithmic decision-making: perspectives and approaches
Host: Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
๐ Community Lab
Google AIโs damaging impact on abortion access: how the core updates are penalizing pro-right websites
Host: Women on Web
๐ก Lightning Talk
The AI observatory: interrogating automated decision making in India
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Bias in, bias out: leveraging dataset nutrition labels for healthier AI
Host: Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
๐ก Lightning Talk
Discrimination through optimization: how Facebook’s ad delivery can lead to biased outcomes
Host: University of Southern California
๐ก Lightning Talk
Algorithmic diversity and nonbinarity: how to reimagine ability, tech, and ethics
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Algorithmic discrimination and the impacts on social mobility of marginalized social groups in the Global South
Host: InternetLab
๐ Community Lab
AlGOVrithms: automated decision making in Central and Eastern Europe โ should we synchronize our efforts globally?
Host: ePaลstwo Foundation | Open Data Kosovo
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
South, East, Asian landscape of artificial intelligence
Host: EngageMedia
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Social and financial discrimination of sex workers
Host: Hacking//Hustling
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Misgendering machines: the digital rights risks of automated gender attribution technology
Host: Access Now
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
More of the same: unpacking the impact of AI algorithms on social fragmentation
Host: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs | RNW Media
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Artificial intelligence and digital rights: a Southern African perspective
Host: Media Institute of Southern Africa-Zimbabwe
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Algorithmic technologies in the state: a critical approach from Latin America
Host: Derechos Digitales
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Should all data be credit data? Inclusive finance in the age of algorithmic credit underwriting
Host: Center for Financial Inclusion
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The good earth: the ethical implications of the implementation of artificial intelligence in agriculture in Africa
Host: Strathmore University, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) | Universiteit Utrecht
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Regulatory solutions to AI’s infringement on civil rights (US focused)
Host: Consumer Reports
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
AI diplomacy: mainstreaming inclusion
Host: Women at The Table | United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Tech that tracks your emotions: exploring the capabilities, boundaries, and risks in the growing world of affective tech
Host: BSR
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Inside the black box: making public-sector algorithms accountable to citizens and communities
Host: Open Government Partnership
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Invisible or absent: is AI in Africa inclusive of nonbinary gender identities?
Host: Research ICT Africa
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Transparency for what? Public sector algorithm registers in practice
Host: AlgorithmWatch | Etalab
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
#SAIFE artificial intelligence: the imperative of human rights impact assessments
Host: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Developing an inclusive, rights-based global index for responsible AI
Host: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Civil Society Resistance and Resilience
Shared struggle: civic resilience in the crisis of the Hong Kong National Security Law
Host: Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) | Civil Society Cyber Shield (CSCS) | Economic Democracy Union | Open Culture Foundation
๐ Community Lab
A crucial gap: overcoming limits to official SDG data on attacks against defenders
Host: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) | Defending Land and Environmental Defenders Coalition (DD Coalition) | International Land Coalition | World Resources Institute
๐ Community Lab
Digital rights in Central Eastern Europe: building resilient civil society
Host: Access Now | Civil Liberties Union for Europe
๐ Community Lab
Organizing in exile
Host: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
๐ Community Lab
Reshaping resistance and resilience in the Amazon: Indigenous and local peoples strategies to build power in COVID-19 times
Host: Hivos | Digital Democracy (DD) | All Eyes on the Amazon Program | Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) | Union of People Affected by Texaco's Petroleum Operations (UDAPT)
๐ Community Lab
Amplifying civil society engagement, contribution, and voice in the implementation of the UN Secretary-Generalโs Roadmap for Digital Cooperation
Host: World Wide Web Foundation
๐ Community Lab
Muses: female radial empowerment โ how many muses are there in Latin America?
Host: RedesAyuda | Humano Derecho
๐ Community Lab
Locating accountability: digital rights and youth power
Host: Restless Development
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Fostering civil society resilience through the Wikimedia projects: strategies of activism and internet decolonization
Host: Wikimedia Argentina
๐ Community Lab
Creating engaging campaigns: a holistic methodology to create impactful campaigns
Host: Greenpeace International
๐ Community Lab
Global South representation: organizing a movement across time zones
Host: Next Billion Network
๐ Community Lab
Structures that silence: countering digital exclusion of the most marginalized in online spaces in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Uganda, Lebanon, and Sudan
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality (AFE) | CREA | UHAI โ The East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative | WO=MEN Dutch Gender Platform
๐ Community Lab
What’s next for the human rights movement?
Host: Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Digital civic space after the pandemic: challenges and opportunities for civil society
Host: Office of Denmark's Tech Ambassador, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
From villages to cities: women in Sudan demand gender equality
Host: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) Network
๐ก Lightning Talk
Features of digital rights threats in the eastern part of Russia
Host: International Human Rights Support
๐ก Lightning Talk
Digital intersectional care
Host: Barracรณn Digital
๐ก Lightning Talk
Telegram: channels of mobilization and misinformation โ lessons from Iran, Russia, Belarus, and Hong Kong
Host: Access Now
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Diversity and inclusion beyond youth tokenism
Host: African Queer Youth Initiative | LGBT+ Rights Ghana | Success Capital Organisation
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Land as a human right: technology for rights documentation and impact
Host: Cadasta Foundation
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Race and technology: a shared vision for a better future
Host: Stanford University | Stanford University, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Tibetan resistance: how a refugee community is leveraging tech to build resistance to a super power
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Data points have feelings too: how we find the stories behind the statistics
Host: Data4Change
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Recharging and decolonizing your mind/digital wellbeing: how technology impacts our mental health
Host: Health and Information Literacy Access (HILA) Alliance | Allegori | InspireCorp
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Belarus 2020: the incredible story of public-private activism for democratic change
Host: Freedom House
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The threat of Big Tech and disinformation to social movements: from racial equality to climate to immigrant and gender rights
Host: Friends of the Earth | MediaJustice
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Fighting Tunisia’s social media police
Host: Bloggeurs sans Chaines
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Effective tools and tactics to build people power during COVID and beyond: training up our people
Host: Social Movement Technologies | WoMin
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Protecting your gatherings online: digitally-mediated assemblies and international law
Host: European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) | International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Storytelling for algorithmic change: how to use strategic communications to meet your policy goals
Host: AI for the People
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Enabling the enjoyment of digital rights in Africa
Host: Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Risks, rights, and digital health: HIV, TB, and the law
Host: The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Digital Health and Rights Project
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Moving forward with providing affordable software to civil society in repressive countries
Host: Access Now
๐ Community Lab
So mainstream: new communities and creative approaches for popularizing digital rights advocacy
Host: Internews
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Exploring intersectional partnerships between social justice and digital rights communities during the pandemic
Host: The Engine Room
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Overcoming barriers to collaboration: how do we create, strengthen and diversify collective action to hold Big Tech accountable?
Host: Digital Action
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Integrating technology into advocacy work: a fight for a just world for marginalized groups
Host: Harm Reduction International
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Disrupting disinformation: trend facts without working on another social media toolkit again!
