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Russian methods of disinformation in Ukraine, how individual media outlets address it and what those inside Ukraine see as the role of the international community in fighting it. When "fake news" drive to the south: Dennys Antonialli This talk aims to introduce how electoral processes are a new main focus of research and advocacy concerning digital rights and to monitor the emergence of new bottlenecks for privacy, freedom of expression and democratic politics in the Latin American region. Digitally-driven elections raise multiple concerns, such as the protection of legitimate civic engagement and the participation of the disenfranchised, the defense of privacy and its protection of the autonomy of citizens to discuss and decide and the ensurance of access to quality political information.

As we have observed, electoral courts, commissions and proceedings designed to ensure fairness and democratic politics are traditionally driven by the regulation of offline media outlets, but are not used to internet governance standards and lack expertise and capacity to deal with cutting-edge technology implications, such as those which derive from microtargetting, profile-farming, botnets and cyberespionage. The choice for discussing these issues from a regional perspective is not by chance. After a traumatic experience watching the latest US fake-news-turmoil, digital rights-focused organizations of the region prepare to face the next wave of challenges that will come during the elections - processes that promise to intensify a moment of political polarization and a relevant conservative rise.

The scenario seems even more troublesome when we think of social media as the new main platforms for political campaigns. This talk will rely on InternetLab's ongoing research to highlight the importance of advancing the digital rights agenda in Latin America to update and improve our electoral laws and systems. Speakers DA Dennys Antonialli. Nataliya Gumenyuk Head, Journalist, hromadske ua.

She is co-founder and currently head of Hromadske. Simin Kargar is a human rights lawyer with a focus on the interrelations of technology and human rights. She studies harmful speech online, gender-based violence and technology, and the interplays of social media, power and new propaganda. In addition, Simin investigates how discourses He has helped connect grassroots activists with journalists to bring under-represented voices to the international community.

Enforcing Net Neutrality with Evidenced Based Policy Making The goal of this session is to provide an understanding of the current state of play in net neutrality in different countries and regions, discuss challenges that panelists have encountered, provide insight into the work of digital rights NGOs in making sure that the net neutrality provisions are enforced, talk about how the public can continue to be involved once net neutrality legislation is designed e.

In this discussion, we hope to introduce more folks to tools that can be useful in their policy and advocacy work, e. The discussion will cover how to think about working with measurement tools as part of advocacy and campaigns and overall be a conversation on strategic thinking with data in pursuit of evidence based policy making. She has previously worked on data visualization projects in the areas of social media, transportation logistics For those who do not Amba Kak Tech policy fellow, Mozilla.

Maria works with the Open Observatory of Network Interference OONI , a free software project that aims to increase transparency of internet censorship around the world. She manages OONI's partnerships, engaging human rights communities worldwide with censorship measurement Network Disruptions and Discrimination. Understanding the full human impacts of network disruptions The impacts of network disruptions are felt very broadly across all sectors in impacted geographies.

And yet digital rights groups and ICT companies sometimes feel like voices in the wilderness pushing back against these restrictions. This workshop will try to come up with tactics for engaging new actors from across civil society, the business community, and other sectors as advocates against disruption. After initial presentation of the work the presenters and their organizations have done, we will break into groups focused on particular kinds of impact e. Moderators JR Jan Rydzak. I work at the intersection of Tech, Human Rights, Business.

I am a lawyer, and the Executive Director of Internet Without Borders, an organisation defending digital rights, and an open Internet for all. I'm a global campaigner focused on human rights and the internet. My background is in political communication and robotics engineering y estoy aprendiendo The surveillance tool we love to carry: Cell phones searches and privacy in the evolving legal landscape Cell phones are increasingly becoming ubiquitous tools for participating in contemporary societies around the globe. We use them to communicate by voice, and increasingly by text.

They help us keep information at our fingertips, including intimate details about our relationships, activities, and transactions. They help us navigate our physical environment with mapping tools and GPS. And in the process, they create a treasure-trove of personal information about us and those we are connected to, while facilitating real-time and after the fact tracking and surveillance of our movements, online and off. But while both the technology and social norms are developing rapidly, the laws that protect our privacy in relation to cell phones are not.

