RightsCon Costa Rica
Program
600+ sessions, 15+ tracks, 6 formats, 4 days
In-person and online
Sessions to watch
Check out two sessions our team is excited to host below or login to the RightsCon Summit platform to view the full program schedule.
RightsCon pick:
Encryption Ideology: A Conversation with CEOs
HOST: Center for Democracy & Technology
HYBRID | DIALOGUE
About
The industry leaders of end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms will discuss their motivations, concerns and visions for the future of encryption and encryption policy. With a growing amount of legislation proposals that could undermine end-to-end encryption and the privacy it provides to people, CDT will bring together the individuals who lead platforms that are encrypted by design, and how they view current legislation efforts.
Featured Speakers
Mallory Knodel
CTO, Center for Democracy & Technology
Meredith Whittaker
CEO, Signal
Matthew Hodgson
CEO, Element and Project Lead, Matrix
Will Cathcart
CEO, WhatsApp
Raphael Robert
CEO, Phoenix R&D, MLS co-author
RightsCon pick:
Human rights and technology in Mesoamerica
HOST: Código Sur
IN-PERSON | DIALOGUE
About
Together with indigenous organizations, women, dissidents, from the margins to the center, this session will establish an understanding of the region, what it is facing, and explore the challenges, scenarios, narratives, and practices of the people and the diverse expressions that are making another world possible.
Featured Speakers
Mariana Fossatti
Facilitation, Artica
Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres
Coordinadora del COPINH
Monica Monge
Facilitation, Codigo Sur
Nikole Yanez
Facilitation, BarracónDigital
Meet our community
Every year, the RightsCon program is sourced through our annual Call for Proposals. Over 600 host institutions will host sessions for RightsCon Costa Rica. Meet a selection of our session organizers below:
Featured Speakers
Aung Myo Min
Minister of Human Rights, National Unity Government Myanmar
Featured Speakers
Meredith Whittaker
President, Signal
Featured Speakers
Gideon Lichfield
Global Editorial Director, WIRED
Featured Speakers
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union
Featured Speakers
Amandeep Singh Gill
United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology
Featured Speakers
Nathaniel Fick
Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, Government of the United States
Featured Speakers
Timnit Gebru
Founder and Executive Director, The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Program schedule overview
View the overview of our program schedule to get a sense of each day at RightsCon and register or login to view the details program schedule.
9:00am-3:30pm
Satellite Events
4:00pm-5:00pm
Opening Ceremony
5:30pm onwards
Opening Ceremony Reception
12:00am-9:00am
Online Programming
9:00am-11:30am
In-person, hybrid, & online programming
11:30am-1:30pm
Lunch available
In-person, hybrid, & online programming
1:30pm-5:30pm
In-person, hybrid, & online programming
5:30pm onwards
After Dark events & light online programming
12:00am-9:00am
Online Programming
9:00am-11:30am
In-person, hybrid, & online programming
11:30am-1:30pm
Lunch available
In-person, hybrid, & online programming
1:30pm-5:30pm
In-person, hybrid, & online programming
5:30pm onwards
After Dark events & light online programming
8:00pm-11:00pm
Official RightsCon Party
12:00am-9:00am
Online Programming
9:00am-11:30am
In-person, hybrid, & online programming
11:30am-1:30pm
Lunch available
In-person, hybrid, & online programming
1:30pm-4:30pm
In-person, hybrid, & online programming
4:30pm-5:30pm
Closing Ceremony
Our session formats
Network
Social Spaces
Creative Spaces
Community Village
Collaborate
Dialogues
Lightning Talks
Tech Demos
Take Action
Workshops
Roundtables
Private Meetings
The official RightsCon session list
Explore the full list of sessions that will be hosted in-person, online, and hybrid for RightsCon Costa Rica by program category below.
The RightsCon Summit platform is now open for registered participants to explore the program and build their own personalized schedule
Access and Inclusion
Latin American challenges of accessing, producing, and circulating knowledge of Black and Indigenous populations online
Host: Wikimedia Foundation | InternetLab
Dialogue | In-Person
Developing digital democracies: Wiki-fying an inclusive and democratic knowledge future for the Caribbean
Host: AfroCrowd | Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group | SlashRoots Foundation
Dialogue | In-Person
Measuring digital inequality as evidence base for policy action
Host: Research ICT Africa
Dialogue | In-Person
Indian spectrum for sale: who owns Indigenous spectrum?
Host: Independent
Dialogue | In-Person
Who pays for the internet?
Host: epicenter.works
Dialogue | In-Person
The philosophy and technology of network decentralization
Host: EdgeCase
Dialogue | In-Person
Unpacking the mosaic of MENA languages: right to information access and freedom
Host: Global Voices
Dialogue | Online
Advancing accessibility: digital inclusion strategies that support persons with disabilities
Host: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) | Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
Dialogue | Online
Digital rights for deaf and blind people: how is it going?
Host: digitally, tante
Dialogue | Online
Natural language processing (NLP) tools for endangered languages: bridging the digital language divide
Host: Torwali Research Forum
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Decolonizing the internet and access for all
Host: Zaina Foundation
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Is internet freedom good?
Host: University of Melbourne
Lightning Talk | Online
Building a resilient and inclusive community network: lessons from the Angaza network
Host: Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet)
Tech Demo | Online
Decolonizing Wikipedia: a call to action to increase First Nations Australian representation and agency
Host: University of Technology Sydney
Lightning Talk | Online
Global governance of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband
Host: University of Lodz
Lightning Talk | Online
Wi-Fi now for fishers’ rights
Host: Global Labor Justice – International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-ILRF)
Lightning Talk | Online
Not just a boy toy: mobile, women, and journalism
Host: Love Matters (India)
Lightning Talk | Online
Consumer rights and the future of accessibility
Host: Koneta Hub
Lightning Talk | Online
All in the room? Interrogating the Authority control construct in Wikipedia
Host: African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA)
Lightning Talk | Online
Optimising digital isolation for women with disabilities
Host: National Union of Women with Disabilities of Uganda (NUWODU)
Lightning Talk | Online
Deep dive into the right to human dignity: internet access and inclusion of persons with disabilities (PWDs)
Host: Ntlafatso Foundation | Southern Africa Youth Forum (SAYoF)
Private Meeting | Hybrid
Whose digital revolution? Understanding educational access and inclusivity in the Global South
Host: Breakthrough India
Private Meeting | Online
From land to sky: climate resilience and improved food and water access through gender-sensitive ICT
Host: O Foundation (OFDN) | Ntlafatso Foundation | Southern Africa Youth Forum (SAYoF)
Roundtable | In-Person
Multistakeholder approach on the gender gap on access, use, and development of the internet
Host: Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br)
Roundtable | In-Person
Upgrading a successful alternative university to an integrative knowledge ecosystem for humanities
Host: Institute for Social Sciences & Humanities (ISSR), Iran Academia
Roundtable | In-Person
One sign at a time: protecting deaf communities from digital harm
Host: SecDev Foundation
Roundtable | Online
Connecting the unconnected in Francophone Africa: advocating for a regulatory framework for community networks
Host: AfroLeadership | Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Roundtable | Online
TINAMIT: gaming about media and information literacy in an Indigenous context!
Host: Asociación Comunicares
Tech Demo | In-Person
Digital accessibility: importance and recommendations to achieve it
Host: El Rinconcito Inclusivo
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Holistic care and feminist digital inclusion: experiences of women from community networks in the South
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Cooperativa Sulá Batsú | Rhizomatica
Workshop | In-Person
Blending finance to connect the unconnected
Host: Connect Humanity
Workshop | In-Person
Charging the internet in Asia and Europe? Since when (and why) has it been “free”?
Host: Open Net Korea
Workshop | In-Person
Communities of practice: exchange of community networks best practices
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Rhizomatica
Workshop | In-Person
What’s up with internet access: inequalities and strategies to end the zero-rating model
Host: Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection (IDEC)
Workshop | In-Person
How well is the internet working? Find out with open data
Host: Measurement Lab
Workshop | Online
Artificial Intelligence
Big model, big problems? Responsibly releasing generative AI
Host: Mozilla Foundation
Dialogue | Hybrid
Bad input: how bad data reinforce inequality (film screening and discussion)
Host: Consumer Reports | Kapor Center for Social Impact
Dialogue | In-Person
Fortifying community truth in the age of synthetic media
Host: WITNESS
Dialogue | In-Person
Feminist and antiracist lenses to regulating artificial intelligence in Brazil
Host: Institute for Research on Internet and Society (IRIS) | Instituto Sumaúma
Dialogue | Online
Demystifying AI in Africa: are the continent’s AI policy strategies fit for purpose?
Host: Lawyers Hub Kenya
Dialogue | Online
Anti-caste(ing) artificial intelligence
Host: Access Now
Dialogue | Online
Strategies to limit the use of AI-driven technologies for repressive and authoritarian purposes
Host: Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) | German Federal Foreign Office | Task Force on AI and Human Rights (T-FAIR)
Dialogue | Online
Knowledge exchange for funders and civil society organizations: supporting technical expertise to protect digital rights
Host: Mercator Foundation | European AI & Society Fund
Dialogue | Online
AI ethics in the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region
Host: SMEX
Dialogue | Online
Contending priorities: governing AI (and data) for the benefit of all
Host: Mozilla Foundation | Research ICT Africa
Lightning Talk | Online
We’re not in 1984 anymore: human rights amongst a changing digital reality
Host: Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) | Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)
Lightning Talk | Online
What does it mean when your assistant is an AI – and always a woman?
Host: Breakthrough India
Lightning Talk | Online
Will robots control our children? A case for children’s rights in AI
Host: Getting There Consulting
Lightning Talk | Online
Algorithms in the state: how to articulate evidence-based governance and transparency
Host: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI)
Private Meeting | In-Person
Engagement on our terms! A civil society manifesto for meaningful engagement in AI
Host: European Center for Not-For-Profit Law (ECNL)
Private Meeting | Online
AI accountability policy: for proof of trustworthiness before and after release
Host: National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) | U.S. Department of Commerce
Roundtable | Hybrid
The devil is in the details: interrogating values embedded in predictive risk assessment tools
Host: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) | Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG)
Roundtable | In-Person
The scramble for standards: navigating the global competition to govern AI
Host: University of California, Los Angeles, Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy
Roundtable | In-Person
From DALL-E to ChatGPT: is generative AI a promised land or a poisoned chalice?
