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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

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

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

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

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, DevLab@Penn

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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Access and Inclusion

Latin American challenges of accessing, producing, and circulating knowledge of Black and Indigenous populations online

Developing digital democracies: Wiki-fying an inclusive and democratic knowledge future for the Caribbean

Measuring digital inequality as evidence base for policy action

Indian spectrum for sale: who owns Indigenous spectrum?

Who pays for the internet?

The philosophy and technology of network decentralization

Unpacking the mosaic of MENA languages: right to information access and freedom

Advancing accessibility: digital inclusion strategies that support persons with disabilities

Digital rights for deaf and blind people: how is it going?

Natural language processing (NLP) tools for endangered languages: bridging the digital language divide

Decolonizing the internet and access for all

Is internet freedom good?

Building a resilient and inclusive community network: lessons from the Angaza network

Decolonizing Wikipedia: a call to action to increase First Nations Australian representation and agency

Global governance of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband

Wi-Fi now for fishers’ rights

Not just a boy toy: mobile, women, and journalism

Consumer rights and the future of accessibility

All in the room? Interrogating the Authority control construct in Wikipedia

Optimising digital isolation for women with disabilities

Deep dive into the right to human dignity: internet access and inclusion of persons with disabilities (PWDs)

Whose digital revolution? Understanding educational access and inclusivity in the Global South

From land to sky: climate resilience and improved food and water access through gender-sensitive ICT

Multistakeholder approach on the gender gap on access, use, and development of the internet

Upgrading a successful alternative university to an integrative knowledge ecosystem for humanities

One sign at a time: protecting deaf communities from digital harm

Connecting the unconnected in Francophone Africa: advocating for a regulatory framework for community networks

TINAMIT: gaming about media and information literacy in an Indigenous context!

Digital accessibility: importance and recommendations to achieve it

Holistic care and feminist digital inclusion: experiences of women from community networks in the South

Blending finance to connect the unconnected

Charging the internet in Asia and Europe? Since when (and why) has it been “free”?

Communities of practice: exchange of community networks best practices

What’s up with internet access: inequalities and strategies to end the zero-rating model

How well is the internet working? Find out with open data

Artificial Intelligence

Big model, big problems? Responsibly releasing generative AI

Bad input: how bad data reinforce inequality (film screening and discussion)

Fortifying community truth in the age of synthetic media

Feminist and antiracist lenses to regulating artificial intelligence in Brazil

Demystifying AI in Africa: are the continent’s AI policy strategies fit for purpose?

Anti-caste(ing) artificial intelligence

Strategies to limit the use of AI-driven technologies for repressive and authoritarian purposes

Knowledge exchange for funders and civil society organizations: supporting technical expertise to protect digital rights

AI ethics in the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region

Contending priorities: governing AI (and data) for the benefit of all

We’re not in 1984 anymore: human rights amongst a changing digital reality

What does it mean when your assistant is an AI – and always a woman?

Will robots control our children? A case for children’s rights in AI

Algorithms in the state: how to articulate evidence-based governance and transparency

Engagement on our terms! A civil society manifesto for meaningful engagement in AI

AI accountability policy: for proof of trustworthiness before and after release

The devil is in the details: interrogating values embedded in predictive risk assessment tools

The scramble for standards: navigating the global competition to govern AI

From DALL-E to ChatGPT: is generative AI a promised land or a poisoned chalice?

A policy blueprint for regulating algorithmic management