Courts are increasingly struggling with cases that involve privacy not just in the personal information we store on the phones, but also the information about us that the phones collect and transmit by virtue of the way they are designed and the infrastructures they must interact with to function. In Canada, the Supreme Court recently ruled in the combined cases of R.

Jones, establishing some privacy rights in text messages once they are sent. In the US, Carpenter v. Supreme Court, looking at whether police should be able to obtain detailed tracking information, collected routinely by service providers, without a warrant. This public roundtable session will engage a mix of legal professionals, activists and advocates, and technologists in a guided discussion about the legal issues, ways to engage in the kinds of advocacy that might help shape privacy protective outcomes, and ways that technology can help solve the problems it has created.

We will begin with experts providing brief summaries of key cases and issues to launch a wide-ranging and interactive discussion with the goals of identifying core issues shared by or debated among legal, policy, and technology sector participants. We hope to create a new, cross-border shared understanding of commonalities and differences in current approaches to cell phone privacy and legal advocacy, establish ongoing relationships that could, where appropriate, lead to shared interventions in key cases in the form of amicus briefs, and engage and build relationships with non-legal stakeholders whose support can contribute to the advocacy efforts for legal reform, and the efforts to establish new precedents for the digital age.

Moderators Lex Gill Citizen Lab. Social implications of new and emerging technologies. Lack of laws protecting privacy.

National security especially signals intelligence. Talk to me about any of these! I work for the Canadian Civil My personal expertise is in US free speech law. Jon Penney is a legal academic and social scientist. Privacy and Data Protection. A Decade of Progress: Where Do We Go Next? When it comes to internet freedom, getting a company to flip the right switch or deploy a new policy can help protect the rights of millions of people; getting an entire industry to adopt better practices can protect billions of people.

Join us as we survey the past decade of advancements in the business and human right space and the work it took to make them happen, and as we look for lessons on how we can gain even more ground over the next ten years. And advocates from both the inside and the outside will reflect on how best to handle the challenges and opportunities for human rights in the ICT sector that lie ahead in the next decade.

Fighting to prevent dystopia. Omar Hakim Organizer, Consumer Reports. Omar Hakim is a Grassroots Organizer at Consumer Reports working on financial services, technology, and privacy related matters. Prior to joining Consumer Reports, Omar was the national coordinator for Cities for Action, a coalition of mayors and municipal leaders advocating Rebecca MacKinnon is director of the Ranking Digital Rights project which works to set global standards for how companies in the information and communications technology ICT sector and beyond should respect freedom of expression and privacy.

In project's flagship Corporate Michael Samway is president of The Business and Human Rights Group, where he advises technology companies on ethical decision-making regarding free expression, privacy, public safety and national security. Samway spent ten years at Yahoo! Wong is the senior researcher on the Internet and human rights. Responsible Business Transparency Accountability. Effective 21st Century Organizing: The panel aims to utilize this exchange of experiences in order to articulate new directions for 21st century activism.

Bailey Lamon is a Canadian activist, social worker and occasional writer. She has been involved in a number of social movements since including Occupy, Idle No More, pipeline resistance, anti-fascist actions throughout Ontario and the fight against Canada's pro-surveillance "anti-terrorism Barrett Brown Founder, Pursuance Project. Barrett Brown is a writer and anarchist activist. In he founded Project PM, a distributed think-tank, which was Naomi Colvin Director, Courage Foundation.

Thomas Drake former National Security Agency senior executive, whistleblower. Birgitta has helped create two political movements since , the Civic Movement and the Pirate Party , both parties have successfully entered the Icelandic Parliament. Even when everyone speaks the same language, it often feels like technologists and policy advocates are actually speaking different languages.

Bringing together the collective knowledge of activists, policy advocates and technologists to build public policies for technology issues is a pain point of most civil society organisations, but a necessary one in many cases. It involves a range of skill sets and experiences, and especially people on both sides of the aisle technologists and advocates who can speak to the other group.

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Since it is hard to find individuals to have this mix of skill sets, we built a pilot project that brought together policy advocates working on internet freedom issues together with technologists from the same regions, in a 4-day Hackathon, to talk, present, and come up with prototypes for projects that they could collaborate on.