Host: Newcastle University | University of Sussex | CREATE (Glasgow) | University of Edinburgh
Roundtable | In-Person
A policy blueprint for regulating algorithmic management
Host: University of Oxford
Roundtable | Online
Beyond the Amazon: creating collective strategies to track the climate crisis in Latin America using AI
Host: Data Crítica
Roundtable | Online
Real rules for fake media: synthetic media governance in the era of deepfakes
Host: Partnership on AI
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Ethical AI and telehealth in Africa: addressing legal and implementation challenges
Host: Young African Policy Research Hub (YAPORH)
Lightning Talk | Online
An Afro-feminist approach to rethinking AI governmentality in Africa: building towards a strategy
Host: Pollicy
Workshop | In-Person
EDIA: assessing stereotypes and discrimination in artificial intelligence
Host: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) | Fundación Vía Libre | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Workshop | In-Person
Exploring the values that will shape AI for a better internet
Host: Creative Commons | Internet Archive | Movement for a Better Internet | Public Knowledge
Workshop | In-Person
Helping products support a right to explanation: an AI explainability design toolkit
Host: Google
Workshop | Online
Business, Labor, and Trade
The 2023 AGM for Big Tech: is this the year we (finally) enforce accountability?
Host: Access Now | Investor Alliance for Human Rights (IAHR)
Dialogue | Hybrid
Rethinking transparency reporting
Host: Ofcom
Dialogue | In-Person
Human rights and environmental due diligence: regulation and realities
Host: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC)
Dialogue | In-Person
How do activists take the private sector on board in promoting digital rights in Asia?
Host: Open Net Korea | Open Culture Foundation (OCF)
Dialogue | In-Person
Tech at the intersection of migration and labor abuses: enabling interventions to respect human rights
Host: Alan Turing Institute
Dialogue | In-Person
Too small to count, too big to ignore: scrutinizing tech companies in the Majority World
Host: Internews | Ranking Digital Rights
Dialogue | In-Person
A cashless supply chain: exploring the shift to digital wage payments in the fashion industry
Host: Clean Clothes Campaign | Wikirate
Dialogue | Online
The great human rights recession of social media companies and its impacts on rights defenders
Host: American Bar Association Center for Human Rights (ABA CHR)
Dialogue | Online
Strength in numbers: reimagining the digital economy through a cooperative lens
Host: Co-operatives UK | Digital Futures Lab
Dialogue | Online
Workers for the win: building the Driver Advisory Council
Host: Aapti Institute
Lightning Talk | Online
Human touch: India’s small town women workers train algorithms
Host: Independent
Lightning Talk | Online
Comparative review of regulatory tools with human rights aims
Host: Cisco
Private Meeting | Hybrid
Tackling the hard questions: a dialogue between defenders and companies to strengthen stakeholder engagement
Host: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) | The B Team
Private Meeting | In-Person
Seeking multilateralism in the platform economy: strategies to promote workers rights in the Global South
Host: Fairwork | TEDIC
Private Meeting | Online
Non-discrimination by design: how digital labor platforms can combat gender-based bias and violence
Host: Fairwork | TEDIC
Roundtable | Hybrid
Building power over Amazon: from working conditions to police contracts to monopoly power
Host: Athena Coalition | MediaJustice
Roundtable | Hybrid
Civil society feedback on PAI’s worker-centric, responsible data enrichment guidelines and resources
Host: Partnership on AI
Roundtable | In-Person
How civil society data on forced labor and exploitation can guide corporate human rights risk assessments
Host: Freedom Collaborative
Roundtable | In-Person
Money on the web is broken and exclusionary – but these projects are fixing that
Host: Interledger Foundation (ILP)
Roundtable | In-Person
Decentralising digital environmental rights through circular economy and human rights-centered sustainable design solutions: insights from India
Host: Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) | Council for Social and Digital Development (CSDD) | Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
Roundtable | Online
Aligning development finance with digital rights: moving towards responsible decision-making
Host: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Paradigm Initiative | KfW Development Bank
Roundtable | Online
A digital economy for all Latin America: developing a legal framework for citizens and entrepreneurs
Host: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Roundtable | Online
Reclaiming and building worker power in an age of workplace surveillance
Host: Humanity in Action
Roundtable | Online
#QuestionHour: how can we hold corporations accountable in the MENA region?
Host: Access Now | The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP)
Roundtable | Online
Transforming technology frameworks for human rights and earth justice
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) | Latin American Institute of Terraforming
Workshop | In-Person
Deep pocket inspection: the promises and perils of ESG standards for digital rights
Host: Ranking Digital Rights | Investor Alliance for Human Rights (IAHR)
Workshop | In-Person
Human rights and trade controls: transactional due diligence best practices
Host: IBM
Workshop | In-Person
Peeking behind the curtain: how companies respond to government demands
Host: Global Network Initiative (GNI)
Workshop | In-Person
David vs. Goliath, Inc. – how can civil society use competition frameworks to challenge big tech?
Host: ARTICLE 19 | Privacy International
Workshop | Online
B-Tech Africa: advocacy and engagement on technology company conduct on human rights
Host: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Workshop | Online
Gender perspective in AI crowd work: towards a forum on feminist crowd work policies
Host: Puentech Lab | Public Interest Technology (PIT) Policy Lab
Workshop | Online
Is it safe? Mitigating against the mental toll of fact-checking harmful content
Host: Meedan
Workshop | Online
Conflict and Humanitarian Action
Challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities in humanitarian data: emerging data stewardship models for crisis-affected communities
Host: Collaborative Cash Delivery Network (CCD)
Dialogue | Hybrid
Digital torture: combatting the authoritarian regimes’ practices of publishing “confession” videos
Host: Human Constanta | Justice for Iran | Safeguard Defenders | World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Dialogue | Hybrid
Ten years on: the impact of online denial of chemical attacks on Syrian victims – whose responsibility?
Host: The Syria Campaign (TSC)
Dialogue | Hybrid
Don’t wait for Hercules: lessons from Ukraine on slaying the disinformation Hydra
Host: National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International Forum on Democratic Studies (IFDS)
Dialogue | In-Person
How to deal with disinformation? Lessons from multistakeholder collaboration in Ukraine and beyond
Host: Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs | International Media Support (IMS)
Dialogue | In-Person
Countering digital authoritarianism through enhanced value chain due diligence in conflict-affected areas
Host: Access Now | Heartland Initiative
Dialogue | In-Person
Addressing the deterioration of digital civic space and media in Afghanistan
Host: University of California, Irvine
Dialogue | Online
Humanity and crises: the role of ICTs in sustainable disaster management
Host: Internet Society (Ghana Chapter) | Centre for Youth Empowerment and Leadership (CYEL)
Dialogue | Online
Disinformation as a tool of war: the case of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Host: Atlantic Council, Digital Forensic Research Lab
Dialogue | Online
Migrants at risk: addressing the international data sharing of Mexicans and Central Americans
Host: Access Now | R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales | SocialTIC | Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados México
Dialogue | Online
Encyclopedia of war: addressing and mitigating risks to the Wikimedia community during the war in Ukraine
Host: Wikimedia Foundation
Dialogue | Online
Social media in crisis: how the Oversight Board is approaching crisis and conflict
Host: Oversight Board
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Shall we forget? Open source platforms as tools for memory, truth, and reconciliation
Host: Wikimedia Foundation
Lightning Talk | In-Person
My home away from home: a care center for LGBTIQ+ people
Host: Diálogo Diverso
Lightning Talk | Online
Stopping killer robots: prohibiting the use of lethal autonomous weapons systems
Host: Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
Lightning Talk | Online
How to beat a Centaur? Fighting back intrusive border management tech in Greece
Host: Homo Digitalis
Lightning Talk | Online
Protecting people on the move online and the need for cross-sector collaboration
Host: Meta
Private Meeting | Hybrid
Crazy little thing called lie: responsibility for disinformation in wartime
Host: Digital Security Lab Ukraine
Private Meeting | In-Person
“I am the border”: use of increasingly invasive surveillance technologies on refugees and migrants
Host: Localization Lab | York University, Refugee Law Lab
Roundtable | Hybrid
Should I stay or should I go? Responsible exit in the ICT industry
Host: Ericsson | Telenor
Roundtable | Hybrid
Privacy-preserving aid-distribution: what harms and needs did we miss?
Host: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security | International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Roundtable | In-Person
Content governance in times of crisis: what are platforms responsibilities under international humanitarian and human rights law?
Host: Access Now
Roundtable | In-Person
State violence across borders: racial profiling and the assumption of guilt
Host: Airwars
Roundtable | Online
Dude, where’s my satellite? Using satellite technology to re-establish internet access after disasters
Host: Internet Society Foundation
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Personal data in Ukrainian wartime politics
Host: CHESNO Movement
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Content governance in crises or crises of content governance? States’ role in ensuring information access
Host: OSCE
Workshop | In-Person
Developing tech solutions during humanitarian and conflict-related crises
Host: Internet Sans Frontières
Workshop | In-Person
Helping activists stay digitally connected and protected during times of difficulty
Host: ExpressVPN
Workshop | In-Person
When personal data collection in crisis contexts goes wrong
Host: Access Now | Human Rights Watch | Privacy International | Oxfam International | International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Workshop | In-Person
Keeping the digital peace: monitoring social media peace agreements
Host: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD)
Workshop | Online
Two sides of the coin? AI and automated decisions in the civil and military spheres
Host: Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
Workshop | Online
Content Governance and Disinformation
Facebook: deadly by design
Host: Foxglove
Dialogue | Hybrid
Towards a Global Declaration on Information Integrity Online
Host: Government of Canada, Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
Dialogue | Hybrid
Strategic litigation against online platforms: how to pursue accountability without threatening freedom of expression
Host: ARTICLE 19
Dialogue | Hybrid
Demystifying self-regulation models for tech accountability
Host: Digital Rights Foundation
Dialogue | In-Person
Action beyond moderation: applying monitoring methods to journalism and activism
Host: Internews | OpenArchive
Dialogue | In-Person
Algorithmic content curation’s impact on health information: what is at stake?