Host: Organiz
๐ป Tech Demo
Protest: your rights according to new international standards
Host: CIVICUS
๐ก Lightning Talk
Building a better normal: youth rising and civil society resilience
Host: Accountability Lab | Global Fund for Children | Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Office for UN Affairs | World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
๐ Community Lab
Spears and shields: how states weaponize the law to assault online freedom and where to go from here
Host: ARTICLE 19 | International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) | Open Net Korea | ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) | International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) | Digital Rights Foundation
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Culinary resistance, Gaza style: the challenges of life under blockade
Host: Rebuilding Alliance
Open Spaces
Content Control and Censorship
Disinformation, deplatforming, and human rights defenders and organizations: developing corrective guidelines for financial services companies
Host: 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media
๐ Community Lab
Deframing disinformation: why we should include local communities to fight the information crisis
Host: Deutsche Welle Akademie
๐ Community Lab
Gender and disinformation: towards a gender-based approach
Host: Digital Rights Foundation | EU DisinfoLab
๐ Community Lab
Must-carry? The pros and cons of requiring online services to carry all user speech: discussing litigation strategies and outcomes
Host: Electronic Frontier Foundation | Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in) | Open Net Korea | Panoptykon Foundation
๐ Community Lab
Alternative frameworks for sexual content moderation
Host: Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society | Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India
๐ Community Lab
Piloting responses to disinformation and anti-democratic narratives through a microenvironment
Host: National Democratic Institute (NDI)
๐ Community Lab
A public health approach to the CSAM problem: looking beyond internet platform regulation
Host: Prostasia Foundation
๐ Community Lab
Content policy during COVID-19: an open discussion with Facebook
Host: Facebook
๐ Community Lab
One ring to rule them all: centralization and coordination of content moderation
Host: Christchurch Call Advisory Network
๐ Community Lab
Introducing the Digital Enquirer Kit! (e-learning resource)
Host: Tactical Tech | Deutsche Gesellschaft fรผr internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
๐ Community Lab
Manipulated media, manipulated realities: confronting shallowfakes and deepfakes in a global context
Host: WITNESS
๐ Community Lab
Is disinformation the biggest risk to human rights and democracy?
Host: Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression
๐ Community Lab
Would you take the case?
Host: Facebook Oversight Board
๐ Community Lab
Silicon democracy or impossible futures? Care protocols for a better internet for all
Host: Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU
๐ Community Lab
High-profile figures, disintermediation, and responsibilities of online platforms
Host: Forum on Information & Democracy
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The rise of online censorship and surveillance in Myanmar
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Online hate, fake news, and the influence industry
Host: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
๐ก Lightning Talk
Censorship in the United States: the changing perspectives of anti-censorship institutions
Host: The Society Library
๐ก Lightning Talk
Moderation and censorship in a decentralized world โ personal, community, corporation, state: what scale?
Host: La Quadrature du Net
๐ก Lightning Talk
Infocalypse or infotopia? Breaking down the binaries of deepfake technologies
Host: University of Glasgow
๐ก Lightning Talk
Decoding the โcommunityโ in social media community standards
Host: Breakthrough India | Breakthrough Trust
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Tackling misinformation about migrants and refugees on social media
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Taking stock of the Oversight Boardโs first year
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
“I know it when I see it”: the limits of a “coordinated inauthentic behavior” policy in the Global South
Host: Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Free speech gatekeepers in the Middle East: automation, content moderation, and the power to delete
Host: New America's Open Technology Institute (OTI) | Middle East Institute
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Misinformation, disinformation, and the pandemic in MENA
Host: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Out of site, out of mind? How platform regulation can better protect the human rights of non-users
Host: University of California, Irvine, Human Rights and Social Media Initiative, Irvine School of Law
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Authenticity infrastructure against mis/disinformation: what’s that, who’s it for, what are the risks and benefits?
Host: WITNESS
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Online freedom under attack: weaponizing misinformation, disinformation, and “fake news” for censorship in Southeast Asia
Host: ALTSEAN-Burma | Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) | Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (ELSAM) | Manushya Foundation | PEN Myanmar | Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
โA time when thought is freeโ: freedom of thought as a legal framework for tech accountability
Host: Avaaz
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The future of the open internet
Host: Twitter
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
PortalCheck: a collaborative effort between influencers, fact checkers, and international organizations to counter disinformation
Host: Chequeado | Trigeon
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Content moderation under pressure: social media between authoritarian internet governance and human rights responsibilities
Host: Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Content moderation, accountability, and transparency: experiences across the internet stack
Host: Internet Society (ISOC) | TikTok
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Rebalancing the internet economy: a closer look at Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code
Host: Digital Rights Watch
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Code of conduct for social media platforms established by enforcement agencies: a debate on the legislative solution proposed for Brazil
Host: ARTICLE 19 Brazil and South America
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Translating human rights into content moderation rules: the role of private companies, international organizations, and civil society
Host: Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresiรณn y Acceso a la Informaciรณn (CELE)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Misinformation as a state strategy: Venezuela and Latin America
Host: EsPaja | ProBox
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Aligning content moderation with human rights principles
Host: Facebook Oversight Board
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Moving forward: guiding principles on diversity of content online
Host: Government of Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Section 230 reform
Host: Access Now | Free Press Unlimited
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
How we are tracking (and explaining) every change Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube make to their community standards
Host: Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresiรณn y Acceso a la Informaciรณn (CELE) | Linterna Verde
๐ป Tech Demo
Citizen browser: observing the digital public square in real time
Host: The Markup
๐ป Tech Demo
Weaponizing censorship infrastructure
Host: University of Maryland
๐ก Lightning Talk
Censors hate this one weird trick: whipping up censorship-resistant apps in a jiffy with appmaker
Host: GreatFire
๐ป Tech Demo
Contemplating content moderation: perspectives from Africa
Host: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) | Open Internet for Democracy Initiative | Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) | Monash University | Oxford Internet Institute (OII)
๐ Community Lab
Content moderation on the internet: letโs play โSocial Media Against Humanityโ
Host: Embajadores de Internet
Open Spaces
Cyber Norms, Accountability, and Practice
Cybernorms: do they hold up IRL (in real-life)?
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Research ICT Africa | Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India | Global Partners Digital (GPD)
๐ Community Lab
The common trends in undermining strong encryption across the world: how can civil society organizations fight back?
Host: Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in)
๐ Community Lab
Channel your inner cyberpunk to help us end cyberattacks on infrastructure
Host: Digital Peace Now
๐ Community Lab
How to protect civil society under heavy state-sponsored cyber attacks during the war: experience of Armenia
Host: CyberHUB-AM
๐ก Lightning Talk
Routing security as a cyber norm
Host: Internet Society (ISOC)
๐ก Lightning Talk
Fighting the new online cyber crimes against humanity
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Un-balanced punishment for cyber acts in the 2020 Sudanese law on combatting cybercrime
Host: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sudan (OHCHR Sudan) | Sudan Bar Association
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Slouching towards cyberwar: why aren’t we worried about “persistent engagement” and covert cyber-operations?
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Playing by the rules: how to rein in nation-state cyber activity
Host: Cybersecurity Tech Accord
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
United front: multistakeholder deterrence in cyberspace
Host: Microsoft
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Countering the crackdown on digital space in the MENA region through strategic litigation
Host: Access Now | MENA Rights Group
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
What is past is prologue: safeguarding rights in international efforts to fight cybercrime
Host: Electronic Frontier Foundation | Human Rights Watch
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Thinking about safeguards for the information security community: criminalization of infosec in Latin America โ case studies
Host: Fundaciรณn Vรญa Libre
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Data Protection and User Control
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK): our saviour from environmental catastrophe
Host: Open Development Initiative (ODI) | Colegio de Postgraduados
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
What comes after digital identity? Digital public goods and data infrastructures
Host: Rethink Aadhaar
๐ Community Lab
Surveying the harms: algorithmic fairness and demographic data
Host: Partnership on AI (PAI)
๐ Community Lab
Data protection legislations for law enforcement: multiregional perspectives for regulating data protection in criminal procedures
Host: Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet (LAPIN)
๐ Community Lab
Policy+: repairing our open data infrastructures to support equitable health futures
Host: Open Data Charter | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
๐ Community Lab
Harnessing data protection regulations to encourage sustainable inclusive growth in rural places: a study of Africaโs female smallholder farmers
Host: University of Ottawa, Open African Innovation Research Group
๐ Community Lab
Creating change with 64,000 data points: how can the global data barometer be a platform for better data governance?