We built a methodology for the Tech Policy Hackathons, and tested it out in two Hackathons in one with partners in Latin America, and the other in South Africa. In this session we present to you our methodology and learnings. We will also use this as a platform to invite questions from the audience to answer to more nuanced needs. The session itself will be a mix of sharing of experiences and sharing of the methodology.

Moderators HS Haley Slafer. Killing me softly with his vote: The specific focus will be paid to judiciary power being confronted by populist groups all over the world. Such confrontation usually takes the form of either a representation claim questioning the legitimacy of judges themselves or a political claim questioning the inconsistency of judicial opinions.

Activism might be, thus, fueling the populist discourse. The role of ICTs in the dissemination of populism is not fully explored. Their potential for contributing to the crisis of legitimate representation is enormous due to fast dissemination of thoroughly constructed messages to a broad audience. Using ICTs both populists groups and judges can create an effect of increased visibility. Populists in many countries and circumstances have been trying to foster the idea that elected representatives are invested in more qualified, at times higher powers than judges.

In order to retain mass support and trust into judiciary, some judges also actively present themselves as channeling popular sentiment and speaking for the true interests of the people. The volumes of information, of which only a smaller part is of truly high quality, generate a trust crisis. Even though populism is a world-wide phenomenon, some countries achieve the perfection in practicing it to the extent that it becomes the mainstream communication policy.

By speaking their minds through online media, judges send signals about what future decisions might look like, potentially shaping the behavior of actors outside the court. Each participant shall describe the situation as seen from his country in 5 minutes. Interventions and clarifications are expected as part of the debate.

Taking that into consideration, minutes will have been used. The remaining time would be open to participants, both attending onsite and remote ones, in an attempt to confirm the observations, to find common aspects, points of touch, discrepancies and even eventual inconsistencies in the main idea of the debate. MS Martin Silva Valent. Oxfam, for example, instituted a responsible data policy in , which underwent review last year.

More recently, the ICRC partnered with the Brussels Privacy Hub to produce a detailed handbook on data protection in humanitarian action. Institutional donors have begun to realize the importance of data security for grantees, but gaps in knowledge, resources, and technical expertise to support responsible data remain pervasive among not-for-profit organisations. This short session will discuss existing resources currently available to advance Responsible Data efforts within organisations.

His work focuses on big picture legal and ethical questions posed by emerging technologies, but he also is trying to wrap his head around the GDPR. He's written about data uses in video What GDPR can and cannot do Around the world, governments are trying to make automated decision-making more accountable: New York city introduced a bill that would require the city to make public the computer instructions that are used, invisibly, in all kinds of government decision-making.

In Europe, the GDPR which will enter into force in May , gives citizens not just in Europe more rights with regards to profiling and automated decision-making. Yet, comprehensive data protection laws have much more far-reaching implications for AI, in that they regulate how personal data can be processed.

In this session we will discuss the merits of different regulatory approaches and debate how they can be used strategically. I work for Privacy International in London where I'm leading our work on data exploitation. We're a team of technologists, policy experts, lawyers and investigators advocating for strong regional, national and international laws that protect privacy. We work on policing tech Miranda Bogen Policy Analyst, Upturn. Miranda Bogen is a Policy Analyst at Upturn, where she focuses on the social implications of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the effect of technology platforms on civil and human rights.

She has coauthored reports on data ethics, governing automated decisions, and Artificial Intelligence Automation Algorithmic Accountability. The Congressional AI Caucus held a session on Capitol Hill on November 7, on how industry, academic and technical groups are addressing these ethical challenges. Members of Congress and their staff heard about the development of ethical standards that can promote the development and use of these technologies, while aligning outcomes to our moral values and ethical principles.

Come hear how policymakers and stakeholders can encourage the responsible advancement of Artificial Intelligence to benefit society as this transformational technology becomes a critical element in all aspects of our daily lives. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: Alex London Clara L. Alex John London is the Clara L. Professor London is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center whose work focuses on ethical and policy issues surrounding the development Sensum has worked with some The Toronto Declaration on Discrimination in Machine Learning The Toronto Declaration on Discrimination in Machine Learning is a step toward developing detailed guidelines for the promotion of equality and protection of the right to nondiscrimination in machine learning.

The Declaration will be crafted in the days leading up to RightsCon to address the substantial risks of discriminatory profiling in decision making driven by machine learning. Applied to big data sets, machine learning enables detailed discrimination caused by the underlying data and the design and implementation of systems.