Host: RNW Media
Dialogue | In-Person
From Brussels, with love? The import of the Digital Services Act in Latin America
Host: Access Now
Dialogue | In-Person
Weary giants of flesh and steel: mapping the kaleidoscope of platform regulation
Host: Global Partners Digital (GPD) | Chatham House
Dialogue | Online
Protecting young people’s right to health online: holding social media giants accountable
Host: Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) | STOPAIDS | The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Digital Health and Rights Project
Dialogue | Online
Climatic opportunism: online and offline disinformation to hide the ecocide in the Venezuelan Amazon
Host: ProBox | Data Crítica | Cazadores de Fake News | Asociación Civil Medianálisis | Cocuyo Chequea | El Estímulo
Dialogue | Online
Life or death: why thinking about health misinformation through a gendered lens matters
Host: Meedan
Dialogue | Online
Diasporic narratives: addressing transnational disinformation in Asian and American communities
Host: Asian American Disinformation Table
Dialogue | Online
Beyond social media: the conundrums of moderation elsewhere in the stack
Host: Digital Trust & Safety Partnership (DTSP) | Zoom
Dialogue | Online
Expanding beyond takedowns: developing rights-respecting tools to address misinformation and disinformation
Host: Google | Justitia
Dialogue | Online
Building democratic resilience by understanding the abuse of digital technology
Host: Taiwan AI Labs
Tech Demo | In-Person
How multi-media fact-checks on a fact-checking chatbot
Host: Cofacts
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Manifesto for sex positive social media
Host: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)
Lightning Talk | Online
Building a coalition for digital platform regulation: taking forward the guidelines for regulating digital platforms
Host: UNESCO
Private Meeting | Hybrid
The future of sexual and reproductive health content moderation: a stakeholder dialogue
Host: Center for Intimacy Justice
Private Meeting | In-Person
Do know harm: reframing platform responsibilities for a safer online ecosystem
Host: Meedan
Private Meeting | In-Person
Platform policies and sex workers’ rights
Host: European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance (ESWA)
Private Meeting | In-Person
Canaries in the digital coal mine: understanding sex work, adult content, and online repression and resistance
Host: European Sex Workers Rights Alliance (ESWA)
Roundtable | Hybrid
In defense of democracy and the open internet: alliances between Big Tech and civil society in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region
Host: Google | Open Net Korea
Roundtable | Hybrid
Future-proofing digital platform regulation: anticipating new tech and risks, setting guardrails
Host: UNESCO
Roundtable | In-Person
Cross-country collaboration and machine learning to empower diaspora and migrant communities to counter misinformation
Host: Meedan | VERA Files | Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO) Tayo Help Desk
Roundtable | In-Person
Fair enough? What’s next for appeals systems and transparency?
Host: Oversight Board
Roundtable | In-Person
How legislation in the EU impacts the Global South
Host: 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media
Roundtable | In-Person
Neither China, nor Silicon Valley: a regulatory initiative from Latin America and the Caribbean
Host: Observacom
Roundtable | In-Person
Unique Media Identifiers: why we need them and what they could look like
Host: Global Media Registry (GMR)
Roundtable | In-Person
Content moderation at the infrastructure level and its impact on business and human rights
Host: ARTICLE 19 | Cross Community Working Party on ICANN's Corporate and Social. Responsibility to Respect Human Rights (CCWP-HR)
Roundtable | Online
Information disorder in the MENA region: the challenge of Arabic language and dialects
Host: Hivos
Roundtable | Online
Bringing participatory democracy to content moderation
Host: Independent
Tech Demo | Online
From hashtags to harm: understanding the multi-platform landscape of disordered eating online
Host: Graphika
Lightning Talk | Online
Removing barriers to climate action: practical solutions for moderating climate misinformation
Host: BSR
Workshop | In-Person
Protecting abortion online: tools and strategies to counter digital suppression
Host: Amnesty International (USA) | Women on Web | Reproaction | Center for Intimacy Justice (CJA) | Plan C
Workshop | In-Person
Content moderation infrastructure for decentralized social media
Host: Meedan
Workshop | In-Person
Developing the San José Principles on content recommendation
Host: Mozilla Foundation
Workshop | In-Person
English in, gibberish out: mistranslation as social media’s de facto policy for the Global Majority
Host: Localization Lab
Workshop | In-Person
Online content moderation: let’s play “Social Media Against Humanity (Ads Edition)”
Host: Embajadores de Internet
Workshop | In-Person
Social media content collection and analysis using digital tools
Host: Annir Initiative
Workshop | In-Person
Making the case: best practices for user appeals
Host: Oversight Board
Workshop | Online
Shaping Instagram’s approach to ranking and recommendations
Host: Meta
Workshop | Online
Transparency beyond social media: a practical exploration of recommendation algorithms
Host: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) | Mozilla Foundation | Convocation Design + Research
Workshop | Online
Cyber Norms and Encryption
Advancing opportunities and responsibilities for a peaceful, safer and right-respecting cyberspace: a multi-stakeholder approach
Host: Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dialogue | Hybrid
Cybercrimes laws in the MENA region: a growing threat to freedom of expression
Host: Access Now
Dialogue | In-Person
A digital responsibility to protect? Lessons learned from the 2022 cyberattacks in Costa Rica
Host: University for Peace (UPEACE)
Dialogue | In-Person
Revisiting the Freedom Online Coalition’s Working Group on “An Internet Free and Secure”
Host: Independent
Dialogue | In-Person
Safeguards as enabler of effective criminal justice on cybercrime
Host: Council of Europe | Public Ministry of Costa Rica
Dialogue | In-Person
Preventive measures are the best remedy: a dialogue with Global South cybersecurity authorities
Host: Access Now
Dialogue | In-Person
Updates from Libya: the Cybercrime Law and new restrictions in human rights
Host: Annir Initiative
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Kittens, bears, pandas: navigating the zoo of nation-state cyber attacks
Host: Human Rights Watch | Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) | Recorded Future
Lightning Talk | In-Person
APKs by APTs: a look into state funded Android spyware in east Asia
Host: Interlab
Lightning Talk | Online
Some can’t do with, many can’t do without: encryption, emerging challenges and potential solutions
Host: Access Now | Global Encryption Coalition
Private Meeting | Online
Cyberwar in Ukraine: the roles, responsibilities, and accountability required by international law
Host: University of California, Berkeley, Human Rights Center (HRC)
Roundtable | Hybrid
A global cybercrime convention: where is it going?
Host: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Roundtable | In-Person
Confronting cybercrime laws and human rights abuse, a local to global discussion
Host: ARTICLE 19 | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Roundtable | In-Person
Cybersecurity, cybercrime, and the role of policymakers
Host: Independent
Workshop | In-Person
Tools for enhancing personal protection on encrypted messaging platforms with secure and trusted design
Host: Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) | Convocation Design + Research | Tech Policy Press
Workshop | In-Person
A framework for developing gender-responsive cybersecurity policy
Host: Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
Workshop | Online
Data Protection
Internet service providers and data privacy rights: challenges, trends, and ways forward in Latin America and Spain
Host: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Dialogue | Hybrid
Promoting trust in law enforcement and national security: international developments in safeguards, oversight, and redress
Host: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties
Dialogue | Hybrid
Reimagine data rights now! protecting individual data isn’t enough when the harm is collective
Host: Connected by Data | Luminate
Dialogue | Hybrid
A green new frontier: instilling rights-based governance in the environmental data ecosystem
Host: Connected by Data | Open Environmental Data Project | Aapti Institute
Dialogue | In-Person
Pitch perfect: harmonizing data protection laws and collaborating to protect human rights
Host: Freedom House
Dialogue | In-Person
Protecting personal data in Africa: challenges and opportunities
Host: Give1Project Gambia
Dialogue | In-Person
The need to safeguard personal data: encryption applied to the Internet of Things design
Host: Institute for Research on Internet and Society (IRIS)
Dialogue | In-Person
Who’s got my data? Data protection in a time of public service digitization
Host: Access Now
Dialogue | In-Person
Data protection barriers: how to work in the context of government pressure?
Host: Human Rights Consulting Group
Dialogue | In-Person
Climate action data governance
Host: Open Data Charter
Dialogue | Online
Aborting surveillance: pathways for protecting reproductive rights in the face of technologies
Host: Law and Technology Research Institute of Recife (IP.rec) | State University of Campinas
Dialogue | Online
Digital health and data protection regulation: insights from the Kenyan health sector
Host: Strathmore University, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT)
Dialogue | Online
Data and technology in pregnancy and maternal healthcare: exploring the privacy and human rights implications
Host: Privacy International
Dialogue | Online
The Racial Justice Dashboard: pursuing racial justice through data in Europe and Latin America
Host: Data-Pop Alliance | African Futures Lab
Tech Demo | In-Person
Looking beyond: where next for data use and regulation?
Host: Ada Lovelace Institute
Lightning Talk | Online
Stop sharing my health data: building privacy-based governance on secondary use of Taiwan’s national database
Host: Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR)
Lightning Talk | Online
Can the right to privacy include non-traditional families?
Host: Hidden Pockets Collective
Lightning Talk | Online
The digital cradle: my quest to balance human rights in digital caregiving
Host: Taraaz
Lightning Talk | Online
Unmasking the digital economy: Indigenous sovereignty in a time of datafication and artificial intelligence (AI)
Host: Queen's University at Kingston
Lightning Talk | Online
The impact of UNDRIP in data legislation: influencing digital (and non-digital) territories in Canada
Host: Indigenous Friends Association
Lightning Talk | Online
Youth speak out: creating a fairer data future
Host: Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data | Youth for Privacy | Restless Development
Private Meeting | In-Person
Tierra Común: what do we need to rebuild digital territories? Conversation with artists, academics, and activists
Host: Rhizomatica | Indigenous Friends Association | Magtayaní | Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC) | Red Feminista de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial (f<A+i>r) | Tierra Común
Roundtable | Hybrid
Interoperability: from buzzword to a map of solutions
Host: Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) Law School, Center for Technology and Society (CTS)
Roundtable | Hybrid
Environmental activism, data transparency, and digital security: a pathway via Escazú Agreement
Host: Data Privacy Brasil Research Association | Instituto Nupef
Roundtable | In-Person
Data localization and human rights
Host: Cisco
Roundtable | In-Person
Towards a more diverse and inclusive “Open Definition”
Host: Open Knowledge Foundation
Roundtable | In-Person
Privacy, equity, and civil rights in a global conversation
Host: National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Roundtable | In-Person
Data protection legislation in Africa: an open discussion
Host: Independent
Roundtable | Online
Health platformization: concerns and digital health systems in perspective
Host: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)
Roundtable | Online
Collective, democratic, and just: towards a new global agenda on data governance policy and practice
Host: Aapti Institute | Connected by Data | Research ICT Africa | Datasphere Initiative
Roundtable | Online
Privacy and safety: harmonizing user needs without sacrificing duty
Host: Discord
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Data protection tribunals: a novel proposal to sidestep standing barriers and hold Big Tech accountable
Host: Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Community generated data, Indigenous data sovereignty, and defending Indigenous peoples’ rights
Host: Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) | International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) | The Indigenous Navigator
Workshop | In-Person
Are our kids safe in school online? Mobilizing parents and teachers to protect children’s data
Host: Human Rights Watch
Workshop | In-Person
Resisting the weaponization of data protection: how to push back on oligarchs
Host: Civil Liberties Union for Europe | Transparency International
Workshop | In-Person
Targeting telcommunications companies: how carriers profit from surveillance advertising and what to do about it
Host: Ranking Digital Rights
Workshop | In-Person
From South Africa to the US: how data collection can reproduce marginalization and coloniality
Host: OpenSecrets | Our Data Bodies
Workshop | In-Person
Reproductive justice and surveillance advertising: how can we hold Big Tech accountable?