Host: Data for Development | Global Data Barometer
๐ Community Lab
Human-centric personal data management and sharing in the Global South: the roadmap
Host: Afroleadership | MyData Hub Cameroon
๐ Community Lab
Digital afterlife in the Global South: emergence of a new colonial era?
Host: Arizona State University, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
๐ก Lightning Talk
Data and social justice, data, and social protection: the Bolsa Famรญlia case
Host: InternetLab
๐ก Lightning Talk
Colombian COVID apps: what not to do! A non-intrusive analysis and advocacy work from civil society
Host: Fundaciรณn Karisma
๐ก Lightning Talk
Participatory data governance: citizen rights, access, and control over data
Host: Ada Lovelace Institute
๐ก Lightning Talk
โWho is your biggest competitor?โ Between data portability and the social media monopoly
Host: Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio)
๐ก Lightning Talk
The uncounted: politics of data, visibility and health access
Host: The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Digital Health and Rights Project
๐ก Lightning Talk
After the pandemic: the age of privacy
Host: Cisco
๐ก Lightning Talk
The GDPR: a paper tiger? Who will make data protection a reality in the EU?
Host: Access Now
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Exposing and challenging the “new normal”: the democratic fightback for our data and digital rights post-COVID
Host: Foxglove | openDemocracy
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
When states of emergency collide: COVID-19, counter-terrorism, and transnational data flows
Host: AWO Agency | Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
โDirect accessโ: definitions, demands, and data
Host: Global Network Initiative (GNI)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Data protection in the MENA region: lessons learned from GDPR and how it might be adapted
Host: 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Normalizing surveillance to promote public health: the rise of contact tracing apps
Host: Surveillance Technology Oversight Project ("S.T.O.P.")
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Whose data is it anyway? Challenges and opportunities for gender inclusive digital rights in Africa
Host: Oxford Internet Institute (OII) | Computational Propaganda Project
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
We are the map
Host: The Firelight Group | Mapbox
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Track my period..not my data! Making femtech accountable
Host: IT for Change | Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Children and adolescent privacy and data protection rights: we do it together!
Host: JAAKLAC initiative
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Open data and human rights for women and persons with disabilities
Host: Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) | Digital Literacy Initiative (DLI)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Open data is dead!
Host: Dataful
๐ป Tech Demo
Digital colonialism? Re-thinking metaphors and practices in a context of cyber power
Host: University of Duisburg-Essen, Centre for Global Cooperation Research | Universidad de San Andrรฉs, Centro de Tecnologia y Sociedad (CETyS)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Data against feminicide
Host: Latin American Open Data Initative (ILDA) | Deutsche Gesellschaft fรผr internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) | UNIDAS Women's Network
๐ Community Lab
Democracy, Elections, and Political Participation
Forging a global norm for governments to do human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) when they regulate or use digital technologies
Host: Microsoft
๐ Community Lab
Identifying barriers and solutions to sustaining and scaling local innovations
Host: International Republican Institute (IRI)
๐ Community Lab
The faith of EOM’s reports? How can we improve future elections through the use of past electoral observation recommendations?
Host: International Republican Institute (IRI)
๐ Community Lab
The role of government institutions protecting and defending digital rights
Host: ARTICLE 19 Mexico and Central America | SocialTIC | Mexico City's Human Rights and Journalist Protection Mechanism
๐ Community Lab
Where do we say no? Proposing peremptory norms for technology
Host: Tilburg University, Global Data Justice Project
๐ก Lightning Talk
We the Peoples: on the road towards a United Nations World Citizens’ Initiative
Host: Democracy International | Democracy Without Borders
๐ก Lightning Talk
Digital voter suppression and its future impact on elections
Host: Stop Online Violence Against Women
๐ก Lightning Talk
Elections and dark PR in Sub-Saharan Africa
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Solving the gatekeeper problem: how to democratize access to run for office in the US
Host: NationBuilder | RunForOffice.org
๐ก Lightning Talk
The charter of human rights and principles for the internet at 10: fostering synergies to better promote human rights online
Host: Internet Rights and Principles Coalition
๐ก Lightning Talk
Queer protests: digital and physical protests with a digital focus
Host: IPANDETEC | Fundaciรณn Iguales
๐ก Lightning Talk
Election fact-checking in Africa: lessons from three very different African elections
Host: Meedan
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Blending high and low tech approaches for citizen participation from rural and Indigenous communities
Host: International Republican Institute (IRI)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Is America back? Scoring Bidenโs tech and human rights agenda in year one
Host: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Digital meets election: Myanmarโs tested model of digital risk mitigation
Host: Myanmar Tech Accountability Network (MTAN)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Digital rights and Iranโs 2021 presidential election: whatโs next?
Host: Filterwatch
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Putting human rights at the heart of development cooperation: digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Host: Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Vote of online confidence
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Elections in the digital age: internet freedom, impacts of social media, and where we go from here
Host: Freedom House
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
“Europe fit for the digital age”: regional regulation, global impact?
Host: ICANN
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Connected to combat misinformation and fake news during the elections: Ecuador case
Host: Usuarios Digitales
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Fighting together: comprehensive strategies and democractic tools to combat disinfo
Host: National Democratic Institute (NDI) | International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Connecting people: how do we bridge the gap between policymakers and civil society?
Host: Liberal International
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The use of personal voters’ data in elections in Eastern Europe
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Spotlight on digital authoritarianism
Host: Concordia University, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Ballots, bots, and BS: how to restore trust in American elections
Host: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Digital gender divide and COVID-19: what prospects for women’s political participation in Africa?
Host: Big Steps Outreach Network (BONET)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The digital with purpose movement: using technology to drive positive, measurable impact for rights and sustainability
Host: Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Human rights due diligence at the UN and beyond: the way forward
Host: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Bridging the data protection gap in elections: global tools to data-driven campaigns
Host: InternetLab | Privacy International
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Out-of-date: modernizing UN ะฐdvocacy by empowering underrepresented voices
Host: Small Media Foundation
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Back to the 90s: how misinformation may lead Brazil back to paper ballots in 2022
Host: Instituto Liberdade Digital
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Green and open recovery: how open data can help make COVID-19 recovery more sustainable?