The lack of diversity among those designing and implementing systems contributes to these risks. The Declaration will address necessary protections for companies and governments exploring and implementing the future of machine learning. Join the drafters of the Declaration for a roundtable to discuss the text, how it will be used, and next steps. The Toronto Declaration will form the basis for future work identifying and remediating the threats of discrimination in machine learning.

I'm an advisor and researcher on technology and human rights at Amnesty International, based in London but looking at global impacts of artificial intelligence and big data on human rights. I'm happy to chat about all things AI and rights - particularly opportunities for collaborative For three years Fanny led the Freedom Xianhong Hu and Mr. Her main responsibilities are in the areas of freedom of expression online and offline, Internet privacy, media development and Internet governance and she has followed the process of the World AV Anri van der Spuy. UX to the rescue!

Help a crypto protocol's usability The current technological landscape has several tools for secure, encrypted, real-time group communication -- be that text chat, voice chat, or even video. Speakers RK Ruud Koolen. Dmitri Vitaliev Founder and Director, eQualit. Dmitri is the founder and director of eQualit. He has led and participated in missions to over 40 countries, and is a recognized expert on technology training and organizational Human Rights for the Digital Age: Hearing from Leaders Session Emcee: Hamed Behravan The lightning talk is about an already developed platform called Movements.

The p2p platform enables ordinary users with specific skills to provide pro bono assistance in a variety of fields to human rights defenders or victim of human right violations who need help. The session will be dedicated to introducing this unique human rights matchmaking platform to the human rights community with the goal of recruiting more participants, who are willing to help human right defenders in closed societies.

The talk will also focus on the importance of decentralizing human rights activism and increasing the global pool of talented individuals or committed organizations that are willing to provide pro bono assistance to those who need it the most. Roia, a grassroots NGO, has been working since to address this question in the context of the Syrian conflict. This session will share the experiences of Roia in setting up alternative, secure communications infrastructure in besieged areas. Discussed will be the challenges, successes and lessons in connecting citizens and activists to the internet, establishing coordination communications systems for medical responders, and supporting livelihoods for youth through ICT freelancing.

Leadership in the Digital Age: During her lightning talk, Hartley will outline the key skills required of leaders in an open, digital and inclusive organization operating in a digital age. Human Rights are a concrete reality. How can we ensure that the digital world serves that reality? John Ralston Saul The first digital wave seemed to favour human rights and freedom of expression.

The second wave, which may be nearing its end, seems to have favoured authoritarianism. Is there a strategy for ensuring that a third digital wave will rebalance the digital phenomenon again in favour of human rights and freedom of expression? Leverage technology to empower civil society and human rights activists achieve their desired goals. Some other project examples include providing circumvention technologies and digital safety training, virtually training human right defenders Steve Dixon Communications Manager, Roia.

A background in international affairs, peacebuilding and development, Steven's work has taken him around the world for several JR John Ralston Saul.

Movements RightsCon Lightning Talk pptx. Civic Tech Citizenship Democracy. Digital inclusion in urban renewal: Mastering them can overcome fear. Creating your own networks raises awareness of the potential for social change since DIY Community Networks CNs have been shown to give voice and empower community roles to previously marginalized citizens. Urban renewal builds on resilience and trust at local level digital inclusion, social innovation. This session links these technology and social innovation themes to focus on CNs.

CN trials ran in using co-design methods to empower local communities by building trust, sharing data and problem-solving using collective intelligence for non-profit motives. DIY toolkits are free and get people able to build and run their own hybrid, digital and physical spaces at sustainably low cost. Despite the complexity of the task, and the unfair comparison with massively global commercial platforms e.

Citizens can take back control. Empowerment evolves from a bottom-up 'how-to' approach. Inclusion will benefit from diversity and give-and-take collaborative work. The toolkit shows how to develop, design, use, customize. Mastering the fear of digital communication technologies such as these CNs helps young and old to be more engaged in both community politics and social issues. Participants will be able to follow the deployment and configuration of a local MAZI Zone or even try the process by themselves.