Host: Accountable Tech
Workshop | In-Person
DataBody Futures: centering respect and integrity in the digital world
Host: Mozilla Foundation | The Engine Room
Workshop | Online
Fighting discrimination and inequalities promoted by behavioral advertising targeted at children and teenagers
Host: Alana Institute
Workshop | Online
How do we make surveillance capitalism too expensive to thrive? Undermining the business model
Host: Eticas Tech | Ashoka | Build Up
Workshop | Online
Digital Security for Communities
Supporting the ethical cyber capacity-building project model: issues and opportunities
Host: Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE)
Dialogue | Hybrid
Digital security and sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America and the Caribbean
Host: Digital Defenders Partnership
Dialogue | In-Person
A new look at Content Management Systems
Host: Greenhost
Dialogue | In-Person
Digital security research in Latin America should not be a crime
Host: Access Now | Fundación Karisma
Dialogue | In-Person
Navigating a rocky landscape: recommitting to risk mapping as a cornerstone of digital security support
Host: Information Ecology | Security Matters
Dialogue | In-Person
The role of free and open source software for digital resilience of civil society
Host: The Tor Project
Dialogue | In-Person
Sharing practices in a global community of feminist helplines addressing gender-based violence online
Host: Independent
Dialogue | Online
Navigating cybersecurity risks: a look at the challenges faced by sex workers
Host: The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA Asia)
Dialogue | Online
The potential for African Wikimedian communities to bridge the knowledge gap about digital security
Host: Global Voices | Igbo Wikimedians User Group | Twi Wikimedians User Group
Dialogue | Online
Cross-country collaborations for maintaining digital security in a conflict-affected region
Host: Digital Security Lab Ukraine | Media Diversity Institute (MDI) Armenia | Human Constanta
Dialogue | Online
Don’t let fear stop you: tips for safe sexting
Host: Access Now
Dialogue | Online
Tech care: a step-by-step guide to providing support for civil society
Host: Digital Defenders Partnership
Dialogue | Online
People and protocols for change: get to know the I2P network
Host: Independent
Tech Demo | In-Person
Circulo: safety starts with community
Host: Guardian Project
Tech Demo | In-Person
Become an environmental defender in the Amazon or stay safe?
Host: Hivos
Lightning Talk | In-Person
(In)visibility: contextualizing digital security for Muslim human rights defenders in the Horn of Africa
Host: Pollicy
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Unhooked! Bringing anti-phishing education to all
Host: Horizontal
Tech Demo | Online
Bringing Security Operations Center as a Service (SOCaaS) into the civic space
Host: Internews
Tech Demo | Online
Diagnose and troubleshoot digital security incidents with the Digital First Aid Kit
Host: CiviCERT | RaReNET
Tech Demo | Online
Trust, shared: community-driven evaluation and moderation for human rights technology
Host: Greenhost
Private Meeting | In-Person
Innovating in digital forensics: ways forward to increase collaboration and amplify impact
Host: SocialTIC | Amnesty International
Private Meeting | In-Person
Impact of the Rapid Response Fund in Latin America
Host: Derechos Digitales
Private Meeting | In-Person
Rainbow revolution: navigating social media and dating apps with pride
Host: The Bachchao Project
Private Meeting | Online
Maria d’Ajuda: a feminist helpline from Brazil
Host: Marialab
Roundtable | In-Person
Equality insights: a data-driven platform for LGBTQ+ mental health and safety in Kenya
Host: galck+
Roundtable | In-Person
An onion a day keeps the police away: resisting surveillance with Tor and onion services
Host: The Tor Project
Roundtable | In-Person
Beyond looking at the coyotuber’s tips: possible risks of internet surfing practices of in-transit migrants
Host: Centro LATAM Digital
Roundtable | In-Person
How and why we built a 50 person network of digital security practitioners in Africa
Host: Digital Society of Africa
Roundtable | In-Person
“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”: but really, how can CISA support your community?
Host: Government of the United States, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Roundtable | In-Person
Digital security for activists and journalists in the MENA region
Host: Independent
Roundtable | In-Person
Equipping human rights defenders for the digital age
Host: DefendDefenders
Lightning Talk | Online
SimpleX Chat: the first messaging platform without user IDs – protecting participant identities
Host: SimpleX Chat
Lightning Talk | Online
A predator in your pocket: how to detect and remove stalkerware and surveillance apps
Host: Google
Lightning Talk | Online
Contribute to the Tor Network for better online anonymity
Host: Derechos Digitales | The Tor Project
Tech Demo | Online
How to train your dragon: a workshop on organizational holistic security protocols
Host: Access Now
Workshop | In-Person
Women in the focus of the objective: digital surveillance, security and mental health
Host: IREX
Workshop | In-Person
Bridging the gap from rapid response to long-term accompaniment
Host: Fundación Karisma | Information Ecology
Workshop | In-Person
Combatting cross-cultural security nihilism
Host: Internews | Freedom of the Press Foundation
Workshop | In-Person
Data and action: using data analysis for incident response and threat prevention
Host: Center for Digital Resilience
Workshop | In-Person
Deceiving author profiling
Host: Université de Lausanne (UNIL)
Workshop | In-Person
How to CERT: a community-centric approach to build a digital resilient diaspora movement
Host: Tibet Action Institute
Workshop | In-Person
Preparing for the worst: what to do before, during, and after an arrest
Host: Access Now
Workshop | In-Person
Opening the code of the transfeminist methodology “Infrastructures of Affection”
Host: Transfeminist Network of Digital Care (TFN) | Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
Workshop | Online
Lost (and found) in translation: lessons in localizing privacy and safety resources
Host: Access Now | Digital Defenders Partnership | Localization Lab | PEN America | The Tor Project | Consumer Reports
Workshop | Online
Abortion justice: building a creative, supportive, and secure ecosystem
Host: Numun Fund | International Network for the Reduction of Abortion Discrimination and Stigma (inroads)
Workshop | Online
Help your local defender: building and maintaining local, volunteer-run digital safety helplines
Host: Computer Professionals' Union (CPU)
Workshop | Online
Building safer spaces: introduction to digital risk management and cybersecurity awareness
Host: CyberPeace Institute | CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation | United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA)
Workshop | Online
Emerging Tech
How can the decentralized web best support human right organizations
Host: Filecoin Foundation (FF)
Dialogue | In-Person
The promise and peril of immersive technologies: accessibility, privacy, and discrimination
Host: Future of Privacy Forum (FPF)
Dialogue | In-Person
The walking dystopia: what design, standards, privacy and property rights can do for the metaverse
Host: Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society | Video Game and XR Policy Working Group | XR Guild
Dialogue | Online
Challenges and opportunities in Web3 philanthropy
Host: Numun Fund
Dialogue | Online
Translate what you see and navigate a multilingual world with Google Lens
Host: Google
Tech Demo | In-Person
Preparing for the quantum burst
Host: Future of Privacy Forum (FPF)
Lightning Talk | Online
Electrifying the future: clean the air, save the planet, and kill your privacy
Host: Unflappy
Lightning Talk | Online
The eyes have it: deep dive into eye tracking and mental privacy in extended reality
Host: XR Guild
Lightning Talk | Online
The rights of patients: using XR for inclusion in healthcare
Host: XR Association
Roundtable | Online
Everything, everywhere, all at once: a report on risks, opportunities, and possible metaverse futures
Host: Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society | Video Game and XR Policy Working Group
Roundtable | Online
To condense fact from the vapor of nuance: building a Wiki for the metaverse
Host: Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio)
Roundtable | Online
Can crypto currencies solve the climate crisis?
Host: Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF)
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Co-creating the online spaces we want in a (fe)diverse and decentralized internet
Host: Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) | European Center for Not-For-Profit Law (ECNL)
Workshop | In-Person
Stakeholder dialogue: towards a rights-based vision of the metaverse
Host: ARTICLE 19 (Mexico and Central America) | Rathenau Instituut
Workshop | In-Person
Can you host the metaverse? How learned helplessness from Big Tech made you believe you can’t
Host: Independent
Workshop | Online
Freedom of the Media
Getting through “digital curtain”: mapping solutions to leverage technology to access reliable information
Host: Press Club Belarus
Dialogue | Hybrid
Sustainability and public interest: crafting journalism remuneration models in the digital sphere
Host: InternetLab | Forum for Sustainability of Public Interest Journalism
Dialogue | Hybrid
Big Tech versus newsrooms: when social media threatens journalism
Host: Media Matters for Democracy
Dialogue | In-Person
Extreme pressure: finding innovative solutions to strengthen journalism in exile
Host: Deutsche Welle Akademie
Dialogue | In-Person
De-junking your news feed: how “digital trust” initiatives seek to improve the online news ecosystem
Host: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
Dialogue | In-Person
Breaking the chains of impunity: innovations for journalists’ and activists’ safety in Africa
Host: Netrights Africa Coalition
Dialogue | In-Person
Collaborative gourmet journalism recipes with Central American flavor
Host: Confidencial Nicaragua | La Voz de Guanacaste | Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), Interferencia de Radios
Dialogue | In-Person
How to defend freedom of the media in the era of Pegasus espionage?