Host: Open Data Charter
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Pandemic, policy, and the press: balancing public health interventions and freedom of expression
Host: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) | Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), TrustLaw
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Transparent representation: an open-source ecosystem for political accountability
Host: Independent
๐ป Tech Demo
Networks of power, influence, and open data at the Universal Periodic Review
Host: Open Knowledge Foundation
๐ป Tech Demo
Project lockdown: keeping your rights unlocked
Host: The IO Foundation
๐ป Tech Demo
Political campaigns amid the pandemic: increasing transparency in social media
Host: Asociaciรณn por los Derechos Civiles (ADC)
๐ป Tech Demo
Building a rights-respecting model of digital sovereignty
Host: PEN America | Fundaรงรฃo Getรบlio Vargas (FGV), Center for Technology and Society (CTS) | Fundaรงรฃo Getulio Vargas (FGV), Sรฃo Paulo Law School (DIREITO SP)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Promoting civic engagement online towards building a more inclusive web
Host: Centre for Multilateral Affairs (CfMA) | Facebook
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Come play Democracy Dixit! Help us dream up a better world and the path to getting there
Host: International Republican Institute (IRI) | National Democratic Institute (NDI) | Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Open Spaces
Digital Security for Individuals and Communities
We keep us safe: an Indigenized guide to reproductive justice and cyber safety
Host: Indigenous Women Rising
๐ Community Lab
Localization Lab glossary jam: localizing technical terminology for end users
Host: Localization Lab
๐ Community Lab
Ending the war: moving from an adversarial to a solidarity based digital security approach
Host: Fundaciรณn Karisma | Information Ecology
๐ Community Lab
Online digital safety audit, response, and training in the time of COVID
Host: SecDev Foundation
๐ Community Lab
Digital Wellness Check: a human-centered design approach to digital security
Host: Center for Digital Resilience
๐ Community Lab
Post-training mess: when digital security trainings do more harm than good
Host: Digital Security Lab Ukraine
๐ก Lightning Talk
Counting on the cloud? Designing secure storage solutions that human rights defenders will use and trust
Host: Least Authority
๐ก Lightning Talk
Cyber security awareness training 2.0: a continuous micro-learning approach
Host: Volunteer Activists
๐ก Lightning Talk
How to make digital security more fun? With the EmPower Ranger!
Host: RedesAyuda
๐ก Lightning Talk
Digital security: perspective from margins
Host: Body & Data
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
How to stay safe online in a weak cybersecurity and privacy environment: examples from Lebanon
Host: Social Media Exchange (SMEX)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
How to respond to advanced digital threats against civil society? A panel hosted by the computer incident response network CiviCERT
Host: Access Now | Internews | Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP) | Front Line Defenders | Fundaciรณn Karisma | Mnemonic | Greenhost | Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) | TibCERT
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Recording digital security incidents as a practice to mitigate risks faced by human rights defenders in Latin America
Host: Sursiendo
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Co-designing digital security resources in Indigenous languages
Host: Internews | Rising Voices Global Voices
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Human rights abuses on the internet in restricted civic spaces
Host: CIVICUS | Dutch Embassy in Costa Rica
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Building a security practitionerโs toolkit for social revolts
Host: The Engine Room
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
How to learn about digital security remotely during pandemic with courses that fit your context? The case of Central America
Host: Free Press Unlimited | Greenhost | The Totem Project
๐ป Tech Demo
The use of games and gamification in digital security education for African women
Host: Pollicy
๐ป Tech Demo
Identifying and reporting phishing with phishDetect
Host: Amnesty International
๐ป Tech Demo
CybResilio: putting individuals in the driving seat towards their cyber resilience
Host: United Nations University (UNU), Institute in Macau
๐ป Tech Demo
Building a digital safety portal for the MENA region
Host: Jordan Open Source Association
๐ป Tech Demo
Introducing the new SAFETAG interface!
Host: Internews
๐ป Tech Demo
How to model threats using user personas, organizational archetypes, and adversary archetypes
Host: Internews
๐ Community Lab
Data protection from the inside: value-based data practices for civil society
Host: Tactical Tech | The Engine Room
๐ Community Lab
How can we prevent offline vulnerabilities from perpetuating online? Digital security for women and children in Uganda
Host: Digital Human Rights Lab | Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Reflecting on experiences of psychosocial care and comprehensive security in Central America
Host: Fundaciรณn Acceso
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Freedom of the Media
The intersection of data, tech, and journalism: augmenting artificial intelligence and machine learning with cross-border investigations
Host: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
๐ก Lightning Talk
What we’ve learned in four years of documenting attacks on the US press
Host: Freedom of the Press Foundation | U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
๐ก Lightning Talk
Safety of female journalists online: 40 proposed actions for 10 key actors
Host: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
๐ก Lightning Talk
What is the importance of Adivasi Awaaz?
Host: Adivasi Lives Matter
๐ก Lightning Talk
The new real estate moguls: using open source data to track organized crimeโs infiltration into the legal economy
Host: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
๐ก Lightning Talk
The power of fact-checkers
Host: Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)
๐ก Lightning Talk
Media viability and press freedom: towards actionable policy recommendations to support news media viability in East Africa
Host: Deutsche Welle Akademie | Aga Khan University, Graduate School of Media and Communications
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The challenges of authoritarianism: keeping investigative journalism alive
Host: Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Freedom of media in the times of corporatisation
Host: Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Investigations in the Arab world: new challenges and emerging trends
Host: Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Cover digital rights beyond Silicon Valley
Host: Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Women journalists and the double bind: the link between online harassment and self-censorship
Host: Media Matters for Democracy
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Walking the woke talk: the business of diversity in media
Host: Chambal Media
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
โI feel ILLโ: maintaining a healthy online ecosystem for journalism and news media amid intermediary liability legal (ILL) reform
Host: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) | Center for International Media Assistance | Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) | Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic Coalition for the Sustainability of News Media and Journalism
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Autocratic copycats? Russia and Turkey stifle social media
Host: Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) | Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
COLAB MEDIOS Project’s transatlantic independent media exchange: lessons learned from a pioneer network between Central America and Eastern Europe
Host: Free Press Unlimited
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Improving the relationship between whistleblowers and the media
Host: Alley | The Signals Network
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Banned from in-country reporting? Bring the audience into the newsroom
Host: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Journalists in the meme arena
Host: Meedan | El Surti | Sembramedia
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
How can we help the good guys? Disinformation on some and the plight of delivering good journalism
Host: International Media Support (IMS)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Everyone is a journalist
Host: mySociety
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Tracking forced migration in global media: evaluating narrative frames with media cloud
Host: Columbia University, Digital Scholarship
๐ป Tech Demo
Got a leak? Analyze millions of documents efficiently and securely with ICIJโs free, open-source datashare software
Host: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
๐ป Tech Demo
Offering whistleblowers a secure channel: fighting for freedom of speech with technology
Host: Tutanota
๐ป Tech Demo
Understanding Hong Kongโs political atmosphere post-National Security Law
Host: Human Rights Foundation (HRF)
๐ก Lightning Talk
Futures, Fictions, and Creativity
Demystifying AI: comics as a vehicle for public education
Host: New York University, Center for Responsible AI (R/AI)
๐ Community Lab
Reset rewind: building agency toward the future by looking at the present as if it were the past
Host: Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet (LAPIN) | Youth SIG (Youth Observatory), ISOC
๐ Community Lab
Beyond censorship: digital artivism in the LGBTI community
Host: Freemuse
๐ Community Lab
Studio for aesthetic action
Host: Hivos | Digital Earth
๐ Community Lab
1Up! Video game policy: tools to level up your activism
Host: Internews | Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
๐ Community Lab
Activism at the intersection of art, society and the spirit: a unique way of connecting change-makers with decision-makers
Host: International Human Rights Art Festival
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Pop up tech: CyborgFeminista โ art and digital rights in Latin America
Host: TEDIC
๐ก Lightning Talk
Power to the people โ using radio storytelling to advance privacy: results from an experiment in South Asia
Host: Omidyar Network
๐ก Lightning Talk
Speculative design in government: practical applications of futurism in service design
Host: Code for Canada | Government of Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
๐ก Lightning Talk
Art and documentation for empowering minority voices
Host: Informal Platform of Women of Caucasus (WSolidarity), Russia | Network of OHCHR Former Minority Fellows | Spotlight Team International Art (STIA) | Zariya: Women's Alliance for Dignity and Equality
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Blood, fire, or oil: how should we think about data?
