Our Bodies|Data|Dissent
During the upcoming 79th session of the UN General Assembly I'll be speaking with colleagues at the Just Futures Collaborative about gender, sexuality, identity, activism and dissent– and their criminalization is enhanced and expanded in a digitalized world. Join us:
Check out another not-to-miss event this month in New York, celebrating 10 years of Data and Society: https://datasociety.net/events/data-society-at-10-foreseeable-futures/
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Some not-to-miss reads
- New! RFC 9620 elaborates human rights guidelines for protocol developers https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9620
- Civil society in Japan oppose the Cybercrime Treaty and ask the government not to approve or ratify https://www.jca.apc.org/jca-net/ja/node/389
- Terrific blog post from the Red Cross’ Samit D’Cunha on digital distinctive emblems under international humanitarian law https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2024/09/12/conceive-standardize-integrate-the-past-present-and-future-of-adopting-distinctive-emblems-and-signs-under-ihl
- Exceedingly readable report from the Knight Foundation on translating research into action https://knightfoundation.org/features/bridging-the-divide-translating-research-on-digital-media-into-policy-and-practice
- WITNESS is hiring https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jacobo-castellanos_policy-and-advocacy-manager-technology-activity-7234584051372744704-AxRg
- Berlin crypto has a meet up this month https://www.berlin-crypto.de
- Real World Crypto submissions are open for the March 2025 meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria https://rwc.iacr.org/2025
- Under the Hungarian presidency, the EU still wants to break encryption with Chat Control https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-eu-still-wants-to-scan-your-private-chats-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it
- Human Rights Watch has a fresh report out on the digital tools Israel is using against Gaza https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/10/gaza-israeli-militarys-digital-tools-risk-civilian-harm
- Access Now published an FAQ on encryption https://www.accessnow.org/encryption-faq/
- Niels ten Oever writes, "Sanctions and infrastructural ideologies: Assessing the material shaping of EU digital sovereignty in response to the war in Ukraine"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/poi3.422
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Yerevan Dialogue 2024 Last week I was in Yerevan for a high-level, geopolitics event. I was asked to comment on emerging AI markets. I was joined by the Armenian Minister of High-Tech and a host of other impressive speakers.
We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and interact with one another. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, rapidly intersecting with the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), has changed how globalisation functions: Emerging markets have now taken a leading role. How can AI assist sustainable development goals? What will be AI’s impact on traditional labour markets in the developing world? How can we address ethical questions surrounding the use of AI such as privacy, security, and bias? Can we ensure that the economic benefits from new tech will be more equitably shared across geographies than those from past industrial revolutions?
You can watch my anti-hype but still pro-robot take here:
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