Host: El Faro
Dialogue | In-Person
The exile of journalists in Latin America: without sufficient support and an uncertain future
Host: Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
Dialogue | In-Person
Take a deep breath: strategies to support the mental health of journalists under online attack
Host: Vita Activa | International Women's Media Foundation (IWFM) | OnlineSOS | Coalition Against Online Violence (CAOV)
Dialogue | Online
The missing voices of women journalists in climate crisis reporting
Host: Independent
Dialogue | Online
Open journalism: why many newsrooms open and share their content, and how you can help!
Host: Creative Commons | The Conversation | Open Newswire
Dialogue | Online
Politics of the corrupt: journalism is not a crime
Host: Independent
Dialogue | Online
Same threats, new elections: defending media freedom online during elections in Africa
Host: Open Internet for Democracy Initiative | Media Rights Agenda
Dialogue | Online
How to blow the whistle: helping workers hold bad actors accountable
Host: The Signals Network
Dialogue | Online
Whistleblowers in prison: what happens when media sources do time?
Host: Whistleblower & Source Protection Program (WHISPeR) at ExposeFacts
Dialogue | Online
Mental health services for reporters: the only way forward
Host: Global Press
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Fire(wall) fighting: letting people see more than one point of view
Host: Deutsche Welle | BBC
Lightning Talk | In-Person
The digital blockade on freedom of the media in Saudi Arabia
Host: European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR)
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Arab voices: a 25-year journey
Host: Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Minorities in Albania through media
Host: Internews | Community Reporters Albania
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Encryption: toolkits and interventions for the media
Host: DNS Africa Media and Communications | Global Encryption Coalition | KOBOKINGs Limited | Community NetHUBs Africa
Tech Demo | Online
Political Pulse: a journalism tool to burst filter bubbles and monitor debates on social media
Host: Deutsche Welle Akademie | Núcleo Jornalismo
Tech Demo | Online
Citizen-based satellite TV channel for the masses: the story of Sudan Bukra
Host: Sudan Bukra
Lightning Talk | Online
How to increase transparency in sharing authoritarian state media content
Host: Doublethink Lab
Roundtable | Hybrid
Assessing regulatory interventions into the platform-press relationship
Host: University of California, Los Angeles, Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy | Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic Coalition on the Sustainability of Journalism and News Media (DC-Sustainability)
Roundtable | In-Person
Teaching journalists digital security in virtual reality? Delivering peer-to-peer training based on immersive experiences
Host: University of California, Los Angeles, Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy | Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic Coalition on the Sustainability of Journalism and News Media (DC-Sustainability)
Roundtable | In-Person
Content might be king but monetizing it might just be a fable
Host: Independent
Roundtable | Online
Creating a regulatory governance tool for independent journalists on an international scale
Host: Independent Monitor for the Press (Impress)
Roundtable | Online
Tech sanctions killing antimilitary voices
Host: RosKomSvoboda | Mass Media Defence Centre
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Learn how Google Pinpoint can help journalists and researchers harness the power of AI
Host: Google
Tech Demo | In-Person
Guiding you through GlobaLeaks: the free and open source software for whistleblowers worldwide
Host: GlobaLeaks
Tech Demo | Online
Climate on the move: telling migration and climate change stories to protect human rights
Host: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) | Periodistas por el Planeta (PxP)
Workshop | In-Person
Understanding exiled media: an African perspective
Host: Sudd Press Limited
Workshop | In-Person
Uniting journalists against military aggression: share experiences and find your next ideas for investigative collaboration
Host: Radio Free Europe
Workshop | In-Person
We’re all visual journalists now: skilling up for multimedia storytelling
Host: Canva
Workshop | In-Person
Securing journalism: the importance of encryption in protecting media freedom
Host: Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
Workshop | Online
Futures, Fictions, and Creativity
Art in the age of automatic production: regulation and social implications
Host: Access Now | PEN America
Dialogue | In-Person
Alternative imaginations: Big Tech ownership of African internet infrastructure
Host: Independent
Tech Demo | Online
Culture, climate, and decolonization: how open knowledge and data sovereignty contribute to global issues
Host: Curationist
Lightning Talk | Online
ARTficial intelligence: generative AI ethics and copyright headaches
Host: Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Lightning Talk | Online
Do zombies have human rights? A discussion about identity, the body, and the self
Host: Access Now
Roundtable | Online
Why read when you can play? Games are game changers – here’s how
Host: Noesis Games
Tech Demo | In-Person
Realizing just climate futures: challenging (not so) clean and green tech imaginaries
Host: United Nations University, Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) | United Youth Initiative for Africa (UNIYIA) | Canadian Commission for UNESCO
Workshop | In-Person
Under the sycamore tree: digital tools for storytelling
Host: Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice | Equality Fund | Queerly Stated JA
Workshop | In-Person
AlgoRhythms: algorithmic discrimination in music recommendation systems
Host: InternetLab
Workshop | In-Person
The Open Sky galleries: collaborating with street artists on digital rights activism and activating art
Host: Fundación Internet Bolivia | Curious Shape | Internews
Workshop | In-Person
Artists have digital rights, too: SCP 2.0 and advocating for artistic expression online
Host: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) | Don't Delete Art
Workshop | Online
Co-design session for a “bestiary of cybercrime”: experiments in cybersecurity’s divulgation through art
Host: Independent
Workshop | Online
Kelluwün! Utopias digitales
Host: JAAKLAC Initiative | Causas Digitales
Workshop | Online
Labeling generative AI as a creative act
Host: WITNESS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Co-Creation Studio
Workshop | Online
Threat-casting hope-casting: using sci-fi storytelling and guided meditation to prepare for the future
Host: Independent
Workshop | Online
Governance, Politics, and Elections
2024 global year of democracy: stopping Big Tech from breaking elections worldwide
Host: Digital Action
Dialogue | Hybrid
Why us, why now? Can the global community rally around a democratic digital future?
Host: Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dialogue | Hybrid
Promoting a positive vision for the internet and digital technologies through the Freedom Online Coalition
Host: Freedom Online Coalition (FOC)
Dialogue | Hybrid
Lessons from Kenya’s online harassment of female politicians
Host: One More Percent
Dialogue | In-Person
Getting the laws in check: policymakers push for defending digital rights in Southeast Asia
Host: ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) | Wikimedia Foundation | Access Now
Dialogue | In-Person
The role of parliamentarians on African digital democracy
Host: African Parliamentary Network on Internet Governance (APNIG)
Dialogue | In-Person
Can a free, open, and global internet survive the age of geopolitics?
Host: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Dialogue | In-Person
Public hate speech: state-sponsored propaganda and hate speech in Eastern Europe
Host: Citizen D
Dialogue | In-Person
Digital rights obligations of international bodies
Host: International Justice Resource Center (IJRC)
Dialogue | In-Person
Competition for power: the role of multinational corporations in influencing governance in Africa
Host: Haki na Sheria Initiative (HSI)
Dialogue | In-Person
Digital rights (not) for all: how gaps in EU law perpetuate inequalities and marginalization
Host: Amnesty International
Dialogue | Online
Digital government is not “presenceless”: the global environmental realities of government digital transformation
Host: New York University, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Center (CHRGJ)
Dialogue | Online
From sexual objectification to death threats: protecting electoral officials in the online space
Host: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
Dialogue | Online
Electoral disinformation: lessons learned in LatamChequea about how it travels among countries and undermines democracies
Host: Chequeado
Dialogue | Online
How can cities mainstream human rights in digital tranformation strategies? Lessons from the ground
Host: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) | Cities Coalition for Digital Rights | Development Bank of Latin America (CAF)
Dialogue | Online
Political process monitoring: brainstorming for buy-in
Host: National Democratic Institute (NDI) | Democracy Plus (D+) | Guxo | Association for Democracy in the Maldives (ADM)
Dialogue | Online
Virtual legislatures: using technology to keep governments accountable
Host: Maadhyam
Dialogue | Online
How does misinformation impact the Central American diaspora political participation and voting?
Host: El Faro
Dialogue | Online
Breaking the bureaucracy: bringing new voices to the advocacy table
Host: National Democratic Institute (NDI) | Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) | Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
Dialogue | Online
Let’s make our democracy stronger and more accessible using computers!
Host: TRACODA
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Progress on building an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the information space
Host: Forum on Information and Democracy
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Democratizing access to government budgets and public financial management data
Host: BudgIT Foundation
Tech Demo | In-Person
Up and down: how do media outlets rank in search results during elections?
Host: Internews
Tech Demo | In-Person
Centering human rights in the African Union’s Digital Transformation Strategy
Host: Atlantic Council, Digital Forensic Research Lab
Private Meeting | In-Person
Roadmap for digital rights in India in the run-up to the 2024 general election
Host: Access Now
Private Meeting | In-Person
Governing global digital public goods? Developing a just digital agenda for IBSA leadership of the G20
Host: Derechos Digitales | Research ICT Africa | IT for Change
Private Meeting | In-Person
Governing a trustworthy future web
Host: Atlantic Council, Digital Forensic Research Lab
Private Meeting | In-Person
The future of internet governance: an exchange with the IGF leadership panel
Host: Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel
Roundtable | Hybrid
Ads and Latin American elections: our experience working with Facebook
Host: Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC)
Roundtable | Hybrid
Applying disability-inclusive technology learning to elections
Host: International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
Roundtable | In-Person
Fighting misuse: actionable steps to advance the use of tech to promote democratic norms
Host: International Republican Institute (IRI) | Code for All Network
Roundtable | In-Person
Human rights at stake? Dialoguing about inter-American standards to build a democratic online public debate
Host: Office of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
Roundtable | In-Person
Imagining human rights at home: establishing an American National Human Rights Institute (NHRI)
Host: University of California, Irvine
Roundtable | In-Person
Quantifying rights claims: data tactics for rights and activist organizations to hold governments to account
Host: Amnesty International | American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) | Amnesty International (USA)
Roundtable | In-Person
OFAC this is complicated! A path to rights-respecting sanctions
Host: Access Now | Digital Medusa
Roundtable | In-Person
Reforms in Lebanon: are they real? Local civil society organization hands-on experiences
Host: Gherbal Initiative
Roundtable | In-Person
Shared challenges, shared solutions: international cooperation to regulate and govern AI and digital societies
Host: Club de Madrid (CdM)
Roundtable | Online
Protecting privacy of electoral data and its impact on marginalized communities: a case from Nepal
Host: Body & Data
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Were Twitch Community Guidelines enough during Brazilian and US elections to counter disinformation and discrimination? Identifying and proposing improvements
Host: University of São Paulo (USP)
Lightning Talk | Online
Walk a day in their shoes: making policy to regulate technology
Host: Global Voices
Workshop | In-Person
Might citizen voices be the Trojan horse that drives climate action? A Kenyan case study
Host: Ushahidi
Workshop | Online
Chisel and keyboard: reshaping feminist tech policy for the future of Silicon Valley
Host: Chayn
Workshop | Online
Centering human and civil rights in the content governance fight for U.S. election integrity
Host: Access Now
Workshop | Online
Government data: how to find it, open it, use it, make it last
Host: Open Data Collaboratives | Mobile Web Ghana | Digital Democracy Project
Workshop | Online
Come wrangle a diplomat (intellectually, of course!): Uproar presents a lobbying and advocacy workshop
Host: Small Media Foundation
Workshop | Online
Seeking effective methods for multistakeholder dialogue in Latin America
Host: Derechos Digitales | ThreeFold
Workshop | Online
Human Rights-Centered Design
Dismantling deceptive design practices: a human rights-centered approach
Host: Superbloom
Dialogue | Hybrid
Building open source software for scientific research for low-resourced states
Host: GitHub
Dialogue | In-Person
Right to research in the Global South: is copyright a friend or a foe?