Host: Future Narratives Lab
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Choose your own (ad)venture! A strategy session on how digital violence affects queer people, and our strategies of resistance
Host: Point of View
Open Spaces
Can you explain how the internet really works?
Host: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
Open Spaces
Look into the Glass Room misinformation edition! An art exhibition by Tactical Tech
Host: Tactical Tech
Open Spaces
Collapse is here, the internet is dead: what would you save?
Host: Independent
Open Spaces
Gaza in color: a workshop with Gaza artists!
Host: Rebuilding Alliance | Shababik Windows for Contemporary Art
Open Spaces
Tell me a story about the future: a fiction workshop to imagine the tech in our lives
Host: Derechos Digitales
Open Spaces
Human Rights-Centered Design
Make it bigger: the role of design in social mediaโs attempt to control disinformation
Host: Access Now
๐ Community Lab
Designing for language accessibility: making usable technologies for non-left to right languages
Host: Electronic Frontier Foundation | Localization Lab | Jordan Open Source Association | Social Media Exchange (SMEX)
๐ Community Lab
Launching the Co/Act toolkit: a DIY approach to develop your next digital product, service, or campaign
Host: National Democratic Institute (NDI)
๐ Community Lab
Making voices heard: rights-based design of voice interfaces
Host: Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India
๐ Community Lab
Smash the borders, build bridges: synthesizing strategies to center human rights in digital rights tech development
Host: EngageMedia
๐ Community Lab
Strategic foresight: seeing programmers as frontline human and digital rights workers and civil society engagement with technical standards development
Host: The IO Foundation | Human First Tech
๐ Community Lab
The ethics of scaling: open source, data security, and quality control in human rights digital tools
Host: Physicians for Human Rights
๐ Community Lab
#SheTransformsTech: mapping solutions for gender justice in tech
Host: World Pulse
๐ Community Lab
Earth Defenders toolkit: an open-source collection of tools and training materials for frontline communities to defend their rights
Host: Digital Democracy (DD)
๐ Community Lab
Thereโs no word for that: design, translation, and natural language processing
Host: Access Now
๐ก Lightning Talk
The Turing Way: building a collaborative guide to ethical data science
Host: Alan Turing Institute
๐ก Lightning Talk
Nothing about us without us: introduction to accessible design
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Safety by design: protecting and empowering citizens by integrating safety and inclusivity into business models and investments
Host: Australia eSafety Commissioner
๐ก Lightning Talk
When social media hurts: an approach to seizure-generating content
Host: DALAT | Espacio Epilepsia
๐ก Lightning Talk
In defense of non-experts and lived experiences
Host: Women in AI Ethics
๐ก Lightning Talk
How to combat dark patterns and advancing human rights through design
Host: Access Now | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Convocation Design + Research
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Design from the margins
Host: ARTICLE 19 | Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Building a responsible innovation practice: building from the ground up
Host: Facebook | Article One Advisors
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Using human-centered design thinking to tackle online gender-based violence
Host: World Wide Web Foundation
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
People-centered care: exploring human rights integration in digital health product and service design
Host: Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) | STOPAIDS
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
User insights without user surveillance: the clean insights approach to privacy-respecting analytics
Host: Internews | Okthanks
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Design best practices: creating standards that center security and marginalized voices
Host: Independent
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Human rights by design toolkit
Host: Taraaz
๐ก Lightning Talk
Illustrating issues: visual strategies for communicating problems and tool-making
Host: Independent
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Build better: rethinking gender-responsive tech design
Host: The Engine Room | IT for Change | A+Alliance
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Digital inclusion for developing countries
Host: Studio Analogous | Digital Ecosystems for Development (India)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Giving people security and anonymity: Ricochet Refresh and the Tor ecosystem โ how can we help?
Host: Ricochet Refresh Project
๐ป Tech Demo
ICT accessibility: thinking digital environments in terms of accessibility
Host: Asociaciรณn por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) | El Rinconcito Inclusivo
๐ Community Lab
From accessibility to inclusion: interdisciplinary design
Host: Independent | Internews | Accessibility Lab
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Internet Access, Education, and Inclusion
Data citizenship: developing citizens data literacies in the age of dis- and misinformation
Host: Liverpool University | Nuffield Foundation
๐ก Lightning Talk
Collaborative responses to health information inequities online: bridging the right to health and the right to information
Host: Meedan | Maternal Figures
๐ Community Lab
Gender and knowledge participation: mapping efforts at equity
Host: Wikimedia Foundation
๐ Community Lab
Building resilient digital ecosystems: best practices for community networks initiatives
Host: NetFreedom Pioneers
๐ Community Lab
Mapping language rights in a digital world
Host: Global Coalition for Language Rights
๐ Community Lab
The rights of the unconnected: opting out and autonomous connectivity
Host: Data.Democracia | Rhizomatica
๐ Community Lab
What matters when it comes to connecting the unconnected?
Host: Connect Humanity
๐ Community Lab
How to define and measure digital inclusion? A call for comments on a possible digital inclusion framework
Host: United Nations Office of the Envoy on Technology
๐ Community Lab
Interrelated, indivisible, and interdependent: designing for childrenโs rights online
Host: United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF)
๐ Community Lab
Open book, turn off WiFi: accessing online education during the COVID-19 pandemic
Host: Youth SIG (Youth Observatory), ISOC
๐ Community Lab
Co-designing our tech future: best practices from the contract for the web community on gender equality, misinformation and more
Host: World Wide Web Foundation
๐ Community Lab
Queering the digital divide: addressing digital insecurities, inequalities, and inaccessibility in Ontario 2S-LGBTQ+ service provisions during the global pandemic
Host: Independent | Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN)
๐ก Lightning Talk
Is provision of comprehensive sexuality education through online platforms the solution? Tackling the myth of sex as a taboo
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Safer internet for the elderly
Host: Digital Grassroots
๐ก Lightning Talk
Access to digital information from the perspective of a blind person
Host: El Rinconcito Inclusivo
๐ก Lightning Talk
Feminist infrastructure, community networks and plenty of gambiarras: learnings from the challenges of translating feminist principles into practice
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Youโve been disconnected: supporting the right to access healthcare for marginalized people in a virtual context
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
The potential of knowledge capsules to the test: a Venezuelan challenge to restore our own social fabric
Host: Fundaciรณn ACADEtools
๐ก Lightning Talk
The unexplored dichotomy of internet access and online hate
Host: Open Internet for Democracy Initiative
๐ก Lightning Talk
Will technology be a force for greater educational equity or be a barrier to it?