Social scientists and lawyers conclude the session, by sharing expertise on policy and impact analysis of the role community nets in urban renewal. The mix of technology and community engagement is typical of digital social innovation. Empowering citizens to take control of the technology around them is one step to revitalize the socio-political communication context, reduces fear and digital exclusion, increases active participation in 'commons', and helps to understand why we need more privacy and decentralization of data.

I am Electrical and Computer Engineer, B. Sc and I focus on high-level coordination and on strategic developments. My skills encompass exploitation, promotion, and Digital Rights for the Persecuted Refugees: Can there be a Global Support Framework? The primary objective of this session is to highlight the plight of the forcefully displaced population and refugees globally through the lenses of Digital Inclusion and Freedom on the Internet.

This session will focus on the challenges the Rohingya and Syrian refugee population are facing. He holds a PhD in Dragana is a human rights researcher and ethnographer based in New York, and writes about refugees, forced migration, civic tech innovation, and digital security. She is the founder and director of Localization Lab, an organization that provides localization support and user feedback My career is deeply rooted in humanitarian and development aid.

I am a PhD student and a graduate research assistant at the University of Toronto. I received a H. I completed my Professional Master of Architecture in at the Diversity and Digital Inclusion. There is rarely a day that goes by when a new case of sexual harassment is not on the cover of global newspapers. Indeed, major figures in media, entertainment, technology, and politics have had to step down over allegations of inappropriate behavior towards female colleagues. Silicon Valley is notoriously dismissive of women in the workplace and women are often the targets of bullying and harassment on technology platforms.

Indeed, a recent survey found that nearly all of the plus senior women in tech who responded had experienced sexist interactions while at work. And yet, technology provides a platform for women that has largely been absent. As such, while technology companies themselves have been implicated in the harassment of women, could the industry be a key player in the fight for equality? Alexa is the executive director of the Human Rights Center winner of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions and a lecturer-in-residence at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches classes on human rights and international criminal law.

Your Car the Pirate: For many, their car has a soul of its own, and that soul is about to transform as more and more software finds its way under the dashboard. From on-board entertainment to urban murals, we would like to map the future of cars and point to IP-related policy problems that may arise. By presenting a car of the future we want to map the trends that will shape automotive industry in the next 5 to 10 years. We will examine what types of potentially copyrighted data a car like that would collect and what are the challenges related to that. Through a discussion with the audience we will model possible best solutions that will balance out the rights of users, owners, and producers of these new, exciting vehicles.

Moderators AM Anna Mazgal. International Trade and the Commons. What is the future of online independent media - ideating and brainstorming This is an interactive session focusing on the viability and feasibility of journalism in the digital age. Journalism is facing an existential crisis. Digital transformation, rapidly changing business models, surveillance and general mistrust are just some of the challenges media and journalists need to respond to.

Key areas to be discussed 1. The model of journalism as a private business shows signs of decline, together with the erosion of media institutions credibility and trust issues, and insecurity of journalistic work with visible deterioration of information quality. Traditional media business often lack credibility because of perceived ties to government and wealthy elites.

Question for the session: A small qualitative research of Zero Hora audiences in Brazil revealed that readers always want to know what the source the reports is, and editors were also asked to highlight the names of the reporters. They asked for depth, without judgment.

They asked for transparency, agility, and commitment to the truth. They asked for daily perspectives and contextualisation. They asked for inspiring stories. They asked to be part of the stories and to know how they are made. How is this new relationship between audiences and journalists shaping up and what are new successful models? Subsidising journalism from advertising revenues is a broken model. We need to see more clearly journalists' role in the value chain of producing and distributing news compared to the role of technology companies.

This question impacts the relationship journalists and media have with audience, advertisers and other stakeholders. As a result, we shall be able to reconfigure and reposition the business model and create sustainable business models that combine social value with our economic strength. The session also seeks to give participants an opportunity to vent and explore the current frustration over corporate and government controlled internet and media, and to think through new models and solutions that will help us create new ways of sharing news and creating journalism in the future.

Mira Milosevic is Executive Director of the Global Forum for Media Development, a network of more than media development and journalism assistance organisations. Lorena is the executive director of AlgorithmWatch, a non-profit organisation to evaluate and shed light on algorithmic and automatization processes that have a social relevance. Her work focuses on philosophy of law and ethics of automatization and digitization. Lorena has been appointed Tom King Director, Aviso.

