In this session, we will talk about the lived experience of local and domain-specific surveillance, like fusion centers, surveillance of poor people, and predatory targeting, and creative forms of resistance. We’ll also discuss disconnections between techies and communities historically most affected by tracking and data profiling in the United States, and opportunities for the future. […]
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The Internet security narrative is generally structured around threats and problems, and as a result, often leads to one-sided, top-down, control-oriented priorities. These lead to pervasive surveillance, siloed technology, balkanized networks, and other impediments to openness and a global, community Internet. We need to start climbing back to the top. In this session, we’ll talk […]
In the developing world, privacy is often portrayed as a luxury, as something alien to local culture and of interest only to the elite. This ignores the probability of the most marginalized sections of a society being disproportionately impacted by privacy intrusive technologies. The hype about big data, open data, ICT4D and other buzzwords often […]
Panel at RightsCon with Renata Avila, Global Campaigns Manager, World Wide Web Foundation (Moderator); Morgan Marquis-Bore, Security Researcher, Citizen Lab/Senior Security Engineer, Google; Felicity Ruby, Director of Global Internet Policy, Thoughtworks; Nnenna Nwakanma, Africa Regional Coordinator, The World Wide Web Foundation; Fieke Jansen, Programme Manager, Digital Defenders Partnership, Hivos; Jensine Larsen, Founder & CEO, WorldPulse […]
Panel session at RightsCon with Jim Fruchterman, Founder and CEO, Benetech (Moderator); Michael Kleinman, Director of Investments, Humanity United; Michael Carbone, Manager of Tech Policy and Programs, Access; Karen Naimer, Director of Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Physicians for Human Rights; Kevin Starr, Managing Director of Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, Mulago Foundation The session […]
Opening set for RightsCon with Brett Solomon, Executive Director, Access; Nnenna Nwakanma, Africa Regional Coordinator, The World Wide Web Foundation; Mitchell Baker, Executive Chair, Mozilla; Marietje Schaake, European Parlimentarian
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Berkman Luncheon with Justin Reich Millions of learners on platforms like edX and Coursera are generating terabytes of data tracking their activity in real time. Online learning platforms capture extraordinarily detailed records of student behavior, and now the challenge for researchers is to explore how these new datasets can be used to advance the science […]
Berkman Center lunch with Tim Davies Countries, states & cities across the globe are embracing the idea of ‘open data’: establishing platforms, portals and projects to share government managed data online for re-use. Yet, right now, the anticipated civic impacts of open data rarely materialise, and the gap between the promise and the reality of […]