Host: Teach For All
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Dismantling the neoliberalism of the digital divide: feminist perspectives on access
Host: Media Matters for Democracy
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Splinternet by stealth: Chinaโs digital silk road and the risks of a two-gauge internet
Host: Oxford Information Labs
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Access to data during the pandemic: the opportunities and challenges of zero-rating
Host: Research ICT Africa
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Strategies to guarantee the right to access to the internet
Host: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Upholding the rights of students with disabilities and using learnings from the current pandemic to rethink inclusive education globally
Host: Benetech
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Building our own spaces: social media and the reclamation of languages and cultures challenging Spanish hegemony
Host: Wikitongues
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Securing inclusive next frontier technologies that connect the remaining billions
Host: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Advancing human rights and digital collaboration: UNESCO call for participation in the IGF โฏDynamic Coalition on Internet Universality Indicators (IUIs)
Host: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Unpacking the digital inclusion paradox: the Freedom Online Coalitionโs task force on digital equality
Host: Research ICT Africa | Freedom Online Coalition
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
5G human rights assessment: how to address risks related to emerging technologies
Host: Ericsson | Shift
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Reimagining inclusion for a post-COVID classroom
Host: IT for Change | Foundation for Information Technology (IT) Education and Development
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Building an open toolkit to document Indigenous languages
Host: O Foundation (OFDN)
๐ป Tech Demo
Creating digital spaces for civic engagement in analog communities: challenges and opportunities in mobile messaging
Host: Accountability Counsel
๐ป Tech Demo
Living dictionaries: a digital resource to protect endangered languages and maintain global linguistic diversity
Host: Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
๐ป Tech Demo
A how-to: creating and leveraging subtitles to increase digital accessibility and inclusion
Host: Wikitongues
๐ป Tech Demo
Digital constitutionalism database: mapping attempts to setting rights for the digital age
Host: Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) | Working Group on Digital Constitutionalism
๐ป Tech Demo
Terrastories: an open-source tool for Indigenous communities to map and safeguard oral histories about their ancestral territory
Host: Digital Democracy (DD)
๐ป Tech Demo
Internet Shutdowns and Network Disruptions
Prepare, prevent, resist: a guide for internet shutdown advocacy strategy and resilience
Host: Internews
๐ Community Lab
Digital apartheid and human rights violations in Kashmir
Host: Digital Rights Kashmir
๐ Community Lab
The High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom: launch of the report on internet shutdowns and access bans
Host: International Bar Associations Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Navigating internet disruptions: a guide to VPN
Host: Open Tech Fund (OTF) | TunnelBear
๐ก Lightning Talk
When the facts go offline: information blackouts during internet shutdowns
Host: Access Now | Meedan
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Amplifying the human impact of internet shutdowns: why it matters
Host: Access Now | Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Ending internet shutdowns during peaceful protests: the path forward
Host: Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The internet shutdown in Rakhine State: voices from the ground
Host: SecDev Foundation | Digital Rights Collective
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Internet freedom in Africa: state of, analysis, and recommendations
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Confronting threats from all sides: building the anti-censorship ecosystem
Host: Internews | Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) | Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | Guardian Project
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
How we learn from internet shutdowns: monitoring and response
Host: Human Constanta
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The impact of strategic litigation on internet shutdowns
Host: Access Now | Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Who are the perpetrators of internet shutdowns: what we documented in 2020 and beyond
Host: Access Now
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Measuring internet disruptions during elections (and other political events)
Host: Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | University of California, San Diego, Centre for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Voicing the shutdowns
Host: Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Internet society measurements platform: a curated resource on internet shutdowns and enabling technologies
Host: Internet Society (ISOC)
๐ป Tech Demo
Understanding internet censorship data through OONI Explorer
Host: Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
๐ป Tech Demo
Justice, Documentation, and Investigation
An independent mechanism for investigators and researchers to access social media content related to serious crimes
Host: Human Rights Watch | Mnemonic
๐ Community Lab
“Hey you, stop filming!”: defending smartphone witnessing and the right to record globally โ what do we need to do?
Host: WITNESS
๐ Community Lab
Litigating COVID-19: contact tracing apps, immunity passports, disinformation, and more
Host: Access Now
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Seek Initiative: empowering citizen investigators
Host: Tactical Tech | Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) | Correctiv | Dig Lab Foundation
๐ Community Lab
Online investigation planning: assessing the digital landscape
Host: University of California, Berkeley, Human Rights Center (HRC)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Why women’s prisons in Sudan are overpopulated?
Host: Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) Network | United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sudan (OHCHR Sudan) | People's Legal Aid Centre (PLACE)
๐ก Lightning Talk
Police, law enforcement, and data protection: regulating investigations for the procedural justice and as a fundamental human rights of citizens
Host: Data Privacy Brasil Research Association
๐ก Lightning Talk
Not always rosy: promise and perils of digital rights litigation in the Global South
Host: Omidyar Network | Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative (DRLI)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Creating change remotely: the power of diaspora activists
Host: Syrians for Truth and Justice | The Advocates for Human Rights
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Investigating the crisis in Xinjiang
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Police misconduct: from data to accountability
Host: Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Syria: the most documented conflict in history and how tech is pursuing justice
Host: Human Rights Foundation (HRF) | The Syria Campaign (TSC)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Tackling the information gap: how frontline agencies use technology to build the evidence base on human trafficking and modern slavery
Host: International Organization for Migration (IOM) | The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Citizen-led investigations, community-based governance, and effective dialogue with international mechanisms: challenges of evidence collection when state-based investigations are inadequate
Host: Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The anatomy of a visual investigation: innovation in human rights and investigative reporting
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Decolonizing journocoding and open source investigation: how to build an open yet safe, nourished but fresh investigation community in Latin America
Host: Codeando Mรฉxico | Data Crรญtica
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
JusticeAI: an AI-enabled digital platform to sort and analyze evidence of human rights abuses and war crimes
Host: Benetech
๐ป Tech Demo
Bayanat: an open-source data management solution for human rights documentation
Host: Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)
๐ป Tech Demo
Uwazi: where we’re at and where we’re headed
Host: HURIDOCS
๐ป Tech Demo
Ending impunity through an app? Using innovative and award-winning technology to bring perpetrators of grave crimes to justice
Host: eyeWitness to Atrocities
๐ป Tech Demo
Save by OpenArchive, a participatory demo for journalists and newsrooms: share, archive, verify, encrypt โ secure preservation for evidentiary media
Host: OpenArchive
๐ป Tech Demo
New Models for Business and Labor
โGive a smile, get a smile!โ: The human rights impacts of emotion recognition in the workplace
Host: European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL)
๐ Community Lab
Exporting digital threats to democracy: regulating tech platforms abroad and its impact in Africa
Host: Lawyers Hub Kenya
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Emerging labor rights issues in the ICT sector: ensuring workersโ participation and protection in the platform economy
Host: Sycomore AM
๐ Community Lab
Mapping work with workers: activist responses to platform labor in Brazil
Host: Aarhus University | Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) | Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos University) | University of Sรฃo Paulo (USP)
๐ Community Lab
Digital technologies, human rights due diligence, and the state-business nexus
Host: Global Network Initiative (GNI) | United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), B-Tech Project
๐ Community Lab
Human rights in digital streaming: challenges and opportunities in the new era of internet-enabled TV and film
Host: Article One Advisors
๐ Community Lab
Assessing and addressing human rights impacts at the internet infrastructure level
Host: ARTICLE 19 | Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
How can company-led grievance mechanisms address human rights concerns of rightsholders? Lessons from the B-Tech papers on access to remedy
Host: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | African Internet Rights Alliance | Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
๐ Community Lab
T-ENT: digital entrepreneurship for Uganda’s LBTQ community
Host: Mend Initiative
๐ก Lightning Talk
Validating transparency reports
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Hard truths and tangled threads: the agony and ecstasy of the global apparel business
Host: Transparentem
๐ก Lightning Talk
Facial recognition: what can be done to improve corporate practices?
Host: Candriam
๐ก Lightning Talk
Digital disconnection: is it an employment human right?