Host: InternetLab
Dialogue | In-Person
Communicating with software engineers: translating jargon across industries
Host: Independent
Dialogue | In-Person
Software patents in the Global South
Host: Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in)
Dialogue | Online
Digital self-determination for persons living with disabilities
Host: Point of View
Dialogue | Online
The process is the product: can technical standards ensure ethical technologies?
Host: Point of View | Rising Flame
Dialogue | Online
Building Laaha: developing a tech product for women and girls in humanitarian settings
Host: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Lightning Talk | In-Person
The keys to the co-creation process of the Care Calculator in Argentina
Host: Wingu
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Developing indexes on internet platform data for social sector research
Host: GitHub
Lightning Talk | Online
Rolling past barriers: how can crowdsourced technologies improve infrastructure for people with disabilities?
Host: KekaMaps
Tech Demo | Online
Radical reimagining: designing for dissident bodies a harassment-free experience in encrypted spaces
Host: The Tor Project | University of Texas at Austin, Propaganda Research Lab
Private Meeting | Hybrid
Gendered interfaces: past, present, and future
Host: Independent
Roundtable | In-Person
A community from the empty space of the digital map creating their own technological solutions
Host: Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC) | Comunidad Erizo Juan Santamaría (EJS) | Laboratorio Experimental
Roundtable | In-Person
Code word, ethics: collaborating on guiding principles for technologists
Host: New America, Digital Impact and Governance Initiative (DIGI)
Roundtable | Online
Designed with kids in mind: youth-led initiatives for youth-centered design in online spaces
Host: Design It For Us
Roundtable | Online
Exploring Co/Act: a human-centered design toolkit for activists
Host: National Democratic Institute (NDI) | Code for All Network
Roundtable | Online
In short: accelerator developing free internet, from human rights activists to enthusiasts for the people
Host: RosKomSvoboda | Privacy Accelerator
Tech Demo | In-Person
Confronting bias in survey methodologies while protecting user rights
Host: RIWI
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Got YouTube regrets? How to crowdsource data to subvert the black box
Host: Mozilla Foundation
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Product safety labels for apps
Host: Internet Safety Labs
Tech Demo | Online
Building a virtuous cycle of digital accessibility at scale
Host: Fable
Lightning Talk | Online
Amplifying and supporting youth voices in Latin America through technology
Host: TikTok
Workshop | In-Person
When platform capitalism and digital fast food beat us: barriers to habituation of digital protection
Host: Fundación Acceso
Workshop | In-Person
Google product manager for a day: building tech solutions for social impact
Host: Google
Workshop | In-Person
The devil’s in the details: adversarial design in action
Host: Internews | Meta | Superbloom | University of California, Berkeley, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)
Workshop | In-Person
Stop scrolling! Start making social media accessible for all
Host: Ability Central | University of California, Los Angeles
Workshop | Online
Web accessibility for open source privacy and security tools: user experiences from people with disabilities
Host: Accessibility Lab
Workshop | Online
Justice, Litigation, and Documentation
Documenting human rights violations in conflict zones: preserving and safeguarding data
Host: Burmese Women's Union (BWU) | Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) | Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO)
Dialogue | Hybrid
The future/s of human rights documentation
Host: HURIDOCS
Dialogue | Hybrid
Legal developments in the “right to be forgotten”
Host: Media Defence
Dialogue | In-Person
“Act” in impact: participatory resource-building to catalyze justice innovations
Host: Ashoka
Dialogue | In-Person
Are we endangering victims instead of protecting them? Tips for safe documentation in the MENA region
Host: MENA Rights Group
Dialogue | In-Person
Beyond open source
Host: SITU Research | University of Chicago Law School
Dialogue | In-Person
Surveillance, intimidation, and legal advocacy: prospects for defending human rights in the MENA region
Host: Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR)
Dialogue | In-Person
Leaving no one behind: achieving universal access through litigation
Host: Independent
Dialogue | In-Person
The role of tech companies in the investigation of international crimes
Host: U.S. Department of State, Office of Global Criminal Justice
Dialogue | In-Person
Adapting open source tools for documentation efforts
Host: Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) | Airwars | The White Helmets
Dialogue | Online
Collaborative learning to strengthen human rights commissions through data-driven tools in 193 countries
Host: University of California, Los Angeles, WORLD Policy Analysis Center | PACER – Partnership to Advance Constitutional Equal Rights
Dialogue | Online
Open source intelligence (OSINT) surveillance in Latin America: overview and policy proposals
Host: Fundación Karisma | ARTICLE 19 (Mexico and Central America)
Dialogue | Online
Suing spies, stopping surveillance: International strategic litigation efforts against spyware technologies
Host: Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA)
Dialogue | Online
Keep the fight in Latin America: sharing experiences against law enforcement use of biometric identification
Host: R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales
Dialogue | Online
Fixing Brazilian democracy: how can diversity defeat hate speech
Host: Código Não Binário (Non-Binary Code)
Lightning Talk | In-Person
MediCapt: leveraging rights-based technology for forensic documentation of sexual violence in the DRC and Kenya
Host: Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
Tech Demo | In-Person
The toll of open source: imagining wellbeing and self care for high risk teams
Host: Amnesty International
Lightning Talk | Online
Has the international legal system failed us? The case of the Uyghurs
Host: Independent
Private Meeting | In-Person
Open source investigations as evidence: methodology review
Host: Bellingcat | Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)
Private Meeting | In-Person
Mnemonic’s research handbook: convening of the External Review Board
Host: Mnemonic
Private Meeting | In-Person
From defamation actions to criminal allegations: resisting growing corporate attacks of human rights defenders
Host: Just Futures Law
Private Meeting | Online
Accountability for Pegasus abuse: international experiences and lessons learned for Thailand
Host: Access Now
Private Meeting | Online
How open source investigations can help combat environmental harms in Latin America
Host: University of California, Berkeley, Human Rights Center (HRC) | University of California, Los Angeles, Promise Institute for Human Rights | University of California, Santa Cruz, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (Huerta Center)
Roundtable | In-Person
Legal Eagles: legal resources available to digital rights activists
Host: Access Now | Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF)
Roundtable | In-Person
Finding clandestine graves: a geospatial model to delimit search areas in Baja California and Michoacan
Host: Data Cívica
Roundtable | In-Person
Developing a regional platform for access to justice’s apps in Latin America and the Caribbean
Host: Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA)
Roundtable | Online
Building a resilient legal force across 11 countries to defend freedom of expression
Host: Blueprint for Free Speech
Roundtable | Online
Myanmar Witness: digital human rights investigation from the ground
Host: Myanmar Witness
Roundtable | Online
Justice ExPEERience: a global open source platform for peer-learning and collaboration on justice and human rights
Host: Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF Belgium)
Tech Demo | Online
Juris: making the law available to everyone in Mozambique with an app
Host: Equip Mozambique | Associação Moçambicana dos Advogados Cristãos (AMAC)
Tech Demo | Online
Too long, didn’t read: using AI to index legal documents
Host: OpenUp
Tech Demo | Online
Lessons from litigating the unlawful use of spyware in the UK
Host: Leigh Day
Lightning Talk | Online
Archiving online evidence: from emerging situations to investigations
Host: Bellingcat
Workshop | In-Person
Solving disconnected strategic litigation funding
Host: Derechos Digitales | Digital Freedom Fund
Workshop | In-Person
Berkeley Protocol in action: successes and challenges for implementing digital investigation standards in Ukraine
Host: University of California, Berkeley, Human Rights Center (HRC)
Workshop | Online
Designing safer visual investigations at scale
Host: Bellingcat | Atlos
Workshop | Online
Developing data models for human rights documentation
Host: HURIDOCS
Workshop | Online
Ola Bini is innocent: a key sentence for the defense of digital rights
Host: Observation Mission of the Ola Bini Case
Workshop | Online
Results from the Colombian Truth Commission: data and software
Host: Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) | EQUITAS
Workshop | Online
When does open source cross the line? Experiences of ethics in open source investigation
Host: Amnesty International
Workshop | Online
Online Hate and Violence
Tackling digital gender violence: strategies for safe online spaces to women and gender minorities
Host: Asociación Centro Ciudadano de Estudios para una Sociedad Abierta (ACCESA)
Dialogue | Hybrid
Protect and respect: technology-facilitated gender-based violence
Host: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Dialogue | Hybrid
Hacking online gender-based violence in Central America
Host: IPANDETEC
Dialogue | In-Person
Resisting marginalization: online hate speech and harassment against LGBTIQ persons in Asia
Host: International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Dialogue | In-Person
Protecting women human rights defenders when harassment goes virtual
Host: CIVICUS | Dutch Embassy in Costa Rica
Dialogue | In-Person
Securing rights in the face of national security: collective action for rights-based counter-terrorism approaches
Host: Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Counter-terrorism | Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
Dialogue | In-Person
How can Indigenous women take control of their narratives?