I work with non-profit media and civil society organisations to help them grow, while aiming to identify and address the systemic challenges that get in the way of strengthening and expanding democracies and open societies. Currently, I am working on strategic development with My portfolio includes Internet policy and tech innovation. Anyone interested in publishing reports on these topics in terms of how they relate to media should get in touch with me. Building a media industry that truly serves Canadians Journalism in Canada and around the world is in crisis.

It exists in an increasingly contested and chaotic environment, buffeted by political, technological and financial forces. As a consequence, as news organizations cut back, or shut down altogether, not only are we losing journalism jobs and sources of credible news, we are losing a source of community.

When communities lose news coverage, their members are less likely to volunteer, less likely to vote and less trusting of their neighbours. Add to this, a lack of accountability: Who will step into this vacuum? The current deficit of reporting will be filled one way or another. Could it take hold to the same extent in Canada? Alternatively, in this moment we now have a significant opportunity to develop a media industry in Canada to better serve communities and be more representative of their interests.

I'm a former reporter who founded the satirical and comedic website, Walking Eagle News - similar to The Onion and Beaverton, but with an Indigenous twist. Anita Li is the Director of Communities at The Discourse, an investigative journalism outlet, and Founder of The Other Wave, a website dedicated to covering media from a multicultural perspective. Previously she was Assistant Prof.

In this session, we will discuss and develop a concrete roadmap for the introduction of economic arguments into the day-to-day campaigning and policy-work using COST, a new data-driven policy tool that will automate the task of economic estimation. Our international panel brings together experts from legal, technology and policy backgrounds and invites active participation from the audience to better understand how a next-generation policy tool can impact internet freedom and digital rights community.

How can we make policy work more visible to under-represented communities? How can we build advocacy tools that empower the general public? Economic arguments have already proven to be a powerful tool to combat shutdowns in contexts where freedom of expression and other fundamental human rights are too often ignored, yet the numbers are difficult to produce hence rarely used when most needed.

It seeks to empower journalists, researchers, advocates, policy makers, businesses, and many others with economic arguments that make authorities listen. Join us in the spirit of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Internet Universality and as we find new ways to promote and leverage unrestricted Internet access as a driver of opportunities worldwide. Moderators Arzu Geybullayeva Journalist, Freelance. Regional analyst, correspondent, and columnist.

Main areas of interest include human rights, advocacy, press freedom, and more recently She is a digital activist and commentator on internet censorship, cyber-security and information warfare.

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Isik contributes to Turkish press agency Bianet He also engages in key global Internet governance issues and processes. Nicolas works with a broad Alp is founder of the netblocks. He works on freedom of expression online, digital transparency and policy tooling for internet governance It's My Data Worried about giving away all your personal data in exchange for services and products?

Do you want greater control over who uses your data, for what purpose, and for how long? Are you vulnerable to misuse or fraudulent use of your data? Do you want to wrest back agency over your privacy? Join our co-design workshop to design a new international Privacy Preference Standard. Canada and the EU have proposed a privacy preference standard to the International Standards Organization. Five other countries are supporting this effort. This would allow you to assert your preferences regarding the use of your private data. The standard would be referenced in privacy regulations. It would replace the all-or-nothing service agreements that we currently sign because the fine print is too daunting, or we need the service and are given no choice.

You will help the project editor for the standard, Jutta Treviranus, and her team, draft the preferences that should be included in the standard. Collaborate in making the preference choices understandable, especially to people that are more vulnerable to misuse of their personal information. Contribute to drafting the policies that should guide the negotiation between the customer and the service. This is a participatory co-design session. You will help shape a new international standard and regulated practice. After all, it's your data! I am lately most fascinated with the evolving world of design, in particular ethics and design.

I spend most of my time in inclusion, diversity, and equity. And am deeply committed to empowering people and helping to shift their perspective. Young, Safe and Free: Respecting Children's Online Privacy and Freedom of Expression This is chance to talk about practical steps that companies and public authorities can take to protect and empower children online. Companies and Data Protection Authorities will share how they consider risks to children's privacy online while still providing children with full, open and enriching online experiences. Civil society organizations will highlight the work that remains to be done, and academic researchers will ground this in evidence about how children exercise their rights to privacy and freedom of expression online.