Host: ECIJA
๐ก Lightning Talk
How “surveillance capitalism” entrenches structural racism and threatens human rights
Host: Amnesty International
๐ก Lightning Talk
Cultural expression or commercial exploitation? The experience of digital kidfluencers is all of our business
Host: Alana Institute
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Integrating environmental and social justice into transparency reporting in the tech sector
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Universitat Politรจcnica de Catalunya (UPC)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The next frontier: the UNGPs+10
Host: Cisco | Verizon
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Global tech inequity and the impact of Silicon Valleyโs laissez faire approach abroad
Host: Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Innovating while managing risk: how to govern digital ethics at your company
Host: BSR
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Fund no evil? The human rights due diligence responsibilities of venture capital
Host: Amnesty International
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
When elephants fight: the battle for fair competition and innovation
Host: Sonos
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Innovative rightsholder engagement: closing reciprocity gaps
Host: Access Now | Facebook | Article One Advisors | Color Of Change
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Building the business case for digital rights: leveraging local private sector involvement in advancing internet freedom
Host: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) | The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Maximizing company transparency in the majority world
Host: Ranking Digital Rights
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Just another framework or something worthwhile? Leveraging the UNGPs on business and human rights
Host: The IO Foundation | InternetLab | Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) | Global Partners Digital (GPD) | Bloggers Association of Kenya
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Designing ethical framework for content moderation work
Host: Aapti Institute
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Reimagining supply chain transparency: an open, integrated labor rights data system
Host: WikiRate
๐ป Tech Demo
The more I know, the more I know I don’t know: a cross-community discussion of transparency best practices
Host: Wikimedia Foundation | Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information | Next Billion Network
๐ Community Lab
Workers of the world unite: collective bargaining on data rights
Host: Aapti Institute | Center for Digital Commons | IT for Change | The Why Not Lab | Transnational Institute
๐ Community Lab
Investor action on human rights and technology: integrated approach with civil society
Host: Investor Alliance for Human Rights (IAHR) | U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
๐ Community Lab
The privatized panopticon: workersโ surveillance in the digital age
Host: European Digital Rights (EDRi) | Access Now
๐ Community Lab
The zombie apocalypse of unsupported IoT devices, and what we should do about it
Host: Consumer Reports | Sonos
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Online Hate and Violent Extremism
Reimagining reporting harm on social media platforms
Host: Meedan | PEN America
๐ Community Lab
Feminist solutions to online violence: legal and policy reform, community responses, care and resistance, and other models
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Feminist Internet Research Network
๐ Community Lab
Survivor-centric design for tackling technology-facilitated gender violence: test our new model!
Host: Chayn | End Cyber Abuse
๐ Community Lab
โBut we’re on the same side!โ: How tools to fight extremism can harm counterspeech
Host: Independent
๐ Community Lab
Report post: online gender-based violence during the pandemic in Central America
Host: IPANDETEC | Centro Latam Digital
๐ Community Lab
Girls and women at the crossroads of freedom of expression: participation, development and the digital divide
Host: Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression
๐ Community Lab
“Outside experts”: expertise and the terrorism industry in social media content moderation
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Moderate locally, impact globally: the security risks of anti-Roma hate speech and incitement to hatred online
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Who owns this body? A South and youth perspective on non-consensual dissemination of intimate images
Host: Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Study Group on Copyright and Industrial Rights (GEDAI)
๐ก Lightning Talk
Beyond blocking and reporting: how can empathy and bystander intervention create a safer online space
Host: Breakthrough India
๐ก Lightning Talk
Deadly omissions: why your threat modelling needs to include survivors of gender-based violence
Host: Oxford Internet Institute (OII) | Chayn | Sexual Violence Law Center | University of Washington
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Artists as terrorists? The global threat of anti-terror legislation to artistic freedom
Host: Freemuse
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The oceans and maritime space as the new frontier to defend human rights in the expansion of counter-terrorism domains
Host: Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism | Privacy International
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and the internet: interventions from Vietnam and Thailand
Host: SecDev Foundation
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Are girls free to be online? When social media giants listen to girls themselves
Host: Plan International
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Harassment of Indigenous rights activists: the digital front
Host: Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact | International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The GLAAD LGBTQ social media safety index: a call for platform responsibility
Host: GLAAD
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The impact of online hate speech on the queer community in the MENA region
Host: Mawjoudin Initiative for Equality
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The role of MENA fact-checking platforms in curbing online hate speech and violence in conflict zones
Host: Kashef | Verify Syria
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
When thousands respond to online hatred โ in organized groups
Host: Dangerous Speech Project
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Leveraging social work and health practices to combat violent extremism online
Host: Government of Canada, Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence | Government of Canada, Public Safety Canada
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
[email protected]: an East African network fights online violence against women
Host: Deutsche Welle Akademie
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Gender-based violence in Latin America: from the streets to the internet
Host: Fundaciรณn Avina
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Those who don’t learn from history: the curious case of new India’s radicalization against Muslims
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Shaping digital spaces: technology solutions to keep children and young people safe online
Host: Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Supporting a safer internet: global survey of gender-based violence online
Host: Centre for International Governance Innovation
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Challenging terrorist and violent extremist use of the internet: lessons learned in GIFCT and Christchurch Call
Host: Mnemonic | Christchurch Call Advisory Network
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Silencing the silenced? The impact of takedown legislations on civil liberties and victims of human rights abuses
Host: Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Future of Free Speech Project | Justitia
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The way you see your wor(l)ds: fighting against gender-based violence online
Host: Youth SIG (Youth Observatory), ISOC | Youth Coalition on Internet Governance (YCIG) | Queer in AI
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Feminist communications strategy design rooted on five cases of gender-based violence online
Host: Hiperderecho
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Reflections on digital gender-based violence in the context of COVID-19
Host: Point of View
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Are there universal trends in hate speech? Examining online hate speech as a global phenomenon
Host: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
๐ป Tech Demo
Support, help, care, and resistance: what we pandemic has taught us
Host: Vita-Activa.org
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
A citizen linguist lab to detect hate speech: evaluating online harms and digital rights violations
Host: The Sentinel Project
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Organizational Growth, Impact, and Resources
The anatomy of funding human rights technology
Host: Open Tech Fund (OTF)
๐ Community Lab
Gender based violence in our NGOs and advocacy spaces: let’s act!
Host: Independent
๐ Community Lab
Technologies for gender diversity: the impact of gender diverse leadership on the design of human rights technologies
Host: Korea Future Initiative
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
International civil society organizations’ future: is there one?
Host: Independent
๐ Community Lab
Harvesting the potential of digital fundraising
Host: European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) | International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Building strategies to diversify funds: stories from organizations in the internet freedom community on developing different fundraising strategies
Host: The Tor Project
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Creating space to process trauma in human rights organizations and collectives
Host: University of California, Berkeley, Human Rights Center (HRC) | Physicians for Human Rights | New York University, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Center (CHRGJ) | Videre est Credere
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Why do organizations and sources still not use secure channels? 11 countries, 9 NGOs in Europe-wide project has some answers
Host: Blueprint for Free Speech | Media Development Centre (Bulgaria) | Oziveni
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Diversity of capital: building and nurturing digital rights ecosystems from the funders’ perspective
Host: Luminate
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
An invitation to brave space: how we live our values in the work we do
Host: Independent
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Starting small: designing tailor made interventions for activists’ well-being, sustaining motivation for changemaking
Host: Humans not Robots
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Changing civil society structure to further equity
Host: Independent
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Online collaboration tools: which one is right for you?