Host: Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) | East-West Management Institute, Open Development Initiative (ODI)
Dialogue | In-Person
Violence prevention that works: an abolitionist approach to community safety
Host: Defending Rights & Dissent (DRAD)
Dialogue | In-Person
Social media hate machine: can digital peace be achieved?
Host: Concordia University, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS)
Dialogue | In-Person
Gender justice is under attack: is it gender backlash online?
Host: Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
Dialogue | In-Person
Breaking the silence: Central Asian women and online harassment
Host: MediaNet International Centre for Journalism
Dialogue | Online
Boiling point: online hate in the face of the climate emergency
Host: Access Now | Global Witness
Dialogue | Online
Online orchestrated attacks against human rights defenders in Latin America and exclusion in internet governance
Host: ARTICLE 19 (Mexico and Central America) | Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)
Dialogue | Online
Digital gender apartheid: erasure and exclusion of women peacebuilders and human rights defenders online
Host: United Nations University, Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) | Health and Information Literacy Access (HILA) Alliance
Dialogue | Online
Deconstructing online gender-based violence
Host: TechHer Nigeria
Dialogue | Online
From cyberbullying to doxxing: online hate speech against minorities in the MENA region
Host: The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP)
Dialogue | Online
Online privacy invasion as a weapon against women
Host: Government of the United Kingdom, Information Commissioner's Office
Dialogue | Online
Polarization and transphobia: critical views on the advance of anti-trans and anti-gender movements in Mexico
Host: comun.al | Digital Resilience Lab
Dialogue | Online
Cross-sector approaches to human rights due diligence in counterterrorism and counter-extremism efforts online
Host: ARTICLE 19 | BSR | Meta | Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) | United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)
Dialogue | Online
How the war on terrorism and extremism is undermining digital rights around the world
Host: Access Now
Dialogue | Online
Crying shame: the “supply chain” of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)
Host: FactorDaily
Dialogue | Online
How to deal with the source of conflicts? Involving digital media through an innovative tool
Host: Avocats Sans Frontières France (ASF France) | AfricTivistes | Danaïdes
Tech Demo | In-Person
The growth of extremism online and what we can do to stop it
Host: Human Rights First
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Feminisms in AI: measuring gender-based violence in Latin America
Host: DataGénero
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Fighting online gender-based violence (GBV) using Ayeta and RIPOTI platforms
Host: Paradigm Initiative
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Attack detector: how we are detecting and classifying online hate speech in Latin America using AI
Host: Data Crítica
Tech Demo | Online
Keeping online spaces safe for refugees’ political participation
Host: Migrant, Immigrant & Refugee Rights (MIRR) Alliance | Refugees in Libya
Lightning Talk | Online
The price of disinformation online: one refugee’s perspective
Host: Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organisation in Malaysia (MERHROM)
Lightning Talk | Online
Responding to online gender-based violence: co-creating guiding principles for the Global South
Host: Access Now | Point of View | Digital Rights Foundation | Delete Nothing | Hashtag Generation
Private Meeting | Hybrid
¡Digital is real!: accompanying, fighting, resisting and denouncing gender-based violence online
Host: Hiperderecho
Private Meeting | In-Person
Gendered hate speech online: a candid conversation together with civil society organizations
Host: Council of Europe
Roundtable | Hybrid
Identifying un-civil society and online influencers in attacks on 2SLGBTIQ+ communities and potential solutions
Host: University of Toronto, Citizen Lab
Roundtable | In-Person
Fighting the femicide epidemics in Brazil: a tech and data-powered solidarity network
Host: Mapa do Acolhimento | NOSSAS
Roundtable | Online
Hypatia: building a global coaltion to collect, map, and analyze data on violence against women
Host: Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)
Roundtable | Online
Digital rights in Bangladesh: the cases for free speech, hate speech, and minority rights
Host: Digitally Right Limited (DRL)
Roundtable | Online
A digital patriarchal bargain: violence against women in Kenya
Host: Independent
Lightning Talk | Online
Co-designing guidelines with first responders to build scalable escalation channels for targets of online abuse
Host: Meedan
Workshop | In-Person
Digital rupture: dissecting and confronting technology-facilitated gender-based violence in the MENA region
Host: 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media | SMEX | Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA)
Workshop | In-Person
Care practices in feminist accompaniment of digital violence
Host: Luchadoras MX
Workshop | In-Person
A picture’s worth a thousand words: building trauma-informed interventions to image-based abuse
Host: Chayn
Workshop | Online
F*ck it, we’ll do it ourselves: building products to prevent and counter gender-based violence online
Host: Superbloom | TEDIC | World Wide Web Foundation | InternetLab | Social Finance UK
Workshop | In-Person
Networked harassment and algorithmic gender disparities
Host: Alliance4Europe | DISARM Foundation | Operation: SafeEscape
Workshop | Online
We need to talk about misogynoir: detecting and preventing hate against Black women
Host: Glitch
Workshop | Online
Using AI to detect online violence in the MENA region
Host: Democracy Reporting International (DRI) | Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA) | 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media
Workshop | Online
Blind hate: the myth of demographic demise and online safety regulation
Host: Ofcom | Council for Media Services (Slovakia)
Workshop | Online
Gaming the system: how extremists exploit gaming sites and how to counter them
Host: New York University, Stern Center for Business and Human Rights
Workshop | Online
Philanthropy and Organizational Development
Walking new paths: practicing co-leadership for the futures we want
Host: The Engine Room | Fondo de Acción Urgente de América Latina y el Caribe (UAF-LAC) | FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund
Dialogue | Hybrid
Is it output or outcome? Measuring the impact of internet freedom work
Host: Internews
Dialogue | In-Person
So you want to be an Executive Director?
Host: Access Now | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Dialogue | In-Person
Funding and financial strength for digital rights: lessons and opportunities
Host: Ford Foundation | Spring Strategies
Dialogue | In-Person
Propelling people power: trust-based philanthropy in action
Host: WITNESS
Dialogue | Online
Closing civic spaces
Host: Digital Rights Foundation
Private Meeting | In-Person
Central American journalism under attack
Host: Central American Network of Journalists | OHCHR, Regional Office for Central America and the Dominican Republic
Dialogue | In-Person
Deconstructing digital rights fellowships (and re-constructing them)
Host: ARTICLE 19 | Paradigm Initiative | Global Network Initiative (GNI) | Open Technology Fund (OTF)
Private Meeting | Online
Beyond well-written laws: funder interventions for effective implementation and enforcement of tech regulation in Europe
Host: Civitates
Private Meeting | Online
Organizing toward anti-colonial digital futures
Host: European Digital Rights (EDRi) | Digital Freedom Fund
Workshop | In-Person
Making equity real in climate tech and climate justice technologies
Host: The Greenlining Institute
Workshop | In-Person
Free social networks: uses, scope and challenges for our organizations
Host: Sursiendo
Workshop | In-Person
Embodying everyday technology, with a climate justice perspective
Host: The Engine Room
Workshop | Online
Workers of the world unite! Power, accountability, and justice in defense of digital rights
Host: comun.al | Digital Resilience Lab
Workshop | Online
Funding patterns in nonprofits: autonomy, independence, and resillience
Host: Independent
Workshop | Online
Privacy and Surveillance
Racialized surveillance and the “war on drugs”: avenues for resistance against expanding policing technologies
Host: European Digital Rights (EDRi) | International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) | Latin American Network of People Who Use Drugs (LANPUD)
Dialogue | Hybrid
Commercial spyware in Armenia: Pegasus, Predator – victims, vectors, variables
Host: Access Now
Dialogue | In-Person
Ensuring inclusive digital IDs in the Asia Pacific
Host: Nationality For All
Dialogue | In-Person
Who will you be? A conversation about the future of digital ID
Host: Access Now
Dialogue | In-Person
In their voices: LGBTQ+ experiences in the connected classroom
Host: Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) | LGBT Tech
Dialogue | Online
Model non-discrimination legislation for digital identity: principles and strategy
Host: Anglican Church
Dialogue | Online
The “future” of privacy: youth-centric notions of privacy and surveillance around the world
Host: Reset.Tech | Africa Digital Rights Hub (ADRH) | University of the West Indies | Vsak Institute | University of Oxford
Dialogue | Online
Surveillance embedded in telecommunication and internet infrastructures: how to make infrastructural surveillance visible?
Host: Lighthouse Reports | University of Twente
Dialogue | Online
In your face: surveillance and sports events
Host: R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales | Privacy International
Dialogue | Online
ID4R: the role of impact assessments and inclusionary design in rights-respecting digital identity systems
Host: Aapti Institute | Data Privacy Brasil Research Association
Dialogue | Online
Abortion and gender-affirming care under surveillance
Host: Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.)
Dialogue | Online
Environmental defenders under surveillance: good practices and privacy safeguards against tech-based surveillance
Host: Privacy International
Dialogue | Online
The Pegasus effect
Host: Al-Haq | Bisan
Dialogue | Online
Age assurance: let me reassure you?
Host: European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Dialogue | Online
Dismantling spyware disinformation campaigns: lessons from the chaos
Host: Independent
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Fighting techno-silencing: efforts against surveillance-based retaliation
Host: Just Futures Law
Private Meeting | In-Person
Digital surveillance: strengthening regional standards on protection from digital surveillance
Host: Office of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
Private Meeting | Online
Show me the contracts! Who’s buying CCTVs in Myanmar?
Host: Access Now | ARTICLE 19 | Digital Rights Collective
Roundtable | Hybrid
Threat modeling financial surveillance: let’s de-normalize fintech and government’s lurk-and-punish model
Host: Fight for the Future
Roundtable | In-Person
Spyware out of the shadows: proposals for human rights compliant regulation of the spyware trade
Host: Office of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
Roundtable | In-Person
Monitoring potential cutting-edge oppressive technology in the PRC’s information control system
Host: Doublethink Lab
Roundtable | In-Person
“Rebel cities”: open data against surveillance
Host: Amnesty International
Workshop | In-Person
Industry coming together to tackle cyber mercenaries
Host: Microsoft
Workshop | In-Person
Organising around digital ID systems: exploring advocacy strategies for civil society
Host: The Engine Room
Workshop | In-Person
Unshackling freedom: the fight to end e-carceration
Host: MediaJustice
Workshop | In-Person
Blockchain-enabled digital identity: can technology keep its promise?