Last year, we began a dialog on children's rights to privacy and freedom of expression at RightsCon. This session will be an opportunity to highlight progress and pitfalls at a critical time, and create an open and transparent conversation about the challenges we all face in balancing children's rights in a digital world.

Moderators PG Patrick Geary. My primary responsibilities are to provide strategic research, information, and advisory services to IPC commissioners and management on a wide range of technology and privacy policy issues. I am the principal author of many IPC publications dealing with online educational services Not Some Kinda Magic: Collectively, these companies have the power to safeguard the rights of end-users, or to propagate human rights abuses through their services and technologies. While some Internet infrastructure providers have begun to acknowledge their influence, the majority of these companies have yet to take concrete steps toward aligning their policies and practices with international human rights standards.

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Human Rights Impact Assessments HRIAs are a useful tool in this context, intended to inform private actors of their potential impacts as well as provide concrete avenues toward mitigating negative effects. While there are systematic steps for conducting these HRIAs on transnational corporations in many fields, no such formula have been developed for examining the impacts of Internet infrastructure providers and other related companies… until now.

Drawing from case studies and ongoing efforts to jointly develop and implement HRIAs for Internet infrastructure providers, this Skills Seminar seeks to begin filling this gap by improving existing HRIA models to the specific functioning of technical Internet actors, and identifying new sectors that could benefit from this practice. Civil society, technical operators, and business actors alike are encouraged to join the conversation. Beth Goldberg Yale Graduate School. Article 19 is a London-based human rights organization with a specific mandate and focus on the defense and promotion of freedom of expression and freedom of information worldwide founded in Confronting Racism in Media: Online Hate Edition Silicon Valley companies have long-denied responsibility for the bigotry that takes place on their platforms, allowing social media sites and web hosting services to become organizing hubs for white supremacist violence.

These denials are reinforced by a news media and administration that minimizes or dismisses threats of violence perpetrated by white men while quickly labeling Muslims, immigrants and suspects of color as extremists or terrorists. At the urging of consumers, civil rights groups and regulators, some of these companies have taken steps to reduce the harm on their platforms while others have made minimal efforts. This session will discuss the ecosystem that has allowed these companies to deny their roles in promoting white supremacist organizing and violence, civil society efforts to urge companies to take responsibility for their platforms, and how these companies can, have, and should address these problems.

Moderators JG Jessica Gonzalez. In her tenure, she has led a number of successful corporate and government accountability campaigns including those that tackle online discrimination, violent He was formerly the media and campaigns director for the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights coalition of more than national civil Stopping the Hate and Harassment Online. Accountability in times of digital governance: It will discuss issues such as datafication, algorithmic decision making and the implications for marginalized groups, access deficits in realizing full participation, the influx of private actors and platforms in state functions and the accountability sought from them, and exclusions in digitized public service delivery, particularly in welfare.

Moderators DB Deepti Bharthur. IP Ismael Pena Lopez. Nick and Nikki AMA: Nick directs RightsCon, the world's leading event on human rights in the digital age. He's passionate about bringing people together to tackle the great issues at the intersection of technology, politics, rights, and societal change. Prior to joining Access Now, Nick was with the Nikki works on RightsCon, the world's leading summit on human rights in the digital age.

She is excited about creating inclusive and accessible spaces for the digital rights community to drive change. We will share some of the reasoning behind design decisions. For example, we will explore the vision for providing textless versions of graphics and for creating generic interfaces for non-existent tools. We will also explore what inclusion might mean on the device level: In the remaining time, we will present the following problem for the audience: How do we make it as painless as possible for non-designers to easily remix instructional designs?

We would like this to be an active brainstorming session. Each year since, the event has grown dramatically in size, scope and impact. In November , Amnesty International launched its Silicon Valley Initiative to explore how technology can transform the human rights movement. Using a "curbside coaching" rotational format, this minute lunchtime workshop pairs civil society and human rights organizations from around the world with large tech companies actively confronting human rights challenges and tech startups from Toronto's tech hub to explore what they can do to effectively address human rights threats.