Host: Access Now | Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP) | Front Line Defenders | IFEX
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Peacebuilding and Digital Humanitarianism
Technological testing grounds: migration management experiments, visual representation, and reflections from the ground up
Host: Migration and Technology Monitor
๐ Community Lab
Stakeholders partnership for peaceful communities
Host: Denis Miki Foundation | Coalition Peace | Young Peace Builders
๐ Community Lab
Algorithmic decision-support systems in the asylum context: how do states seek to legitimize their use? A case study from Germany
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Advancing youth rights through digital storytelling
Host: Peacemaker 360
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Centering the migrant rights movement: fostering collaboration between experts and frontline activists
Host: Open Society Foundations (OSF)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Social media as a digital conflict driver: what to learn and ways to intervene
Host: Build Up
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The internet powered Sudan’s revolution, but can it bring about transitional justice? Lessons from Sudan
Host: Gisa Group | Sudanese Archive | Syrian Archive
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Internet freedoms in times of conflict: balancing human rights and national security in Ukraine and Armenia
Host: Digital Security Lab Ukraine
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Mediating the digital age – integrating social media into peace agreements
Host: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
The potential of new technologists, not just new technologies: democratizing design in humanitarian contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic
Host: International Development Innovation Network (IDIN)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
The role of social media in peace processes
Host: Mediation Support Unit, UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Privacy and Surveillance
Are we in this together? COVID-19 and digital rights in the MENA region
Host: Oxford Internet Institute (OII)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
How should civil society respond to smart city investments? A view from Myanmar
Host: SecDev Foundation
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Made abroad, deployed at home: holding companies accountable for the sale of mass surveillance technologies in Latin America
Host: Access Now | Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet (LAPIN) | Asociaciรณn por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) | La Libre
๐ Community Lab
(De)facing surveillance: mapping the chilling effect
Host: Amnesty International
๐ Community Lab
How to work with a broken tool: opportunities and challenges for civil society under the new EU surveillance export regulation
Host: CAUSE (Coalition Against Unlawful Surveillance Exports)
๐ Community Lab
Every breath you take…theyโll be watching: unpacking a rights-based discourse of privacy in Asia
Host: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
๐ Community Lab
Surveilling protest: how do we protect the right to peaceful assembly and association in the age of mass surveillance?
Host: Access Now
๐ Community Lab
Litigating the unlawful use of surveillance technologies and unfair discrimination in Africa
Host: ALT Advisory | Global Human Rights Clinic
๐ก Lightning Talk
Invading refugeesโ phones: digital forms of migration control and human rights litigation in Germany
Host: Gesellschaft fรผr Freiheitsrechte
๐ก Lightning Talk
e-Proctoring: encouraging education or normalizing surveillance? A Latin American perspective
Host: Independent
๐ก Lightning Talk
Socio-technical, digital transitions in smart cities: the role of surveillance in creating safe cities for women
Host: Tandem Research
๐ก Lightning Talk
“Who watches the watchers?”: findings from the UK Citizens’ Biometrics Council
Host: Ada Lovelace Institute
๐ก Lightning Talk
Technopolice: tools to fight surveillance cities for everyone
Host: La Quadrature du Net
๐ก Lightning Talk
An almost normal life in COVID-19: real-name policy and electronic surveillance
Host: Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR)
๐ก Lightning Talk
Sunlight in state-tech: just how much do we know about government procurement of digital ID and AI in Africa?
Host: Omidyar Network | Africa Freedom of Information Centre
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Digital ID: what is it good for? Lessons from our research on Ugandaโs identification system and access to social rights
Host: Unwanted Witness | New York University, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Center (CHRGJ), Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Flight BAN-1984 is ready for take-off: join the global movement to ban facial recognition surveillance!
Host: European Digital Rights (EDRi)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Student privacy through a lens of community engagement
Host: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Balancing privacy and public health in digital contact tracing in the APAC region
Host: Open Net Korea
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Biometric wall: the use and abuse of surveillance technology in the Central and Northern American migration context
Host: Derechos Digitales | R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Surveillance tech and COVID-19: one year on, how effective have these tools been?
Host: International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations (INCLO)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
COVID-19 apps: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Host: Freedom House | Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) | RosKomSvoboda
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Preserving human rights and saving lives: the opportunities and challenges of digital technologies in the South Korean response to COVID-19
Host: Human Asia | Korea University, International Human Rights Center
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
COVID-19 observatory: the good, the ugly, and the challenges around using technologies to control the pandemic in Latin America
Host: Al Sur
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COVID-19 pandemic and data protection in East Africa: striking the right balance between public health and protecting fundamental rights
Host: Independent
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
COVID-1984 โ states armed with technologies: Eurasian and global perspectives
Host: ARTICLE 19 | RosKomSvoboda | Agora | Eurasian Digital Foundation
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Female, male, divers? Battling in courts across Europe for the recognition of third gender options
Host: Oxford Internet Institute (OII) | Gesellschaft fรผr Freiheitsrechte | The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA World)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Policing the police gadgets: governance structures for police surveillance technologies around the globe
Host: New America's Open Technology Institute (OTI)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The rising of techno authoritarianism: when the use and employment of technology is used to violate rights
Host: Data Privacy Brasil Research Association
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Protecting human rights defenders and activists: coalition to ban dual use cybersecurity technology in repressive governments
Host: Access Now | Gulf Centre for Human Rights
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Facial recognition and the private sector: strategies to protect civil and consumer rights
Host: Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection (IDEC)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Robocop is here: new horizons in ICE, policing, and tech surveillance
Host: Grassroots Leadership | Just Futures Law | Mijente
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Surveillance pandemic: deployment of COVID monitoring solutions in Latin America
Host: Coalizรฃo Direitos na Rede
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
The battle against facial recognition in Latin America: how’s it going?
Host: Derechos Digitales | R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Biometric panacea? Resisting immunity surveillance in digital identification
Host: University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law (IViR)
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
Beyond watching the watchers: government misuse of surveillance technology and how to stop it through multistakeholder collaboration
Host: U.S. Department of State
๐บ๏ธ Strategy Session
The high cost of free: what websites know about you, and what you can do about it
Host: The Markup
๐ป Tech Demo
Indigenous surveillance: how digital technologies are used to surveil Indigenous communities and land defenders in the Americas
Host: Independent
๐ป Tech Demo
Solitude: a privacy analysis tool
Host: NCC Group
๐ป Tech Demo
Urban futures: collective action towards humane digital cities
Host: Hivos | Experimentalista | Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society | The Edgelands Institute
๐ Community Lab
Trade, Innovation, and Intellectual Property
So you want to learn about digital cultural expression? Here are the tools you need
Host: Wikitongues | Indigenous Friends Association
๐ Community Lab
Let’s talk and think strategies to counteract abusive IP content moderation online!
Host: Fundaciรณn Vรญa Libre
๐ Community Lab
Legalize file sharing! The case of European citizen initiative “Freedom to Share”
Host: Freedom to Share
๐ก Lightning Talk
My plans // 2021: memes to survive the IP apocalypse
Host: Derechos Digitales
๐ก Lightning Talk
Why Bitcoin matters for human rights
Host: Human Rights Foundation (HRF)
๐ก Lightning Talk
Artficial intelligence: ethics and aesthetics of computer creativity and intellectual property
Host: Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society | AI Impact Alliance
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Upload filters for copyright enforcement take over the world! Connecting struggles in the EU, US, and Latin America
Host: Gesellschaft fรผr Freiheitsrechte | Communia Association for the Public Domain
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Trade restrictions on global availability: impacts and mitigation
Host: GitHub
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Press freedom in hindsight: understanding the long term impact of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on press freedom
Host: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Better safe than sorry: regulate AI before trade negotiators do it for you
Host: Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV)
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
The Big Tech trade-off: regulating platforms versus empowering them
Host: Digital Trade Alliance | Public Citizen
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Copyright: the “double-edged sword” for human rights
Host: ARTICLE 19 | GitHub | Human Rights Watch
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Access to digital education in the time of coronavirus: copyright and public health emergencies
Host: Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property | Wikimedia Germany
๐ฃ๏ธ Panel
Medicines save lives: a community discussion on balancing competing interests to improve global outcomes
Host: York University, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research
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