Host: National Law University Delhi, Centre for Communication Governance | Australian National University Canberra, Tech Policy Design Centre (TPDC)
Workshop | Online
Digital identity and rights: help the UN design a rights-based digital identity governance framework
Host: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Workshop | Online
Banning facial recognition technology: a civil society mobilization in the Global South
Host: Coalizão Direitos na Rede
Workshop | Online
The police paper trail: scrutinizing state surveillance with public records
Host: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Workshop | Online
Shutdowns and Censorship
Internet shutdowns “covering up” human rights violations: trends in Africa and the Middle East
Host: Access Now | Global Partners Digital (GPD)
Dialogue | In-Person
Internet access as a catalyst for social mobilization in Cuba
Host: Redes Ayuda | YucaByte
Dialogue | In-Person
Digital darkness: stories of people living under internet shutdowns
Host: Digital Rights Kashmir
Dialogue | In-Person
Showcasing the ISOC Net Loss Calculator: measuring the economic impact of internet shutdowns
Host: Internet Society (ISOC)
Dialogue | In-Person
The internet at risk: the global Internet must survive in a fragmented world
Host: ICANN
Dialogue | In-Person
Unlocking the hermit kingdom: how North Koreans are watching Squid Game
Host: NetFreedom Pioneers | Korea Information Unity
Dialogue | In-Person
Avoiding fragmentation: options and tradeoffs in support of the interoperable global internet
Host: Government of the United Kingdom, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) | Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Policy Network on Internet Fragmentation (PNIF)
Dialogue | Online
Blocking, throttling, and kill switches: litigating internet shutdowns in Africa
Host: Media Defence
Dialogue | Online
Internet blocking and the consequences for human rights?
Host: Cloudflare
Dialogue | Online
Building a global internet shutdown dataset and dashboard: the power of data for advocacy
Host: Access Now
Tech Demo | In-Person
Lantern and the future of anti-censorship
Host: Brave New Software Project, Inc.
Lightning Talk | In-Person
What’s going on online? Building an internet shutdown early warning system
Host: Measurement Lab | Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | Georgia Institute of Technology, Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA)
Lightning Talk | In-Person
Freedom of speech on above government level: worth the fight?
Host: VPN Generator
Tech Demo | In-Person
Living under the Red Star’s surveillance: North Korea unplugged from the world
Host: People for Successful Corean REunification (PSCORE)
Lightning Talk | Online
Fostering partnerships: the role of telecommunications companies and Big Tech in the fight against shutdowns
Host: Access Now
Private Meeting | Hybrid
Anticipate and answer: addressing internet disruption through the FOC’s Task Force on Internet Shutdowns
Host: Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Task Force on Internet Shutdowns (TFIS) | Access Now | Global Network Initiative (GNI) | Government of the United Kingdom, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCO)
Private Meeting | In-Person
How does Iran shutdown the internet? A technical perspective on methods of resistance
Host: Miaan Group
Private Meeting | In-Person
Identifying alternatives for internet access in Myanmar
Host: Access Now
Private Meeting | In-Person
Internet shutdowns in Central Asia: challenges and perspectives
Host: Eurasian Digital Foundation
Roundtable | Hybrid
Satellite phones during shutdowns that don’t involve M*sk
Host: Internews | Fasila, Inc.
Roundtable | Hybrid
Are we still doing this? Exam-related internet shutdowns in MENA and beyond
Host: Access Now
Roundtable | Online
Election monitoring and internet shutdowns: reaching new communities for network measurement and activism before elections
Host: National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Roundtable | Online
Visualizing the trauma of a shutdown: a discussion and show with artists depicting internet censorship
Host: Internews | Curious Shapes | Digitally Right Limited (DRL) | The Bachchao Project | Jonction
Roundtable | Online
Self-check your network from DPIs! (Beware of content moderation by infrastructure level)
Host: Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet)
Tech Demo | Online
I built my own VPN server – and this is what I learned
Host: Amnezia VPN
Tech Demo | Online
Just plug in: an appliance approach to measure internet censorship
Host: Venezuela Inteligente
Tech Demo | Online
#KeepItOn in 2022: successes, opportunities, struggles, and lessons learned in the fight against election-related shutdowns
Host: Access Now | Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet)
Workshop | In-Person
A clear and present use case for peer-2-peer
Host: Zamaneh Media Foundation | Meduza.io
Workshop | In-Person
Learn to investigate internet shutdowns through an Iran 2022 case study
Host: Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | Georgia Institute of Technology, Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) | Access Now
Workshop | In-Person
Shutting down the shutdown: mainstreaming proactive civil society responses to internet disruptions
Host: International Republican Institute (IRI) | Google (Jigsaw)
Workshop | In-Person
Lost voices: a gendered perspective on internet shutdowns
Host: Access Now | Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in)
Workshop | Online
How to win friends and influence people: a training on countering internet fragmentation trends
Host: Global Partners Digital (GPD) | DNS Research Federation
Workshop | Online
Staying ahead of censorship: anti-censorship tools and strategies
Host: GreatFire.org
Workshop | Online
Tactics for Activists
Strengthening linkages between the global and local to improve global digital frameworks
Host: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) | U.S. Department of State
Dialogue | Hybrid
Is there an intercultural perspective in digital rights? Including local communities in global debates
Host: Fundación Internet Bolivia | Fundación Avina
Dialogue | In-Person
Digital communality: a permaculture ethics perspective in digitalization
Host: Sursiendo
Dialogue | In-Person
Human rights and technology in Mesoamerica
Host: CódigoSur
Dialogue | In-Person
China’s digital authoritarianism and transnational repression: mapping threats, policy and advocacy responses
Host: Human Rights in China (HRIC)
Dialogue | Online
Queerness and criminalization in the digital age: how digital authoritarianism facilitates the prison pipeline in Africa
Host: Access Now
Dialogue | Online
I can’t speak: digital authoritarianism and freedom of expression in Nigeria
Host: Avocats Sans Frontières France (ASF France) | Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) | Human Rights Journalists Network (HRJN) Nigeria | Spaces for Change
Dialogue | In-Person
Woman, life, freedom: the struggle of Iranian women for fundamental freedoms online and on the streets
Host: Femena
Dialogue | Online
Resisting the crackdown: innovative tactics and enhancing digital security against repression
Host: Vietnam Rise
Dialogue | Online
Digital repression and resilience across Southeast Asia
Host: Freedom House | Free Expression Myanmar (FEM) | Manushya Foundation
Dialogue | Online
Pacific inspiration: climate change and the power of storytelling from Oceania
Host: New Narratives
Dialogue | Online
Combating digital authoritarianism in Russia and Belarus: what to do when nothing can be done
Host: Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre
Dialogue | Online
#COP28: bringing human rights to the climate justice agenda
Host: Access Now | Human Rights Watch
Private Meeting | Hybrid
A manifesto on digital rights and anti-rights and anti-gender movements pushback
Host: Derechos Digitales | Digital Defenders Partnership | Hivos | PROMSEX | The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA World)
Private Meeting | Hybrid
Action over reaction: the Global South wants to say, not just be heard
Host: Derechos Digitales | Aapti Institute | Paradigm Initiative | Data Privacy Brasil Research Association
Private Meeting | In-Person
MENA Digital Rights Alliance strategy meeting
Host: Access Now | SMEX
Private Meeting | In-Person
Preview results from the Technoaffections campaign
Host: Sursiendo
Private Meeting | In-Person
Claiming the cyborgian dream in the AI paradigm: co-constructing an agenda for feminist digital justice
Host: IT for Change | Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
Roundtable | Hybrid
The civil society “roadmap”: taking stock of UN digital initiatives
Host: Access Now
Roundtable | In-Person
Movement building towards internet health: what is needed to sustain the movement?
Host: Mozilla Foundation
Roundtable | In-Person
Freedom of expression under threat. how to defend media freedom and digital rights in Central Asia
Host: ARTICLE 19
Roundtable | In-Person
Endangered species: how eco-activists in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are targeted offline and online
Host: Access Now
Roundtable | Online
Mobilizing on digital rights in Francophone contexts: who are the actors, what are the challenges?
Host: Laboratoire sur les droits en ligne et les technologies alternatives (Lab-Delta)
Roundtable | Online
Digital rights matter: building a Latin America network of capacity-builders
Host: Fundación Acadetools
Roundtable | Online
Take full control of your immersive content with VideoWiki, the on-chain platfrom
Host: VideoWiki
Tech Demo | Online
Starlight Stadium edugame: an innovative means to teach human rights monitoring and advocacy
Host: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Tech Demo | Online
From scatterbrain to scatterplot: how to spot trends and tell better stories with data
Host: Data4Change
Workshop | In-Person
Tech cartographies: fighting digital colonialism and seeking social environmental justice
Host: Coding Rights
Workshop | In-Person
Building a climate justice and digital rights network from the soil up
Host: Mozilla Foundation | Internet Society Foundation | Ford Foundation | Mercator Foundation | The Green Web Foundation (TGWF) | Ariadne Network | Green Screen
Workshop | In-Person
Don’t look up! Don’t look in! Climate and digital movements unitin’!
Host: Tactical Tech
Workshop | In-Person
Tech camp: mobilizing civic space defenders to confront today’s digital policy challenges and repressive practices
Host: International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) | Stanford University, Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi)
Workshop | In-Person
UN-intimidated by the United Nations: guide on leveraging the UN for privacy education and youth activism
Host: Youth for Privacy
Workshop | Online
Design for social change with Canva
Host: Canva
Workshop | Online
Maneuvering discriminations: mapping digital tactics for queer and trans persons in the Global South
Host: Independent
Workshop | Online
Defending digital rights across complex environments: strategies and tactics for advocates
Host: Open Internet for Democracy Initiative
Workshop | Online
Rise of the good machines: harnessing AI to protect human rights and democracy
Host: University of Pennsylvania, [email protected]
Workshop | Online
What we talk about when we talk about free knowledge: Wikimedia strategies for advocacy
Host: Wikimedia Chile | Wikimedia Argentina | Wikimedia South Africa | Wikimedia Sweden
Workshop | Online
From isolation to community: protecting exiled human rights defenders against digital threats and transnational repression
Host: Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) | University of Toronto, Citizen Lab
Workshop | Online
My petition has 1,000 signatures, now what? How grassroots petitions can strengthen international advocacy
Host: Zamaneh Media Foundation
Workshop | Online
Power to the people: collectively crafting a grassroots-focused digital justice campaign toolkit
Host: AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People
Workshop | Online
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