Addressing human rights violations will be only one aspect of the discussion -- we will also explore ways to improve the protection of human rights with technology innovation, whether it's through new forms of documentation and analysis, better organizing or finding practical solutions to human rights problems. Through timed rotations at tables zoned by theme -- artificial intelligence, data-driven decision making and data-driven storytelling, Internet security, digital threats against civil society, cybersecurity capacity building and technical assistance, data protection, freedom of expression, Internet shutdowns, blockchain, etc -- attendees learn what is needed for the tech sector to embrace threat work, what has been effective, what doesn't work and what new collaborations can be explored.

This workshop will be a conversation-starter that sparks dialogue and connection through the three-day event. Maaz Rana Co-founder, Knockri knockri. Maaz Rana is an A. I tech enthusiast, futurist, and advocate of diversity and inclusion. During an average visit, Clinic technologists: Cost of Freedom in Syria In this talk, Noura Ghazi, discusses the past present and future of human rights in Syria, from over 1, cases she administered as an international lawyer.

From growing up with a father arbitrarily detained to daily trips to Adra Prison to visit her belated husband, Bassel Khartabil, later disappeared and ultimately executed, Noura, discusses the current status of Human Rights in Syria, and the incalculable COST of freedom. Her work is internationally known and has been covered by major media globally. She studied law at Damascus University. She lives and works in Damascus, Syria. This is already the case for military weapons platforms know as Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems LAWS that can kill and destroy a target without human intervention.

There are however also a plethora of peace time uses and risks of autonomous agents including potential mass disinformation, criminal profiling and the potential management of population amid resource scarcity to name a few. The panel aims to address some of the following questions: David Kirkpatrick is a journalist, author, and founder of Techonomy Media. Its conferences gather leaders to discuss how tech changes everything. Techonomy is Nov. In , Mark Zuckerberg made there his notorious remarks about fake news I am a social scientist whose work over the past 17 years has focused on the relationships between digital technologies, group deliberation, rights and freedoms, and democratic decision making.

Previous work focused on machine learning and knowledge representation in artificial intelligence I am an AI researcher and data scientist studying the interplay between people and technology. I lead research and innovation projects and am interested in technology and society, intelligent conversational agents, and complex systems. Prior to this, he managed the Threat Intelligence team at Amazon and worked on the Security teams Some Like it Bot: Bot-based smart automation and artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the ways in which citizens go about their daily lives - from the way we learn languages, to obtaining medical advice, to having our own personal virtual assistants.

But how can bots also effectively help citizens engage with or hold accountable their governments and political institutions? This session will explore different bot-based approaches that seek to reduce barriers between governments and citizens to strengthen communication, improve government transparency and facilitate reporting on problems or abuses for increased accountability.

Panelists will give a short overview of their specific projects, articulating both the successes and challenges of developing and deploying bot-based platforms, with a diverse range of purposes. Afterward, a moderated discussion will attempt to address some of the following questions, based on both panelist experience and audience input: Although bots used for civic engagement are becoming more prevalent, we are still in the early days of evaluating impact and determine metrics to measure their success.

Super interested in global politics and tech - how do you help individuals organize for more democratic societies, and how do you help political institutions keep up with their people as they get swamped by the tech tsunami? Lead for DemTools initiative https: The session seeks to encourage a discussion between panelists with different positions on who is more entitled to own the domain name extension.

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Moderators CG Carlos Guerrero. RA Renata Aquino Ribeiro. Tech Demo Block 1: Amine Ben Asker The session aims to help small organization build their private Cloud infrastructure using Openstack over linux on Baremetal servers. Security in the cloud is a nightmare for Developers and Civil society members. Once the infra is built, it can be shared between organizations to assure High availability and optimal usage of machines.

I am working on this project for the moment and planning to release first stable version of it in the RightsCon. New tools for visualizing communities, projects, and resources: No technical background is needed to join this session. Making maps work for you Mapbox Speakers: Marena Brinkhurst We will showcase of examples of how Human Rights organizations, Humanitarian actors, and others work for positive social impact are using Mapbox tools to visualize data, inform programming, and amplify communications and campaigns.

The demo will start with an overview of the Mapbox ecosystem and then illustrate how to combine Mapbox tools and data to create interactive maps for web and mobile. The demo will also promote OpenStreetMap and other open data and open source communities that Mapbox is part of, highlighting how these efforts connect with and support those working in Human Rights and Humanitarian sectors.

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